Info all Articles

Hello everyone, hope you are having a great week! I was off work yesterday to enjoy a wonderful shopping day with my Mam, Auntie and Grandma. OOTD:

Yellow floral blouse: Zara, white vest: H&M, tan bag: Mango, heart necklace: Dorothy Perkins, wooden bangles: various, skinny jeans: Old Navy, gold sandals: Next.

We had a great time but I ended up spending a fortune. My purse will have to be under lock and key until my trip to Brighton next month! I did get some gorgeous stuff though:

Racer back vests: Miss Selfridge, Denim shorts: Dorothy Perkins, orange bag: Dorothy Perkins, silver flip flops: Accessorize, long line denim floral printed bar and pant set: Marks and Spencer, Ultra Bland Facial Cleanser: Lush, Hair clips: Accessorize, rose necklace: Topshop.

Coral dress with tan woven belt: Miss Selfridge

Stripy tee: Topshop

Navy wide leg linen trousers: Topshop (at least these were reduced!)

Oh, and yes, I am clearly having a thing for orange / coral colours right now!

Before we went shopping yesterday I got an early morning gym session in. I did a great 20 minute speed workout on the treadmill followed by 40 minutes of intervals on the cross trainer, bike, rowing machine and step machine followed by abs and core (still rocking a 2.15 plank!)

After that I had a lovely breakfast of two chopped pears, some of my rhubarb and orange compote from the freezer, soy yoghurt and mixed seeds. I also had a big mug of yerba mate tea:

After shopping I had some leftover Jewelled Couscous with a huge M&S carrot and beetroot salad bowl:

Plus a punnet of strawberries, so tasty. People are still surprised when I eat a huge salad like this! For dinner last night I went for the quick and easy option of Kabocha and Adzuki bean stew (from the freezer) with lots of chopped parsley, steamed kale and broccoli:

So delicious, I’ve been really missing kabocha recently! Dessert was two chopped apples with some Justin’s Chocolate Almond Butter for dipping:

Very nice but I still prefer Dark Chocolate Dreams Peanut Butter!

This morning, after I did my Yoga for Runners I made my fave smoothie and toast with nut butter combo:

Toasted quinoa and amaranth bread with Trader Joes Roasted Flax Peanut Butter (purchased on my trip to NYC) and a Strawberry and Rhubarb Smoothie. The peanut butter was lovely and drippy just how I like it!

This evening I was at the gym for my Body Pump class. I fit in a bit of cardio on the machines before the class started. It was so good to get back to it after a couple of weeks of missing the class. I just love how strong I feel when doing Body Pump!

Dinner was some rice penne pasta with garlic sautéed courgette, cannellini beans, vegan pesto and nutritional yeast with a spinach, watercress and rocket salad:

This was delicious – quick, easy and simple but so tasty! Dessert was an awesome bowl of cookies and cream protein ice cream with chocolate sauce made from cocoa powder, agave and water:

So yummy, I love my protein ice creams!

I really enjoyed my shopping day yesterday, it was just especially nice to spend that time with my lovely Mam, Aunt and Grandma! Do you ever have family shopping trips? When was your last shopping trip and what did you get? I’m just loving orange and coral colours at the moment! What colours are you into right now?