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Hi everyone, hope your all having a wonderful relaxing Sunday! I’m busy trying to get organised ready for our week away! I said in my post on Friday I was looking forward to doing something I’ve been wanting to do for ages…

I dyed my hair red! I’ve been trying all weekend to get a picture that actually shows the colour properly but this is the best I’ve managed. I dyed it a reddish brown a few months ago but decided to buy a bright red colour this time. I had my hair bright red when I was younger and had been thinking of going back to that colour for ages. This is probably about as bright as it will go without lightening my natural colour first. I love it though, its great for a change!

Other than that its been a pretty quiet one, I spent most of yesterday just enjoying watching the snow! There have been several good meals to be had though. On the way home from work on Friday I stopped in town to go to the green grocers and while I was there I had a look in one of the Asian supermarkets. I got a bag of goji berries, millet, dried mango and this unusual sesame peanut butter:

Considering that I adore both peanut butter and tahini (sesame paste) this tastes incredible, its like peanut butter and tahini got together and made a beautiful tasty baby! Half the jar is already gone! I mixed it with some sweet white miso and water to make a dressing for this Buddha bowl meal:

This was stir fried kale, courgette, brown rice, roast butternut squash, chickpeas and the sauce, it was fantastic. I also used some of the sesame peanut butter in this protein pudding snack:

I had a bit of a protein craving so mixed a scoop of chocolate sun warrior protein powder with water and added a swirl of the sesame peanut butter then topped with raw cacao granola, yum!

Yesterday morning I enjoyed a lovely lie in, my first in such a long time! I decided to treat myself to breakfast in bed and made a big bowl of Kashi Go Lean with chopped apple and kara coconut milk topped with a few pumpkin seeds:

I had a couple a mugs full of coffee with this, perfect Saturday morning! For lunch I made a big salad:

This included romaine lettuce, cucumber, raw beetroot, avocado, hemp seeds and some of my home made rosemary and almond juice pulp crackers. For dinner I decided to raid the freezer and found some of my stuffed seitan roll. I had it with swede chips, roast brussel sprouts, steamed purple sprouting broccoli and ketchup:

That seitan roll tasted just as good as when it had been freshly made. Delicious!

As I’ve come to realise that I get extra snacky on a Friday and Saturday evening I’ve decided that instead of fighting it I’m going to just go with it so I’ve started making bigger snack plates that I can pick on over the evening:

This one included a fresh fig with some of the leftover sesame peanut miso sauce, grapes, russet apple, yellow plum, dried mango and mixed dried berries. I did end up eating more of the dried fruit but this is good for me to nibble on while I’m watching TV.

Are you a weekend nibbler?

Right I am off to get myself sorted out! I’m glad that we didn’t decide to travel this morning with all the snow we’ve had, I’m hoping it will all be melted by tomorrow. Have a great one!

Happy Friday everyone! This Friday comes with an extra bit of happiness for me as I am now on holiday for a week, bring it on! I am pretty ready for the weekend after being ill mid week. Luckily I’m feeling much better but poor James also caught whatever it was so he’s been ill too. Here’s a look at my workouts for the week:

• Sunday – 30 minute treadmill run, 15 minute bike, Kettle bell Class
• Monday – Yoga class 1 hour 30
• Tuesday – Unexpected rest day – ill :-(
• Wednesday – AM gym workout – 5 min warm up cross trainer, strength from Female Body Breakthrough ‘Dial It In’ phase, 20 min HIITs on bike
• Thursday – AM – Yoga for Runners podcast, PM Gym – 321 workout
• Friday - AM gym workout – 5 min warm up cross trainer, strength from Female Body Breakthrough ‘Dial It In’ phase, 20 min HIITs on step machine

Thanks for all your comments about the yoga class. I’ve been looking at what other yoga is being offered in my area and it all seems to be Hatha style yoga which I understand to be pretty slow paced. I don’t mind doing one class like that a week but I couldn’t do two! With that in mind I’m probably going to experiment with a couple of different classes at the gym and some DVD’s and podcasts and then re jig my workout week.

