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My word this week has been crazy busy, I worked late last night, had something on earlier tonight and I’m working late again tomorrow night. Bring on the weekend!

Yesterday’s eats were pretty uneventful (but tasty!) – hummus with raw cauliflower and cucumber for snackage, roast veggies and tofu for lunch and leek potato and bean soup for dinner followed by raspberries, apple, cottage cheese and agave for desert. However breakfast was something special. I have seen a few bloggers add egg whites to their porridge to up the protein content and thought I would give it a try. I cooked 1/2 cup of Rude Health Fruity Date Porridge with one cup of water in the microwave. Near the end of cooking I added in 4 tablespoons of liquid egg whites a tablespoon at a time, mixing the porridge while I went. It went wonderfully creamy. I then added 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, agave syrup and a chopped apple. I topped my bowl with a melty teaspoon of almond butter. I also had a cup of hazelnut and cinnamon coffee, I really needed the caffeine kick yesterday morning!

 

This was the best bowl of porridge I’ve had in a while. As much as I love my protein powders, sometimes I don’t want to be eating something chocolate or vanilla flavoured. This will allow me to still get in that protein after a workout – so important for good recovery, but with a neutral taste.

This mornings breakfast was 2 slices of toasted linseed rye bread with cashew butter and an apple, carrot and ginger wholefood juice made in my blender.

To make the juice I added a chopped apple, carrot and piece of root ginger to the blender with some water and blended it together. As I can’t afford a juicer this works pretty well. You also end up retaining all the fibre in the juice which may make it a different texture but will help to keep you feeling fuller for longer.

This mornings snack was some Total 2% Greek Yoghurt with half a bag of we are bear coco cherry pie granola. I also ate two un pictured plums that had been meant for lunch but I was hungry!

I’m so happy I found the 2% Greek Yoghurt at the weekend. I thought that the 2% may be the right balance between the full fat and 0% and I was right. This is just spot on, still creamy but with less fat, calories and more protein than the full fat. Yum!

Lunch was some Broccoli, Cauliflower and Kale soup with two kallo rosemary crackers and the 2 little plums that survived my morning snackies.

I had a busy afternoon, finished work, did 5k of speed intervals on the treadmill at the gym followed by abs exercises, hit Sainsbury’s and then home. I snacked one of the new nakd bars – the Berry Delight, along with a mug of teapigs Super berry tea while I took part in an online focus group which was really interesting.

I really liked this new nakd bar flavour, it is like the Berry Cheeky version but for me has a slightly nicer texture and more intense berry flavour. The tea was also delicious!

As I knew I’d be busy I decided to pick up something for dinner while I was grocery shopping so I didn’t have to spend time cooking when I got home. I had a voucher for money off a salad box so I filled a medium box with Moroccan chickpea salad, sliced peppers and some black olives. I served it on some spinach and romaine lettuce.

I love this chickpea salad, it contains golden sultanas that are lovely and sweet. For desert I made some protein ice cream using a scoop of cookies and cream spiru-tein, soy milk, ice cubes and xanthan gum. I topped it with raw cacao nibs and some agave syrup.

What’s your favourite lazy dinner? I would usually go for an omelette or soup but when I’m being really lazy I tend to go for a pre prepared salad or something similar which requires zero preparing or cooking apart from sticking it on a plate, and sometimes not even that!

Hope all your weeks are going well, I’m off to try and catch up with everything I haven’t had time to do so far! Catch you later :-)