Burnt Orange

I was talking to a well travelled couple visiting from Darwin. They had breakfast at Burnt Orange the day before and raved about it.  In fact, they said "..it was hands down the best breakfast....ever". Wow, what a review!

I had been to Burnt Orange for coffee a few times and the coffee was very nice but it was time to take our relationship to the next level. So, the next morning off we skipped to breakfast. By this time I had extremely high expectations. This is a very cute cafe and has a lovely book nook, filled with books, games and magazines. You are encourage to relax, enjoy your food or coffee and linger. I love that you don't feel rushed.

The breakfast was a little slow coming out. I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all but little Miss 6 & 8 reminded me every 2 minutes of their growing hunger holes. They made smaller versions of the meals for the girls and all the meals were beautifully presented. I think the food was nice and we all cleaned our plates. I won't go as far as saying it was the best ever, but I will say it's in my top 5 on the Peninsula.

Burnt Orange Cafe
95 Prince Edward Parade, Scarborough
07 3203 6943

 The girls Bacon n' eggs

 Vegetarian Eggs Benedict

Cheap as Chips

Too many people had been raving about the Aldi "Lacura" Skin care range for me to ignore it. I'll admit that I was hesitant to try them.  Screwing my nose up at the thought. I wasn't sure that products that cheap should even be washing my floors, let alone my face.

I don't usually go to Aldi, so if you are like me here is some advice, be prepared with a gold coin to hire a trolley and either bring your own bags or buy some there ($0.15 each), as they don't provide bags at the check out. I didn't have a gold coin or bags.  So I ended up juggling way too many things I didn't really need.

Once inside it was a little hard to locate the bathroom section and to work out where the prices were listed. Then you have to dig around in the boxes to find the correct products. There were a few ranges and I selected products from the normal skin range. These products are under $10 each and the hand cream is under $3. I got the products for normal skin, and they were nice and light with a pleasant scent and cheap, cheap, cheap. After a few days, I still liked them. I hadn't broken out, got a weird rash or grown a third eye.  I think I'll be back again.

Lacura Multi Intensive Serum $9.99, Lacura Hand cream $2.99, Lacura Face cream Renew $8.99 and Lacura Eye Care $4.99