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Hello lovely people! How we all doing this fine Wednesday? I have to admit I’m glad that the weather is a bit cooler and has returned to something more in keeping with the season!

Today’s WIAW is yesterdays eats and happenings. I started my day with 20 minutes of Yoga for Runners then made a great breakfast:

Blueberry porridge in a big almond butter jar and a black vanilla coffee (plus unpictured oats overflow). I made the porridge with 1/2 cup of oats and 2 1/2 cups of water using Katie’s method the night before, then just heated up with some vanilla stevia and frozen blueberries. There was plenty of almond butter in the bottom of the jar too, yum!

I decided to liberate my wardrobe for work again by wearing one of my nicest dresses, OOTD:

Necklace: H&M, blush coloured coat: H&M, floral dress: French Connection, grey tights: H&M, shoe boots: Nine West

I had a dentist appointment before work as I’ve been having some mild but annoying pain the last few days, looks like I’m going to have to go to the dental hospital and have my wisdom teeth out!

Mid morning I checked out my newly stocked snack drawer at work:

There’s also crackers, pumpkin seeds etc hidden under everything! In addition to this I also had a bag of apples, bag of carrots and pot of hummus in the fridge. As I was saying in this post, I’m really looking to embrace snacking as a way of helping me to maintain a healthy weight and avoid late evening overeating occurrences. I decided to make myself a big plate of 2 chopped carrots, my raw juice pulp crackers, hummus (Aldi, 65p and it tastes lovely!) and a big pink lady apple:

This kept me going for ages. I wasn’t hungry for my lunch until well past 1.30 which is crazy for me, loving bigger snacks! As I’ve been feeling a bit of a cold coming on before lunch I had a Berroca tablet in some water for a vitamin boost:

Lunch was a rid-onk-ulous sized salad containing romaine, carrot, cucumber, yellow pepper, raw beetroot, chickpeas (that I cooked myself from scratch!) topped with some of my basil, pine nut and hemp pesto. I also had two pears:

As lunch was eaten so late I didn’t fancy a large snack before the gym so I had a RAW Health Lemon Chia Energy Ball:

This tasted fab, lemony and coconutty :-)

At the gym I stuck to my new plan and did 10 minutes of intervals on the step machine and cross trainer followed by Body Pump. We did the new release again and my word the triceps and abs tracks are tough!

I’ve been extra organised this week: on Sunday I had a huge cook up session for the week ahead when I made two grains of the week – brown rice and amaranth, roasted a butternut, made pesto and cooked the chickpeas. For dinner I decided to combine some of the amaranth with the butternut along with some defrosted edamame and steamed broccoli:

I added some fresh parsley and a drizzle of tahini mixed with a little water, ume vinegar and shoyu as a sauce. This was so gorgeous! I love how thrown together meals taste so great, saying that I think the addition of butternut and tahini would make anything taste good :-)

For a dessert / late evening snack, I made a bowl of protein ice cream with a sachet of blueberries and cream spiru-tein, ice, water and xanthan and guar gums topped with flaked almonds:

I was still a bit hungry so I also had a big apple:

Apologies for the crap photo’s I’ve been using my camera phone for ease, plus with the dark mornings and evenings everything is being photographed in bad light!

I can definitely say that I am feeling so much more in balance this week as a result of my healthy feast and allowing myself additional and bigger snacks. My workouts have also been fantastic, I think that 4 days of just yoga has done me good!

Do you have a snack drawer at home or work? What’s in it?

Have a great day and see you tomorrow for a Big Budget Challenge round up!