Dinner, Lunch, Salads

Nourishing bowl goodness

I eat a lot of salad. Like, heaps. It’s weird how much salad I eat, but I find salad so easy, versatile and super yummy, so I classify them as a daily life win. Also, as I spend my days working in an office (sob) I find that eating salad for lunch helps to avoid the afternoon ‘slump’ (although I still wouldn’t say no to a cheeky nap), and I find that I just feel better in general as I have to either sit or stand in one place for a prolonged period of time and I don’t like feeling ‘heavy’ or blergh.

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been gallivanting around NZ (sort of) as my brother and his wife have been visiting from mighty America, which has been completely awesome! However, this has meant that between climbing enormous hills above Queenstown and falling into an Ice Bar for a cocktail, I have been out of my usual prep and eating routine, and my body/organs/energy levels are telling me to haul myself back back onto the salad train and kick back into making delish nourishing bowls to up my greens. In saying that, I was the person who rocked up to the family holiday with a giant bottle of homemade green juice – yep, expect nothing less fam-jam!

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Dinner, Lunch, Snacks

What the kale?!

In a conversation at work the other day I announced – as I do often regarding various things, that brazil nuts are one of my fav things, which then sparked a conversation where a couple of my colleagues, and good friends, told me that brazil nuts remind them of me, along with grapefruit, avocado, spinach and green things. YUSS. This thrills me no end as I really like green things – all green things – not just foodie green things but green jackets, other clothes, manchester, bags, tea towels, drink bottles, need I go on? In fact green is my all-time favourite colour, closely followed by red and then probably blue. My wardrobe was awfully awkward a couple of summers ago as for a while green dominated and red wasn’t far behind. Now I’m as festive as the next person, but there is a limit people, and I hit it.

Green to me is vibrant, energetic and wholesome; and although we can’t be all of those things, all of the time (ridiculous suggestion!) I do like what the element ‘green’ stands for. I’m not saying everyone agrees, yellow is also quite fabulous, but green, I love.

Kale. Kale is another thing I love. And is green.

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Dinner, Soup

The wonderful world of winter

Loads of the time I find myself dreaming of the sunshine. Because who doesn’t? I was sitting on the bus going to work a couple of days ago, I had been to 6am bootcamp that morning already – I know, some would say MAD, I prefer to say awesome, or adventurous or that it is part of my social calendar (kind of is), but during one particular exercise involving us lying on the ground doing ab exercises, my lovely friend and most excellent workout partner commented that we could still see the stars. We were effectively working out in the middle of the night … well it felt like that at approximately 6:20am in the middle of winter and it was surprisingly refreshing. Then an hour later (impressed at my quick turn morning around? I am) I was on the bus to work and happened to look up from exploring other people’s fabulous lives through the eyes of instagram (I do love instagram) to see the most amazing yellow glow of the sun coming up over the city splashing across the early morning blue sky and it reminded me of how much I like cold, crisp mornings that involve jackets, gloves and beanies, and how I should look less at my phone and more at the world – mental note to self.

Anyway! Less ramble more foodie such things that winter encourages – Soup! Glorious soup!

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