Sunday roast and juice

Hi All,

So tonight I made a yummy roast lamb for dinner with roast and steamed vegetables. It was absolutely delicious. Probably had a bit big of a portion size but I was happy to allow myself the liberty.

Roast & Steamed Veges to be!

I forgot to take a final photo of my dinner but it was so so yummy!

I then had a craving for a drink - an alcoholic one but I had good self control and made myself a strawberry fusion (recipe on other blog post).

It was very very satisfying!

The recipe for the juice is here :). 

<3 Shaz x 

Sunday Yumday

Hi All,

This morning I had to drop my sister off at work at 9am. Rather than chucking some tracksuit pants on and a jumper I put on my sports shirt and pants with a plan to workout when I got home.

I came home and did a Michelle Bridges workout - WOW! it was full on, 50 reps of 10 different exercises. Was pretty full on. Then once I finished that I did a 15 minute Pilates session.

I then had such a yummy green smoothie after that. I took a photo of the ingredients that I put in my smoothie.

I just sprinkled some shredded coconut onto the top of it. 

I then made myself an awesome omellette! I did put once slice of ham in it diced up and also a little bit of grated cheese (but not enough to feel guilty over), tomato, mushrooms, spinach leaves. 

It was so yummy!!!! 

Have a good one!

Shaz x 

Kale and Green Smoothie

Hi All,

WOW! So i did my shopping this afternoon - well some of it, and found the best bunch of kale I have ever seen! It was huge!!!!!!

Single bunch of kale - amazing

I had to come home and do a workout - just so I could make myself a green smoothie.

I made my green smoothie with

1/2 cup kale

1/2 cup spinach leaves

3 strawberries tops on 

1/2 frozen banana

600ml cold water

1 green apple cored

Stevia to taste

So yummy!!!!

<3 Shaz x

My buys of the day

Hi All,

So today I thought I could use a little retail therapy and I stopped in at my fave health food store.

I bought these two products - never bought them before.

The cacao cashew coconut butter is SO YUMMY!

I am currently drinking the coco-lyte now. Not a strong taste, you cannot really taste much to be honest. But I would imagine it would work pretty good - much like hydralyte or something to hydrate you :).

Anyway !

Just thought i would share that with you, not sure what I am cooking for dinner tonight but if its good I will upload it!

<3 Shaz x

Walk time :)

Hi All,

It has been such a crazy week this week waiting for my sisters baby to come! She still has not had it yet, hopefully tonight, or soon!

I did not do a workout today unfortunately, but I did take my doggy Sari for a walk with my mum and sister. It was good, at least it didnt rain on us this afternoon like it did yesterday.

This morning I made by banana mango smoothie again it is soooo yummy! I highly recommend it.

I also made my egg/ham brekky on the go in the pie maker. They are in the fridge ready to go!

Anyway - not much to report on today :P but here is a pic of my doggy on our walk this arvo, I have taught her to sit when she gets to the edge of the road - she does it most of the time :)

"Sari"

<3 Shaz x

Mango banana smoothie

Hi all ! 

Well my mum arrived back into perth yesterday  yay :) my sister is actually due for her baby today so fingers crossed she pops it out ! 

I have been pretty busy did not have time for a workout yesterday but this afternoon I'm definitely having a workout. I made myself a mango banana smoothie this morning with chia seeds ! So yummy. 

Recipe is:

1 frozen banana 

1/2 cup frozen mango cubes

1L soy milk 

1 Tspn chia seeds 

Agave nectar to taste 

Makes 2 

Very yummy ! 

<3 Shaz x 

I got my A into G today

Hi All

Today I was planning on just making it my lazy house day, do some washing, clean the gutters --- yes I said clean the gutters, and I did - WORST JOB EVER, and sweep and all that other good stuff.