Luckily I’m back to my normal self now but mid week I had very little appetite due to that mystery illness, however chocolate and peanut butter makes everything better:

This was one of the only things I managed to eat on Tuesday, it contained spring greens, banana, lots and lots of peanut butter, water and ice then topped with peanut flour sauce and dark chocolate chips. Also accompanied by several spoons of peanut butter straight up with dark chocolate chips stuck on. Speaking of nut butter and spoons…

My order of Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter arrived from iHerb! I did just about manage to eat some of this ;-)

I’ve also continued to enjoy my current favourite snack of almonds and raisins:

These were some extra special almonds that I’d soaked overnight then coated in shoyu and ‘roasted’ in the dehydrator to make raw salted almonds. They are gorgeous, I can’t get enough of the sweet and salty combo! I just had to add some on top of a butternut squash smoothie too:

I decided to get one of these in while I still craved it. This was roast butternut, kara coconut milk, vanilla sun warrior protein powder, ginger, cinnamon and ice topped with maple syrup and those almonds all chopped up. Heaven!

I also made a pretty awesome dinner that I had a couple of nights in a row – baked tempeh with stir fried purple sprouting broccoli and greens in a ginger coconut sauce:

I marinaded the tempeh in a mix of shoyu, honey, ground ginger and garlic powder then baked. For the veggies I just stir fried them in a little coconut oil then once they were tender I added about 3/4 cup of full fat coconut milk, fresh minced ginger, shoyu sauce and 1/2 tbsp of coconut flour (to add thickness) then cooked off for a couple of minutes to thicken up even more before serving. I haven’t had full fat coconut milk in ages and it was so good. I was even more surprised when the leftover milk that had been left in the fridge turned into a very thick cream. I had a sudden moment of inspiration and decided to use it to top a gooey baked sweet potato for my lunch today:

I also added some peanut flour sauce for a bit of protein. You can’t tell me that doesn’t look amazing right? I’m a full fat convert now!

Other meals that have helped me get my appetite back include:

Big salad with romaine, red onion, yellow pepper, cucumber, black beans and avocado

Green smoothie with spinach, persimmons x 3, 1/2 banana, vanilla sun warrior protein powder, water, ice, maca powder, ground flax topped with Dorset Cereal’s fabulous ‘Simply’ muesli and more sliced persimmon

My obsession continues… four fresh figs topped with tahini (watered down a bit for more pourability), black strap molasses and thyme honey. Can not get enough!

I’ve been loving my fats this week. I used to always go for the low fat versions of everything such as hummus, light coconut milk and yoghurt (when I was eating that). I know that when you are seeking to lose weight reducing fat can be a good strategy, however fats are essential in our diets for so many things including the absorption of some fat soluble vitamins and good skin, hair and nails. I know there are ‘good’ fats (poly unsaturated and mono unsaturated fats) and ‘bad’ fats (saturated and trans fats) but for me I don’t worry too much about that and enjoy plant sources of fats even though coconut milk, butter and oil contains some saturated fat. There is some evidence that the medium chain fatty acids (MCFA’s) present in coconut milk are processed by the body in a different way to saturated fat from other sources and that they can provide energy and help to maintain weight by increasing satiety. As long as its not the nasty trans fats, and that the fat in whatever form is coming from whole unprocessed foods, I’m happy! Are you a low fat or full fat person? I definitely think there’s a balance to be had between the two.

Have you got anything exciting planned for the weekend? Tonight I’m doing something I’ve wanted to do for ages, if it works out ok I’ll share on Sunday! Other than that I think its going to be a pretty chilled weekend just catching up with friends and family, a bit of gym time and of course getting set to travel down to Brighton next week. Hope whatever your up to you have fun, and manage to stay warm!

