Winter dinner!

Dinner date with my boyfriend at my house tonight. I tried some new recipes for you all.

On the menu we had Winter Vege beef, rosemary roasted carrots and Pancetta wrapped sprouts. 

Amazing!

Vege Beef Recipe:

•Lean minced beef

•White Onions

•Mushrooms

•Carrots

•Swede

•Stock Cubes

•Salt and Pepper

•Brown off you mince- no oil required

•Add all veg chopped into square sizes

•Add beef stock and salt & pepper to taste

Serve! 

Pancetta Brussels Recipe:

•Brussell sprouts

•Pancetta

•Par boil sprouts in salted water for 3 minutes

•Wrap cooked sprouts in pancetta

•Fry in a pan without oil until desired crisp is achieved

Serve 

Rosemary roasted Carrot recipe:

•Carrots

•Rosemary

•Salt & Pepper

•Oil- coconut/olive/butter

•Par boil chunky chopped carrots in salted water for 3 minutes

•Put in a baking tray and add oil, salt & pepper and rosemary

•Cook on 180 for 20-30 minutes, shaking pan regularly

Serve 

Enjoy!

Sofit xxxxxx

Working out & Protein talk!

I need a massive, huge & gigantic fitness shake up! I have been seriously lazy, disheartened and over comfortable.

I am now back in my working out routine! My legs and butt are killing me- I am literally walking like my legs don't bend! It's so bad that when I dropped my pen in a patients house earlier, I 100% considered leaving it there because it hurts that much to bend!! I am even being a stander on the escalators in the tube stations- I'm not usually that person- I'm usually running up or down them!!

Protein is so important for muscle recovery and building, so I am back on the protein shakes, adding protein to my already high protein meals and even snacked on a protein bar earlier!

People ask me how I stay motivated? I don't. It's hard work! Especially with it now being dark on the way to & on te way home from work. It makes us lethargic and want to hibernate with stodgy winter food. Which of course we can do... To a point. 

We need to stay in control, and ensure we exercise minimum 3 times a week. 

Remember- any workout is a workout! Even from the comfort of your own home. I have devised a few work out plans for myself, friends and family tailored to the areas needing more work and the time restriction. Sophie's bootcamp is fun!! 

I really didn't want to walk out to the gym at 7pm last night- but then I reminded myself what I want. To be fit and healthy, energetic and proud of my body. That takes work!!! So I went.

The best thing about these episodes is- you never ever regret going. So just go!

I use sunwarrior raw protein, which is vegan therefore dairy free- paleo perfect! It's really tasty in a shake or for cooking with.

I also use Pulsin' raw pea protein to add to smoothies and meals. 

Double protein!!! 

Keep motivated and throw me any questions on here, Facebook or Instagram. 

Sofit xxxxxx

Spicy Paleo Beef!

Tonight I tried a new idea, I thought of it on the tube on the way home from work before the gym. I am so glad I tried it!

Big statement: this is my new FAVOURITE dish! 

•Paleo perfect!

•High protein!

•Low Carb!

•Filling!

•Seriously tasty!

Recipe:

•Lean beef mince

•1 large White onion 

•Mushrooms

•2 Fresh red chillies 

•1-2 Garlic cloves

•Beef stock

•Chilli powder

•Chilli Flakes

•Salt and Black Pepper

•2 eggs

•Protein powder (raw pea protein)

•Golden linseed (flaxseed)

•Brown your mince in a pan, no cooking oil needed, with chopped garlic and chilli.

•Add beef stock cube, small amount of salt and lots of black pepper

•Add mushroom and onions, cook until softened

•Shallow poach/fry 2 eggs 

•Add 1 heaped spoon of pea protein, chilli powder & chilli flakes and Golden Linseeds to beef mix and stir

•Serve with eggs on top, burst yolk into the mix

So there we have it. A paleo, primal and caveman style HIGH protein and low carb meal. I hope you enjoy it as much as me! :)

Sofit xxxxxxxx

Chorizo!!!

A waitrose special snack pack of chorizo today after realising that it is paleo/primal/caveman accepted!

I am absolutely loving the return to meat eating, avoiding processed/packaged food and low carb intake. I'm feeling really good for it, full of energy and healthy.

Moral of the story- I love meat! :)

Sofit xxxxx

Getting sweaty!!

It's get sweaty week here for me! I deserve to seriously punish my lazy (and definitely getting fat) ass!  

Last night was a 1 hour weighted Bums, Tums, Thighs and Abs class. Jeez, I am feeling it today! I am actually in agony- my legs and bum hurt with every step!

There is no feeling as good as a finished workout (kinda)... Even though I was actually hating my life throughout the whole class!!!  

I have booked into a BIG session tonight- heavy weights and a super strict instructor- wish me luck! I am going to need it!!

I hope you're all having a good, active and healthy week!

Sofit xxxxx

Breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Yeh, yeh, I do realise that practically all of my posts recently involve egg. But hey, I like eggs!

Breakfast today was a loaded 3 egg omelette, stuffed with ham, onion, mushroom and tomato.

The best thing about omelette is that you can have as many or as little fillings as you want, and generally anything goes. Omelette is the perfect way to use up all of the leftovers in your fridge & create a quick, simple and nutritious meal- breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Sofit xxxxxx

Egg & Soldiers wins!

