Playing catch ups

A little behind because I’ve been to a cocktail party, a wedding and have fallen off my clean eating wagon!!

Breakfast: Kashi Heart to Heart Cereal with banana, peanut butter and soy milk.

I got the cereal from a friend who visited the US. Kashi is a pretty popular brand, particularly for those who are trying to eat a little healthier, but looking at the ingredients its still a bit of a concoction, and has added sweeteners - at least its all relatively natural. Usually I steer clear of cold cereals due to the added sugar and often empty carbs. But on those mornings when you just can’t stomach something warm or heavy, cereals fits in perfectly. Just have to remember to balance with protein and good fats!

Enjoyed with some fresh flowers!

 

Lunch: Leftover Bento

This was really delicious! Peanut soba with extra broadbeans, a gyzoa and chicken yakitori. The white nectarine was over ripe and juicy and exactly what I needed as a pick me up at work!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: The boy’s Macaroni and cheese.

Not at all clean! At least it wasn't too cheesy – most of it was low fat ricotta. He is trying. Also became our breakfast the next day before the wedding.

The wedding was a crazy feast of champagne, delicious but fried nibbles, fresh entre and main interspersed with anecdotes from the family and friends of the gorgeous bride and ecstatic groom, and so much cake!  I don’t drink often, and I never forget anything or have bad hangovers, so I am a little cocky when it comes to drinking. Recently however, the next day has been a challenge – I just feel weak, dizzy, sick, am unproductive and just want to eat-eat-eat! I think my body is really trying to tell me something, and this time I am going to listen!

The Mac cheese was also accompanied by mint lemonade and some magazines. The new Cosmo health. $13 is a little steep for a magazine, but 1. its a special and 2. I get a free medium boost juice, so that’s $5 off the cover price (because I actually buy boost). It also came with a free bootcamp pass, but I don’t live close enough to the locations to get any benefit (so let me know if you want the voucher!) I bought it to read when I feel like eating chocolate – a distraction!

The mint lemonade is something I am trying to develop from Mint Lemonada I had at a Turkish Restaurant. The recipe so far is…

Mint Lemonada

1-2 lemons (depending on size) or about 1/3 c fresh lemon juice (pulp ok too)
1 stevia tablet (or tsp natural sweetener)
2 tsp agave nectar or honey
2 tsp to 1 tbsp mint (or a bunch of fresh mint, preferred)
1/2 c ice
1 c water or soda water

Blend all ingredients. Ignore colour. Delicious!

I think its still missing something. More lemon perhaps? Its meant to be tart and refreshing – a perfect beverage to cut through the powerful flavours of hummus, shish kebab and burek.

Recipe: BBB

Also known as
"Bron's Best B.L.T" (I love acronyms that have acronyms in them!!)

What you need for two:

• Woolworths Garlic and Olive Oil Sourdough bread - seriously imperative. If you don't, I GUESS you could use sourdough bread and spread garlic butter on it.
• 3-4 pieces of rindless bacon (I use middle bacon then trim it)
• Lettuce (anything which is crisp and vibrant and will do), washed and pulled apart into sandwhich sized pieces
• 1 juicy tomato, cut into approx 6 thick slices
• 1 avocado, halved, seed removed and mashed
• Salt and pepper to taste

Optional

• Aioli - amazement, making the above a BLAAT
• Caramelised onions - BLOAT?

1.  Grill or pan-fry the bacon on high heat until crispy.

2.  Cut the loaf of bread on an angle so you get decent sized pieces, not straight like normal bread. Grill on a sandwhich press until light brown char marks appear, or you can't stand the smell any longer (its so damn good)

4.  Slather on the avocado then salt, aioli and onion (if using). On the other slice place your lettuce, tomato and then bacon.

5.  Place the avo'd side onto the top of the rest of your sammo and DIG IN.

6.  Die happy (eventually)

I dont know what it is about bacon + avo but whatever it is its AMAZEBALLS

And you know what, its not an awfully unehalthy recipe. You could go the rye sourdough etc and just add garlic to your bacon, shortcut at that and skimp on the avo (I usually only put about 1/4 of one on and the boy gets 3/4 on his bigger sanga)

The bread really does make it, and I've heard they might discontinue it so I am going to buy as many loafs as I can and freeze them.

Breakfast Mojo? Where are you

As I may have said earlier, my passion for the most important and the first meal of the day, died somewhere between Up & Gos at work and late sleep-ins during my time off. I was just not feeling it anymore.

So I embarked on a strict Breakfast Regime – delicious food to inspire me back to breakfast. I hit up blogs but its winter in America, and slow-baked oats don’t appeal down-under right now. Nothing was easy enough to lure me back into prepared breakfasts. Until…

The boy brought home some fruitless hot cross buns, proud to have discovered his favourite breakfast option, representing Easter time, was already in shelves before the clearance Xmas stuff had even sold. I was not a huge X bun fan… until this…

Fruitless Hot-X-Bun toasted, topped with vanilla ricotta, fresh blueberries and a drizzle of agave nectar.

They make the pantry smell fantastic and I can’t wait to try some more flavour combos (even if they arent so… good for you…) Coconut butter, peaches and thick yogurt, homemade jams, maybe even a baked custard X bun (like you would bread and butter pudding).

Also a pre-body pump breakfast…

Ginger-Bran Muffin and a mini glass of Anlene Milk. Not too heavy so I don't get cramps, but enough to keep me pumpin’

I love my anelene. I always try to get more calcium and with a whopping 500mg per cup, this makes it so much easier. One of my older breakfasts, mixed branny cereals, berries, Anlene and flax-seed oil – a delicious buttery addition.

Yum yum, gotta head to bed so I can get up in the morning and experiment with some leftover brown rice and coconut milk. In the mean time, head over to Simply Breakfast for an archive of some amazingly simple brekkies.