Oh my I had the most amazing smoothie this morning! I did my DVD workout (Davina Fit, Bottom Fit and Top Fit sections back to back) then made this bowl of absolute heaven:

The best ever Chocolate Cherry Green Monster containing russian red kale (with stalks removed), frozen cherries, scoop of chocolate Sun Warrior protein powder, soy milk, teaspoon of maca powder and muesli for topping.

Seriously, I feel I lack the vocabulary to describe how amazingly tasty this was. I’m officially hooked on the Sun Warrior powder now, more subtle but richer than my old chocolate whey powder, just delicious. My new blender also successfully blended the kale – my old processor could never handle kale and I ended up with a lumpy, chewy smoothie. This was perfectly smooth and gorgeous. The Sun Warrior ain’t cheap so I’ll have to ration it, but I’d rather have this once a week and really enjoy it than have my cheaper whey protein 3 times a week.

Today we had an event at work that ended with a buffet. Luckily the venue always do a good buffet with some healthy options. I had two small cheese savoury sandwiches on wholemeal bread, lots of veggie sticks with hummus, apples, clementines and grapes.

I had a lot more hummus and veggies after I finished this plate plus an additional apple, clementine and more grapes.

Mid afternoon, once I got back to the office, I had some 2% greek yoghurt with broken brazil nuts and a couple more grapes we’d brought back from the event.

For dinner I made a wonderful roast butternut and caramelised red onion frittata with organic goats cheese (using 1 egg and 2 egg whites) plus a salad of romaine and radicchio.

Desert was just a huge bowl of sliced organic apples with cinnamon and a little muesli.

Tomorrow I have my cousin coming round for dinner so I may take tomorrow night off from the blog. I find this time of year quite strange as the hubby starts to work later nights as he works in retail – this means that we have to make the most of any time we have to spend together, so after my cousin has been and gone it will be nice to have some chill time when he gets in from work. This also affects how I tend to plan meals for us both. I am working on a blog post to look at how I manage to cook for the both of us and take into account our different diets, but also to look at how James has become healthier too.

Do you find trying to eat healthy is helped or hindered by your partner, family or friends? My cousin is happy to eat healthy food so I think a veggie filled stir fry may be in order tomorrow!

I’m now off to dream about how tasty my favourite Butternut Squash Smoothie will taste made with the vanilla Sun Warrior! Catch you later

Hi Everyone! Hope your having a great Saturday!

This morning I was up and out again for my Saturday run. I wasn’t that hungry when I woke up so I went out on an empty stomach. I did 6.5 miles in 60 minutes and was really happy with my time. It was a beautiful autumn morning, but my hands were freezing again. I made sure to pick up some gloves today! When I got home I made myself this lovely smoothie:

Butternut Squash Smoothie (based on Gena’s recipe)

• 1/2 cup of roast butternut squash
• 4 ice cubes
• 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder
• 1 cup of soy milk
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger

Blend all ingredients and serve. I topped mine with a tablespoon of muesli and a good drizzle of maple syrup.

When Gena said this smoothie was to die for she wasn’t kidding. This was delicious! The cinnamon and ginger flavours with the sweet butternut tasted wonderful.

I spent the rest of the morning in Newcastle. I few days ago I bought a mug and loose leaf tea infuser on sale in Sainsbury’s for just £3, so I went to my favourite Deli and picked up some Amaretto loose leaf tea. This smells amazing! While I was there I got the most yummy almond chai mocha skinny latte. Officially my new favourite hot drink! I also went to a couple of shops in the market. I got more loose leaf tea, this time some Japanese Cherry Sencha Green tea. I also got some olives and a chipotle Chile Ketchup which should taste great with bean burgers.

After town I popped to my best friends for a cuppa. She had made me a jar of green tomato chutney, I can’t wait to try it!

