Weird Food Habits!

You have em', I know I have em', almost everyone in the entire world has em'!

Whether it be biting off the head of whatever animal shaped biscuit you're eating, saving a certain flavour 'til last, planning out the perfect amount of milk for your cereal bowl, eating around the outside of the bread to save the middle, soft, fluffy bit until last (I am guilty of this):

Those are the middle bits of 2 delicious toasted wholemeal crumpets with crunchy PB and raw cacao hazelnut butter.

.. or even (this example courtesy of my mum) not being able to enjoy a cheese and tomato toastie without a glass of ice cold milk (she literally puts ice cubes in there!)

Whatever it is, we all have weird food habits (I know I have MANY!) and so I decided to scour the internet to find some of the craziest food habits people have to make me feel a lot better about mine for our entertainment! :)

First of all- many, many more people than you would suspect pour orange juice into their cereal instead o milk...

Hmm, don't know how I feel about this.

Another thing that a large group of people adhere to is shaking milk before they drink it:

I mean, I don't actually drink cow's milk anymore and so I do in fact shake my soy milk and almond milk cartons, but when I did drink milk, I didn't even think to shake the bottle first?? Maybe I should have?

This one I just don't seem to get:

People who fold their pizza slice in half before nom-ing. I mean, it's a perfectly brilliant triangular slice that allows half your mouth to experience the intense flavour of the toppings as soon as it makes contact with your taste buds. Folding it- you just get crust!?

And then there's the even more atrocious:

Seriously!? It's pizzaaaaa!

Ok, now we need to go back to cereal... because...

Yep, ice in cereal is a thing. And a very celebrated one at that!

Along those lines of ice and things that generally shouldn't go with it: Ice cream and fries

I'm just kidding though- I totally used to do this!!

On the topic of strange fast food combos:

The banana on pizza movement is gathering quite the following!!

And finally all the wrong ways to eat these foods:

 Kit kats have breakable sides for a reason!

 Nature created oranges in separate sections. NATURE!

String cheese. If you don't string it , it ain't string cheese!

Now, all of this is in good jest- you do you! Eat however you want. I'm definitely not one to judge:

 I've always separated my 'cereal and milk' (even when it became granola and smoothie).

 I used to lick all the flavour off barbecue shapes and then eat them plain because I thought they tasted better.

And just to throw my brother and sister under the bus:
My  sister used to toast some bread, spread on nutella and then fold it in half to enjoy (once again on the tasting only crust thing- I'm sure it's a lot more common that I seem to realise!)

And my bro pours himself a big bowl of cornflakes, fills it up with milk (to the very top) and lets it sit for around- not exaggerating- 20-30 minutes!

My Dad you ask? Lets just say there will be barbecue sauce on everything he eats. Everything. I'll just leave that with you to roll over in your mind for a bit!

Oh, and my Dad's morning cereal of choice is crushed up Weet-bix on the bottom and Nutrigrain on top soaked in milk for a little bit as well.

So you see, we're all weirdos but if that's how you enjoy your food, then what's the issue?

Your turn:
What is your strangest food habit?
Ever put orange juice in your cereal/ What is your favourite way to eat cereal?
How do you eat pizza?

 I hope you found this as utterly hilarious and a little shocking as I did. Now- enjoy the rest of your day, smile lots and as always; eat something delicious (even if others might not think it is!! ;) Bye for now friends!! :D

WIAW #86 Out To Lunch!

Hello there friendly friends! How are we all today?

Good? Good!

Now, first of all let's talk about the weather (because I know how much y'all love the weather!) The next two days for Perth are looking a bit like this:

Max: 39 (degrees celsius!!)

Possible thunder storm.

Can someone say humidity?? HUMIDITY. And if you know me at all, you would know that my hair is Hermione/ Hagrid style on good days... add in some humidity...

  Sigh

Any who, today is Wednesday which means it is the day we get to squiz at everyone's eats, share our own full day of eats and basically celebrate eating!! WIAW style!

Thanks as usual to the awesome Peas and Crayons for creating this weekly link-up and for the other bloggers who host week to week!

Now, let's go!

Breakfast:

8:00am

 I love a good slow holiday morning, where the Tuesday sun rises and you have absolutely nothing to do! Well, in saying that, I love that feeling, but then I do an awful lot! This particular morning I woke up, scrolled through some Buzzfeed posts, did a Blogilates ab workout, came downstairs, created this delicious breakfast, popped everything in the freezer to harden up, wrote yesterday's post and then eventually consumed this delightful brekky!

Coconut banana truffles with a side of cherry fro-yo (frozen cherries whazzed up with remaining banana and greek yoghurt).

 Quite tasty indeed!

 Lunch:
11:30am

 For a special lunch today, mum and I went up to Joondalup to have a little wander around the shops and then made our way to my new favourite café- Health Freak Cafe!

 Happy, Happy Steph!
That ginormous burger type thing in front of me was their protein chickpea patty burger- No flour at all in the bun- instead it said it was made with their special protein recipe (my guess is quinoa, egg and something else.. not sure, maybe ground up almonds or quinoa again)

 Utterly delicious and EXTREMEEELLLYYY filling. Mum and I exchanged weary glances as we tried to swallow down the last few bites- it was just too good not to!

 With a side of sweet potato fries of course!

 N.O.M!

 Snack:
4pm
Somehow after hours of being utterly stuffed, I was quite hungry come 4, so I sliced up a bunch of fruit and loved every bite!