I did all the above, but I had not planned on having a workout today because its Sunday (rest day). Instead, I went on a half run/half walk with my doggy and it was awesome. I feel great. I downloaded this app 5k Runner as I cannot to save my life. And it was actually pretty good you ran for 1 minute then walked for 1.5 minutes then ran and walked etc etc. Did that for half on hour and it was awesome.

I came home and made myself a yummy Banango Berry Smoothie, own recipe very yum!

Ingredients (this makes 2-3 serves)
1 x frozen banana
1/2 cup frozen mango
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
4 x strawberries
750ml-1000ml soy milk
1 tspn chia seeds
1 Tbsp greek yoghurt
Ice
Stevia to taste

Banango Berry Smoothie

I am enjoying this smoothie right now was I type up this blog - its so yummy!

<3 Shaz x

What an afternoon!

Hi All,

So today I got home from work and did a Michelle Bridges workout - WOW was I stuffed by the end of it.

It was a fantastic workout and I felt great after it - lets see how I go.

I made myself a post-workout smoothie very yummy.

Ingredients:
1 x frozen banana
500ml soy milk
Cinnamon
Agave nectar

Smoothie

I then made soup in my ladyship blender - Moroccan pumpkin soup - OH MY GOD it tasted sooo good!!!

Ingredients:

Half butternut pumpkin

Half sweet potato

2 x potatos 

Cumin

Moroccan spice 

Garlic powder 

Hot water 

(I just cooked my pumpkin, sweet potato and potato in the microwave in a bowl of water for 10-15mins)

Moroccan Pumpkin Soup

Then I cooked a pasta dish, ALOT and I am taking the leftovers to work tomorrow. Yum

Ingredients: 

Bow tie pasta

Broccolinni

Mushrooms 

Spinach leaves

Kale

Topped with avocado and sun dried tomatoes 

Mixed egg sauce through it (3 eggs beaten with dash of milk)

Enjoy! Shaz x

Brekky - berry nice

Hi all, 

I went out to tapas for dinner last night to celebrate my partner and my 7 year anniversary (which is next Monday).

Plus I didn't do a workout yesterday cause it was my lady day with him before he flew back out for work but anyway !!! 

So back in the bandwagon today. I have porridge (made with water) dashed with milk and honey  and also a berry smoothie. 

Smoothie ingredients

7 strawberries 

1/2 cup raspberries 

500ml soy milk 

Chia seeds 

Stevia to taste 

So yum !!! 

Shaz x

Orange juice !

Hi all ! 

I made myself such a yummy orange juice yesterday it tasted so good and was exactly what I needed ! 

All I used wash 4 oranges skin removed and water with a bit of stevia and had my filter in the blender. Tasted so yum !! 

Shaz x 

Love in a glass

Hi all,

Just another juice recipe which I have made up for myself today. The boys are digging out the backyard so we can re-lay our grass because our dog destroyed it when she was a puppy :P. They are drinking beer and I usually would be drinking a Smirnoff or Frangelico or something like that, BUT instead I have held on to my will power and substituted alcohol for juices! So I made myself a glass of red berry sweetness!


The recipe is :

6 x strawberries tops removed
1/2 cup raspberries
1 orange, skin removed
1/2 cup ice
Stevia to taste

Love in a glass - Smoothie <3

So refreshing and yummy!!!

<3 Shaz x

Lemon Zinger - I love you !

Hi All!


I really hope my blog takes off, either way it is a good source of motivation for me to actually get my backside into gear - I feel guilty when I do not post a blog.


This morning I just had a bowl of cereal with soy milk for breakfast and now I am having a lemon zinger - which I love so much.

All it is:

1 x full lemon includin skin (i cut the ends -- the brown bits)
500-700ml cold water
Stevia to taste

I then blend it up in my blender - Ladyship with the #1 filter in and it tastes soooo good!!!!!!!

Lemon Zinger

Hope you all enjoy as much as I do! Its great to get you energised for the day.