While I was in Newcastle I also hit TK Maxx and H&M and had a bit of a naughty spending spree! I’ll post what I got tomorrow as I found loads of things, although I probably shouldn’t have spent so much I’m really chuffed with what I got!

September Review and October Plans

What I achieved in September:

• Completed the Great North Run!
• Ditched the scales
• Did my first spinning class
• Signed up for my first yoga class
• Lost 5lbs (more on this in a mo)
• Lost 1.5 inches from my waist and bust

Wow, this has been one hell of an eventful month!

A month ago I blogged about how I would be ditching the scales and not weighing myself every week. I did say I would weigh in once a month until I was confident I was balancing things out. I was shocked when I got weighed to see that I had dropped that much weight without even trying. Before I jumped on the scales I had said to myself that it didn’t really matter what number came up as I was feeling ok about myself and my body, my clothes have been fitting well etc. I was certainly not expecting a 5lb loss. On one hand this is ok as it gives me room for any eating out / over eating related weight gain that may come up, but at the same time I really don’t want to get any smaller. I think I need to see how I go next month, as due to the half marathon training, this month was always going to be a bit of an odd one.

I’m also really happy that I’ve continued running. I was a bit worried that after completing the GNR I wouldn’t have the motivation to continue to run but I’m glad to say that I still really enjoy it!

Now that the GNR is all done and dusted (for this year at least) I have a new set of goals and a new training plan:

Goals:

• Continue running – at least 15k (cause 15k sounds more than 9 miles ;-) a week either outdoors or on the treadmill
• Improve my strength and flexibility with my new yoga class
• Continue to attend spinning class once a week
• Think about other measures of ‘healthy’ rather than just weight / size

Current Stats:

• Weight – 9st 9lbs
• Hips –35 inches
• Waist – 27 inches
• Bust – 35.5 inches

My outline weekly plan will be:

• Monday – Gym – 30 mins high intensity intervals, 30 mins spin class, abs and core exercises
• Tuesday – DVD including strength work – for this month the 30 Day Shred Levels 1 and 2 back to back
• Wednesday – 3k run on the treadmill at gym followed by abs and core exercises
• Thursday – DVD including strength work – 30 Day Shred Level 3, Yoga Class
• Friday – Gym – 45 mins high intensity intervals, 15 minutes of strength and core exercises
• Sat / Sun – 10k outdoor or treadmill run / Rest Day

I also want to think about other ways I can measure health rather than just by weight or size. Here’s my first thoughts:

• How am I feeling in myself? Am I feeling tired / rundown / depressed or my usual cheerful self? :-)
• What’s my skin, hair and nails like? Is my skin blemish free? Are my nails strong and is my hair shiny?
• What’s my energy levels like?
• Do I have any aches and pains?

As I am looking to move away from focusing on weight and size as an indication of health I think I will find looking at these other things useful. What other indicators of health could I add to my list?

I can’t believe its the 1st November already, only a few weeks to Christmas!

I haven’t forgotten about organising the bloggers Secret Santa, I’m just waiting until after Bonfire Night (5th November for those not in the UK) as I refuse to do anything particularly Christmassy until after that date. Then I’m a full on Christmas fan!

Breakfast this morning was my first try of the Bob Red Mills 10 Grain Hot Cereal I ordered from iHerb. I used 1/4 cup of cereal with 1/4 cup of soy milk and half a cup of water. When cooked I added some frozen blueberries, chopped walnuts and a little brown rice syrup then topped my bowl with more walnuts and some maple syrup.

So lovely and filling. I’m also loving the brown rice syrup, it has a much more mellow flavour than agave or maple syrup. I can see this becoming my regular sweetener of choice.

Mid morning I snacked on some pumpkin yoghurt.

I should have mentioned last night that I had opened my first tin of Libby’s to make my pumpkin smoothie. I mixed what was left with some 2% greek yoghurt. The tinned stuff is amazing, such a lovely intense sweet pumpkin flavour, delicious!

