I’m now going to be posting at my new blog name:

www.britchickruns.wordpress.com

It’s still me, nothing has changed bar the name

(Which means there is still a ton of cute kitten photos over there )

Foodfitnessandfreya had just hit 10,100 hits, so let’s try and get britchickruns there superfast

HAPPY 10,000 DAY TO MY BLOG! Today, foodfitnessandfreya hit 10,000 page views Yay!! So to celebrate, not only is there cake all round…

 …but foodfitnessandfreya will be no more!

I’m in the process of moving everything over to Brit Chick Runs – I thought I could literally just change the name and do nothing else, but apparently not – I actually have to make a completly new blog, starting with zero hits and no customization :’(

If any WordPress users know of a simpler way, PLEASE let me know! I don’t want to start from 0 views again Oh well…

This will only be a brief post either way, cos I have A LOT to move over!!

Afternoon eats included:

A big Nakd coco bar, so delicious! And 2 portions of fruit/veg

Half a blueberry bar (from my goodie box yesterday):

And a hot chocolat Gosh was I stuffed when it came to dinner :s Hence why I had a very similar dins to yesterday – I knew I’d like it that way! I boiled up soba noodles (20g ish) and wholewheat cous cous (16g ish) and set aside. I then softened some onion and added in chicken pieces:

And then added in a whole load of stuff!! I had quite the mix of veggies today:

My stir fry included:

• broccoli
• cauliflower
• parsnip
• spring onion
• real onion
• mushrooms
• spinach
• chicken
• noodles
• giant wholewheat couc cous
• loads of garlic
• brown sauce and teriyaki sauce

It was a FABULOUS combination!

Went down a treat

Dessert was 2%, a hot chocolate, and half a fairtrade milk chocolate bar:

And to finish off the post, the obligatory kitten photos:

Dang, they will never lose their novelty

Sorry for the shortness of this post!!

I’ll be better tomorrow when the new blog is all set up

Happy Saturday afternoon to everyone!! Who else has bright sunny weather outside!!?? I sure do Very good riding weather actually…

So ride is what I did! Chika’s had the week off, so I felt she needed to repent her sins (remember her little escape act on Wednesday? Yes. She had sinned in a BIG WAY!) and give me a really good schooling session. Does she look repentful to you?

I’m hoping you thought ‘no’, cos she sure wasn’t! She was feeling quite opinionated today – she did NOT want to be round and soft, she did NOT want to give me a perfect canter transition and she did NOT want to ignore the scary bucket that her moved from one part of the field to the next. Wow, typing out that latter part, I don’t know how she coped! It sounds utterly terrifying. :-/

Bah.

In the end though, she came good, so I was pleased. Afterall, as someone mildly famous once said, amateurs focus on what went wrong, professionals focus on what went right. And she did go soft, she only spooked at the bucket a few times and then managed to control herself and she did finish on some wonderful canter work. And she worked hard and got a bit sweaty!

She got lots of bread and broccoli stalks for being good in the end And I got snap happy and took a cute pic of her eye:

I have a thing about taking photos of horse eyes, I think they’re so beautiful!! Talking of eyes, look who was *trying* to wink at me this morning:

His lil kitten winking muscles aren’t strong enough yet obviously!! Oh and a quick kitten-Obama update while I’m on the topic – she encountered Kovac again today (he has quite a crush on her I think), but she just hissed, got worried and ran away Does anyone have any experience on making cats become friends!? How long does it take?

 Food News now! The morning started with my usual pre-workout snack – a tbsp wheatgerm, a square of chocolate and this wonderful Empire apple:

Before I did a bit of a boxing DVD and some aerobics sections. I even dragged my sister out of bed to do the last bit with me Then for breakfast, I got to break into my new cereal!!

1/2 cup oats, 1 cup++ milk, 1 banana, cinnamon, extra nutmeg today (I could actually taste it this time – a good edition!), vanilla. Topped with peanut butter, 2tbsp Grape Nuts, and 1/3 cup QUINOA O’S!! (Interestingly, for number crunchers out there, 1/3cup is only about 10g!)

