WIAW–Bloggers go wild
Happy WIAW everyone! Hope you are having a good week. I had a wonderful day yesterday when I travelled down to Manchester to meet several lovely blogging ladies :-)
Before I left I wanted to get a workout in so I did a Davina DVD – Super Sculpt with the added upper body section followed by Yoga for Runners.
Breakfast was an unusual green smoothie. I had loads of greens that needed using up so I blended kale and spinach with fruit-ein powder, ice, water, xanthan and guar gums and topped with a cup of Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal (I kept adding more topping on as I ate):
Considering this green smoothie contained no fruit it was delicious!
On the train down I met up with Jess and had a green tea. The train journey was delayed by almost 2 hours so I snacked on the emergency bag of Apple and Watermelon Fruity Flakes I’d stashed in my bag:
Once we finally got to Manchester we met up with all the girls. It was wonderful but kind of strange to see everyone in ‘real life’! We made our way to the 8th Day Cafe and Health Food Store. I had a Chickpea and Aubergine Curry with brown rice followed by a raw ball and a green vegetable juice:
The curry was lovely and the raw ball tasted just like a spiced carrot cake! After lunch we hit the health food shop. Here’s my mini haul!
After some wondering around town we went for cocktails. I had a French Martini and a Passion Fruit Martini which was pretty strong!
Both tasted amazing, I love a good cocktail!
I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone, they were all so lovely and just as nice as they all come across in their blogs! This was my fifth blogger meet up and yet again I have met some amazing people who I share so much in common with – who else can you have a deep conversation about hummus! ;-) I do feel that I can count all this lot as true friends! Here’s to the next meet up!
On the train journey home I had fab Marks and Spencer Couscous Salad which contained butternut squash, broccoli, roasted pepper and asparagus:
I also ate an apple I’d picked up at the health food store and a mixed fruit salad I forgot to photograph. Once I got home I had an attack of the snackies so had another couple of apples, some dark choc covered pomegranate seeds and these two rice cakes with Justin’s chocolate hazelnut butter…
…plus several additional spoonfuls to finish the jar!
Talk about a healthy balance – green juice at lunch followed by cocktails in the afternoon :-)
It was so refreshing to be able to talk openly and passionately about healthy living stuff with people who share that interest! If your into healthy living do your friends and family ‘get it’ or do they struggle to understand what the fuss is all about?
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