Shaz xx

Yummy breakfast

Hi All,

Sorry I havent posted much lately - my man came home yesterday :)


So this morning I had a really nice breakfast which I cooked all in my pie maker - I love my pie maker!


It was 2 x eggs, mushrooms, spinach leaves and avocado with some almonds.

Filled me up that is for sure.


I also had a glass of coconut milk with chia seeds in it - VERY nice :) ....

Anyway! Hope you all have a good day :)

Shaz x

Breakfast smoothie

Hi all,

I had a pretty quiet one yesterday, my sister has been at camp.

I'll make this short and sweet, just wanted to post what I had for breakfast this morning.

So I made myself a smoothie this morning...

It had cocao powder, chia seeds, soy milk, banana, ice and stevia, was so yummy !!!!!

Shaz x 

Choc-coconut balls

Evening,

So I found this post on facebook, thanks Kristy! And they looked really good so I thought I would give them a go. Took 5 minutes to whip up and they are in the freezer setting (I did also have one before I put them in the freezer :P )

They are so yum and very satisfying, highly recommend for those with a sweet tooth!

Choc-Coconut Balls :)

The recipe is so easy, again thank-you Kristy!

1 cup almonds 
1cup dates
1tbs coconut
2tbs water
2tbs raw cocao powder
1 tsp vanilla extract 
1 tsp coconut oil

Blend all in a Food processor then roll into balls then.coat in coconut

Enjoy!

Shaz x 

Hi All!

Just finished my workout and now having my favourite post-workout smoothie!

My workout consisted of a variety of things - I actually watched two online videos as I needed some motivation today because usually I do it with my sister and she is away on a school camp, so needed to mix it up a bit. 

So the smoothie I found on this website - which actually has some awesome recipes. 

My pictures are pretty basic, there is no fancy work to them, its just exactly what I put on the plate or in the cup and I am not going to dress it up - unless I feel like it :) Just thought I would let you know before something I make one night looks like crap but tastes awesome! :P 


Here is my smoothie! 

<3 Shaz xx

Yummy Sunday

Hi all!!

I had a nice day today the first day of spring !!!  Took my dog down to the beach and she had a play in the waves :).

Anyway - so last night I made 'chow mein fun' was quite tasty. Made heaps so I have left overs for lunch today - I got the recipe from The Naked Kitchen .

The breakfast was so yummy I had choc chips clean eating pancakes - here is the recipe ! 

So yum ! 

Shaz x 

Saturday morning brekky

Morning All,

So this morning I really felt like some toast for breakfast! I do not eat alot of bread, so I do not get too hung up on having toast for breakfast every now and then. 

This is my breakfast...

Abbots bakery mixed grain toast with spinach leaves and eggs - i cook my eggs in my pie maker :) 

I also made myself a "lemon zinger" which is basically one whole lemon including the skin chucked into my blender - I use the ladyship, I put my filter piece in, put 500ml of cold water, add some stevia and blend!

Ladyship 

And this is the finished product - my lemon zinger. I like to drink it with a straw, it makes you need to pee alot but it tastes yummy and is a good detoxer!

Lemon Zinger

Shaz x 

Back on track

Hi All,

So I had a bit of a tough day yesterday. Just found out that my university enrollment for semester two had not gone through correctly therefore I am not enrolled which is why I had not received any of my unit materials - then I found out that the semester is already 5 weeks in. Soooo hopefully, fingers crossed the unit coordinators let me in because they are my last two units before I graduate!

But anyway !!!! Last night I did not have a workout because I just was not in the mood and I may have had a little bit of cookies n cream icecream BUT I am back on track today :).

Had a good workout tonight 300 reps of sit ups, pushups, squats, lunges etc.

Don't beat yourself up if you go off track, just get back on it!


This morning I made a yummy banana and apple juice and it was so yummy!!!!!!

Basically all I put in was one frozen banana and two green apples with water and a couple of ice cubes and it tasted good.

Anyway!!!