I really like them (thank goodness, seeing as I accidently ordered 2 boxes :s)! At first I thought they were a bit bland, and just…’blah’…but then they really grew on me, especially the texture. Loves it! Out of curiosity, I often wonder this – what makes you like a food? Is it the taste, texture, smell, nutritional benefits..? Or a combo of all three? I LOVE broccoli for example, but a lot of that is due to the health benefits, so I like what it does for me. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE kabocha squash – and that’s all down to taste and texture, I have no idea on any health benefits!! What does it for you?

The rest of the morning – work and riding, and thinking about LUNCH! I’ve been eyeing up one of my Trek bars for ages, but they have 11g of protein and so are verrry filling. But today I decided I would find a way to incorporate one! So I had a non-protein packed lunch, in the hope I’ll be hungry for a Trek bar later on…

Soup of choice today: Carrot and Kale Basil Cumin Soup!

It’s what I had to hand, so it’s what I made I started by softening garlic, onion and kale in a pan, before adding a load of chopped carrot:

I let it cook for a while, then added fresh basil, about 1/2tsp cumin powder and 1 and a bit cups of stock, and let it simmer til the carrots were soft. I also added in 1.5tbsp soya mince:

I then used my trusty hand held blender to give it a good whiz up, then poured it into a nice big soup mug, and sprinkled on a tbsp of NUTRITIONAL YEAST!!

That’s 1/2cup of Quinoa O’s on the side, for some carby goodness :) My soup was soo good! Really thick which is how I like them and the N.Y. was amazing! Very salty and cheesy – such a good flavour. I’ll definetly be using more or that (I want to try and incorporate it into my dinner somehow…).

To make for a prettier picture, I added a touch of fresh basil:

I also had a little side salad, with leaves, fresh basil, cherry tomatoes, pepper and balsamic vinegar:

Lovely job.

Hopefully that was a suitably unfulfilling lunch, so I’ll look forward to my protein packed bar later

First – I need to go help my sister jump Tig! Have a good Saturday

American people, help me!!

You know how I’m very very strongly thinking about postgrad study in the USA? I’m hoping to do a Masters in Clinical Psychology (and I believe it’s possible to take a few classes on the side too, in the US? If that’s true, I’d want to take something in nutrition or food or something – I’d love to ultimately work with eating disorders ), but OH MY GOSH, how many unis does the USA have!? Crikey, I’m having a TERRIBLE time narrowing it down!! Sooo – are there any USA students/graduate students who could give me some advice on how to go from 1700 unis offering grad courses, to just 4-6!?

I’ve been on www.petersons.com and www.usaeducationguides.com, but it’s sooo hard. I also don’t get the money thing – am I right in saying graduate programmes are charged per credit? ie $500 per credit? And do graduates normally live on campus? Seriously, ANY advice would be welcome here!

Today wasn’t all full of confusion, oh no! MY PACKAGE ARRIVED!! Last weekend I ordered some funky food off of a health food website, and it finally came today:

My box of goodies contained….

Nutritional yeast! Yay! I’ve seen this all over the blog world recently, so I can’t wait to try

A millet dessert thing..don’t ask me to explain what it is cos I don’t know! I’ll do a big report when I have some

All natural, healthy-as-healthy-can-be peanut butter cookies

A soya dessert yogurt thing…

A CINNAMON-Y CEREAL! I can’t wait to tuck into this baby PLus check out the fab protein and fibre content:

Amaze, no? There was also…

Multi-grain O’s with the old keeeen-MWAH (x 2 – I accidently ordered two boxes…let’s hope I like it!)

A blueberry fruit bar thing, from Australia no less. They know how to groove up their fruit there, that’s for sure. Just ask Dannii Minogue. And finally…

…a Raw brownie! Again, can’t wait to tuck into that beast!!

For my afternoon snack, I knew I had to incorporate something new with my hot chocolate, so I had a peanut butter cookie:

GOODNESS ME! That thing was SO TASTY! It was almost like a cake crossed with a cookie…ie not snappy and crispy, but soft and melty..with a faaab-ulous PB flavour. I. LOVED. IT.

