Healthy Bites



Crunchy taco chickpeas! check out Taralynn McNitt aka the Undressed Skeleton I used her recipe and they turned out great! http://undressedskeleton.tumblr.com/post/30751667079

Nothing like a big piece of salmon to finish off a healthy week! Also made a yummy tomato salsa as well as awesome amazing yummy out of this world sweet potato fries!! The secret with these babies leave them in the oven until they slightly burn on the edges brings out the natural sugars mmmmmmmmm.

Frozen banana cupcakes

Literally came up with this idea while I was sleeping last night. I love frozen bananas their like a healthy ice cream, so I decided to come up with cute little portion size deserts to enjoy! Once you get the base going you can basically add what ever flavours you want. My two flavours are peanut butter and berry.

Recipe-

-2 bananas
-1 cup of greek yogurt
-8 biscuits ( to get the calories right I used 30 cal biscuits)
-1 tsp peanut butter
-1Tbsp berry jam
-chocolate chips (optional)

Base-

For the base mash up half a rip banana and combined with the 8 biscuits crushed up. Preheat the oven to 230c (450f). Place a tsp of the dough in each cupcake case and push down to cover the entire base, bake for around 10 minutes. Next mash the remaining bananas and combined with the yogurt and blend until smooth. Split the batter in half and mix in the peanut butter in one and berry sauce in the other. Spoon into your now cooled base and freeze.

Their so cute!

Calories
Peanut butter- 85 cal!
Berry- 70!

Spring Rolls

Been wanting to make spring rolls for agessss! Finally they started selling rice paper at my supermarket so I decided to grab some and have a go. Speed wise these things are so easy and quick to make and the filling options are endless!

 Recipe wise all you have to do is soak the rice paper in warm water for 15 secs and then wrap away! Also make sure you take care and chop your veggies very fine seems you don't cook anything in this recipe!

My combo was;

-pepper
-snap peas
-lettuce
-shallots
-coriander

Use your imagination with this one the options are endless and best thing is it's healthy!

New Blog Name!

You know that feeling you get when you just need a change? Well for the past two weeks I've had that with my blogs name. When I first started this blog I didn't know what this place was, it was merely a place to write random thoughts. But since deciding to change nearly every aspect of my lifestyle I decided that my blog needed to reflect this change as well.

So whats with the name you ask? Well for one thing I can bet the image jumped into your head and made you giggle! Cause I know I did he he. But quite simply this is me in a nut shell, being 6 foot and curvy in an industry full of size nothings it's very easy to feel out of place. I wanna feel proud of how I look  and know that I did this from working my ass off day and night. Cause when you change your lifestyle other things simply fall into place and everyday I work harder and feel stronger and I'm loving it!

Healthy Bites

Hey yall!

Isn't temptation a pain in the butt! Went to Smiths the other day and got myself a cheeky little fitness mag went up to the counter to pay and there sprawled out in front of me was an array of discounted chocolate! 'No!' I said when the guy asked if I wanted anything else! Hardest no  I'd said all week or so I thought... Apparently in England when you buy a fitness magazine it's perfectly normal to get six 1.99 Mac Donald's meal vouchers. Temptation at every turn I tell ya.

Ow well onto more yummier things!

Healthy Tortilla Pizza-

Instead of a dough base simply use tortillas, then chuck on heaps of yummy veggies and a sneaky bit of low fat cheese ( I used lowlow grated, melts really well!) and bobs your uncle!

Banana Split-

This was way to much fun to make! I cut a banana in half, smothered a tsp of wholefoods peanut butter on one half, then wedged it back together. Next I drizzled some low fat yogurt as well as my homemade jam ( I just cooked down frozen berries with a squeeze of lemon juice) and then finally crushed half a digestive biscuit on top for a little crunch. Very addictive!

Oats+jam+bananas+peanut butter = pure happiness

My new weights arrived! Might be pink but they sure pack a punch!

30 day shred and healthy meals!

So I've recently started a workout programme called the 30 day shred by Jillian Michaels and it's amazing! It's 3 levels of HIIT split into chunks of 10 days. 30 minutes a day and the end result is suppose to be very noticeable. Unlike many other reviewers I've found level 1 only slightly hard to get through, though this could be the result of my lifestyle already being quite active. Don't get me wrong though with out fail I sweat my butt of each time! I already feel stronger and my stomach is already starting to feel toned and I'm only on day 4. So I am crazy excited to see the end result and best thing is I'll still have another month before my beach body challenge date arrives!

DAY 1 feeling strong and fit! grrrrrrrr :D



My favourite meals I've made this week, very proud of the end result!

Pancakes! All it is is a mashed banana and an egg combined and cook like a normal batter. So yummy!

Sweet potato veggie burger! So good and with my own addition of slow cooked onions ( like caramelised onion without all the sugar) it was additive. Here's the basic recipe I took from and I merely added my favourite things into the mix! http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2012/02/easy-sweet-potato-veggie-burgers-with.html

Scrambled egg with tomato and green onion simple and delicious.

See healthy eating can be fun and yummy, not all healthy stuff has to taste like crap! Join up with Pinterest their health boards are great and really helpful! As well as that Youtube fitness pages are a great help. Its actually where I found the 30 day shred workout so check it out its amazing for motivation!

Pineapple studio audition

This Monday I woke up bright and early (03.45!) and hoped on a train to London for my first ever professional audition at Pineapple Studios. Now for those of you who don't know this studio well basically to give you a ruff idea any major musical production have their auditions here so it's a very big deal! I arrived at the studio at 7.30, a whole two hours before the audition and there was already a line... Well I decided to skip to morning caffeine fix and start lining up. Lucky thing I did because a hour after I arrived the line was wrapping itself all the way around the corner! The audition itself was crazy and manic we all lined up inside the studio had our photo taken as well as our height and weight...cringe!.... We were then taken in groups of 10 to a door where we were shoved through one by one to sing our best 16 bars ( less then 30 seconds!). The large panel of judges spared no time for chit chat and by the time I could catch my breath I had finished my song and was being ushered back out. Sadly to say I did not get a call back but as my first audition I more so went for the experience and to learn what to do next time, so all in all it was well worth the trip up!

This was merely a handful of people who auditioned trust me there were a heck of a lot more! They just kept coming and coming and coming.......

Now I know I'm big on all things healthy but I'm here to say if there was anything on this plant that would make me cheat for a day my god its this little beaut! The best part was it was warm WARM CINNAMON BUN! I could of died happy then and there...On a health point though I only ate half of it, will power at the MAX!

Happy to say I finished the day off healthy and happy with an awesome salad and my favourite drink. Can I just say how amazing Whole Foods Market is! Never been there before I was like a kid in a candy store spent over an hour in there! haha