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Happy Friday! Does today feel like a Saturday to anyone else? I think my routines are going to be totally messed up this week now, not that I’m complaining I love that we get a 4 day weekend! I got my Easter break off to a good start with some baking:

Those would be home made vegan wholemeal apple, cinnamon, raisin hot cross buns! I’ll post the recipe soon. I had one warm from the oven with vegan spread and black cherry jam, it was delicious! I’ve taken some to my parents and my friends this afternoon and they’ve all gone down well there too :-)

I’ve had lots of other lovely meals this week including:

Breakfasts

Raw buckwheat (soaked overnight) with strawberries, dates, hemp milk and raw cacao granola

Leftover brown and red rice, chopped apple, raisins, hemp milk and sunflower seed butter with cinnamon and hazelnut coffee

Raw oats, soy milk, nectarine, frozen blueberries and Earl Grey tea with soy milk

Lunches and Dinners

Buddha bowl with brown and red rice, pinto beans, red onion, olives, avocado and steamed broccoli – this tasted amazing, avocado just makes anything taste extra special!

Baked tofu salad with balsamic dressing

Thai Curry Edamade Noodle bowl but made with Thai red curry paste and some miracle noodles I’d bought from iHerb to try

So much yumminess!

This week I also received my cookies as part of Tam’s fantastic cookie exchange! Cat sent me a wonderful package of vegan delights including peanut cookies, chocolate chip cookies and snicker doodles! They all taste incredible! I tried a few, froze the rest and used some of the snicker doodle crumbs as a topping for some raspberry and hemp milk ‘ice cream’ with peanut sauce and cacao nibs:

I’ve never had snicker doodles before and oh my god these are insanely good!

Workouts this week have been pretty much the usual:

• Sunday – AM gym – 4 miles relaxed treadmill run, 20 minutes cross trainer, kettle bell class
• Monday – AM 5 min cross trainer warm up, strength workout B from Dial it in phase of Female Body Breakthrough, 10 min HIIT step machine, 10 min HIIT bike
• Tuesday – PM Body Pump class 
• Wednesday – AM 5 min cross trainer warm up, strength workout A from Base phase of Female Body Breakthrough, 10 min HIIT step machine, 10 min HIIT bike
• Thursday – AM 1 hour Power Yoga workout from You Tube
• Friday – AM 5 min cross trainer warm up, strength workout B from Dial it in phase of Female Body Breakthrough, 10 min HIIT step machine, 10 min HIIT bike

I’ve now finished 4 weeks of doing the Dial it in workouts from Female Body Breakthrough so I’m happy I’ll be moving on to the next phase and some fresh exercises next week!

On the weekend send off love list this week…

Baking supplies!

I’m planning on making some chocolate fudge cupcakes this weekend and thought these pretty pastel sugar butterflies would be perfect for decorating them! Also…

Enjoying a three day week! // getting used to my iPad and playing with new photo apps // watching Dexter season 3 // having fun with my nephews today :-)

How are you planning to spend the Easter weekend? What’s on your love list this week?

The weather was gorgeous when I woke up this morning so I was really excited to do my run. Before I went out I had a cup of green tea and half a Berry Cheeky Nakd Bar for energy.


My run was fantastic. I ran for just over 5 and a half miles in just under an hour. Thats a big increase on last week when I ran just under 4 miles. I felt on top of the world when I finished, I felt like I could have kept on running for ages! This helped me finally make up my mind, I'm doing the Great North Run! I would like to do it for Cancer Research UK as this is a cause close to my heart.

When I got back from my run I needed a big breakfast so I made some pancakes with egg whites, vanilla whey, spelt flour, a teaspoon of ground flax and a little vanilla rice milk. I topped them with cashew butter, hot blueberries and some melon on the side.


They were wonderful and hit the spot!

I pottered about for a bit this morning and then got ready to go out. Before I left the house I made myself some speedy vegetable noodle soup -

Speedy Vegetable Noodle Soup

Sachet of miso soup
Teaspoon of vegetable boullion
Spinach leaves
Grated carrot
Chopped red onion
fresh ginger
Vermicelli brown rice noodles
Soy sauce
Boiling water

Add all of the ingredients together in a bowl and pour over boiling water. Stir for a few minutes until the noodles have softened and eat!


You could add any veggies you had in the fridge etc or shredded cooked chicken. Super quick and super yummy! I also made myself a few little snacks for the afternoon, an apple, grapes and a pecan pie nakd bar.


The afternoon was spent enjoying the sunshine and recharging my batteries in my Mam and Dads back garden and chatting to my Sis then heading into town for a look around the market and going to get these wonderful (and expensive!) running shoes!


I could really feel my feet hurting on this mornings run and I had a few blisters so I though I'd better get myself sorted. I went to a little shop called Northern Runner, the shop assistant was very knowledgeable and looked at my feet to analyse my gait. I slightly over pronate. I tried on a few different pairs but settled on these New Balance trainers. I also got some blister reducing socks.

I met up with the Hubby when he finished work and we headed home. I made some mince and onions with some organic mince I had picked up last week in the reduced section and served it with half a sweet potato, brocolli, green beans and cauliflower.

It was delicious, I don't know if it was due to the mince being organic but it was really tasty.
For desert I made up a huge bowl of chocolate raspberry sorbet, inspired by a recipe on Chocolate Covered Katies blog a while ago. Its basically frozen raspberries blended with a little rice milk, cocoa powder and agave syrup. It tasted absolutely divine!


Drinks - water, green tea, decaf tea

I was so excited after my run and when getting my new trainers for doing the Great North Run. The hubby and the rest of my friends and family have been really supportive of me doing it. I'm really looking forward to the training as well, I just feel so good after I've completed a long run, I totally get the runners high!

Do any of you guys get that as well? I used to hate exercise then gradually it started to make me feel good and I started to enjoy it more. I get the best feeling after running over any other exercise.

Well I'm off to chill out with the Hubby and catch up on some good TV! Hope you've all had a good one and if your in the UK have enjoyed this wondeful weather! x