Festive nourishment

Our homemade muesli came about because, after weeks of pastry breakfasts in Paris, coming back to our UK reality and our normal food routine was a bit of a shock. Aside from the food boredom, we noticed the effects of our long indulgence not just on our waistlines but on our hair and nails. It highlighted that even our healthier normal-life diet was too low in fiber, healthy fats and antioxidants. 

We needed a nutritious replacement but we had to have one that would give us the sense of celebration we felt every day in the Land of Love.

So we invented one!

Christmas Spirits

Nostalgia for Christmases past, daydreaming of future freedom and losing ourselves in (well-oiled) virtual Christmas cheer prompted us to don our Santa suits to spread the joy. No Christmas is complete without a healthy dose of tippled squabbling so Bestie's ideas of cake-joy collided with my desire to give cinammon-infused warmth. The answer was, unsurprisingly, the tipple itself! 

We present our version of warmth-in-a-bottle, Christmas-in-a-shot: a delicious digestif to settle the tummy after you've stuffed it.

Christmas Pudding Vodka!

Trees for bees

We love multi-functional beauty and we adore thoughtful attention to detail. Inspired by our favourite finds, we made sure our gift to you was up to standard. All the packaging is recyclable (please remove the tape). The bottles are recycled glass and the brown bag is food grade recycled paper. But our pièce de résistance is our homemade Christmas tree cards embedded with a mix of Sweet Alyssum, Poppy, Baby's Breath & Basil (non-invasive plants commonly found in the wild).

In the Spring, tear them into pieces and soak in water. Then simply plant them in a pot of compost, keep moist and in a warm environment. When your small plants have grown put the pot outside in a sunny spot for the bees and other pollinators to enjoy. 

*Although these are non-invasive species, we do not advise disturbing nature by planting in the wild. 

Health & Wealth 

In France mistletoe was offered as a symbol of long life and prosperity. And in Norse mythology it was a sign of love and friendship, perhaps where the English kissing tradition stems from. To us mistletoe merges the traditionally loving spirit of the festive season with the modern age of thoughtful love for the planet: It is important for biodiversity but conservationists fear that it may disappear in just 20 years!

As a semi-parasite, mistletoe needs host trees. Across mistletoe producing countries, traditional fruit orchards are not economically viable and are left neglected. Unmanaged trees become overgrown with mistletoe leading to tree death, which in turn leads to fewer host trees. Buying mistletoe from sustainable sources encourages farmers to keep these trees in management, saving both the trees and these biodiverse and rather romantic Christmas blooms.