Lunch was a repeat of last nights amazing Roast Butternut Squash and Radcchio Salad with Goats Cheese and Seeds followed by two plums. I also snacked on some orange nakd raisins before going to the gym.

In line with my refreshed training plan for this month I changed up my HIITs from my usual 1 minute medium intensity : 1 minute hard intensity to 30 seconds medium, 30 seconds hard, 30 seconds feel like I’m going to die. This certainly achieved my goal of making my HIIT session more challenging! I did 15 minutes of this on the cross trainer and 15 minutes on the step machine plus some abs and core exercises before heading into my 30 minute spin class. I was wrecked after all of that!

One of my goals for this month is to try and eat more whole grains. The Kind Diet really places whole grains at the centre of healthy eating and I recognised that I don’t really include as many grains in my diet as I could. To try and remedy this I will be having a Grain of the week. Each Sunday I will make up a batch of grain to sit in the fridge and be used within meals for a couple of days. This week I used a bag of mixed grains I had picked up in Tesco a few months ago.

This mix includes spelt, barley, whole thaibonnet rice, kamut wheat and oats. The grains are pre cooked so they only needed to be boiled for 10 minutes.

I used them to make a fried grain dish by frying some leek, mushrooms and carrots  in a little garlic olive oil then mixing in the grain. I also steamed a big bunch of russian red kale and added some shoyu (Japanese soy sauce – another Kind Diet ingredient that I found in Sainsbury’s) and Ume vinegar plus some toasted mixed seeds.

This made an incredibly simple, healthy and tasty dish! For desert I blended a scoop of Fruit-ein powder with some soy milk, ice cubes, xanthan gum and guar gum to make a delicious bowl of protein ice cream. I topped it off with a few goji berries.

So good, the Fruit-ein reminds me of bubblegum flavoured sweets! I also ate a lovely little russet apple.

Do you include whole grains in your diet? 

Whole grains are packed with nutrients including protein, fibre, B vitamins, antioxidants, and trace minerals (iron, zinc, copper, and magnesium). A diet rich in whole grains has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and some forms of cancer. Wholegrain diets also improve bowel health by helping to maintain regular bowel movements and promote growth of healthy bacteria in the colon. To reap all these benefits its important to go for the unrefined grains – as close to their natural state as possible – so go for brown rice instead of white etc.

I’m looking forward to experimenting with more of these grains including brown and wild rice, quinoa, pearl barley, millet and bulgur. I’m also going to try and sneak some into my hubby’s meals too! What’s your favourite grain?

Hi everyone, so happy that the weekend has come back around again!

I’ve had a pretty busy week at work, so glad that I took the time last weekend to prep some food, it really has saved me a lot of time and stress as well as cash!

Workouts this week have been awesome. I think just doing yoga for a few day’s last week allowed by body to have a good rest. I’ve been following my new plan, and for my Monday and Friday strength workouts I’ve decided to generally follow the plans in Female Body Breakthrough instead of NRoL. This is mainly because I can perform more of the exercises from FBB with the equipment my gym has available, plus the plan includes a couple of moves that I know are really going to benefit me. This includes an exercise called the Partial Co Contraction Lunge which specifically gets the glutes firing – an issue that has contributed to my knee injury issues. This week I just did 2 sets of each move but next week I’ll be bumping it up to the full 3 sets.

For my ‘Anything Goes Thursday’ I fancied doing something different so I tried my first You Tube Vid! I did the POP Pilates Beyonce Booty Workout:

This was a killer! Its only 15 minutes but I was sweating by the end of it. I followed it up with the MTV Power Yoga DVD.

Eats this week have been really good, glad you liked the sound of my Autumn Grain Bowl! I made use of the leftover brown rice and butternut puree for an amazing breakfast:

I warmed the cooked brown rice and butternut puree with some rice milk and cinnamon on the stove top adding a chopped apple, raisins and some almond butter sauce. I enjoyed with a mug of black cinnamon hazelnut coffee sweetened with stevia. This was utterly delicious!