 Rockmelon, kiwi fruit and a granny smith apple- so delicious!!

 Dinner:
6:40pm
Come dinner time, I was feeling a little lazy, so I through together whatever sounded good and ended up with this mix:

 Some grilled pumpkin and eggplant (eggplant bellow the pumpkin:

With some oven roasted brussles and broccoli, peas with garlic tofu (garlic tofu with the brussels and brocc too) and a big bowl of popcorn! Quite tasty, albeit incredibly random :D.

After dinner I had a small glass of soy milk and called it a day!

Aaaand that's what I ate :)

What about you?
Can you tolerate lazy mornings or do you still have to keep busy? I just feel too unproductive..
Favourite café of the moment?
Most random meal you've ever thrown together?? Quite interested to hear some responses to this! ;P

I hope you all have a fabulous day, do something you love to do and as always; eat something delicious!! Bye for now friends! :D

Back on track!

You know how I have been ridiculously hungry for the past week or so?

Well, when my body tells me it is hungry, I feed it. Logic, right? Right. So anyway, I'm not saying this was a bad thing or anything like that- my body obviously needed the extra fuel and was telling me so through ridiculous hunger pangs. However, now that the hanger (hungry anger ;P) has finally calmed down... I seem to have the belly of a pregnant woman come the end of the day!

Where am I going with this?

Life changes in a matter of days and it was now time for me to change my eating habits yet again (as my body was back to the normal level of hunger (still quite high compared to others!) and I had to cut back on the amounts of foods I had been eating to calm the beast!

So, here's a look at some of the delicious meals I've been nom-ing on as of very recently:

Firstly, there was a BIG ol' salad (the bowl was quite large too... so it sort of makes the salad appear smaller :D) with a whole bunch of raw chopped veg- carrot, capsicum, cucumber, frozen peas, spinach- and some garlic tofu:

Alongside three slices of this AWESOME new seeded sourdough at my local bakery:

Topped with hommus- it is diviiinnee!

So, I took a whole bunch of pictures of it:

Next up on my 'meals to deflate the bloat':

Delicious roasted veg of course!!

Last week when I was at the shops they had almost no pumpkins left, and the ones they did have looked quite shocking (we did go up quite early, they were probably;y still setting up all of their fresh stuff) anywho, the one I did end up buying was shocking- tasted like water!- so you don't know how glad I was to have a perfectly sweet and tasty pumpkin this week!

In the mix was roasted pumpkin, potato, sweet potato, eggplant, brussels sprouts, parsnip, beetroot and broccoli, with some spinach, drained and rinsed cannelini beans and lentils throughout!


Then of course there have been plenty of smoothies:

My favourite super huge, super tasty, green smoothie!!

More gigantic bowls of veg:

Quinoa bowl with steamed veg (pumpkin, parsnip, broccoli, brussels, sweet tater, peas and corn, with spinach.

What I've been trying to do in these last few days is simply listen to my body, stopping my eating when I'm full (see, when I was ravenously hungry, there was no way I would be able to eat slow and sense my hunger signals) eating a lot more whole fruit and veg, a little less grains and I'm finally starting to feel a little more like my usual self!

The take-away message? A detox doesn't have to mean only drinking juice for seven days, it can simply mean becoming a little more mindful and fueling your amazing body with all the delicious rainbow foods of nature!

Your turn:
Do you ever get periods of extreme hunger in your life?
Do you ever get serious food babies/ pregnancy bloats? I do. Too often.
What foods do you like to eat to help you back on track?


That's it from me today folks- I hope you all have an amazing day, do something you love doing, spend time with those you love and as always; EAT SOMETHING DELICIOUS!! Bye for now friendly friends!! :D

Smoothies and links

Hello, hello friendly friends- HAPPY SUNDAY!

Sunday's are always fabulous when you start the day slurping a HUUUGE green smoothie whilst flicking through lots of lovely links!

Want to try it yourself?

All you need is one super big creamy green smoothie:

And I mean the biggest creamiest smoothie there is!

This one had frozen banana, frozen avocado, oats and chia seeds soaked in almond milk, greek yoghurt, frozen zucchini, cinnamon, vanilla protein powder, cashew butter, kale and spinach as well as a splash of water!

 A spoon would also be handy...

Ting! Helloooo sparkle!

And then some fabulous links to get absorbed into!

Food:

Healthy Four Ingredient Breakfast Brownies

Crispy Oil-Free Noochy Potatoes

25 Delicious Ways To Eat Quinoa For Every Meal

Sweet Potato Coconut Curry with Cranberries and Pistachios | Vegan

Gluten Free Breakfast Power Bowls to POWER Your Day

Raw Vegan Peanut Butter Brownies + PB Caramel Frosting

Fitness:

Run for Your Life

Eight Insider Tips for the Disney World Marathon Weekend- One day, I WILL do this marathon!!

4 Core Exercises You Can Do In 2 Minutes

Health:

Are waist trainers bad for you?

Keeping a Healthy Mindset During the Holidays

5 Things This Nutritionist Wants You to Eat Every Morning

Happiness:

23 Things You’ll Understand Only If You’re Slightly Obsessed With Smoothies-I have never related to anything more in my life!

I hope you all have a fabulous rest of your relax day and do something you love to do. Oh- and as always... EAT SOMETHING DELICIOUS!! Bye for now friendly friends! :D