Christmas by the river 2021

It's looking more like Christmas and I was so glad I visited Christmas by the river at London Bridge.
There was an impressive variety of food and drinks as well as gifts.

The festive pancakes were really memorable as well as the huge baubles.

Stalls:

To home from London

O'Donnell Moonshine

Low calorie and low sugar doughnuts to brighten up your day

From sunshine coast of Brighton, Urban Legend branches to East Croydon with their low calorie and low sugar doughnuts.
You will find them in a shipping container that is barbie pink inside just outside the station at Boxpark.

Their colourful doughnuts and fun flavours are for everyone.

All their doughnuts are steamed to cut the fat and they use ingredients found in roots, pears and melons which work as sugars.

To make them colourful, they use safflower and beetroot which are 100% natural.

Currently there are nine flavours: Glazy Days, Berry unbelievable, Bubblegum Burst, Forbidden Forest, Sunny Jim, Belgian Biccie, Monkey's Uncle, Fool's Gold and Choc Party.

All these doughnuts are under 153 calories or less and taste fantastic.

My favourites are Fool's gold which is basically caramel and Choc Party.

They have a lovely texture just like traditional doughnuts which have a nice chew like a gentle bagel and you won't find them oily as they are steamed.

Overall, I would definitely recommend these doughnut and would love to see the pop up in Central London as well.

Urban Legend Brighton:

15 Brighton Place, Brighton BN1 1HJ

Urban Legend Croydon:

Unit 69-70, BoxPark, 99 George St, Croydon CR0 1LD

Sainsbury's Scrambled Egg & Red Leicester Cheese Muffin

I am so glad I got the Sainsbury's Scrambled Egg & Red Leicester Cheese Muffin which was simple and delicious.
The generous slice of red Leicester really took it to the next level making it cheesy and tasty complementing the soft fluffy scrambled egg nicely
However, the only thing I could not quite taste was the hollandaise sauce and I couldn't visually see the mature cheddar.

But overall, it was really really good.

Tilda Kids Cheese & Tomato rice

Tilda is famous for ready to eat rice in pouches and now they do rice for kids.

I tried the Cheese & Tomato rice which I found moreish because of the tomatoes but the cheese was subtle.

They also do a vegetable paella for Kids

Tilda Kids Cheese & Tomato rice

Tilda Kids Vegetable paella

Itsu brilliant broth chicken ramen

After getting hooked on the chicken noodles at Itsu which contains their signature chicken broth, I decided to get a carton of the broth and re create the noodles.

Overall, it was just as good but you have to drain the glass noodles properly or the broth will get diluted and whole thing will taste bland.

M&S rose veal escalopes

I ended up getting the rose veal escalopes because they looked tender and they should be tender but strangely they were a bit tough.

Marmite Flatbreads

These are basically crispy flatbreads baked with marmite and topped with cheese.

What I didn't know is that they are made by Burtons Biscuits which explains why I like them.

The cheesy flavour is amazing and then you have the marmite aftertaste.