Paleo(light) Pancakes

Starting off the week right!

This morning I had these pancakes for breakfast. They're the same as my other pancakes, except made with water instead of milk!

Ingredients
1 sachet instant oats (27g)
1 egg
enough water to consistency

Then fry like a pancake :) I had mine with a banana and a little honey.
Nutritional Info
166 calories
6.5g total fat
2.8g fibre
8.5g protein

Lots of Yummy Food

Woke up early this morning and spent about half an hour in the gym. Not long, I know, but certainly long enough. After my time in the gym, I made myself some pancakes again, but this time I added blueberries in, and instead of a chopped banana, I had raspberries and honey :D.

 It was so yummy!

And it made me feel good, which is all I wanted from this new 'diet' thing. I'm still trying to lose weight and be sexy in a bikini of course. Me and my fiance have decided that we're going to go somewhere sunny, after my resits :).



Then for my lunch, oh my lunch :)

Two rashers of grilled bacon, one grilled tomato and one poached egg. So yummy, and just what I wanted. I really wanted something fatty to be honest, and my brother was making bacon sandwiches, and I've heard that eating fat without carbs is better for you or some such thing. So yeah :)

I'm feeling much better today, better about having to do these resits and better about myself. Looking forward to two weeks on Monday when this will all be over :)

Super Yummy Breakfast Pancakes

Morning! I'm off to work today for 4 hours, and when I work these Saturdays I always want to eat something for breakfast that will stop be being hungry until 2pm when I get home. Today, I think I'm on for a winner!

Cassey Ho, off of Blogilates, has started a new webseries entitled Cheap Clean Eats. I've never tried any of her recipes before, because generally I simply can't get hold of the ingredients she uses what with being in England and all. But this one, with a little substitution, I can do! (If you want to make the actual recipe, which is definitely lower calories, click on the link above).

Honestly, eating this I did not feel like I was eating diet food! I'm so full and it was so yummy! You just have to make them :D

Ingredients
1 Quaker Oats So Simple plain porridge sachet
Dash of cinnamon
1/4 cup semi-skimmed milk
1 egg
1 banana
squidge of honey

Basically, just shot it all in your blender (but only 1/2 the banana) and blend until smooth. Then fry like a pancake. I made one thick one, or you could make a few little ones. Then I chopped up the other half of the banana, folded my pancake in half and drizzled it with a little honey :)

Nutritional Info
264 Calories
6g fat
9g protein

Low, low calorie smoothie

Today is diet day!

Which means I'm taking in no more than 700 calories, and you know what, it's not that hard. Like, 700 calories isn't much, but honestly, it's not that difficult to stay within that boundary and still feel full. But I haven't been to the gym yet, so we'll see how I go.

Ingredients (serves 2)
1 cup frozen raspberries
1 banana
2 tablespoons wheat bran
Squidge of honey
~200 mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
111 Calories
7.1g Dietary fibre
3.1g Protein
36.5% Vitamin C

Double Raspberry Smoothie

 I haven't been very good at posting. But then I haven't been very good with this whole diet thing either. I think the problem is I've been running a lot....like a lot. I've ran like 10k this week using that Zombies, Run! game, so I've been doing bad with the smoothies. I reckon they'd totally keep me going, it's just my mind is telling me to eat mozzarella paninis and shit like that.

Ingredients
1 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 banana
1/2 pear (tinned)
1 tablespoon wheat bran
squidge of honey
~200mL cranberry/raspberry juice

Nutritional Info
312 calories
2.5g total fat
65.3g total carbs
9.3g fibre
5.8g protein
30.7% vitamin C

Raspberry, Blueberry, Coconut Milk Smoothie

Today I restocked my freezer of frozen fruit :D and also bought some coconut milk. I've heard some really good things about it, it's got both calcium and vitamin D in, which is always good. I wasn't sure how well it would go, because I hate malibu and other coconut drinks, but I can't taste it!

Reckon I'll be adding coconut milk to all my smoothies this week :)

Ingredients
1 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1 tinned pear
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup apple juice
1 tablespoon wheat bran
squidge of honey

Nutritional Info
139 Calories
2.2g fat
25.3g total carbs
6.8g fibre
2.7g protein
Vitamin C 11.2%

Cleaning Out The Freezer

Weekends are for shopping, though I'm not sure when I'll manage to go this weekend, what with work and a wedding fair to go to. So I've been using up some of the left over portions of frozen fruit, so I have enough space to buy more punnets.

