Royally sucked in

What a lovely day has been had, considering I wasn’t fussed about the Royal Wedding I ended up being sucked in by it all! I loved her dress and really enjoyed watching the whole thing.

I started my day with an awesome run. I went out in the cold crisp air for a 5 miler which I managed in 44 minutes with an average pace of 8.49, which I was really happy with. I can’t believe that my average paces are coming in consistently around the 9 minute mark!

Breakfast was a tasty citrusy berry smoothie containing romaine lettuce, an orange, mixed frozen berries, hemp protein powder, rice milk, a sachet of Emergen-C (I was worried I could feel a bit of a cold coming on so I popped this in my smoothie for a boost) maca and mesquite. I topped it with some fresh strawberries and some Alara In the garden goji muesli:

This was lovely! I also made a big pot of Earl Gray – and felt very British and patriotic while drinking it ;-)

We headed through to my parents to watch the wedding and enjoy a BBQ! It was a bit chilly so I layered up:

OOTD: Coat: H&M, Anchor necklace and crown earrings: Accessorize, cardigan: Tesco, gray T shirt: New Look, Belt: Topshop, floral silk dress: Warehouse, gray tights: M&S, tan wedges: vintage

I made a lovely spring salad containing buckwheat, cucumber, sugar snaps and spring onions with a lemon oil dressing (lemon juice, cool oil, garlic):

I also had two Taifun tofu sausages with onions and ketchup:

Dessert was a big bowl of strawberries and pineapple:

I’ve been grazing on fresh fruit all day, almost to the point of feeling a bit sugared out! When we got home I had more fruit in the form of a bowl of chopped apple and plums with peanut flour and cinnamon sauce:

I had a few random things to use up in the fridge so I made a ‘fridge’ soup (well more of a stew really!) for dinner. This contained green pepper, carrot, veg stock, tomato paste, black eye beans, shredded greens, chipotle ketchup for added spiciness and spring onions:

This was surprisingly good for something thrown together! Dessert was some Conscious Lucuma Gold Raw Chocolate:

This was really unusual – it is quite firm and creamy. As well as lucuma it contains coconut oil which makes it really rich, yum!

In one week we will be heading state side to NYC!

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I’ll try not to go on about it too much but I’m so excited I just can’t help it! I have a big shopping list for when I get there, although we only have a couple of days to try and go everywhere we would like to!

If you were off to NYC / US what would be on your wish list? If your from the US what would be your recommendations?