For dinner, I took a trip to Chinatown. Well, almost…it was just very Chinese-Japanese themed. I had some tofu marinated in cinnamon, soy sauce, hot sin, and this noodle sauce:

So it looked like this:

It was then cubed and then added in a big stir fry – I’d pre-roasted some broccoli, caulflower, parsnips and garlic (I really really can’t do even SLIGHTLY crunchy broocoli or cauliflower :s), so when it was out of the oven, I added it to some mushrooms, spring onion and spinach, and the tofu, and mixed it all about. I also threw in some soba buckwheat noodles (which I’d already boiled) and a load more of that noodle sauce, then served it all together in a big pile with a sesame seed garnish and added soy sauce! (phew, what a big sentence :p)

It was totally, amazingly delicious

While I munched, I watched the pilot episode of Everybody Loves Raymond – has anyone else seen this show? Does it get good? I know the bloke who played Raymond ended up getting 1million dollars per episode…so I’m assuming it was a success!!?? Maybe it still is, I don’t know…They don’t show it on TV over here I don’t think :s

After dinner and the show (it was like a mini romantic date with myself :p), I made a huge amount of mess when my head exploded from too many universities spinning round it. It took a while to clean up!! But I obviously did a good job, cos I managed to type out this post

Plus, I had two strong motivators to piece my head back together -

The thought of my daily dessert – 2% Greek, a hot chocolate, and half a fairtrade dark chocolate bar:

And the fact that 8 Out of 10 Cats is on any second!! So, I’ll leave y’all with some kitten pictures – what else!? Enjoy

…what else could possibly be the theme of this post!!?? We all love the last day of the official week

The kittens survived their first night, hooray!! They didn’t destroy anything whilst they were left alone, and they even discovered a few new sleeping places….

(That’s on a dresser in the kitchen…totally random!? I had to lay down all the picture frames in case they went flying )

And today, I got some more cute kitten photos! I think they’re a little better than yesterday’s appalling selection:

That’s Kovac, who is my kitten

And that is Carter, Hannah’s kitten! In case you missed it before, they’re named after the two fit doctors in E.R., cos me, my mum and my sister are all obsessed with ER Kovac is played by…um….a guy with a Ukranian name, I forget it!! And Carter is Noah Wyle St a Google date , they’re fit

Kovac blates has no shame, he just lets it aaaalll hang out

Look at those EYES!! Hehe, he’s like Puss in Boots from Shrek

Isn’t that so cute and perfect!!?? If only I could chuck Obama in the middle, then the Cat Circle would be complete. She’s still upset though, she hisses if she sees them :s

I really thought she’d love having two new boyfriends to play with (what self-respecting girl wouldn’t, let’s be fair :p) but apparently not….I’m sure she’ll come round to their charms eventually though…

OK! That’s enough kitten photos for one post – now I’ll move onto the whole point of this blog, FOOD!!

I woke up niicce and early, and had a square of chocolate (it was a square from that new Galaxy bubbles, for those Brit people out there – for the record, not that incredible – it didn’t taste nearly as rich and creamy as normal Galaxy!), a tbsp of wheatgerm and a shiny red Empire. I then did some weights and aerobics DVDs for an hour, then hit up breakfaaaassst:

• 1/2cup oats
• 1 cup ++ milk
• 1.5 tiny bananas
• cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla
• topped with Fruit N Fibre, 3tbsp Grape Nuts (1 on the oatmeal, 2 straight into me – it was the end of the packet, I had to finish it!), and 1tsp PB – I tried to melt it in the microwave with some milk to make a sauce, but all that happened was the cup it was cracked, and the PB went lumpy and the milk was lukewarm. I threw it away…

No banana chips in this handful

I really can’t imagine a life without Grape Nuts or PB now..I honestly don’t know how I existed!!

The rest of the morning was spent working, then driving to the train station at 1.30 to pick my sister up; she wasn’t there, I texted her, turns out she forgot to say she was GETTING the 1.30 train, but ARRIVING at 3.30….duh! So I came home and quickly whipped up some lunch:

Sardines, mashed with salt and pepper and lemon juice and fresh basil:

Aga pressed sweet potato discs:

Aga pressed swede, with tahini for dippeh-dippeh-ness:

Roast kabocha squash, with A LOT of cinnamon and mixed herbs:

And (yes,the last part now!!) roast cherry tomatoes, brussels and kale crisps, with soy sauce, mixed herbs and s+p:

All in all, quite the feast!!

Unfortunately I completly rushed it down cos I needed to write this post, then go to the station again and I was worried I’d run out of time As it turns out, I have 15mins spare Just enough time to play with some KITTENS methinks!!!

