Happy Monday everyone!
After work I was so cold I came home and put the kettle on, for some teapigs English Breakfast tea. It’s ingredients are ; a gusty Assam, a mellow Ceylon and a powerful Rwandan newcomer.
The tea was just what I fancied; pretty strong but without the bitter aftertaste that some english breakfast teas can have. Plain and simply good tea 🙂
I did some work for about an hour, and then it was dinner time! I was organised and took pictures as I went along! So for mexican bean wraps:
Chop a red onion and cook with a squirt of olive oil, then add some kidney beans:
Add some tomato puree, a little lazy chilli (or a chopped chilli) and mash.
Then add a chopped pepper and some sweetcorn:
Then grate a little cheese, sprinkle on a wrap and then spoon on the bean mixture;
Then fold up and place in a baking dish or tray and bake for around 8 minutes (it only needs warming through really);
Then serve how you like it; I had it with some salad with flaxseed oil and balsamic vinegar.
Yum! (mine kind of went apart a bit in the oven but it was still just as tasty as the parcels).
I had a walk this evening, although I was not feeling as stiff as I thought I would be.
Today I was thinking about snacking, or spacing meals out. I never used to have a moring snack ( I didn’t always have a moring break due to being with the children) and by lunch time I would be starving. The staffroom would often be filled with treats, and it would be tempting to have a nibble while I was getting my lunch/ waiting to use the microwave and so on. But now my lunch time is going to start even later and I was concious this year that I didn’t want to be really hungry by lunch (as I have breakfast around 7, waiting until 12.30 for lunch is a long time), so I have decided to have a snack. At the moment I have either 2 oatcakes (the ginger/ spiced ones) or a small nak’d bar. So far it has worked really well for me. I have found that although I am still hungry at lunch, I am not as starving as I used to be (craving a sugar boost) and am now having a smaller lunch. I always used to have a pot of yoghurt along with fruit, sandwich, veggies, but am now finding I don’t need the yoghurt.
I also have a snack at the end of the day usually (that is when I normally do exercise, and we don’t tend to eat dinner until around 7pm), and I am still having that. But for me the snacking is working much better, and so far I have not had a single nibble from the staffroom table! 🙂
It is such an easy habit to fall into- just have one chocolate, or a tiny piece of cake or whatever, and I really don’t want to get back into that. They all add up and I would rather plan to have something a little healthier than waste my food on these empty treats.
So today I am saying hooray for snacks!
Any snacks which you love to have on hand?
Also after trying the nuun yesterday I am pleased to report that I did not get a post-run headache at all! Which has not happened for a long time- yay 🙂