On the mend

My knee seems to be a lot better today, yey! I can still feel it but I can walk down the stairs without wincing so I'm happy about that. I've strapped it up for the day and I'm going to see how it feels tomorrow before deciding to run or not. I might go out on my usual route which has plenty of easy short cuts home within it so if it gets bad I can just get home quick.

I had an amazing breakfast this morning!

Slow Cooked Fruity Strawberry Oats with Peanut Butter Sauce

1/4 cup of quick cook oats
1/4 cup of jumbo oats
white grape, pomegrante and raspberry juice
water
Strawberries
2 teaspoons of smooth peanut butter
2 tablespoons of rice milk

Cook the oats in the water and juice on the stove on a medium heat until creamy. While cooking make the peanut butter sauce by microwaving the peanut butter and rice milk and blending until creamy. When the oats are creamy add plenty of chopped strawberries and stir in. Top with more sliced strawberries and pour over the peanut butter sauce. De-lish!

This was so tasty and filling, cooking the oats with some juice works so well!

After breakie, sunday morning pottering and grocery shopping (I just love it when my fridge is full of amazing fresh veggies and fruit)I snacked on an apple then...

... I made a quick lunch - wholegrain slightly salted rice cakes with savory cottage cheese (cottage cheese mixed with a heaped teaspoon of nutritional yeast) and some carrot and cucumber sticks.

I then made a super smoothie! I was inspired by Ilana's Epic Antioxidant Blast Smoothie. I used a handful of spinach, frozen mango, frozen cherries, some of my white grape, pomegrante and raspberry juice, 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

I decided to indulge my smoothie in a bowl addiction. This was amazing! So rich and chocolately, and even better, its so good for you!

I spent the afternoon flicking between the England football match and the Turkish Grand Prix while I did my training plan post. I don't mind a bit of sport on TV while I'm pottering about on my computer.

As I'm off to the cinema tonight I had my dinner early. I decided to try out a recipe inspired by one I'd found on one of my new favourite blogs (never)homemaker -

Tofu and Vegetable Thai Red Curry

1 tin of light coconut milk
Thai red curry paste
1 small head of brocolli
1 orange pepper
1 white onion
Stir fry or vegetable oil
1 block of firm tofu - drained and with as much moisture removed (I wrapped mine in kitchen paper and popped some heavy cook books on top for about 30 minutes to squeeze out some of the water. You can get proper tofu presses which do this too)

Chop the tofu and veggies into chunky bite sized pieces. Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in a wok on a medium high heat then fry the tofu until browned on all sides. Remove tofu from the pan and set to one side. Add more oil then stir fry the brocolli for a few minutes then add the pepper and onion. When the veggies are slightly tender add the curry paste then the tofu and stir fry for a few seconds before adding the coconut milk. Simmer for 10 minutes then serve with rice or noodles.

I served mine with a few brown rice noodles and some steamed chinese cabbage, carrot and red cabbage left over from my stir fry yesterday. I'm going to bag up the left overs and pop in the freezer for quick and easy dinner options.

Drinks - water, green tea, decaf tea

Well I am now off to meet up with my friends for SATC 2, I have a bag of Maltesers to enjoy, can not wait! Catch you tomorrow! x