More to come after dinnneerr

(Don’t forget – I’ll be changing the blogs name to www.britchickruns.wordpress.com soon!)

1. Taking photos, in dim lighting, of hyperactive kittens is hard
2. My camera sucks.

So I’ll apologize now for the T E R R I B L E quality of photos!! Can anyone recommend a really really good digital camera? I say digital (and small) cos obviously I can’t lug around a giant camera with me wherever I go But yes, recommendations please! My birthday is coming up so it might be the right time to upgrade…(oh HAHA – Kovac just tried to leap onto a chair, but landed on the cushion on the back and just backflipped right off again – TOO FUNNY!!)

And another thing before I launch into my post – don’t forget, sometime this week (maybe even tomorrow!) I’ll be changing my blog name to britchickruns – so it’ll be www.britchickruns.wordpress.com! Don’t forget!!

OK, now onto the day! Just quickly, here is my beautiful tub of cereal from this mornin’

Gosh it was so good…

Following that came the lectures! I left 5minutes early today on purpose, so I could shed a bit of Operation Beautiful love over here!

Anyone who reads www.healthytippingpoint.com (or www.operationbeautiful.com) will know what it’s all about I have no idea if it made any girls in the lecture building toilets happy or not, but it lifted my spirits briefly :p

After my day of lectures, I ruuusshed home as quick as possible (with a brief stop at Waitrose for my mama on the way). While I was driving, I ate this:

A marmite flavour cereal bar!! I’m not even a fan of marmite, BUT the bar had about 4.5g of protein in it (impressive for a little bar!) and pretty good ingredients (ie no added crap, bar vitamins). It definetly had that marmite taste…and a very strange texture – crumbly yet sticky! I very nearly spat out the first bite, but I’m a trooper who doesn’t give up! So I stuck it out and ended up quite enjoying it (who’d have thought, all that effort for one little bar!?). Plus, it held me over til the all important dinner, which is the main point

Then, the inevitable happened….at 5.52pm, CARTER AND KOVAC ENTERED THE BUILDING! They are SO funny and SO cute and SO friendly – everything one could wish a kitten to be I’ll just present you with a bunch of photos, with again, sincere apologies for the quality…(oh, and before I forget – Carter just dug himself into a bag, then ran all round the room – IN the bag. MAJOR LOLZ!!)

Oh gosh, they are the sweetest, most playful friendly things! I don’t think kittens larking about together will ever lose their novelty value :p

Except of course, for Obama – she HATES them! She’s not attacking them or anything, just growling and staring and being a grumpy so-and-so – she’s refusing to come into the kitchen cos that’s where they are. I feel sorry for her at least she has my bed to sleep on! Either way though, the kittens have to live in the kitchen for the next 2 weeks or so – they’ve never been in a room bigger than the little cat cage at the rescue place, so if they had the whole house to themselves….they’d be very confused!

Anyyyywayz, onto dinner – I wanted to play kitten/research US unis, so it was very quick and very dull!! Stuffed pasta:

 BUT, to be a little different….I threw in some of THIS into my roasted parsnip/squash mix (Carter is climbing up my back as I type this….):

Yes – that is CAULIFLOWER!! I decided I had to re-try it…so I cut it up small and poured cinnamon over it – I decided if I didn’t like it roasted with cinnamon and garlic, there was no hope!Can you spot it!?

The result? I LIKED IT!!! Oh my.

Do you spy it!?

A fabulous meal, made better by the kitten trying to crawl over the table while I ate it

For dessert, I had my usual, OF COURSE!! Dessert time is one of my favourite times of day

My other favourite time is BED TIME! Yes, I’m an old Granny at heart

Sooo that’s it from me!! More tomorrow

And a quick general point – I’m changing my blog name – foodfitnessandfreya will be no more…instead, I give you:

Brit Chick Runs!

What do you all think? I’ll keep mentioning it in my posts for the next week or something, in case people miss it, then come to go to my blog and find I don’t exist anymore!! [Btw, do any wordpress clever people know if it's possible to make a page re-direct thing? If that makes any sense!!??] Anyway, moving on:

My day began with (a tbsp of wheatgerm and) this beauutttiful Empire apple – I know, it’s just an apple. But look how red and lush it is!

