Last 3 days - activity, food and a tasty recipe later...
Friday -
Was at Brighton sea front just before 6:30am - managed to get myself a mocha before starting another 1 hour session of military bootcamp - the venue was just exhilirating - we were facing the sea and it was threatening to pour any time, so the sky was quite dramatic but absolutely stunning - an hour later and golly did I feel it - but there was a big sense of achievement. We got through our paces with a fast warm up, this time they also had us skipping but with a big heavy marine type rope so it was heavy too.
Brekkers was a smoothie with banana, oats, whey protein and blueberries with strawberries
Wen to do a late shift
I had not prepared lunch so munched on a small pot of houmous (tiny) and some crudites with tzatziki and a fruit salad.
Evening meal :
Smoked mackerel, prawn, avocado and watercress salad.
Fat free greek yog with chopped up stem ginger, lime and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Saturday:-
Whey protein smoothie pretty similar to above but with added blackberries.
I forget what I had for lunch!
Went to the gym after work and did a load of resistance.
Dinner was a thai spiced lentil salad to which I added some prawns, avocados, spring onions.
Sunday:-
Somehow with all this shift work I wa s up at 6:00 so I went for a long run (9 miles) and it was so peaceful. I am starting to train for the half marathon and someone said that one of the best ways to do this was to get the distance under my belt as soon as possible so that I could get that in my head first! Never mind my feet.....
had a tutti fruitti smoothie, again pretty much like previous ones:
Went to work - had some more of that yummy lentil salad but bulked it up with spinach and rocket.
A big handful of bluebberies
Diner was salmon teryiaki and a green salad.
Recipe for thai lentil salad:-
2 tings of green lentils
2 spring onions - finely chopped
a big handful of fresh coriander - chopped
a small chilli - chopped
1 TBSP of olive oil mixed with a tsp of dry red curry paste
1/2 juice of fresh lime
1 tsp of Nam plan (fish sauce)
Mix the dressing ingredients fist, then add the coriander, chilli, lentils.
To bulk mine up with yet more protein, I added loads of prawns chopped up.
Hope everyone's had a a gooden.
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as always your food is so mouthwatering... i look forward to spending some time with you special lady
love and hugs
Sue aka mum2 xxxxx
Enjoy ;0)
Thanks for the recipe sounds lovely.
Have fun
Dean xx
Jane :0)
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Thank you - I hope to be up very soon, so if your dates match then - Norfolk here we go! It would be lovely to finally spend a wee bit of time together - what a laugh we'd have.... xxx
Hi SueBaz,
The ting was me and my typos - it was meant to read a tin - oopsy!
This recipe is very easy cos it uses ready cooked lentils - bur for these purists out there - they can be cooked in under 10 mins or even more purists would be to soak them (even though the packet tells you you don't need to) so that they plum up and then cook them slowly - they will have a nicer texture that way. Also, by using warm lentils, when you add your salad dressing to it, you will be infusing
the flavourings to it which will make it even tastier.
It's good you are back on now SueBaz x
Hi Dean,
We must be pretty close neighbours then! Oh golly this bootcamp idea was my running buddies who are into their fitness and thought we should all try it - I did not know they existed until then! It is a wee bit scary but very effective they have all angles covered for you to get the max out of it - there are three levels and depending on where you think you fit in there's a place for you! xx
Hi Jane,
It's my pleasure - you are very welcome xx
I hope to catch up with loads more posts than I have lately very very soon that will happen and you can hold me down to internet ransom!
Hope you're having a gooden!
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