Roasted Vegetable Soup

Afternoon. I've just spent 2 hours cleaning my flat in preparation for people coming over to see if they want to rent it. It is now spotless, and I'm intending for it to stay this way.
Rob's gone to his exam, and the snow's started again - yippy.

Need something warm for my lunch, so I'm having a dabble at a home made soup. Like all these smoothies, I'm making it up as I go, unless I say where I got the recipe from - so everything on here is my own.

Ingredients
1 carrot - peeled, chopped and boiled
1 onion chopped
2 tomatoes chopped
Little bit of Worcestershire sauce
Bit of salt and pepper for taste
and as much boiling water as you want

Pop the chopped tomatoes and onions on a baking tray and slam in the oven on high until all nice as soft/roasted. While they're cooking, boil the carrot. Then shove all of it into the blender with a little Worcestershire sauce and blitz until smooth.
Then add however much water you want until it's as thick or smooth as you like :D

I also had two slices of bread with mine, so that's included in the calorie count.

Nutritional Info
255 Calories
9.2g Fibre
10.2g Protein
199.2% Vitamin A
54.8% Vitamin C
6.6% Iron

Forest fruits breakfast smoothie

Hello!!

Guess who's not at uni today....me!! yaaaaay. Which is awesome because I came on today and all I want to do is sit in my bed and eat the 2lb of America sour patch kids that grayskiesatdawn (wonderful lady from A Different Forest) sent me. But I'm not going to do that, because then I wouldn't fit into my jeans and that would be bad.

Instead I'm going to sit in bed all morning, with my breakfast smoothie and my painkillers, knitting a little, maybe watching some Sex and the City, before I take my fiance to his exam in Newcastle. At which point I'll come home, tidy the flat as the landlords bringing some people over tonight to see if they want to rent it next year.

Breakfast!! I went shopping last night and got some frozen forest fruits, so I had to use them lol. It's pretty tasty...maybe too much yogurt, but it's all good.

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen forest fruits (blackberries and cherries and things - also a little hot water to make em squishyer)
1/4 cup frozen raspberries
1 tablespoon wheat bran
1/2 cup low fat natural yogurt
enough apple juice to make to 500mL

Just whiz it all together until smooth :)

Nutritional Info
129 Calories
4.1g Fibre
26.6g Sugars
2.3g Protein
3.5% Vitamin C
2.4% Calcium

Summer fruits, banana, cucumber smoothie

I forgot to take a picture of the finished smoothie, but it's a kind of purpley pink colour.
It tastes good! So long as you like cucumber lol.

Ingredients
1/2 a banana
1/2 cup frozen summer fruits (dash of boiling water to soften a bit)
1/2 cup cucumber sliced
Dollop of yogurt
~200mL apple juice (or as much as you'd like)

Just whiz it all together until smooth.

Nutritional Info
220 Calories
2.5g Fibre
31.2% Vitamin C
4.8g Protein

Also, downloaded this awesome app from the Play Store (I have an android phone). It's called Be Food Smart from the people who do those healthy living 5-a-day adverts. It's got some awesome recipes in, which I'm going to have a go at this week.

Exercise!

Went to the gym - totally kicking it.
15 minutes speed walking on the treadmill - 5 minutes on a steep incline. Followed by 15 minutes on the bike - level 3 10 minutes, level 5 for 5.

Then I moved onto the mat and did some situps, press ups, other free weights. But I don't know how to record them on my key.

147 calories burned.

When I got home, to this:
Seriously, what is that? There's next to no snow left on the roads or anywhere else between Sunderland and here, but as soon as you turn on to our road, it's a mess.

Anyway, when I got home, I hopped on the Wii, and I now weigh 145lb, that's 2lb over the weekend. Fiance jokes that it's just a successful toilet visit (how crude?) but I'm sure this diet's working. Shall see what I weight on Saturday before work to see if it's truly working.

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 :)

Oh dear

So I think that last smoothie was a bad idea. Definitely shouldn't have added both an orange and orange juice.
My stomach is...uncomfortable, to say the least.
Lesson learned, next time its either or, never both xD

At the end of day 2...

I'm feeling pretty good. I've had plenty of sleep the last two nights, have exercised and been having these smoothies twice a day.

My fiance reckons its all of the natural sugar I'm getting, I'm just on a constant sugar high. But you know, that's fine with me, because I need the high when I'm at uni. Frankly it's depressing and tiring, and I'm just about at the point where I don't want to do it anymore. But that usually happens about now.

I have my smoothies planned out for tomorrow, Monday - in uni 9-11, then work 5.30-8 - not fun. But this week should be okay for the whole smoothie diet thing, as I'm only in uni 9-11 every day, which means I can take a smoothie to uni, then be home to make another one for lunch. Next week might be more difficult, but I might just invest in more bottles, or make hot soupy type ones and take them in my flask :)

On Tuesday it'll be 3 weeks until my 22nd birthday. I'm knitting a new jumper with this super soft, super light wool, which to be honest will probably be finished by the end of the week, but will definitely be done by my birthday.

I want to go out during the day, go to Newcastle or Durham or something, before coming home, ordering a pizza and playing board games with my friends (Settlers of Catan, Last Night on Earth, Munchkin, to name a few). I'm not the sort of girl to go out drinking. But I want to wear my new jumper and my new jeans.

I will fit into them!