Nothing like a juicy apple to get you off on the right foot in the morning For breakfast when I got back to my uni house, I finished off the last of my 2% (just over a servings’ worth)…

Which was jazzed up with some more red juicy fruit!

And then all topped with some All-Bran (if you’re curious about measurements, it was all the dusty bits from the end of the packet, and it weighed in at 42g :p) along with a tbsp of grape nuts

Twas all mixed in when I got to uni, and I also added in a handful or two of that nice new cereal I got the other day whose name escapes me….I’ll post a pic tonight I don’t know what it was, but this cereal combo was EXTRA nice today! Weird..I wanted to keep eating it forever….

Lunch – pretty simple: I started with spinach, fresh basil and 30g dry weight cous cous (WHITE. I know…I’m bad. I live on the edge…)

Topped with chopped mushrooms, tomatoes and spring onions…

And a whole loada prawns! Fresh from the freezer, wahey

And then generously seasoned with s&p, lemon juice and mixed herbs.

So fresh, so delicious Afternoon eats included: left over swede chips…

…With HP sauce for dipping Reduced sugar and salt sauce of course

And a nectarine (actually, I lie – I ate this before lunch, while I was writing this blog post, but last night I loaded up the pics in the wrong order and I don’t have time to change it…and now reading this all back – gosh, I’m FULL of the WILD stories today aren’t I!?)

Good food. Good times.

Apologies for the briefness of this post, but I’m between classes and I’m in a bit of a rush!! (I also think my brain is fizzled out from that amazing 15mile run yesterday…I say, you wouldn’t believe how well I slept!! My body rea;;y really needed the full 7.5hours. I felt SO much more refreshed when I woke up.) However I have lots to say tonight

OH! And don’t forget to pencil into your diaries the fact that this blog’s name will change soon!!

OH! [again]- a big thankyou to everyone who explained the mysterious HUMPDAY to me! The world makes so much more sense now I seriously had absolutely no clue what it was all about (bar some weird day to do with humping!!??).

Anyways, I have to run!! Kittens, body things, message things, FOOD things to come….

Anyway – PHEW! I’ve had the most busy day known to man! So many emails to reply to,  a CV to sort out, revision to do, lab report to make sense of…it’s mad, I’ve had people in my lab group asking me if I can help them – all I can say is ‘I have no clue either!! Don’t ask me!!’ Oh goodness. It’s exciting to think that in 7days time, this lab will be over. And then the next one will start…but let’s side step that issue for now!

In other exciting news, guess what arrives tomorrow, albeit 4 weeks later than it should have? Drum roll please…..

The kittens!

Yes, at LONG LAST, Carter and Kovac will be with us as of 6pm tomorrow evening I think some kitten fun is just what I need! I also think it’s just what poor old (young) Obama needs – she gets so bored by herself in the house during the day. You’d think she’d want to go outside and hunt and explore…but no. That cat will NOT go outside. If she thinks she’s going out, she runs away. When she does go out, she doesn’t venture more than 10m from the door. To think that she used to live full time outside before she picked us…mad.

Anyway! For ‘lunch’, I had piizzzzaaaahhh. I had the other hald of the spinach and ricotta pizza I ate around the time of the half marathon, so I threw that in the oven (sprinkled with extra garlic :p) along with some parsnip and squash. It was weird, I wasn’t hungry for ages, then suddenly BAM! I was wanting food!! I had to act on it sharpish cos I suffer from low blood sugar – I can be feeling fine, then I’ll suddenly be starving and if I’m not fed..beware…But yes, here was lunch:

It was very very tasty Next job up was horses – Now, I would take this opportunity to do Chika Part II. But I’m too angry with her right now to present her in a positive light, so again, it’ll have to wait.

Why am I angry, I hear you cry!? WELL.

Chika is very mannerly – in that, you walk into her box, she steps back. You ask her to move over, she moves over. You leave her stable door open, she stands there and doesn’t leave.

Except since I’ve been away from home, she’s getting a bit big for her boots! And today she apparently had a touch of Spring Fever…!! I opened her door, went to the back of the box to get her rug, and she thought it would be a FAB opportunity to go for a spin round the garden!! Oh, and then not be caught *MAJOR ANGRY FACE* SO unlike her!! Chika is the easiest horse to catch in the world – you could literally run up to waving a fire torch and screaming SPARTAN and she’d be like, ‘yeah catch me, cool, whatevers, don’t care’. BUT NOT TODAY!