For a tasty lunch I made a big salad with romaine, spinach, carrot, pepper and cucumber topped with some basil, pine nut and hemp pesto, hummus, raw aubergine bacon and some dehydrated cherry tomatoes:

I’m not a massive fan of uncooked tomatoes (except in raw pasta sauce) so I dehydrated the cherry tomatoes to concentrate the flavour. I also loved the pesto mixed with the hummus!

I’ve enjoyed the usual green smoothies too:

This was post strength workout and one of the best I’ve had for ages! It contained spinach, pears, chocolate hemp protein powder, rice milk, mesquite, barley grass, midori greens powder, water, ice and gums topped with hazelnut butter sauce and bee pollen.

I’ve also been enjoying soup as the weather has returned to be more autumnal!

Leek Greens and White Bean Soup with a chopped raw pepper and toasted farmers market rye and fig bread with pure spread which was lovely.

I’ve been continuing to enjoy snacking, but have also been making sure that my evening dessert / snack is something that is meeting my cravings to leave me feeling really satisfied:

Chocolate tasting plate with a square of 100% cacao chocolate topped with peanut butter, RAW Health raw cherry chocolate and Divine Dark Chocolate with Orange and Ginger, fabulous! 

Frozen cherries defrosted with chocolate chia seed pudding and raw almond butter:

I made the pudding with 2 tbsp of chia seeds, water, raw cacao, stevia and almond extract, so good!

Today we had a team building day for work which started with a gingerbread coffee in a cafe followed by a 4-5 mile hike around Durham through woods and by the river followed by lunch at a great restaurant called Oldfields that specialise in local and seasonal menus. I called ahead to request something vegan and got a wonderful butter bean hummus and rapeseed oil dipping plate to start:

The bread was delicious dipped in the oil and hummus! My main was some baked mushrooms with spinach and tomato sauce accompanied by some ‘autumn greens’ and roasted root veg:

I also had a fruit salad as a dessert and a glass of red, it was a wonderful meal! We spent the rest of the afternoon doing a lot of planning for the future of our organisation which was exciting!

I’ve enjoyed today so much and have felt very ‘autumny’, especially after a walk through the woods! After the day with work I went and stocked up with cheap seasonal fruit and veggies from the green grocers for the weekend, I can’t wait to cook with them all :-)

Have you done any You Tube workout videos before? Do you have any favourites?

Any big plans for the weekend? I’m probably going to have another chilled out one me thinks! Hope whatever your up to you have a great one :-)

…but first I just have to share a couple of tasty eats from over the last couple of days!

Yesterdays breakfast:

Butternut smoothie made with roast and frozen butternut squash blended with vanilla rice milk, cinnamon, ground ginger and a dash of vanilla extract topped with treacle granola, crystallised ginger and almond butter sauce (1 tbsp of almond butter mixed with a little hot water from the kettle until drippy – so good, you get much more nut butter this way and that melty texture). I had so many of these back in autumn, and yes this tasted a little autumnal to be eating in June, but oh so good!

This mornings breakfast:

Teeccino Almond Amaretto herbal ‘coffee’ and Peanut butter puffins cereal (both from my iHerb order, more on that in a mo) with strawberries and soy milk. I loved the peanut butter puffins, so delicious paired with the strawberries!

Dinner the last couple of days has been the most gorgeous Sausage and Tomato Rice made with some of my seitan sausage, plus steamed asparagus, spring greens and broccoli:

Last nights dessert was some wonderful carob protein ice cream:

1 scoop of chocolate sun warrior protein powder, vanilla rice milk, 1 tbsp of carob powder, ice, water, stevia, xanthan and guar gums, carob flakes and choc covered sunflower seeds, nom!

Workouts have been the usual stuff, Yoga for Runners again yesterday morning, 3,2,1 gym workout last night and a quick and speedy 45 minute interval and abs and core gym session this morning before work – I love my Friday morning workouts!

