Double up

I’ve been feeling a little blazy (blog lazy) lately, hence not updating you all yesterday. So this is a bit of a double post to make up for it.

First things first – I’ve crossed off a couple of things from my to-do list (although I added a couple of things to it as well): I emailed a girl I’ll be visiting in San Diego with my flight details and I ordered enough disposable contacts to last me 5 months (even though I’m only away for aroung 3). Still, the lost looks pretty long…

Ok, so breakfast on Thursday was more outgurt. This time with cauliflower and cottage cheese. There is possibly a carob surprise contained within also. As always, it was filling and delicious.

For lunch on Thursday I had some butternut pumpkin with cottage cheese and hazelnut nut butter (I could decide which to use so used both!) and a crack wrap with spinach. In my crack wrap I used a cheddar cheese babybel piece and it was soooo good. I love cheddar cheese.  

It has been a while (a long while in fact!) since I’ve done some baking. I’m a bit of a fan, and given that I’ve finished exams, its kind of surprising I haven’t  done more baking. Actually, on second thoughts, it makes perfect sense that I’m not baking as much – dad is on his diet. However, this ricotta chocolate cheesecake is practically a health food – its protein packed with skim ricotta, chocolate protein powder, cocoa powder and some eggs. And delicious too!

After my baking, I went to the gym and did about 50 minutes of cardio – on the bike, elliptical and treadmill. When I got home, I tucked into a few oysters. Anyone else a fan? I love me anything out the ocean. And even though I didn’t like oysters when I was little (really, what child does?) I love them now! With lots of lemon, of course.

Along with my oysters, I had a spinach and butter bean salad (with some sweet potato in there too), topped with some leftover tuna bake. It was pretty good given it was a 5-minute effort using leftovers.

I felt like some super green-ness on Friday morning – meet my blended bowl of oat bran which featured broccoflower and spinach. Notice I didn’t have outgurt? I felt like I should ’shake things up’ a bit given that I’ve been dutifully eating outgurt for a while now. Do you find you get into food routines? I do this a lot – when I find something I like, I stick to it until I’m sick of it.

I should also add, this bowl had some double nut-butter aciton happening – hazelnut nut butter and almond, brazil nut and cashew nut butter. Brilliant.

For lunch I had some more ‘mashed’ cauliflower with hummus, and also an omelet topped with jam.

Dinner was some roasted chicken and salad, and dessert was a piece of my chocolate ricotta cheesecake. For the berry sauce, I microwaved a strawberry and some blueberries in the microwave for 40 seconds. So yummy! I also whipped out the ‘Paris’ plate for this dessert. I feel I need to start acclimatising myself a little to what it will be like eating cake in Paris

Are you a cheesecake fan? I love a piece of real baked cheesecake but haven’t had any for agggeees. When I was little, I didn’t like it though. I thought it was really weird to put cheese in a dessert (I also didn’t like carrot cake for a similar reason…)