WIAW #76 Back to Old Favourites!

Hello there lovely people!

The week is halfway over already, can you believe it!? Where has this year gone?? Any who, I hope you've all had a great week so far, ready to finish it off with a bang- and if not a bang, then atleast with some delicious meals!!

Speaking of, it's Wedensday and on Wednesdays we share a full day of eats! WIAW style!! Thanks as always to Peas and Crayons for the creation of this weekly link-up and all the bloggers who participate and allow me to drool over their fantastic eats!

Now onto the FOOOD!

Breakfast: 7:10am
Back into the school routine of up early, brekky early, pre-packed lunches the night before and being super organised!

Holding no negative influence over my breakfasts though- they're still as big and delicious and filling as ever!!

A big bowl of blueberry/banana cheesecake steel cut oats with almond butter and peanut butter spread throughout!

There's nothing like a big bowl of oats to warm your heart!

This was also eaten after a short (but intense!!) blogilates workout- new favourite fitness craze of mine in case you were wondering! Cassey Ho is just so enthusiastic and motivating- half the time I don't even feel like I've been working out for that long because she would have been talking about the weather or something else!! ;)

So these oats were even more enjoyable as a result! (everything tastes better after a hard workout!).

Lunch: 1:40pm
Sorry about the blurry photo, but it was actually the clearest one I got (my camera has been acting up a bit lately) but in that tupperware container was some roasted-night-before cold potatoes and sweet potato (so good!), spinach, lentils and mixed four beans.

This lunch will never get old!

Snack: 4:00pm
When I returned home from school today I was rather ravenous, so I chopped up a granny smith apple and some honey dew and crunched on that with a mug of soy milk to wash it down.

 Homework followed...

Dinner: 6:45pm
Cooking motivation= 0, therefore favourite low-maintenance meal to the rescue!!

 Two boiled eggs with spelt bread toast soldiers (hommus and avocado) and some oven roasted eggplant, capsicum, zucchini and mushrooms rubbed with minced garlic and roasted for around 45 mins at 180 degrees celcius.

 After dinner featured a piece of Lindt Excellence 90% chocolate because I am hooked!! So delicious! :)


Your turn:
Are you a blogilates fan/ have another favourite fitness youtuber?
Do you like to stir greek yoghurt into your cooked oats?
Favourite low-maintenance meal when you just cannot fathom cooking?

I hope you all have a great day, do something you love, do something cool for someone else and if all else fails just smile- you'll feel better for it! Bye for now friendly friends!! :D

Linking up the love!

Hi friendly friends! I hope everyone's having a super fun weekend (and if not, run around in a circle really fast and I promise you you'll end up laughing- even if it is purely the fact that you stacked it...)

Now, with that little piece of wisdom, and a mug of warm delicious apple + cinnamon steel cut oats...

Let's get onto some awesome links from the past week:

Food:

Healthy 1 Minute Blueberry Muffin (Paleo, vegan, gluten free)

Chocolate Fudge Banana Skillet Cake (Vegan and Paleo)

Healthy Spicy Cauliflower Dip

Homemade vegan white chocolate

Blueberry & Lemon Fudge with creamed coconut (4 ingredients)

Fitness:

Experts: Surprisingly Little Running Extends Lifespan

25 Badass Tanks That Will Actually Inspire You To Exercise

3 Min Muffintop Melting Oblique Workout!

Should I Run with a Cold?

When to Eat Before and After a Workout For Best Results

24 Reasons Why You Should Exercise Today

Health/ Good reads:

10 Rules I Broke While Running 53 Marathons In 53 Days

Funny:

24 Problems Literally Only The Queen Would Truly Understand

I hope you found some good reads in there and I'll catch you guys later! Again, have an awesome rest of your weekend (you know what to do ;) Bye for now!! :D

WIAW #60 Deliciousness!

Happy Wednesday friendly friends! Do you know what makes this Wednesday extra happy? For me at least? Last exam! Yes! So stoked and ready to crash tomorrow... before heading back to school next week for the last 3 weeks of term. Yeah, I don't understand either!

Any who, along with studying like a boss I've also been eating like one too, because using one's brain requires lots of energy!! On that note, here's everything I ate on Tuesday, a rest day from exams :). Thanks as usual to Peas and Crayons for this awesome WIAW link-up each week!

