WIAW – Prioritising
Hi everyone, happy WIAW! Hope your having a good day :-)
My day kicked off with a brilliant run. I did my ‘hilly’ route – 7 miles in just over an hour, average pace 8.37, a huge improvement on the last time I ran that same route – and moaned about it – so I was very happy!
I refuelled with a delicious green smoothie:
This contained kale, spring greens, frozen banana, nectarine, scoop of fruitein protein powder, maca, spirulina, msm, coconut water, ice and xanthan and guar gums. I topped it with a drizzle of PB&Co Mighty Maple Peanut Butter and some gojis. Perfection! I also enjoyed a bug mug of Clippers Indian Chai tea.
For lunch and snacks I took this lot to work:
Three big cabbage wraps stuffed with garden pate and cashew mayo, chopped carrot, red pepper and beet, full punnet of strawberries, trail mix containing dried cranberries, cashews, brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds and pistachios and an organic pink lady apple.
I don’t know what it is right now but I have a major obsession with beets, specifically raw beet and beet greens, I just can’t get enough!
For dinner I raided the freezer and found a very old portion of my Cheesy Butternut Sauce so decided to cook up some kamut pasta with cannellini beans and raw courgette and served with a big rocket salad and topped with basil:
So good, I can’t believe I’ve left this in freezer for so long, very tasty!
Dessert was a mini Raw Cookies and Cream Cheesecake:
The perfect sized treat, this tasted just as good as it did last time :-)
At the moment I’m trying to use up as much food from my cupboards and freezer as possible. My grocery budget is taking a major beating and I really need to get back to some sensible budgeting as per last years Big Budget Challenge. Most of this month has been spent trying to make up meals using what I have and just buying in fresh fruit and vegetables along with bits and pieces for James. I have really enjoyed using the dehydrator to make very cheap tasty food out of veggie and almond pulp that would have otherwise been thrown out. I even have my eye on some wild damsons I noticed while I was out running this morning, I’m planning a late night fruit picking mission!
With pay day now approaching I’m still wanting to be as frugal as possible with grocery spending but there are just some things I can not do without! Some times you also have to spend a little upfront to be able to save in the long run as well. I’m thinking of placing an order with Healthy Supplies for nuts and seeds which I’m now almost out of. I’m also dangerously low on green and rooibos tea, goji berries and peanut butter – I know I have lots of other nut butters but god forbid I run out of plain crunchy pb!
I also could do with more beans, tofu, tempeh, shoyu sauce – the list goes on and on!
Do you feel the grocery shopping pinch? With great sites like iHerb and Goodness Direct tempting us with their goodies, how do you prioritise your health food spending?
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