Have a Happy and Holy Easter!

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He has risen. Have a Happy and Holy Easter Suga Bears! Let us hope for the best and try to rise above. Stay Blessed.

XoXo,
Suga 💖

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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Have a Blessed Good Friday

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Have a Blessed Good Friday Suga Bears.
Do not use the Holiday weekend as an opportunity for BBQs, Pool parties, Games days or link ups with family and friends. Stay Safe and Healthy.

XoXo,
Suga 💖

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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Check out Mira Botanicals for your Personal Care Needs!

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Helen DaCosta, owner of Mira Botanicals at Suga Lifestyle’s Christmas Connection on December 15, 2019 at The Jamaica Pegasus.

How is your Personal care going while in quarantine? Remember to take care of yourselves and you can support small and local businesses at the same time.

Mira Botanicals has a stock of all Natural Handmade Body Oils, Scrubs and Soaps, Deodorants, Bath bombs & Accessories at reasonable prices!

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Do you know all the benefits of Using Castor Oil?

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Castor Oil from Mira Botanicals.

1. Castor oil can be used as a laxative/remedy for constipation.

2. Castor oil can soothe dry skin and can be used as a massage oil.

3. Castor oil can be used to treat try hair, enrich the scalp and prevent hair fall, resulting in healthy, shiny Hair. It is an elixir for beautiful hair and supple skin.

4. Castor oil contains Vitamin E, proteins and Omega 6 fats.

5. Castor oil is also known for its anti-bacterial properties.

6. Castor oil clears acne, treats wrinkles and cures styes (localized infections in the eyelids that causes tender, red bumps near the edge of the lids).

Mira Botanicals also offers Recyclables and straight out of the DaCosta Kitchen, PEPPER SAUCES!

Check out Mira Botanicals today!

In these times, our small businesses are facing hard times, but are still empathetic and finding the safest ways to offer us deals and things we need. Follow Suga Lifestyle, as our local talented artisans, savvy local business owners and ongoing deals are continuously highlighted.

Buy Local, Buy Jamaican 🇯🇲

XoXo,
Suga 💖

Mira Botanicals

Instagram: @mirabotanicalsja

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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You can still Order your Jamaican Lunches from Oak Kitchen!

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You can feast your eyes and eat this lunch today! [Ig Photo – @oakwineandcocktail]
Call Oak Kitchen to Order your Jamaican Lunches and Wraps for takeout, delivery or curbside pick up! #SugaEndorsed

Oak Kitchen

Oak Wine Bar & Cocktail Lounge
Location: Unit #5, 8 Hillcrest Avenue. 
Kingston 6, Jamaica

Ph: 876-649-5096

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @oakwineandcocktail

 

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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The Award-Winning Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove

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View from the Veranda at Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove. (Photo: Suga Lifestyle)

Add the award-winning Restaurant, Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove to your Post Covid-19 Bucket List!

I had a wonderful experience there a few years ago and I am overdue to return.

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Traditional Jamaican dish served for Breakfast at Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove. (Ig Photo: @christophersjamaicaaaw)

Christopher’s serves locally sourced gourmet fare such as farm to table greens and freshly caught seafood on an ocean-view veranda.

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Freshly caught Lobster delivered to Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove. (Ig Photo: @christophersjamaicaaaw)
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Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove’s award-winning Chef Conroy Arnold. (Photo: www.christophersjamaica.com)

Their award-winning Chef Conroy Arnold creates traditional island dishes with a contemporary international flair for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Here you go, feast your eyes until you can go. When you go, you know! #SugaEndorsed #PostCovid19BucketList

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Classic Oxtail from Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove. (Ig Photo: @christophersjamaicaaaw)
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Grilled King Fish served with roasted eggplant. (Ig Photo: @christophersjamaicaaaw)
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Ribeye Steak (Ig Photo: @christophersjamaicaaaw)

Christopher’s at Hermosa Cove

Location: Hermosa Lane, Pineapple, Ocho Rios. JA.

Ph: 876-974-3699

Website: www.christophersjamaica.com

Instagram: @christophersjamaicaaaw

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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Rotaract Clubs join to make Donation to Tarrant High School

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Sannicia Coward, President of Rotaract Club of St. Andrew, Community Service Director, Vannessa Lyons of Rotaract Club of Liguanea Plains and Tamara McPherson, President of Rotaract Club of Liguanea Plains made a donation to Tarrant High School last Friday, April 3, 2020.

Last Friday, The Rotaract Clubs of St. Andrew and Liguanea Plains stopped at nothing in order to hand over their donation of sanitary napkins and new undies to Tarrant High School. The Holborn Spartans also made a generous contribution to assist with their donation. The students will receive these items upon their return to school.

Period Poverty still affects Jamaicans. Help the Her Flow Foundation to get menstrual products to those who need it in this time.