Cue 1/2 an hour spent trying to catch her…she just ate the grass, jogged off if I got near, ate more grass, knocked down a mini wall and generally destroyed the garden somewhat.

Meanwhile, poor old Tig was stuck in his stable having a panic attack cos his friend had disapeared!!

Eventually I managed to catch her – nothing a scoop of feed won’t solve….

But GAH. HORSES. Who’d have them!!?? Do any of you guys have any majorly misbehaving/naughty animal stories?

After that, I did yet more work, and completely lacked an appetite throughout it all. I figured after my 15mile run this morning though that I needed fuel! So I roasted up chickpeas, mushrooms, squash, brussels and broccoli with lots of garlic, nutmeg and cinnamon:

Don’t you love how chewy chickpeas get when you roast them!? I also served it with some boiled swede chips and added soy sauce (I want salt today, lots of it!!):

On the side for mah pro-teeeeen, I had a pot of full fat Greek yogurt with a bit of agave:

And a hot cinnamon apple:

I was going to mix them together, but I was so blown away by my incredible skill at popping the yogurt out of the pot (look how neat it is!!) I decided against it – I like things to look pretty sometimes

For dessert later on, I had an Alpro Soya chocolate yogurt, 2 squares of dark chocolate, and a hot chocolate:

LOL, there’s a lorra lorra chocolate in there! Meh, I deserve it after my day I reckons!

Ooohh I am so glad the day is almost over….I want tomorrow to come so I can be busy doing something other than sit in front of my laptop typing and writing! I never thought that day would come when I’d actually look forward to my Cognitve II lecture…

I’m off to do my next set of tasks then, so adios til tomorrow!

(Oh yeah – what do you guys think of Brit Chick Runs as a blog name!?)

Yes, that’s right!! Oh mygosh I’m so thrilled I was planning it yesterday (hence the carb loading pasta :p) but I didn’t want to say anything cos the weather was looking dodgy and I didn’t want to go ‘yeaaah I’m doing it’, then pull out….

But the rain held off! It was actually pretty mild weather – so much so I even got to take my gloves off :O

It was such a great run though – it went really quickly (all 2hrs 6minutes) and it was lovely to not think about anything - no revision, nothing. I literally had an empty head for 2hours! Here are my official stats:

1. 8.21
2. 8.23
3. 8.23
4. 8.16
5. 8.12
6. 8.21
7. 8.30
8. 8.21
9. 8.33 – I stopped here and ate some orange flavoured raisins – I wasn’t hungry, but I suddenly noticed I’d done an 8.33 mile – that’s slow for me!! So I concluded I should eat some fuel
10. 8.15 <- the raisins obvs worked!
11. 8.24
12. 8.36
13. 8.41
14. 8.33
15. 8.42

Phew!! 14 was the original plan, but I felt so good, I decided about mile 8 or 9 that I was going to aim for a 15 Never before have I been so far! I’m on such a runner’s high right now…on the last mile coming down my road, I had a big grin on my face I can’t believe how EASY this run was though! I could have easily kept on going…it was amazing.

MY NAME IS FREYA AND I’M ADDICTED TO RUNNING! (at least I think I must be now, it was SO fun!)

So how does one fuel for a run like that!?

I woke up (uh…state the obvious), and had a square of Lindt, a tbsp of wheatgerm, and a banana with peanut butter:

And then I set off! As I said before, mile 9, I had some orange flavour raisins:

They were SO tasty! I ate them pretty quick cos I wanted to keep going, which is a shame cos I wanted to enjoy them and eat them more slowly

When I finished I was really warm, so I spent about a 1/2hour just bimbling about to stretch and cool down – I changed all the horses’ rugs (great for stretching without realising it!), made my mum’s sandwiches for lunch, and slowly got breakfast ready:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1 cup ++ soya milk
• 2 little pears (they were too hard and didn’t cook down well )
• cinnamon, nutmeg, 1/2tsp vanilla, dash of agave
• Toppings: 2tbsp grape nuts, Fruit N Fibre, A LOT of cherry flavour raisins, a tsp peanut butter

It went down sooo well….

….whilst reading Heat magazine. Perfect!

