A good clear out

Well I was without t’internet for most of yesterday and was so busy I didn’t post! Went to work, collected my glasses (they are not as big as I thought, but my eyes are taking time getting used to them), did the shopping and housework. Plus I used a courgette from the garden to make some courgette bread from my Bake book. It is much like a banana bread recipe, with lots of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves- it smelled delicious and I had a slice as my post body-pump snack and it was delicious. I used half wholemeal flour, loads of spices and it was yum!

Today I have been busy again- we have people over tonight and I am making some pizzas and bread (all on the go at the mo). Earlier I made brownies (my oldest recipe which makes them all chewy and sticky- yum). I also decided to make bread for lunch (was in a bread-baking mood) so I added some cranberries, cinnamon and flaked almonds to my normal bread= delicious!

I had one little slice with cream cheese, and one little slice with rainforest nut butter- delish!

Before my run today I tried a new snack (sent to me by the kind folks at www.seedstacked.com). It was a seedy flapjack bar, and I think it may replace the 9bar as my fave seedy snack. The ingredients are honey, oats, seeds, nutmeg and vanilla extract. No oil or anything else to bind it together. In a 50g bar you get just under 200 calories, nearly 6g protein, 5g fibre and about 28g carbs. Pretty good stuff, not to mention all the goodness from the seeds. It tasted lovely too- you could taste the nutmeg, it gave it a nice spicy hint. The texture was lovely, not too seedy, nice and chewy. Altogether fab (10/10 cherries for me).

When I got back from my run (5 mile run which I listened to the rest of the marathon talk podcast- good stuff, although it is so muggy out there I was dripping when I got back urgh!) I had some coconut water (cocowell- got it from the health food shop)- tasted lovely and I added in a little bit of mango smoothie. Yum.

I also spent a good hour today in the garage clearing out junk which we then took to the tip- I love a good clear-out, so theraputic isn’t it?

Anyway, back to the dough-making now!