#endperiodpovertyja

Her Flow Foundation

Ph: 876-840-3696

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @herflow

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Rotaract Club of St. Andrew

Instagram: @rcsajamaica

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Rotaract Club of Liguanea Plains

Instagram: @rclpja

 

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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TGIF! Open your Home Bar!

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Gabrielle a.k.a Suga with husband, Randy Burgess

TGIF! Bring the Bar home! Stock up and enjoy social distancing with the family or yourself responsibly.

#StayHome. Stay Safe!

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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Throwback Thursday to Brunch at Shooters Waterfront!

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Gabrielle Burgess a.k.a Suga at Shooters Waterfront on October 20, 2019.
Suga’s got more for you to add to your Post Covid-19 Bucket List. I’m throwing it back to a brunch spread that I thoroughly enjoyed at Shooters Waterfront last October. The live music was entertaining too.
Shooters was offering delivery and takeaway/curbside pick ups, but are now closed and look forward to reopening when the COVID-19 curve flattens.
Here are a few teasers until they reopen!
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Seafood Salad
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Fruit Salad
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Smoked Salmon
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Breads and Tarts
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Waffles, Crepes and Pancake station! Suga had Waffles (R) 😍
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Desserts
There was a Carving station for the meat lovers too! Until tomorrow… Cheers!
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My Peach Citrus Bellini (USD$12) – Peach Nectar, Champagne, fresh orange, lemon, lime, pineapple.
#PostCovid19BucketList #SugaEndorsed
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Shooters Waterfront
Location: 3033 NE 32nd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308, United States
Ph: 954-566-2855
Website: https://www.shooterswaterfront.com

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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Add Likkle More Chocolate to your Post Covid-19 Bucket List!

If you don’t remember Suga’s post on our local Chocolatiers last year or haven’t tasted Likkle More Chocolate yet, here is your update!

To refresh your minds, Founder, Fine Pastry Chef and Artisan Chocolatier, Nadine Burie has been awarded, Table Talk Jamaica Observer Food Awards Dessert Chef of the Year for the past 4 years.

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Fine Pastry Chef and Artisan Chocolatier, Nadine Burie. (Photo: www.likklemorechocolate.com)

The Production of Likkle More Chocolate Bars are still in the creative process. ‘We’ve been working on this project for more than 3 years now and we really want to give an excellent product that would be accessible to everyone in Jamaica with this line. We ferment, dry, roast, process the bean from the beginning until the end products and we work with different farmers from different regions. We press our own cocoa butter that we use in our chocolate. We control everything’ says Burie.

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Nadine Burie and staff cracking the Cocoa pods for Chocolate production.

Likkle More Chocolate Produces Decorated Chocolate Bars with a unique variety of flavours!

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Photo: www.likklemorechocolate.com
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Likkle More Chocolate’s Decorated Chocolates

***The brand is under continuous expansion or changes, so the percentages and flavours stated are what Suga Lifestyle has observed over the past few years and in speaking with Nadine Burie this March, 2020. They are also currently on Likkle More Chocolate’s Website*** 

– 72% Single Cocoa Estate
(Their darkest Chocolate is made of rich fruity cocoa, featuring delicious cherry & woody rum notes!)
– 72% Dark Chocolate with Nibs
– 70% Dark Chocolate with Fresh Ginger
– 70% Cocoa Sea Salt
– 70% Cocoa Scotch Bonnet
– 67/68% Cocoa Blue Mountain Coffee
– 55% Cocoa Coconut Milk
– 55% Cocoa and Milk Plantain
– Hazelnut Milk Chocolate
– White Cocoa MatchaOther Decadent Chocolate based treats from Likkle More include Seashells, Coffee Pearls and Truffles.

Did you know?
Chocolate varies in taste depending on where the cocoa bean it was made is from.

Nadine Burie also produces a line of Chocolate for Cafe Blue, which I had the pleasure of tasting! Well, eating, because it is true that once you take a bite, you say to yourself, just get a ‘likkle more’.

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All the cocoa used to make Cafe Blue Chocolate is from the central and eastern parishes of Jamaica, from over 3000 small farmers!

There is also less sugar, more Cocoa. Natural Cane juice is used to sweeten and there are no preservatives and no artificial flavours.

My favourite was the 57% Bean to Bar Blue Mountain Coffee Dark Chocolate. Imagine it only had 3.2g of Saturated fat, no Cholesterol and only 2.6g of sugar! I ate that bar guilt-free.

Put Likkle More Chocolate on your #PostCovid19BucketList, BUT you can have the Chocolate line for Cafe Blue right now! You can either go to Cafe Blue, Sovereign Centre or purchase them for $600JMD+tx in Loshusan Supermarket, Barbican. By purchasing these chocolates, you help to impact the lives of over 3000 small farmers and their families. #SugaEndorsed

Stay tuned for when I get to try the Likkle More Chocolate line!

Buy Local, Buy Jamaican 🇯🇲

Likkle More Chocolate

Cafe Blue, Sovereign Plaza, Liguanea (when available)

Instagram: @likklemore.chocolate

By: Gabrielle Burgess

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