Hello everyone, hope you are all having a great week! Thanks for all your comments on my last post about glasses and laser eye surgery, I’ve found everyone’s different perspectives fascinating! Its also reminded me that I really ought to get my eyes tested. Today of course is my usual What I Ate Wednesday post. I’m still enjoying doing these posts as its the only time that I really blog a proper day’s worth of eats and its been great looking back over old WIAWs to see how I’ve changed over time!

These are my eats from Monday, and as usual I had my hot lemon water when I got up:

Then it was off to the gym! I still can’t stomach anything before I work out. I did 5 minute warm up on the cross trainer then my strength workout from Female Body Breakthrough – it was a heavy / low rep day and it was tough. I’m still aching from it today!

I finished my workout with 10 min HIIT on the step machine and 10 min HIIT on the bike. After going home and getting showered I made a lovely refreshing breakfast:

I blended kale, mixed frozen berries, an orange, 1 scoop of Good Hemp Strawberry Fit Shake, water, ice, ground flax and a touch of stevia then topped with some Kashi Honey Almond Flax Crunch. It was lush! I also made myself an iced Clipper Indian Chai tea:

Before I left for the gym I’d made myself a cup and left it to brew and cool. Then I just added some rice milk and lots of ice, it was lovely.

We had another scorcher of a day on Monday so I dressed for the warm weather:

OOTD: statement necklace: New Look, striped vest top: H&M, black midi skirt: Warehouse, gold sandals: Next

I love that necklace so much, I think it looks really unique and striking, I got a lot of complements on it!

For lunch I’d packed up a salad:

This included romaine, cucumber, red onion, red pepper, beetroot, chickpeas and some of my tahini dressing. I loved how the chickpeas had turned a bit pink from the beets!

I had brought the remainder of my Vegan Vanilla Cream Sponge Cake into work for my colleagues to try a slice so I ended up treating myself to another piece as a mid afternoon snack:

I do think that this gets better when it has been left a little while as the fruit flavour intensifies, yum! Everyone at work seemed to enjoy it and commented that its not overly sweet like a lot of baked goods. That actually held me over well until dinner! When I got home I just wanted something pretty quick and easy so I nuked a sweet potato and piled it high with some cannellini beans, red onion and grated vegan cheese. I popped that back in the microwave to melt the cheese a little and then served with a handful of spinach:

I’ve never been a fan of baked beans but I guess this was a ‘Laura’ version of the classic jacket potato with baked beans and cheese. It was really tasty and I have to say I’ve been won over by that cheese. Its the Tesco own brand mild free from cheese and I will be getting it again for sure!

I had some strawberries, blueberries and a smidge of tofu cream leftover from making the cake so I mixed it all up and called it dessert:

I ended up with a massive bowl full, it was delicious! After pottering about for a bit I went and picked James up from work. By the time we got home I was feeling hungry again so I whipped up a quick smoothie in a bowl:

My current smoothie addiction: Cherry, Vanilla and Sea Salt (frozen cherries, vanilla sun warrior protein powder, ice, water, good pinch of sea salt, couple of drops of vanilla stevia) topped with, you’ll never guess… Popchips! Don’t ask me where that idea came from, I was thinking of the sweet and salty thing and had just put some Popchips aside to take to work for a snack the next day. These were the original flavour Popchips (I don’t think it would work so well with the other savoury flavours!) It was so so good, I can’t wait to do it again!

Before bed I made myself a mug of Pukka Three Tulsi tea:

I love the flavour of this tea and the colour of the packet ;-)

Ooh I think that was a tasty day of eats indeed! Have you ever made a version of a classic / traditional meal that’s more suited to your tastes? What are your thought’s on the smoothie and crisps / chips combo? What’s the most unusual food combo you’ve tried?

Yesterday we had our little Jubilee get together with our closest friends and family. We used my parents place because its nice and big and has a larger garden. Luckily after a bit of rain earlier in the day the sun came out so the kids (my nephews and my friends kiddies) could play. Oh and how adorable are those kids? They played so nicely with each other bless them! We all ate plenty of cake and those of us not driving or pregnant (one of my best friends and my cousin are both almost 8 months preggers, they both look beautiful with their bumps!) enjoyed more than just a few cheeky drinks :-) The buffet was delicious and included salad, veggies, hummus, olives, salsa, crisps, pie, quiche, pizza, sausage rolls, chilli and garlic sweet potato wedges, my Mam’s home made cup cakes, my cherry and almond muffins and my vegan vanilla cream sponge cake. I also filled some little tea cups with sweeties and marshmallows as a treat for the kids, they looked great on the buffet table! I enjoyed making a dent in the massive amount of Welch’s Grape juice I was sent last week, all varieties tasted really good, the white grape juice went exceptionally well with ginger beer and lime juice and the black grape juice reminded me of some kind of sweets but I just can’t put my finger on which one’s!

Today we are home again and just chilling out before its back to work tomorrow. I’m going to watch the Jubilee Carriage Procession later I think :-) Have you done anything to mark the Jubilee or even just to enjoy the extra two days off?