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Hi everyone, hope your week is going well! I’m totally high as a kite this morning for some reason, I’ve been listening to Christmas songs on the way to work to get me in the mood! Thanks to everyone that commented on my Monday musings post, such brilliant responses from you all. They have been so helpful and have helped to put my thoughts into perspective.

As it is Wednesday again that can mean only one thing: WIAW!

These are my eats and what I got up to on Monday. I got up, had the usual mug of warm water with lemon then got sorted for the gym. It was so cold, I wore my long sleeved thermal base layer top to stay warm! I did 5 minutes on the cross trainer to warm up followed by 25 minutes of strength training from my current Female Body Breakthrough plan then 20 minutes of HIITs on the treadmill. I do 2 minutes at 6.7mph and then 1 minute at 8.2mph and repeat. It gets me well sweaty!

I came home, showered and then made breakfast. I had a big smoothie with beet greens, frozen blueberries, 2 small raw beets, 1 scoop of Good Hemp Chocolate Fit Shake protein powder, midori greens, berries powder, maca powder, water, ice and gums. I topped it with some Bear Coco Cherry Pie Granola:

I love that granola! I also had a Che Mate Green Tea with ginger in my Starbucks cup to drink on the way to work:

Lunch was a big salad with cos lettuce, red cabbage, carrot, lots of avocado, nutritional yeast and braggs:

For a mid afternoon snack I had some chopped carrot and courgette with home made hummus:

I made the hummus with some chickpeas I’d cooked from scratch, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, hemp oil and some water and it was so good, it reminded me how delicious home made hummus is.

For dinner I used up some things I’d cooked on Sunday and stored in the fridge. I mixed some cooked quinoa, cooked brown rice, chickpeas, roast butternut squash, dried cranberries and parsley and put it on top of some roast broccoli and brussel sprouts that had needed eating up:

So tasty and filling!

I pottered about the kitchen preparing yesterday’s dinner so I wouldn’t have much to cook after Body Pump last night, then I made the most amazing Raw Spiced Almond Milk! I’d soaked 3/4 cup of almonds during the day, drained and rinsed them and then blended them with 3 cups of filtered water. Then I strained the milk using my nut milk bag (and put the pulp into the dehydrator to make raw almond flour) and re blended it with lots of mixed spice, mesquite powder and vanilla stevia:

Oh my word it is so good! I poured some over a bowl of frozen blackberries and raspberries for an evening snack:

How creamy does that look? I love a simple bowl of berries and milk, especially when the milk freezes a bit, really good :-) I also had some of the milk with a mug of cococardio:

The spices and rich chocolate flavours worked together really well, delicious!

Have you tried making your own nut milk before? Any favourite combos? I loved the vanilla and spices in this, it tasted very seasonal! I also love nut milk with raw cacao added and sweetened with coconut nectar, you could even blend fruit right into the milk – I would love to try some strawberry milk some time! What’s the tastiest thing you’ve eaten today?