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Hi everyone, Hope your having a good week! Mine is going ok but I’m fighting an awful cold, I hate feeling poorly!

Yesterday I did my first Monday early morning gym workout in a while, now that I have changed from my usual Monday evening workout / spin class. I was feeling a bit under the weather I decided to do a reduced intensity workout than the one I had planned. I ended up doing 15 minutes each on the treadmill, cross trainer, bike and step machine – I still did intervals but at a lower intensity and skipped the planned speed work on the treadmill. I also did my abs and core exercises. Yes, I could have skipped the workout all together but I didn’t feel that ill, and I know I would have felt worse if I hadn’t got my body moving!

Today I did the usual Yoga for Runners when I got up and then Body Pump this evening. I even managed to increase my weights for the squats so I must be on the mend!

As I’m fighting this cold, eats have tended to be easy to prep comfort food. Yesterdays breakfast was a cup of the Kashi Go Lean Crunch I got in NYC with 1/2 cup of brown rice puffs for chew, sesame milk and lovely blueberries:

This was so tasty and just hit the spot! I think I will really enjoy eating that Kashi cereal! I also tried out a cup of the Chocolate Mint Caffeine free Teecino – another NYC purchase. It tasted wonderful, not exactly like coffee but in a good way!

Yesterdays lunch and snacks:

My appetite wasn’t massive so I just had a bowl of Pea, Broccoli and Mint Soup I’d made at the weekend, a pear, plums and the last of my NYC cheesy kale chips :-(

Dinner was out of the freezer – Roast Vegetable Curry with millet, steamed greens, sugar snap peas, mixed salad leaves:

Love how curry tastes better after its been frozen!

I decided to go for a smoothie for dessert:

I had some romaine to use up so blended it with a small fresh banana, ice, water, 3 tbsp of peanut flour, gums and stevia then topped with some freeze dried berries and flaked almonds.

Today’s breakfast was the return of tofu yoghurt! I had some with a fresh batch of rhubarb compote. I was out of oranges so instead of my usual recipe I added some fresh minced ginger and brown sugar to make a Rhubarb and Ginger Compote!

I also had a chopped apple and some treacle granola, so good!

This evenings dinner has been another freezer raid – Kabocha Squash with Adzuki beans, millet, spinach, steamed asparagus and lots of fresh chopped parsley and mixed seeds:

Followed by a Smore’s flavour Spiru-tein protein ice cream creation topped with cacao nibs:

Delish!

Today I have been on a training course with work and it has been the first time I have attended an event like this as a ‘vegan’. Just to clarify – I see myself as mostly vegan but use that label with a lot of flexibility – I do eat things with trace dairy in and occasionally I may consider eating local free range eggs, yoghurt or goats cheese but its something I’m trying not to stress about. I basically eat what makes me feel my best, which at the moment is about 98% vegan.

I would usually just take along a snack bar and some chopped fruit and veggies in a bag to these kind of things and discretely eat them but this was a full sit down meal affair and I didn’t want to appear ignorant by eating my own food or leaving the room to do so. I was really chuffed with what they served me:

Stuffed pepper with roasted vegetables in a tomato and herb sauce with rice. This was very tasty!

Luckily my cold seems to be improving – I think all the fruit and veggies are working their magic! I’ve also been pleased that my freezer has been full of healthy and easy to cook meals which alongside a couple of things I prepped at the weekend has made sorting out dinner the last couple of days stress free so I’ve been able to spend some time relaxing and fighting this cold!

What’s your favourite comfort / easy to prep food for when your feeling under the weather or short on time?

If your vegan / veggie what’s the best / worst thing you’ve been served for your veggie option?

Hi guys, how’s your Wednesday going? Its a chilly day today in North East England, but at least its bright and sunny :-) These are my eats and happenings from yesterday. Happy WIAW!

I started the day with Yoga for Runners then had a mug of lemon and warm water while I had a shower and got ready. Breakfast was a bowl of Kashi Go Lean with a chopped banana, some frozen blueberries and rice milk plus a lovely vanilla coffee, black and sweetened with stevia:

I was working from home around a morning meeting so it was great to have the time to actually sit and enjoy that coffee! Before I left for my meeting I had a chopped apple with some ‘burnt caramel’ dip and a mug of green tea:

I just mixed some tahini, molasses and lucuma powder up with some water to make a  dip – I added the lucuma and it was a good way to mellow out the flavour of the molasses and add a caramel flavour. I decided that it would probably be a good idea to change out of the hoody I’d been wearing all morning for the meeting ;-) and as it was so cold and windy outside I thought a jumper dress would be in perfect, OOTD:

Gold swallow earrings: Topshop, patterned and crocheted scarf: Urban Outfitters, mustard yellow jumper dress: H&M, grey cotton tights: H&M, black turnover top suede effect boots: H&M

I absolutely love jumper dresses for this time of year, I think I have about 5 of them! I got this one a couple of weeks ago when I returned a dress that was stained. I’m still loving that mustard yellow colour right now!

When I got home from my meeting I had a huge bowl of Healthy Feast Salad and a pear:

Mid afternoon I got one of my home made raw cookie dough bars out of the freezer as a snack and for some gym fuel:

Love these! I got to the gym a little early so I did 10 min of intervals on the cross trainer, 10 min of intervals on the step machine and an extra 10 minutes steady state on the rowing machine before going into my body pump class which was awesome as usual!

Dinner was nice and easy to prepare as most of it was sitting in the fridge just ready to warm up and assemble! I had some steamed spring greens with brown and red rice, roast onion squash, baked tofu and a coconut ginger sauce:

This was so delicious! The coconut ginger sauce was lovely – just some light coconut milk warmed with 1 tbsp of coconut flour and 1 tsp of corn flour for thickness plus some shoyu and fresh minced ginger, yum! The tofu had baked perfectly as well and had a wonderful meaty texture.

For dessert I had my usual post body pump bowl of protein ice cream:

1 scoop of smores spiru-tein with water, ice and gums topped with dried cherries and cacao nibs, delish! I then warmed myself up with a huge mug of Cococardio sweetened with stevia:

This hit the spot on such a cold and windy evening!

All in all a pretty good day, I got loads of work done and a report finished for work so I was happy. Another thing that made me smile today:

Kale! James picked me up some when he was in town, along with another of my current obsessions – Shogun apples! I’d never heard of this variety – they are a type of Fiji apple and they are huge and so sweet, plus I like the name ;-)

Are you a fan of the jumper dress? I love wearing them with thick tights, leggings or skinny jeans when the weather gets colder. They can look really good but still be comfortable and warm. I actually wore a knitted hat today for the first time this season it was so cold! What outfit do you turn to as the weather gets cooler?