Olives from Spain

I'd like to tell you about Olives from Spain who are encouraging Brits across the country to shake up lunch and dinner times. They've got Omar Allibhoy, the celeb chef, as seen on This Morning and dubbed the Antonio Banderas of cooking by Gordon Ramsey, on board who has created some great recipes for us all to enjoy at home.

Omar wants to address the misconception that the majority of the world's olives are produced in Greece and Italy, when it is in fact Spain accounts for 40% of the world's total. Spain has a long tradition when it comes to growing olive trees and harvesting their fruit. Generation after generation, Spain produces the highest quality olives - the hours of sunshine, short winters and perfect soils make Spanish olives the most juicy and tasty in the world. Elegant and delicious, simple and sophisticated; olives from Spain are loved by adults and children alike.

Omar has made numerous TV appearances including Market Kitchen, Masterchef and This Morning and has now exclusively developed five delicious recipes, using the finest olives from Spain, to show us Brits how to get creative in the kitchen with this wonderful ingredient.

Want to experience the true taste of Spain? Enter their fantastic competition to win a trip to the land of the olive, and also a ‘money can’t buy’ session in the kitchen with their olive expert, Omar Allibhoy.

You can find out more about Olives from Spain on twitter: @taste_of_spain or on Facebook.

Live the Life of a premier league footballer with Chang Beer

If there is one thing that I know, it’s that I love a nice cold beer.. Chang Beer that is. What makes it even better is their new on-pack promotion for two lucky winners to win the once in a lifetime chance to Live The Life of a premier league footballer for a whole weekend. Believe me, it’s some prize – check the specifics…

The winners will be shown a life of luxury, starting off with a flight to Liverpool and four night stay at one of city’s top hotels and chauffeur driven transport to a premier league match, where they’ll be wined and dined in a VIP box. Then they’ll take a tour of the famous Everton FC training ground, Finch Farm, and get up close and personal with the players over lunch. Top it all off with a round of golf, personal shopping trip and dinner with the Everton FC legends.

If this didn’t encourage me to buy a six pack, then the added bonus of kicking back with an ice cold Chang certainly did!

To be in with a chance of winning, just grab the code from a pack of Chang at your local supermarket and visit http://www.changbeer.com/live-the-life  to enter the code. Then sit back and cross your fingers, I know I am!

For more information and great giveaways, follow @ChangBeerUK

Today I Received A Free Bottle Of Wine

I got my free bottle of wine from Friends of Glass UK on Facebook today. This was a prize for a game they were doing at the time where you had to pour a drink from a bottle and pass it onto the next person. The person who finished the bottle off won a bottle of wine or a non-alcoholic drink.

Competition Win Comic Heroes #8 (ends 31st October)

 I am pleased to announce that I am running my first competition, for fans of my blog!

I have a great prize for any comic fans: Comic Heroes Issue 8, containing free collctable gifts.

To win this fabulous prize you must:

1. Follow this blog
2. Follow me on twitter @VeggieDadBlog 
3. Leave a comment to tell me you've done this, make sure you leave me a way to contact you. Email address or twitter username are fine.

Up to 3 more additional entries can be gained by:

1. Comment on any other of my posts then comment here to tell me which one
2. Like my Facebook page.
3. Tweet "Want to #win Comic Heroes issue 8: http://bit.ly/ndY0E2 #comp from @VeggieDadBlog"on Twitter

You must be in the UK to be eligible to win. All entries must be completed by 23:59 on Monday the 31st of October 2011

Enjoying Alpro Creamy Vanilla Desserts

I won a pack of Alpro Vanilla Desserts from @Alpro_UK. They are milk free soya desserts and tasted rather like custard in a tub - very nice.

Premier Of Will Film

We went to see the premier of the new film "Will". We stood around for about two and a half hours before the film started to see some of the stars.

 

The film features several LFC players and we were lead to believe that Steven Gerrard was going to be turning up. But he didn't :(

  David had been hoping to get an autograph from him and was rather disappointed. He did, however, get autographs from Perry Eggleton, Roy Evans and Kenny Dalglish.

 We were also disapointed that Bob Hoskins, Damian Lewis and Kristian Kiehling didn't come to it either.

The film itself was quite enjoyable. I wasn't enjoying it to start with but it soon picked up and was rather good and funny at times.

We finished the day off by watching Johnny English Reborn as we had some vouchers for the cinema, Oddly enough we were at exactly the same screen as we were for Will. I'd have to say that £26 for two adults and two children for a film is rather expensive, especially as they try and sell you overpriced snacks, popcorn, sweets and drinks.

Chester Zoo

Over the weekend we also went to Chester Zoo. We had a fabulous day.

There were loads of animals (obviously) and various other things for the kids to enjoy. We were lucky enough to visit while they had a dinosaur exhibition on at the time.

There is a lot of walking to be done and our feet hurt by the end of the day! There are suggested walks of varying lengths marked on the free map they give you. There are signposts all over the place to help you find the animals you are after.

It was very easy to find via road and we had no problems getting there. Overall a thoroughly enjoyable day out. Great value and fun.

We didn't actually manage to get around all the animals so I can say with certainty that you can easily fill in a whole day there!