Forest Fruits smoothie

Raspberry, blueberry smoothie

 Yesterday I made a super purple, thick smoothie. It was really yummy!
Ingredients
Approx. 1 1/2 cups of frozen forest fruits
1 pot cherry yogurt
1 banana
1 tablespoon tinned peaches
squidge of honey
1 tablespoon wheat bran
~100mL cranberry/raspberry juice

And today I've made an equally delicious raspberry, blueberry smoothie.
Ingredients
1 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1 raspberry yogurt pot
1/2 cup porridge oats
~100mL cranberry/raspberry juice

Mango Smoothie

This is basically a one fruit smoothie. It's not! But it might as well be. It was very liquidy, and I didn't blend it entirely so there were lumps of fruit it in, which isn't always pleasant. It was very tasty though :) and made for a good breakfast.

My lunch was comprised of sliced red pepper, a little tub of peanut butter, a handful of dried apricots and a banana :)

Ingredients
1 cup frozen mango
1 tinned pear
1 tablespoon yogurt
1 teaspoon peanut butter
squidge of honey
~200mL mango juice

Nutritional Info
284 calories
6.1g fat
51.5g total carbs
3.3g fibre
50% vitamin C

Forest Fruits Breakfast Smoothie

I bought a pack of frozen forest fruits, but I haven't been having much luck with them. They're just too tart for me, and I can't deal. Today, I had a breakthrough.

Being back home again, I packed some freezer bags with things to make smoothies out of, this morning was forest fruits. And it was divine!

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen forest fruits
~5 red grapes
1 raspberry yogurt
1/3 cup porridge oats
squidge of honey
~200mL skimmed milk

This was a really thick smoothie, and it was really tasty. It properly kept me going all morning-ish (I made it at 11.30am, and was still drinking it at 1.30pm haha).

Apricot, Mango, Raspberry Smoothie

Morning lovelies, time for another breakfast smoothie.

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/4 cup frozen strawberries
1/4 cup frozen mango
1 1/2 apricot
3 tablespoons natural low fat yogurt
1 tablespoon wheat bran
squidge of honey
~200mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
177 Calories
39.1g total carbs
5.2g fibre
3.0g protein
20.2% vitamin A
25.6% vitamin C

Warm Apple and Blueberry Smoothie

This was an odd one. I've wanted to make something warm, because it's so bloody cold here. And I'd been thinking on this recipe and figured I should just give it a go. And it tasted good, but the texture was horrible and it cooled down really quick (I don't think the milk was hot enough) anyway, I didn't finish it.

Ingredients
2 Apples cored, peeled and chopped
1/4 cup blueberries
squidge of honey
1 packet apple and cinnamon porridge
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup hot milk (seriously get it as hot as you can)

Blend it all together until completely smooth.

The texture of mine totally put me off, but other people might not be. So if you try this, let me know :)

Mango, Raspberry Smoothie

The last of my prepared smoothie bags this morning. I'm off to a wedding fayre with my mum today, quite excited :D so I needed lots of energy.

This is a really lovely smoothie that kept me pepped and motivated all morning.

 Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen mango
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
4 pieces of chopped pineapple ring
1/2 cup porridge oats
squidge of honey
~200mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
283 calories
54.1g total carbs
3.8g fibre
10.0g protein
22.9% vitamin C

Summer Fruits Smoothie

Ate this while I was at work. T'was very yummy. Girl at work had a taste to and she liked it - I might have converted her!

Ingredients
1/2 banana
1 cup frozen summer fruits & raspberries
1/2 cup porridge oats
1 strawberry shape yogurt
squidge of honey
~200mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
323 Calories
63.8g total carbs
5.2g dietary fibre
10.5g protein
25.6% Vitamin C
26.3% Calcium


This was quite a thick smoothie, but it was very tasty. I haven't exactly been having low calorie smoothies today, not as low as they have been anyway. But I don't mind, I need something to keep me going when I'm at work.

I'm on MyFitnessPal, follow me - missrebecca12, if you fancy :)

Strawberry, blueberry smoothie

Afternoon!
I'm in lots of pain, and my painkillers aren't working - yay!