Im having homemade pumpkin and pinenut pizza - healthy and so tasty!

Shaz x

Quinoa lettuce wraps

Hi All,

So tonight I made myself Quinoa lettuce wraps for dinner - so yummy! The chilli gave it a bit of a kick but very nice. Will taste good cold tomorrow for lunch :) 

I got the recipe from here (link) but below is a pick of how mine turned out. Looks a bit sloppy in the pic but its not actually :) was rather tasty. 

Enjoy!!! 

Shaz x 

Banana pie - I made it!!!

Hi All,

Okay so I made the banana pie, and I must say it is YUM.

I forgot to add the peanuts into the base mixture but it turned out awesome anyway. Just remember to grease whatever you put the base in to set so you can remove it easily :/ usually I will use a little bit of cooking spray BUT i forgot and it was a bit hard to remove. All it takes is a smidge.


But here is a pic of how mine turned out and it was very satisfying. 

It was hard to get out so I had to smoosh in the sides in a bit, but you get the gist :)  But i also froze my banana topping and added nuts into mine so I deviated from the original recipe a bit. 

See my link for the recipe here.

Hope you enjoy!

Shaz x 

Green salad

WOW!!!

I had fish for dinner tonight and I really wanted a nice salad to go with it, but rather than just making my traditional salad with carrot, cucumber, tomato, lettuce etc I thought to myself that I am going to make something different.

So I made a green salad, and it was AMAZING.

Ingredients:

Lettuce (any you prefer) 
Cucumber
Avocado
Green apple
Asparagus
Leek

Basically all I did was break a bit of lettuce up chuck it on the plate. I then cut some cucumber slices up and just quartered them and chopped some leek up finely just to add a bit of an onionish taste. I also added avocado. I cut up my apples into slices and then place into a frypan with my asparagus to cook up (until they start to get a goldish tinge) and then I removed and added to my salad. It was so yummy!!!


Hope you enjoy! 

Shaz x

Strawberry Fusion Juice

Hi All!


This afternoon I had an awesome workout, which consisted of:

20 x knee high jogs
20 x push ups
20 x half burpees
20 x lunges
20 x should press with dumbells


It was awesome!!! Full on, I must admit that by the end of it I was almost numb! But that is the ending I want to a good workout :)


I did think while I was doing it to think of the long term reward and also the short term reward - my strawberry "fusion" juice which I just made up on the go after my workout today and it tastes AMAZING!

Ingredients:

First I blended a whole lemon (with skin) and an orange with the skin removed to make a juice which I let filter through my ladyship blender. I created about 1L of the lemon/orange juice so mixed with water. 

Then...I removed the orange lemon juice from the blender and gave it a clean then I added my other ingredients to blend:

7 x strawberries tops removed

1 x cup raspberries (I used frozen)

1/2 cup cut mango (or frozen mango cubes x 4 big ones)

Then add the lemon/orange juice

BLEND!!!!

Tastes awesome :D 

Shaz x

Banana Pie

Hi All,

This looks so yummy!!!!! All credit to XiaoYan Martin.



Recipe: 
Base : blend together 

3/4 cup dates not soaked
1/3 cup oats
1/4 mixed nuts of any kind!
1/4 cup coconut 
1 tablespoon hiney or sweetener of. Your choice 
1 tablespoon coconut oil or any oil I used rice bran oil! 

Blend till really fine so maybe 3 mins or something till its edible and dates are not super chunky! 

And then you get a tart base 

Press the mixture into tart base like firmly then but the base into the freezer ! 

Filling! 

JUST SOME MASHED BANANAS !!!! You can add cinnamon or vanilla for flavour ! 

And then take the tart base out from the freezer , I left mine in for 10-15 mins and run knife around edge carefully then bang in onto the table or something the base should fall out !

Fill up with banana and top with shredded coconut and cinnamon! 

Put in freezer again for filling to cool

<3 Shaz xo