WIAW #33- Simple, yet delicious!

Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday! Happy yet? ...

How about now? Good :) You have to be in a good mood, especially when scrolling through endless pictures of food! (well that usually puts me in a good mood anyway:)

Thanks as always to Peas and Crayons for such a brilliant link-up each week!

Let's see some eats!

Breakfast:
After a lovely 20-or-so minute run (don't really track the time) and a date and a fig as my pre-run snack, I had breakfast!

Which consisted of a smoothie made of 1 chopped frozen banana, 3 big scoops of greek yoghurt, a scoop of organic vegan vanilla protein powder, a handful of spinach and a splash of almond milk:

Drank alongside some overnight oats in a jar:

I simply filled up half the jar with fruity muesli and chia seeds and topped almost to the top with almond milk, stirred and put in the fridge overnight

Nom.

Peek-a-boo inside:

Spoonshot:

Snack:
Unfortunately I didn't believe my half a carrot was worthy of a photo. Just kidding- I forgot ;P

Lunch:
Lunch was simple- yet utterly delicious (it was what I was craving so it tasted 10 000 x better) with brown rice, mixed four beans, peas, corn, sliced tomato, green and red capsicum and spinach:

Some times my body just screams for simple, plain flavours and veggies... and I love it :)

Snack:
My afternoon snack consisted of a glass of soy milk:

A plate of fruit (delicious sweet white flesh peach and black seedless grapes)

Ergo- fruit and soy milk! :)

Dinner:
For din-dins, I was still in my simple, plain flavours mood and made myself a plate of steamed veggies (pumpkin, sweet potato, potato, parsnip, brocoli, baby asparagus and brussels sprouts) and two poached eggs topped with some salsa:

I never seem to have a problem with filling half my plate with veggies- my problem seems to be squishing all the veggies to the side so I can fit something else on the plate!

After dinner I had a small handful of nuts (I'm always super hungry on run days) and was nicely satisfied! :)
That's what I ate!

How about you?
What did you eat this Wednesday?
Do you sometimes crave simple, plain foods? This tends to happen on a pretty regular basis for me!
Do you like poached eggs with salsa? I seem to love this combo!

Bye for now folks! :D

FOOD!-GLORIOUS-FOOD!

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before (like a bajillion times!) but... I'm gonna say it again- I.LOVE.FOOD!
I love cooking food, I love eating food, I love coming up with new crazy ideas on how to create the food I love eating.
Only problem is- time! Time seems to have a way of flying by when you have school 5 days a week, play an instrument- about to start learning another one, do jazz and contemporary, are on the cross country team, have to coordinate a mural project for school, do a peer support program with the new year 7's, work through the Duke of Edinborough award (google it- it's a great program) and also keep up to date with homework/assignments/tests- where does cooking come into all that?
I will admit it's hard!
But planning is important- so is taste! I am not sacrificing taste for anything- so when I'm time short.. I simply resort to quick-to-prepare foods :)

Like the other night's dinner..

2 boiled eggs, some Vegemite on 100% rye toast and a sweet potato and pumpkin mash with mixed beans= Quick, easy, healthy and delicious!

Lunch at school...

Simple salad with raw veggies and some grilled one-minute-polenta mixed with sundried tomatoes.

On early cross country training mornings...

Creamy overnight oats ( muesli+mashed banana+nutbutter+cinnamon+chia seeds+splash of milk, left in fridge overnight)

One last thing... remember my latest WIAW? The fail that it was that ended up a What I Wish I Ate Wednesday ?
Well, today I actually ate what I wished I ate for lunch on Wednesday!

My take on Running with Spoons- Pumpkin chili mexican scramble!
In mine, I used both pumpkin and sweet potato and seasoned it with taco seasoning. I also used 2 whole eggs mixed with hommus:) Yum!

Any-who that's just a glimpse into how I cook/prepare on minimal time! Luckily it's the weekend, which equals time!
And time.. equals COOKIES! Chocolate-chip cookies!

Ingredients:
1 cup muesli
1 banana
chia gel- 1 tablespoon chia seeds mixed with 1 tablespoon milk (I used oat milk)
1 tablespoon nut butter ( I used peanut butter)
optional- 1/2 dried fig chopped

Choc chips:
 1 teaspoon coconut butter
1 teaspoon milk (I used oat milk)
1 teaspoon raw cacao powder
dash of cinnamon

Method:For choc chips
1. Place coconut butter and milk in small bowl and heat for 15-30 seconds, until warmed, stir to combine:

2. Stir in cacoa and cinnamon and drop onto a plate lined with baking paper with a spoon:

3. Place in freezer to set

For the cookies:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius, line a tray with baking paper
2.Mash banana in a bowl, add nutbutter and microwave for 15 seconds, stir to combine
3. Place muesli, chia gel, banana mixture, figs and set choc chips (you can roll them into balls) in a bowl and stir to combine- I used my hands :)
4. Roll into 4 balls (or 2 MEGA cookies!) and place on tray:

5. Bake for 10-15 mins, until golden and slightly hard:

6. ENJOY!
I had mine with a smoothie of frozen mango, frozen berries, spinach and oat milk:

Nothing like a plate full of cookies sitting on your lap in the morning!

yum.

It was a sad last bite!

I hope everyone has a fun weekend- enjoy the spare time!

Sundays are for PANCAKES...and links ;)

Hello, hello everyone!
Everyone glad it's Sunday? Yes? Good! Me too :)

Basically I've committed a big sin over the past few weeks in not having pancakes for brekky on Sundays (the un-official universal pancake day). Instead going for smoothies, or oats, or truffles. Gah, the offensive-ness of it all is almost too much to bare.

I say almost too much as I actually remedied the situation this Sunday morning...

 BOOM BABY!
I made some delicious thick and fluffy wholemeal spelt banana/cinnamon pancakes topped very generously with crunchy peanut butter. With a side of blueberry fro-yo (bluebs, 1/2 banana, greek yoghurt- whaz!)

Making pancakes requires some very technical steps, so I decided to take pics of each one just so you can make it through (note the sarcasm, folks ;)

1. Pancakes in pan with oil and heat:

2. Pancakes flipped in pan after 2 minutes with oil and heat

3. Pancakes left a teensy bit too long on other side

4. Topped with PB to hide that fact. In chunks waiting for fridge cold PB to melt:

5. PB melted, spread and devoured:

Pancakes done!

Now, as it is Sunday, I have some links I've loved from the week to share with you! Let's go!

Food:

No Bake Black Bean Fudge Brownies

Rainbow Veggie Hummus Pizza & Everything Bagel Crust

33 Overnight Oats Recipes for the Perfect Lazy Girl Breakfast

{no bake} peanut butter chocolate mousse fudge cake

Vegan crumpets

Fitness:

16 minutes and done! Full body HIIT workout

The Basic Rules to Start Running

Exercise Hacks for Better Workouts

The 1000 Ab Challenge

18 Fitness Myths That Need To Be Stopped Immediately

Good reads:

What Happens When You Give Up Solid Food For One Week?

Here's How to Make Your Lunch Totally Memorable and UtterlyCraveable

Can you guess the actual name Starbucks got horribly wrong?

I hope you found these links as interesting as I did (still eyeing those vegan crumpets!) and found some inspiration here and there!

Make sure you have a wonderful day, do something you love and of course, eat something delicious! Bye for now friends!! :D