However, I didn’t actually finish it til just gone 12!! A 2 hour run really throws your A.M. schedule out the window :s sooo it meant I had no room for an official lunch; instead, I made a Green Monster:

• 2 handfuls spinach
• 1cup milk
• strawberries and raspberries
• 1/2 a frozen banana

Before blending…

A bit more before blending….

And blended!

Served in a wine glass, cos I’m classy like that.

So cold and refreshing, it was DELICIOUS!! Some oats in it (or maybe some almonds? That’s an idea) would have made it even tastier

The time between breakfast and smoothie was quite simply spent revising but I felt far more fresh for it this morning thank goodness!! I also sorted out the referee situation I mentioned yesterday – another one of my good friends has agreed to do it. She’s  a star! She’s my best, best friend, and I really miss her Uni sure does a good job of seperating people :/

Anyways, I’ve got lots to do – my hair to wash, my lunch for tomorrow to make, my POSTS for tomorrow to write, the horses to muck out, and ‘lunch’ to eat…I’m thinking pizza! I’ve got the other half of one frozen in the freezer, I might dig it out now

Have a good afternoon y’all!

And in other news: I’m home! I’m also still thinking about a blog name change; last night I was lying in bed trying to sleep, and Brit Chick Runs popped into my head. What do y’all think? I’d love some feedback

Anyway – this actually will be a quick post I think because I am SWAMPED with work right now. I’m trying to get my head round my lab report results data, and boy is it confusing…I did actually remember I was going to do Chika Part II as well! But that will have to wait til tomorrow I’m afraid.

Onto the rest of the arvo/evening – I drove home in the most skanky winter shower known to man; some weird concoction of sleet and snow and rain. It was messed up! It did not a pleasant drive make

And weirdly, despite only having written a blog post and driven home, I felt really hungry! It seems my appetite is back! So before I did a 23minute aerobics section from a Davina DVD, I ate the banana that I missed out on this morning – stir fried baby!

With a little squeeze of agave, and then served covered in cinnamon (what else!?):

That was really, really good! The bananas were firm but fluffy and sweet and just…nom nom! Loves it! After my Davina DVD, I had a hot chocolate – all of that held me over a bit too well however, and I was still pretty full at dinner…but I had some lovely pasta organised for tonight

Basil scented! Delightful! You know what else is delightful? When manufacturers make the mistake of putting 340g of pasta into a box that is meant to contain (and is costed to contain) 250g!! MORE FREE STUFF! I have two portions of this pasta left over now

The next question – what to serve with Mr Basil Pasta….a basil tomato sauce! Pretty appropriate considering we have an abundance of basil growing at my house:

My gran has a thing about buying my mum plants and vegetables…:P

So anyway, I ripped a few leaves off them, and added them to some chopped tomatoes, dried mixed herbs, garlic, s&p and thyme:

And cooked it together for a bit so all the flavours could infuse and be lovely Aren’t the colours pretty!?

Meanwhile, I roasted some squash, parsnip and garlic, boiled my pasta, added it all in together and voila!

It was a good meal! Probably the first time I’ve had plain old pasta (ie not stuffed) in…forever..and LIKED it! I think it was partly my amazing skills at boiling, and partly the nice basil scent

For dessert, it was the old 2%, hot chocolate, and the other half of that Thorntons bar from t’other night – wow did that go down well! Especially since I had major stresses tonight – for this volunteer/job thing I’m doing, I needed two references, which were done probably around Novemeber time last year – at least that’s what I THOUGHT. Today, the lady (Karen)  who needed them (and is also who I had a meeting with yesterday) emailed me to say that she’d checked through my file, and only had one, and could she have the other one by the end of the week. MAJOR PANIC! I thought my second referee had already done it (as she said she would) – turns out she hadn’t, and didn’t tell me she hadn’t!! And now she doesn’t have time to anymore!!

Big panic in my book – the Powers That Be are very specific as to who can be a referee (ie no family, must’ve known me X number of years etc etc), and now I’ve got to find another one [hard when all your friends are at uni], get them to write it and get it back to Karen, all before Friday….ARGH!!

Anyway…..I have to go and do more work, so I better dash. Sorry for the terrible posting tonight! Tomorrow will be better – Chika Part II, and (HOPEFULLY! If all goes to plan….) I should have a big announcement-type thing!!

See you tomorrow!