Crave Graze!

I love a good graze box!

Who wouldn't want 4 different yummy snacks, pop excitingly through your door for a much better price than you could get at a shop and not feel bad about eating them?!

The website is exciting and you can set your account so you get weekly boxes/fortnightly/whenever you want them boxes! It allows you to tick the snacks that you liked, loved, want to bin and want to try and there are a whole range of food types to choose from, including choosing dietary requirements for the more sensitive among us!

It also comes with a little booklet that tells you the nutritional values of all of your snacks and gives advice on the website for the healthiest snacks to choose! ---->

Even better, when you receive a box, you usually get 4 'feed your friends free graze box' to give to your friends (surprisingly) and you get £1 off your box, and considering the box was only £3.89 (including delivery) in the first place, it is not bad at all! You can also send these boxes to your friend (who wouldn't like food for a present?) Or set it up so you can buy someone 10, or however many boxes you want, pre paid, so they just choose what they want and when they want it, for free! Perfect for your health concious friends!

Best of all, all the snacks are relatively healthy and extremely yummy and because they are quite small you can eat it all but feel satisfied you have had your sweet/chocolate/whatever you crave fix that day!

Basically, go and check out their website (or be sneaky and try and get a free voucher from your friend!) Whichever way, it's delicious and definitely worth the money! Go go go! (I definitely just ate a punnet... or two, whilst typing this.)

In my box - sticky chocolate pudding (just devoured), marvellous macaroon, copacabana and brilliant black forest.

You can even use this code to receive your first box free plus you can cancel this yummy subscription at any time!

http://www.graze.com/uk/p/K311ZRQ

Yoghurt pancakes please!

I forgot how yummy these were. Felt like an afternoon snack. Only 4 ingredients, really easy and very delicious. Found these on pinterest http://pinterest.com/source/everydaybelle.com/ I had honey on mine and was amazing, I would have had banana too, but had already had one today. I would suggest making half of the mixture if it is only for one person, but I have made the remainder and will eat it cold as a snack:

• 1 egg
• 6oz fat free greek yoghurt
• 1/2 cup of plain flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder.

Mix egg and yoghurt, (will be a bit lumpy), add dry ingredients, now it will be really thick. Put some in a frying pan with some spray, heat on medium/high. Cook like a pancake.

CW. x

Amazing peanut butter protein powder bar!

As we are always on the hunt for new, yummy things, I have just discovered this absolutely amazing protein bar! It was from pinterest http://pinterest.com/pin/514325219915290144/ I think it has rivalled the tone it up protein bar!
It is so nice I'm not sure I can control myself and may end up eating the whole thing in one go, which would not be clever! I changed it slightly from the recipe I found and added in some protein powder:

mix together...

• 1/2 cup of  almond butter/peanut butter

  

  There was a bit more than that but I got excited and ate some!

• 1/2 cup of honey
• 1 1/4 cups of oats
• 2 scoops of protein powder (I used chocolate)
• Half a cup (ish) of chopped up dried apricots, dried cranberries and sliced almonds
• sprinkle until it looks enough - mixed seeds (I used sunflower, pumpkin and pine in a mixed packet I had lurking around.)

Line a tin with baking paper, it doesn't really matter what size tin as the mixture is stiff and won't run. Push it down with a fork or whatever, and put in fridge until you can't wait any longer! OHM. 

CW x

Breakfast Bonanza!

Sometimes it’s hard to begin the day eating well because you just can’t think of different things to have, so you end up having the same sugary cereals every day. CP and I have put together some breakfast options that we often have. We try to change what we have most days so we still get excited about getting out of bed (the only reason to get out of bed...food!)

Breakfast

• 2 boiled eggs on soya and linseed toast (or poached or scrambled, hard boiled is the best though). I also like to have marmite on my toast underneath the egg that I squish on... try it, it’s amaze.
• Overnight porridge (www.laurenconrad.com ) I like to add sliced almonds and dried cranberries on mine. Also sometimes if I’m feeling a bit crazy, almond butter mixed in too.
• Overnight chocolate porridge www.greatist.com (similar but with chocolate protein powder mixed in.)
• Granola, low fat greek yoghurt, fruit and flax seeds.
• Smoothie (see top 5 smoothies post...... http://healthandlurking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/top-5-super-scrumptious-sexy-sometimes.html )
• Quinoa breakfast (I can’t remember where I got it from so sorry internet person that will be angry I stole their recipe):
• ½ a cup of cooked quinoa
• 1 tablespoon of sliced almonds
•  ¼ cup of raisins
• ½ banana mashed
• ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1 cup almond  milk
•  1 table spoon maple syrup

• Almond butter on soya and linseed toast.
• Omelette, spinach, ham, mushroom, anything you can find.
• Yoghurt pancakes (from pinterest.) Makes 4 big/8small. Mix altogether, fry like pancake (surprisingly..)
• 6oz greek yoghurt (low fat)
• 1 egg
•   ½ cup of flour
•  1 tsp baking powder

• Chocolate peanut butter protein shake and hard boiled egg (separately...)  from www.muffintopless.com           
• 1 scoop chocolate protein powder
• 1 cup almond milk
• 1 table spoon almond butter
• 1-2 stevia packets... (Think this is weird American uncalorifc sugar... That’s what I decided anyway so randomly added a bit of truvia (sounds the same so....)
•  4 ice cubes.

Also, my minimising hangover strategies did not take place this weekend for many reasons, so I’ll definitely do it this weekend on my next fancy dress outing... and hope it helps... watch this space.

Lunch and dinner options coming soon.....

CW. x

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High protein snack!

Just tried these from livestrong! So yummy! If you make the balls even smaller, even more perfect for a small protein fix before exercise! (or just eat more and not feel bad because they are so small.)

Ingredients:

1 cup natural peanut butter (I used almond butter)

1 cup oats

1/2 cup raw honey

1 cup protein powder (I used chocolate)

Directions:

Combine peanut butter, honey, oats and protein powder in medium bowl. Mix well. Roll into small balls, put on grease proof paper. Put in fridge to set a bit and don't eat them all at once.

CW