My risotto recipe

What you'll need:

- risotto rice

- mushrooms

- bacon

- onion

- leeks

- salt

- pepper

- olive oil

How to make it:

- put risotto rice in a pan

- cover with olive oil and let it simmer for a couple minutes

- add a cup of water (and add a cup of water every time the water is soaked into the rice until the rice is cooked)

- in a seperate pan ; cook the onion, bacon, leeks and mushrooms

- wait until the risotto rice is cooked (takes about 30-40 minutes)

- add the onion, leeks and mushrooms and mix

And then it's ready to eat! :)

My essentials as a type one diabetic

Firstly, the most important thing there is, insulin. I have a long lasting insulin which I inject every night and fast acting insulin which I inject before anytime I want to eat something

The second essential thing there can be, a cgm! This is a continuous glucos monitor and it basically tells me what my blood sugar is whenever I want or need to know it

these are not an essential but they're very good and useful to have, to me at least. These are cgm patches. These go over your cgm and stop it from unsticking from your arm as well as making it look cute. I buy mine from type one style, diabetic supply or organising chaos! 

these are a couple of them I've worn over the last couple months!

next, if you travel a lot this is definitely an essential. Insulin can be kept outside the fridge for a month before it goes bad but it can go bad if it's exposed to the heat so I bought this cooler for my insulin as I was travelling quite a lot this summer. I particularly liked this one because it displays what temperature your insulin is. It comes with two ice packs that stay cold for a while. I bought mine of amazon!

this is totally not an essential but I bought this from diabetic supplies because my reader was boring and I wanted to make it more fun! Following on from the reader, the test strips are an essential. These are to measure your blood sugar (in case your cgm stops working or when your blood sugar is low or high to check the cgm is actually correct) and the ketone test strips are to basically measure the acidity of your blood (which happens when your blood sugar is too high) to know if you need to inject extra insulin or not!

these are definitely an essential to me. These are glucose shots that you drink when you're having a hypo (when your blood sugar is too low). I bought these off diabetic supply but I found out they're also sold at boots (if you're reading this from the UK). I read lots of people saying these were disgusting but honestly I liked it and despite it being pure sugar it didn't feel too sickly. Another version of the glucose shot is the chewable version but I prefer the berry flavour. I also have glucose gel but I've never used it yet so I'm yet to find out what it tastes like! 

these are not really an essential but they're practical to have. When taking off your cgm it can leave a sticky feeling on your skin because of the adhesive so these are good to get rid of that stickiness ! Before buying these I used to use an oily makeup remover which also works to remove the adhesive! A spray version of this also exists but I never managed to get my hands on it which is why I went for the wipes in the end. 

these are also very practical to have. It's a mini sharps bin to put your used needles in when you're on the go. I use this when I go out and need to take insulin. It can contain quite a few because I used this every time I needed to take insulin which is 4/5 times a day for 2 weeks! I bought mine from diabetic supply!

Another essential is diet drink test strips but I think they're only available in the USA because I can never find them online. They're basically a strip that you test your drink with and depending on the colour of the strip it'll indicate if your drink is diet or not!

These were my essentials, if you have any other essentials share them in the comments!!!! :)

My holiday to Zagreb, Croatia and a daytrip to Ljubljana, Slovenia

Last year me and my best friend decided to go to Croatia for 5 days so we decided to go to Zagreb which was only a 2 hour flight from Brussels! Here's what we go up to during those couple of days!

We decided to book a hotel in the city center which ended up being a bit of a scam because it was more like a studio in a house but it was only a 20mn drive from the airport and only like 10mn away from the city center. My friend has his driving licence so he decided to rent a car for the week there, which was very practical. We also had a grocery store a 2 minute walk away where we bought breakfast every morning! Plus when we didn't want to use the car we got the tramway and tickets were only 0,80cts!!

On our first day we decided to visit a couple museums. We started with the museum of broken relationships and we also visited the hangover museum!

We loved both museum but particularly liked the hangover museum beacause it was quite interactive. They also give you a bottle of alcohol (not sure what but it was very strong lol) to drink before starting the visit of the museum. Disclosure: we took the tramway to the museum, my friend didn't drink and drive!! 

We then had a wonder through Zagreb's old town

They had funny messages on their bottles of water, this one was my favourite!

We discovered Ljubljana, Slovenia was only a 90mn drive away from Zagreb so we hoped on a flixbus and went there!

We had a wonder along the river

Cocktails with a view! We also got some pre-lunch snacks

This was my lunch, it was very nice!

Back to exploring!

We decided to take a boat tour on the river and we saw this mosaic space invader

Then it was already time to go back to Zagreb!

We took the car and went to Rastoke national park which was very pretty

On the next day we decided to take the car and go to the seaside. We chose to go to Opatija, which apparently is like the cote d'azur of Croatia! We went for a swim at the beach - the water was freezing cold but it was still fun!

Then we went for dinner in the nicest restaurant I've ever been to. We had bruscetta as a started and then I got ribs and mash and when I tell you it was the best meal I've ever had I mean it, I still dream of those ribs!!!!

Back to exploring Zagreb, we went to the chocolate museum and an art museum which was very fun

Photos to send to our mums to say we're okay!!!!

One last night out in Zagreb, we went to a wine bar which was very cool!

We said goodbye to the car and it was time to go back home. We got stranded back at Brussels airport beacause the bus company we planned to go home with, was on strike so we called all our friends for  4 hours but nobody could come pick us up, so my friend called his parents and they drove all the way from Dunkirk to Brussels to then drop us off in Lille, it was lovely of them!