Superfoods
As predicted I felt totally out of sync this morning when I woke up. My body had been expecting a Monday routine, but no, it was up early for my strength DVD - Davinas 3 30 Minute Workouts Pump Section. I haven't done this DVD in ages and really enjoyed it. It was made tougher due to the DOMS I was experiencing pretty much all over. I don't get DOMS very often but it must have been due to the strength on Sunday and Cardio yesterday.
After I done that I went and made myself a huge Chocolate Cherry Green Monster with loads of spinach, frozen cherries, scoop of chocolate whey, vanilla rice milk and water. This was just wonderful, I love Green Monsters so much!
Work hasn't been too bad, I have no meetings for the rest of the week which makes a huge change so I can really catch up with my to do list.
Lunch was a bowl of Asian Chicken Soup from my frozen stash. I'm trying to demolish the giant pile of frozen stuff in my freezer as its getting rather crowded in there!
Followed by 2 juicy pears.
Mid afternoon I snacked on an apple and two babybel light.
After work I popped to the supermarket for some more grocery shopping, considering I'm trying to eat stuff from the freezer I'm still buying a load of fresh stuff! I really need to try and focus on getting my shopping bills down a bit too. Its just very difficult when you try and eat a clean, healthy diet and you like experimenting with food, if I was happy to eat ready meals and crisps I'd save a fortune! But I wouldn't be very healthy and sometimes you can't put a price on that!
Anyway, speaking of spending too much money on food, when I got home my first order from iHerb had arrived!
My wish list this month had included maca powder, chia seeds and nutritional yeast and iHerb seemed like the best place to be able to order all three 'Superfood' products. I've read so much about them on other blogs I really wanted to give them a try. Heres a brief description for anyone who hasn't come across these before -
Maca Powder - powdered maca root, has been used in South America for years to help general nourishment and healing. Is nutrient packed and can support the body to deal with stress. I've seen it used on other blogs in smoothies, porridge, sprinkled on apples with cinnamon etc.
Chia Seeds - high in omega 3 fatty acids and an array of other nutrients also very high in fibre. Can slow the absorption of sugar in to the blood stream. I've seen this used in numerous blogs added to porridge / oatmeal and smoothies
Nutritional Yeast - good source of protein and vitamins, especially Vit B12. Can be used in a similar way to parmesan cheese, sprinkled on popcorn or mixed with hummus and water to make a humnut sauce for vegetables.
I can't wait to try them all out!
For dinner I continued with trying to use up some frozen stuff so I had some defrosted and microwaved homemade chilli with a big pile of salad and topped it with a sprinkling of nutritional yeast so I could have a taste.
I couldn't really taste it that much but it has a nutty cheesy flavour. I can see me trying this in a few different dishes. For desert I whipped up a bowl of tofu vanilla pudding.
Photographed on my new butterfly tea towel!
Drinks - water, green tea, decaf tea
Have you tried maca powder, chia seeds or nutritional yeast? Can you give me any ideas for recipes I can use them in? Hope that if today was your first day back at work after the Easter break it wasn't too bad! Hope you've all had a good Tuesday! x
After I done that I went and made myself a huge Chocolate Cherry Green Monster with loads of spinach, frozen cherries, scoop of chocolate whey, vanilla rice milk and water. This was just wonderful, I love Green Monsters so much!
Work hasn't been too bad, I have no meetings for the rest of the week which makes a huge change so I can really catch up with my to do list.
Lunch was a bowl of Asian Chicken Soup from my frozen stash. I'm trying to demolish the giant pile of frozen stuff in my freezer as its getting rather crowded in there!
Followed by 2 juicy pears.
Mid afternoon I snacked on an apple and two babybel light.
After work I popped to the supermarket for some more grocery shopping, considering I'm trying to eat stuff from the freezer I'm still buying a load of fresh stuff! I really need to try and focus on getting my shopping bills down a bit too. Its just very difficult when you try and eat a clean, healthy diet and you like experimenting with food, if I was happy to eat ready meals and crisps I'd save a fortune! But I wouldn't be very healthy and sometimes you can't put a price on that!
Anyway, speaking of spending too much money on food, when I got home my first order from iHerb had arrived!
My wish list this month had included maca powder, chia seeds and nutritional yeast and iHerb seemed like the best place to be able to order all three 'Superfood' products. I've read so much about them on other blogs I really wanted to give them a try. Heres a brief description for anyone who hasn't come across these before -
Maca Powder - powdered maca root, has been used in South America for years to help general nourishment and healing. Is nutrient packed and can support the body to deal with stress. I've seen it used on other blogs in smoothies, porridge, sprinkled on apples with cinnamon etc.
Chia Seeds - high in omega 3 fatty acids and an array of other nutrients also very high in fibre. Can slow the absorption of sugar in to the blood stream. I've seen this used in numerous blogs added to porridge / oatmeal and smoothies
Nutritional Yeast - good source of protein and vitamins, especially Vit B12. Can be used in a similar way to parmesan cheese, sprinkled on popcorn or mixed with hummus and water to make a humnut sauce for vegetables.
I can't wait to try them all out!
For dinner I continued with trying to use up some frozen stuff so I had some defrosted and microwaved homemade chilli with a big pile of salad and topped it with a sprinkling of nutritional yeast so I could have a taste.
Photographed on my new butterfly tea towel!
Drinks - water, green tea, decaf tea
Have you tried maca powder, chia seeds or nutritional yeast? Can you give me any ideas for recipes I can use them in? Hope that if today was your first day back at work after the Easter break it wasn't too bad! Hope you've all had a good Tuesday! x
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chia seeds,
iHerb,
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nutritional yeast,
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