Look!
How exciting! I won a prize on the lovely Rachel’s blog 🙂 And the prize arrived! So exciting! 🙂 With the cutest peanut postcard too!
After dinner me and Andy tried a booja booja truffle each. These were rum sultana ones-and I don’t like alchohol or drink, but I do add stuff like that to a Christmas cake -and these smelled like a Christmas cake. Or maybe just like rum- anyway they were super strong! But booja booja always make such amazing chocolate- the rest are safely in the fridge for another day. Thanks so much Rachel I am looking forward to trying every single item in the box 🙂
Now for a catch up;
Monday- good run after work- 4 miles and no walk breaks.
Tuesday- Aerobics- super hard and no time for a cool down! My calves were stiff on Wednesday.
Wednesday- Another good run after work- another 4 miles- so so windy but again feeling good and sped up for the last bit- under 10 min miles at the end which is super speedy for me at the moment. I am now feeling optimistic about Sunday and feel that I could run the whole way.
Thursday- Body pump baby! Heavier weights for squats (quite a boring track I think) and also for the back (as it is slow so I feel I can add more weight and have more control).
Warm butternut and goats cheese salad. This was spinach zapped in the microwave for half a min, topped with roasted butternut, herby goats cheese, caramelised onions, and quinoa cooked with beetroot, tomato, pepper, courgette. Yum.
Lemon slices (from Hummingbird)- I made some for my Nan 🙂
Yay my new bowl! With chocolate alpro and chocolate granola.
Alpro with coconut extract, and chocolate granola. More yumminess.
Also can I just say a massive thank you to everyone who has sponsored me so far! I really really really appreciate it (and the lovely comments too). Plus, exciting news- I have a few more prizes that will be added in the next few days. Altogether now “oooooooooooh“.
Question- how do you get ready for a race? It is 10K but at the moment that is the most I have run for maybe a month? I think the day I got the stomach bug was the last day I ran that far. So anyway I was thinking of going for 2 miles tomorrow and then resting Saturday (well, my parents are over, we have to go to the allotment and I also want to start baking some “bribes” for people at work to sponsor me)- but Andy is resting tomorrow also. He will probably tell me off for going for a run, but I need to wash my hair. So- what would you/ do you do?
Cheers.
Date and cinnamon porridge (as part of my quest to pimp my porridge). Then I went on a run so this was also giving me some energy.
Chocolate cherry almond bar from my blog swap with Errign, and some peach and mango coconut water.
Cinnamon and raisin bread with organic crunchy pb, and lots of watermelon. Back on those summery fruits with this hot weather.
I only had one haha! One carrot and raisin cupcake 🙂 I had a friend over (was supposed to be friends but others were ill) which is why I put these out.
Ecomil chocolate almond dessert (amazing!!!!), cherries and a little granola dust (the end of the packet!).
They have kindly contributed some sets of Teapigs English Breakfast tea, Peppermint tea and a very very cool mug.
They are generously contributing some hampers of their entire range of cereals. They are on 
Some nice nakd cereal bars, some other things from the UK too (still getting these bits together) , and some home-made fudge too.
These are super easy- 100g flour, 100ml milk, 1 egg, I tbsp sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, and cook away. I put on some dried cranberries and Andy had his with some maple syrup.
I had mine with Whole Earth caramel and chocolate spread. Mmmmm.
They look so much better in natural light!
After that we were super hot and tired. I made us smoothies, which turned into soft serve! A frozen banana, some frozen mango and a carton of coconut water= 2 delicious smoothies that need to be eaten with a spoon!
It was a bit later for lunch, so I went for an apple and a pear covered in honey pb (from my blog swap). 🙂 Yum.
I did a blog swap with 
I had the mint brownie bite straight away and it was delicious! Thanks 
I also got my 
Some lovely looking almond desserts from Ecomil- I cannot wait to try these, perhaps in my new bowls?
How cute are they???? I got them from Paperchase when I was getting some birthday cards, so not actually in the post, but I just love them!
Oh yeah, and a commiserations magazine. This was actually for Andy, who, when his marathon training was going well, decided to sign up for the London ballot (and he didn’t tell me until after the deadline! Not that I would have applied, but anyway)- after Stockholm he was hoping to have not got in, so he was very relieved to get this in the post!
Post run snack- Chocolate Cherry Almond Luna bar courtesy of Errign- delicious 🙂
I made some carrot and raisin cakes to go with the peanut butter cookies I made yesterday.
Before the cream cheese frosting- I am getting a little obsessed with the mini loaf cases!
Oh, and one final photo- I ordered some bits from Lakeland- including piping bags and nozzles (so I no longer have to just dollop the icing on!), muslin cloth squares (for my almond milk hopefully) and these cool trays that are already divided up. I am terrible at cutting things evenly and so I am looking forward to making brownies, flapjacks, bars etc that are all perfectly the same size.