Big Breakfast Smoothie

I've been pretty much off the whole smoothie thing for about six months now. But the time that I spent on the wagon really became a part of who I am and what I eat - if that makes sense - so I still occasionally have a smoothie for breakfast or for lunch, usually when I'm feeling a little like I'm over indulged.

This morning I've made a super tasty 'Big Breakfast Smoothie'.

Ingredients:
1 banana
1 cup frozen mango (defrosted a little to make it easier to blend)
1/4 cup frozen raspberries
1 scoop protein powder (mine's strawberry flavour)
Spoonful of nutella
Enough milk to make it liquid & drinkable

Nutritional Info
540 Calories
29g Protein
75g total carbs
58g total sugar

Obviously calorie count will be decreased if you use skimmed milk or even coconut milk/almond milk, or if you veto the nutella or the protein powder. However, I'm not watching calories atm, I'm just trying to eat good food that makes me feel nice :) and this certainly makes me feel nice!

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 :)

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

Super yummy Raspberry Mango Smoothie

I haven't been very good at posting lately. It's been very sporadic and wishy-washy, but I'm hoping to do better from now on...maybe.
I've started revising for my exams, it's not overwhelming me yet. I'm making good use of One Note, making notebooks and sections for all my modules and pages for every subject within those modules and things. I've already got two whole subjects written up - yay :D

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen mango
1 raspberry yogurt pot
1/2 banana
~200mL mango juice

Nutritional Info
357 calories
2.2g fat
78g total carbs
8.4g fibre
5.6g protein
86.5% vitamin C

I love the colour of this smoothie, it's just a really nice corally pink colour :D

Fitocracy & Raspberry Stawberry Banana Smoothie

I discovered this website called Fitocracy, and now I'm obsessed.

You gain points by doing exercise, any exercise! And when you have so many points you level up :D I'm not at level 4. It's a little exciting.

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 banana
1/4 cup porridge oats
1 low fat strawberry yogurt
~100mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
238 calories
3.0g total fat
50.3g total carbs
4.8g fibre
11.5g protein
13.3% vitamin C

Raspberry Smoothie

This was so yummy, but a bit seedy, good for brekkie though :)

Ingredients
1 cup frozen raspberries
1 tinned pear
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup raspberry/cranberry juice
1 tablespoon wheat bran
1 peach yogurt pot

Nutritional Info
219 calories
2.9g fat
37.4g total carbs
8.0g fibre
8.3g protein



For lunch I found this amazing recipe on the Be Food Smart app and made it for me and Rob.
2 slices of brown toast, 1 onion, green pepper and tomato chopped and grilled. Then top the toast with the grilled veg, add a little cheese and grill again :D. 207 calories per portion.

I also went to the gym today, cycled for 20 minutes, did some interval walking/running on the treadmill then did a ton of weights. Then me and Rob went for a 30 minute walk.

And I weighed myself. I've lost another 4lbs :)

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

Yummy Smoothie!!

This was a brilliant smoothie! Tinned fruit makes smoothies so easy. When I buy my fruit, I go for the cheapest, simply because it's going to be mushed up, so who cares what it looks like?!

Ingredients
3 tablespoons tinned peach slices
1 tinned pear
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 teaspoon low fat smooth peanut butter
1 tablespoon low fat natural yogurt
~200mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
183 calories               4.7g protein
6g fat                         5.8% vitamin C
1.8g fibre                   27.3g total carbs

Yummy Breakfast Smoothie

Oh wow, this smoothie was soooo thick! and perfect, because I drank a bottle of beer and half a bottle of wine last night and I haven't drank in like 6 weeks so when I woke up this morning I felt a bit like crap. This smoothie fixed me!!

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen mango
1/4 cup frozen raspberries
1 1/2 tinned pears
tablespoon full tinned peach slices
1 peach weight watchers yogurt
1 tablespoon wheat bran
1/2 cup juice from tinned pears

Nutritional Info
129 calories
23.8g total carbs
5.5g fibre
26% vitamin C

I couldn't believe how thick was, it was so yummy!! Can you see those straws just standing up in it!

Mango Berry Smoothie

I was really impressed with the smoothie I had yesterday, so I made a similar one today. T'was super yummy and kept me going all morning to lunch time.

 Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/3 cup frozen mango
1 tablespoon wheat bran
squidge of honey
~100mL apple juice
1 cup water

Nutritional Info
130 calories
28.1g total carbs
5.5g fibre
2.3g protein
33.7% vitamin C

Mango Raspberry Smoothie

This is such a super yummy smoothie! It ended up really thick too, which was lovely. I left the frozen raspberries and mango chunks out to defrost for about 30 minutes, just to make it easier to blend.

Ingredients
1/2 cup mango
1/2 cup raspberries
2 tinned pear halves
1 tablespoon wheat bran
~150mL apple juice

Nutritional Info
153 Calories
5.8g fibre
29.1g total carbs
55.8% vitamin C
5.9% iron

Yummy Breakfast Smoothie

This morning I am sick. I have a blocked nose, a headache and a slightly raised temperature. But I've got to go to uni. I wanted cereal this morning, but me and the fiance are lazy so there are no clean bowls - how lovely. I'm washing up this afternoon.

Ingredients
1/2 cup raspberries
1 whole banana
5 red grapes
3 tablespoons yogurt
1 tablespoon wheat bran
~200mL apple juice

Whiz it all together and voila, yummy breakkie smoothie. I only hope I can actually taste it!

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

Another two smoothies...

At uni 9-5 again today, so made two smoothies. I made my lunch one bigger though, so I don't cheat like yesterday.

Breakfast Smoothie

Lunch smoothie

Ingredients (Breakfast smoothie)

1/3 cup raspberries

1/3 cup strawberries

1/4 cup blueberries

1 raspberry yogurt pot

~200mL apple juice

Ingredients (Lunch smoothie)

1/2 banana

1/3 cup mango

1/2 cup raspberries

1 sachet raspberry pomegranate oats so simple

Apple juice to 700mL

Apricot Raspberry Smoothie

Hello :)

Real life is totally kicking my arse at the moment, I feel like there's not enough hours in the day to get everything done that needs doing. But I'll cope, I always do.

This morning's smoothie was so tasty! Very chuffed. Had a Greggs sarnie for my lunch though - not so good. But I've walked to uni and I'm walking to my friends to sign the contract for the new house this afternoon, so that'll help.

 Ingredients
1 apricot (I used tinned ones)
1/3 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 banana
1 strawberry flavour shape yogurt
1 tablespoon wheat bran
200mL apple juice


Nutritional info
276 calories
1.2g fat
58.7g total carbs
8.4g fibre
9.5g protein
33.6% vitamin C

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 :)

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 :)