Pre-run: 6:30am
I took advantage of not having to be at school by 8, so slept in a little bit and had a lovely 40 minute treadmill run (it's coming into Winter over here in Aus, in case you were wondering about the treadmill scenario) and because I woke up hungry, I consumed 2 dates prior to my run at 7:00am.

Breakfast: 8:15am
After stretching, showering and guzzling water my breakfast was cooked and I was HUNGRY!

 In that delightfully yellow mug was a big serving of choc protein steel cut oats with some of my home-made cashew butter scattered throughout and on top. It was extremely delicious!

 Warm, gooey, chocolate-y... what more could you ask for?

Lunch: 12:30pm
I wasn't hungry for hours after breakfast but as lunch time rolled round I knew I should probably eat something to keep that metabolism chugging along and keep my body happy so I set about making something I just really felt like:

 A big ol' stir fry!

 Firstly I sauteed off some garlic and onion with sesame oil, then I added in some chopped brocoli, capsicum, eggplant, zucchini and mushrooms for a few mins until tender, next I threw in some peas, corn, satay tofu, spinach and brown rice vermicelli (that had soaked in boiling water for a couple of minutes) and mixed it all together on high heat until combined and delicious!

 Happy Tummmy!

Snack: 4:15pm
We had a literature excursion type thing scheduled for this night at the theater to see a play called Glengarry Glen Ross, so I ate a pretty hefty snack to tide me over until around 8:00pm when the play finished.

 Chopped cantaloupe, granny smith apple and a big mug of soy milk:

Dinner: 8:00pm
After the play (which was...interesting. The actors were amazing, but I don't think I fully understood what was going on... and every second word was a swear word) my stomach was growling and I took out these falafel type things I had made that afternoon:

 Red kidney beans + lentils+cumin+paprika+ginger+pepper+steamed mashed pumpkin and potato- all whazzed up together in a mini food processor and baked in the oven (180 degrees Celsius) for around 40 mins.

 Very tasty and filling!

And that's what I ate this past Tuesday!


What about you?
Do you normally have a pre-workout snack? It sort of depends for me. My stomach can do just fine without one but I feel like my energy levels are significantly better with a little sustenance inside.
Fan of stir fry?
Favourite portable dinner?

Still hungry for more? Head on over to Peas and Crayons to see what everyone else has been nom-ing on! Bye for now guys, have a great day and as always, eat something delicious! Bye! :D

SUNDAY LINKS!!

Hello lovelies! Happy Sunday!!
Even though it's dark and dreary and rainy over here in Aus (I miss Summer!) my day still started off great with a 40 min treadmill run (For those of you who hate running on the treadmill- bring something to read, I use my iPad, the time goes by super fast!) that resulted in a lot of sweat! Followed by some delicious raspberry steel cut oats with peanut butter...

Basically a PB & J bowl of oats :)
Raspberries:

 Plus 1 thinly sliced banana, around 1/2- 2/3 cup steel cut oats and a sprinkle of chia seeds:

 Cooked with 1 cup almond milk and 1 cup water until all the liquid's absorbed.
PB in the bottom of the mug and in the middle of the oats for even coverage- IMPORTANT! :D

 Top it off with the rest of the pretty pink oats and more peanut butter and you're good to go:

 Even though it was bucketing down, it wasn't too cold outside, so I enjoyed my wonderfully late breakfast outside listening to the rain :) Ahhh Sunday- you are awesome!!

 Speaking of Sunday, how about some fun links from the week?

Fun/ Awesome:

This Is What It Would Look Like If “Friends” Were On TV Today

These Designers Want To Remove The Stigmas Surrounding Mental Illness

The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances

Fitness/ Running:

Eat fat, be fit

30 workouts to stay in shape while traveling

How to exercise your mental muscle

How to carb load the right way

Food/Nutrition:

 

Vegan falafel curry

Red Pepper & Almonds Pasta Sauce

Perfect sweet potato burgers

Chocolate chip whip cream bars topped with cookie crisp cereal

 

Activated almonds anyone?

Runner tested veggie burgers

 

 There you have it! I hope you found some interesting reads in the above links as I did! Have a wonderfully relaxing Sunday, eat something utterly delicious, be kind to your body and have a great day! Bye for now friends!! :D