Grocery shop round up

As I said a few posts back I thought it might be useful to post the details of some of my grocery shops as I struggle to try and save money. Here’s my grocery shops from this week, plus a few special deliveries!

Monday:

Organic soy milk x 2, happy eggs x 6, romaine, bag of mixed leaves, strawberries, unwaxed lemons, cooked ham, ginger, cucumber, living parsley, courgettes, red onions, white onions, sugar snaps: Total £16.54

Thursday:

Spring greens, mushrooms, organic broccoli, asparagus, romaine lettuce, jazz apples x 2, strawberries, skimmed milk (James is back on the dairy), frozen peas, brita water filter – Total £16.59

Today’s organic veg box:

Bunched onions, summer greens, radishes, little gem lettuce, aubergine, asparagus, tomatoes, apples, nectarines, cantaloupe melon and bag of potatoes and wet garlic (both included for free!): total £16.75 I can’t wait to get cooking with these beautiful organic veggies!

iHerb order:

My first time ordering using the airmail option. I wanted to get more stevia to stock up (addicted to this stuff!), raw crackers as my One Lucky Duck bag is almost empty, Peanut Butter Puffins – I had to try these after seeing them on Nicky’s blog, and some Almond Amaretto Caffeine free Teeccino as I love the Chocolate Mint version I bought in NYC. Total with shipping $28.70 /approx £17.50

Goodness Direct Order:

I decided that I would make good use of the discount code I have available and place an order to stock up on some of my faves and some new stuff. I got Vita Coco 100% Pure Coconut Water x 4, Biona Organic Soya Beans x 3, Dorset Cereals Tasty Low-Fat Flakes Apple Cherry Raspberry & Cranberry, Provamel Organic Natural Yofu x 2, Sojade Natural Soy Yoghurt with Bifidus, Clear Spot Organic Tofu Smokey, Taifun Basil Tofu, Taifun Tofu Rosso, Taifun Beechwood Smoked Tofu, Meridian Organic Cashew Butter, Yogi Tea Green Chai, Yogi Tea Sweet Chilli Mexican Spice, Mapletons Fru Grains, sesame date bar (included free!) Total with discount £33.58    

Not too bad on the money saving front, even though this seems like a lot it will last for a long while. I did make a good saving on the Goodness Direct order which has well and truly stocked my fridge and cupboards, I was also quite happy that the refrigerated stuff has good long use by dates well into July. As I’ve bought a couple of smaller shops nothing has been wasted either. Obviously the iHerb order was a bit of a one off (promise!), at least I saved on the usual DHL shipping and customs charges. My plan for the rest of the month is to use up as much as possible from what I already have, just supplementing with fresh fruit and veggies.

June Sponsors GIVEAWAY!

Keeping Healthy and Getting Stylish June Sponsors Rude Health and Cosy Tea have kindly provided some awesome prizes for my June giveaway!

5 lucky winners will each receive a pack of the new Rude Health Apple and Cinnamon 7 Grain Granola:

This is tasty stuff!

A further 2 winners will receive a full set of the complete Cosy Tea range:

This includes the following varieties:

• Breakfast
• Earl Grey
• Rooibos with Vanilla
• Chamomile
• Lemon Green
• Jasmine Green
• Peppermint
• Blueberry

To enter (each of these counts as a single entry – please leave a separate comment for each one):

• Leave a comment to this post with your favourite flavour tea or favourite flavour granola :-)
• Follow me via Google Friend Connect or ‘like’ my Facebook page (links under the ‘follow me’ section on the right) or follow me on Blog Lovin or Twitter and leave a comment below stating that you have done so
• Tweet about this giveaway mentioning @keephealthstyle and leave a comment below stating you have done so
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Giveaway open to UK residents only (sorry International friends!) and closes at 12am GMT Friday 17th June 2011, good luck!