This smoothies pretty yummy, and it lasted me quite a while, which is nice :)

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/3 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 cup of greek yogurt
squidge of honey
~200mL apple juice

I forgot to take a photo of it when it was all mixed, but it was a pretty awesome pinky-purpley colour.

It was very tasty and that's all that matters to me :)

Nutritional Info
231 Calories
48.2g Total carbs
25.8% Calcium
5.6% Vitamin C
1.1g Fibre

Mango, Lemon Tea Smoothie

Back from the doctors (I really wish it wasn't a 70 mile round trip home) got a prescription, so hopefully all will be well. It isn't half giving me a headache though. 

Anyway. Couple of weeks ago I bought these Twining Infusion Lemon and Ginger tea bags, they were on offer, so I figured I'd give them a try. They're horrible. But now I've found something to use them in! Smoothies!

Ingredients

1 cup of lemon and ginger tea made with cold water

1 apple peeled, cored and chopped

1 cup frozen mango chunks

1/3 cup frozen blueberries

Squidge of honey 

 Nutritional Info

140 Calories

35.2g Total Carbs

5.0g Dietary Fibre

30.8% Vitamin C

I seem to put honey in everything, but its a lower fat sweetener than sugar and I love it xD.

This smoothie it super yummy and very, very good for you! It's ideal for me because I'm in a fair bit of pain, which makes me a little nauseated, so the ginger's ideal. I think I'm going to buy some cinnamon when I do my weekly shop and I'm going to look into a warm apple and cinnamon smoothie made with skimmed milk and honey and things. Low calorie, of course. 

This is quite a low calorie lunch, but it's not all I'm having, I'm also having a bag of weight water cheesy puffs, which are 76 calories a bag :)

Raspberry Yogurt Smoothie

Bad news bears this morning. Lets just say the 'embarrassing-health-problem' has required a trip to the docs.  So I'm missing lectures to go home to my doctors, but not without making my trusty smoothie first!

 Ingredients
1/3 cup raspberries
3 peach slices
1 peach and passionfruit shape yogurt
1 tablespoon wheat bran
squidge of honey
~200mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
225 Calories
46.2g Total carbs
6.3g Fibre
16.1% Vitamin C
25.9% Calcium



It's super yummy! And went down very easy unlike some of them - almost no lumps :)

Raspberry, Blueberry Smoothie

Good morning!
It's horrible here. We've lost the snow, but gained rain. I hate rain. Made my breakfast smoothie for the morning, going to take it to lectures for 9am. Then off to the gym at 11am, then back home-home to work at 5.30 - yay.

Ingredients
1/3 cup frozen raspberries
1/4 cup frozen blueberries
Dollop of low fat yogurt
1/4 cup of wheat bran
Squidge of honey
Enough skimmed milk to make to volume

Pop the raspberries and blueberries in the blender - then I add just a touch of hot water to soften them a bit (my blenders a bit cack and won't whiz solid raspberries). Add everything else but the milk, whiz together, then add the milk to volume and whiz again.

Nutritional Info
129 calories
1.2g fat
7.3g fibre
19.3% vit c
10.1% iron

 Yummy :D. It's a bit like a milkshake, cause mine's mostly milk. But I like it. I like my breakfasts to be more...thick, more milky/yogurty, while my lunches can be a bit more lean.
You can of course substitute the milk for apple juice, and add a banana instead of yogurt - if you fancy dairy free :)

Orange, banana smoothie

Tea time! Well...sort of. I was hungry, so I made a smoothie. I have some clementines, that have been in the bowl for over a week and they're starting to get a bit dry, so I don't want to eat them, but smoothie-ing them is ideal! And check it out, it's a yellow smoothie! All my others have been purple because of the berries.

Ingredients
1 frozen banana
1 clementine (peeled and segmented)
1 apple (skinned, cored and chopped)
Tablespoon of low fat natural yogurt
Approx. 2 tsp of honey (I just give a good squeeze)
Orange juice to consistency

Whiz all the fruit with the yogurt and honey, then add the orange juice (I do it to 500mL) and voila!

Nutritional Info
254 Calories
6.1g fiber
2.7% vitamin A
74.1% vitamin C
2.7% iron

I'll be honest, it pretty much just tastes like banana, but that's okay with me :) It's very yummy either way.