Rainy weekend activities
Hello everyone, hope you’ve had an enjoyable weekend! Anyone been up to anything exciting?
I have had a lovely weekend despite the rain, yesterday I met the lovely Jessica for a coffee. Jessica was absolutely adorable, I felt like I already knew her so well! I feel like I could have talked to her for hours about blog related stuff, and just like when I met Nicky, it really is great to be able to talk to someone face to face who understands the world of green smoothies, protein powders and kabocha squash!
I tried to dress at least half decent on Saturday but I was having a bad hair day along with the fact that my wardrobe is now filled with summer clothes not best for this wet weather! OOTD:
I avoided the rain yesterday and ran this morning instead. I changed up my usual route a bit to one that included a few hills. I have to say I really had to drag myself out this morning but once I was out I felt loads better. I did 11.2 miles in 1.41 with an average pace of 9.05. Not my fastest recently but still pretty good!
Saturday’s breakfast was an amazing bowl of Cherry Almond Oats! I used 1/2 cup of scottish oats and 2 1/2 cups of water cooked in the microwave with 1 tbsp of ground flax, agave syrup, defrosted frozen cherries, almond extract, almond butter and flaked almonds:
I also enjoyed a big mug of sweet black amaretto tea with this. It was a fantastic breakfast, cherries and almonds are a match made in heaven!
I had a huge post run tropical green smoothie containing lots of kale, half a large pineapple, frozen banana, scoop of vanilla sun warrior, spirulina, maca, mesquite, coconut water, ice, xanthan and guar gums and topped with hemp seeds, coconut shreds and desiccated coconut plus freeze dried berries:
This was such a good smoothie, so sweet from the pineapple and coconut water!
I’ve had a big craving for giant veggie packed meals this weekend. I had a really good salad today containing romaine, carrot, red pepper, cucumber, sugar snaps, red onion, roasted soya nuts, pumpkin seeds, cranberries, humnut sauce (hummus, nutritional yeast and water mixed into a dressing) and lots of braggs liquid aminos:
I’ve had a voracious appetite this weekend that only big volume meals like this have been able to satisfy!
For last nights dinner I decided to give the smoked tofu another try and stir fried it with black rice noodles, kale, asparagus, spring greens, asparagus, diakon, carrot, ginger, shoyu and gomasio:
I actually much preferred the smoked tofu stir fried and crispy this time, delicious!
This evenings dinner was 2 Linda McCartney veggie sausages with a baked sweet potato, steamed greens, broccoli and asparagus plus miso gravy:
The miso gravy was a bit of a randomly concocted mix of barley miso, sweet white miso, arrowroot, hot water and a pinch of dried sage, it was fab! Those sausages are one of the only faux meat type products I really like so are nice to have occasionally.
I’ve also had some tasty desserts including my raw cacao coconut frappe thickened up and served in a bowl topped with coconut flour sauce (coconut flour mixed with water and coconut nectar for added sweetness) and chopped chocolate adora calcium disc:
This was so good, another volume meal to fill me up! I also rescued one of my veganised sinless brownies from the freezer this evening:
Perfectly fudgey!
Today I feel like I’ve never stopped, I had my lovely Dad round for Father’s Day plus I’ve been doing a bit of work from home as well as another assignment for my Diet and Nutrition Advisor course. We have been watching movies as I’ve been working, James fancied a Simon Pegg and Nick Frost fest so we have watched Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and we are about to watch Paul. Perfect rainy weekend activities I think! As well as movie fests I also love spending time in the kitchen on a rainy weekend, especially baking! What is your favourite way to spend a rainy weekend?
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