Late night snacks.

We just couldn't help ourselves.

The decision was between Chinese take out, pizza or something from home.

Eggs won! :)

The perfect dippy Egg & Soldiers with wholemeal toast. 

Sometimes living a healthy lifestyle doesn't mean eating 100% perfectly, but choosing the better/healthier option.

Sofit xxxxxx

Paleo / Primal / Caveman Caserole.

I just love the winter, and the food that it brings with it!!

Sunday dinner was an extremely tasty chicken and sausage vegetable caserole, cooked up in the slow cooker.

Paleo, primal and caveman friendly. 

Slimming world, weight watchers and any diet friendly.

Ingredients: 

•Chicken Fillets

•Farmer Sausages

•Fresh Vegetables

•Garlic

•Herbs

•Spices

•Vegetable stock

•Salt and Pepper

Chuck it all in the slow cooker, ensuring that the water/stock level covers all Ingredients, and cook from 4-8 hours. Stirring occasionally, adjusting the heat as needed.

Optional: add gravy granules towards the end to thicken/add desired taste.

You can eat this alone in a bowl, or dished up with mashed potato, roasted sweet potato and curly kale. However you like it! :)

Enjoy!

Sofit xxxxx

LOLz

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

This just really makes me laugh! Everytime!

Egg!

Boiled eggs for breakfast,

Boiled eggs for lunch,

Eggs for dinner too!

Eggcellent! :)

Sofit xxxxxx

Friday treat night misbehaviour.

It's great to keep busy and be social. Especially when one of your closest friends from home is in London for the week.

Problem: you are both massive foodys and eat loads when together. Problem? What problem?! I'm already over it.

I love to eat! I always will! I am not going to over obsess and not allow myself food. I am not going to punish and hate at myself for eating what I want to eat.

Nope. I am going to enjoy it, and keep the balance right and get in some regular exercise.

Healthiness is happiness- and without the right food and amount f food- I would not be happy.

This is what we ate on Friday at Cabana in London. We had a sharing platter, then I opted for a king prawn curried dish with rice whilst Kate had spicy chicken burger with garlic & rosemary fries. 

We decided to share a desert too, but because we couldn't decide on one _ we shared two. Cheesecake and Fro Yo with peanut butter, caramel sauce and crushed Oreos! 😍

I need a very active and clean week next week after this weeks indulgences. It's been a good week!! :)

Sofit xxxxxx

Pret- healthy fast food lunch!

Yeh I know I'm a geek- food really is one of my favourite things. So.... Imagine how happy I was when I wandered into pret for a salad and found that they now sell ready to go FRITTATA in their hot section!! Pret are stepping it up! You all know how much I love eggs, and especially how much I love a frittata.

This one was the vegetarian option because it looked amazing- Spinach, Feta and Butternut Squash! Soooo yummy and filling!

Try it!

Sofit xxxxx

Full of beans.

Snack attack perfection from Monday -

Green beans and feta cheese, peppers and chilli. Purchased from a regular newsagents/off license.

Done.

Sofit xxxxx

Burger Monday!

On Monday I was finally invited to a burger Monday! 

My boyfriend and his friend have been to a few of these nights now. Basically a guy in London has set out to find the best burger in London. This consists of 5 rounds of 6 different places competing in a pop up location, and the punters eating a half burger from each place, and then voting on who they thought was the best.

Well, this week the girlfriends were invited. So off to Camden brewery we went!

Apart from some amateur mistakes (eg sauce and burger dropping down my coat) I think the girls did well. We had half tickets, so just had 3 half burgers, but greedy guts over here topped up to the 6. 🐷🐽 I actually couldn't eat much of the last 2 or 3 ha- but I'm glad I gave it a try haha.

I voted for Iberica, who were the only people there serving a pork burger- by far the tastiest patty. Burger bear was my second favourite- definitely the tastiest burger. The bun and the sauce they servd was crazy good! Shake shack were there too- you can't go wrong with a shake shack burger in my eyes- we even got a free tshirt! Wahoo! 

I'm hoping I get invited to the grand final round! I think I may of caught onto burger fever. 

This was definitely a fatty night. I couldn't do this every week. Massively worth it!

Sofit xxxxx

Bonfire night treats.

I've been thinking about introducing all types of meals that I make and eat into my blog, and turning it more away from strictly clean to a more balanced lifestyle.

I thought I'd start with the amazing meal I had on bonfire night in North London- baked honey and garlic Camembert, toasted sourdough and fig salad.

It was absolutely amazing! I ate way too much of it! This was actually a portion for one person- but was shared between 2.

They had stuffed actual whole cloves into the cheese before heating it- insane! 😍

Yum yum!

All in moderation and keep active! :)

Sofit xxxxxx

Rainbow salad.

Quick. Simple. Healthy. Easy. Nutritious.

Need more reason?

Chop it all up and pop it in a lunch box! :)

Ham and chilli olive salad prepped for 2 days lunch this week. Keep on track. Preperation is key! 

Sofit xxxxxx

Healthy open sandwich lunch.

Its Wednesday, the day I usually start to flag a little and crave some stodge. I am trying to follow the paleo & primal approach diet, but decided to have some healthy, clean and organic rye bread at lunch today to beat that mid week struggle.

I bought this bread from a health shop near my work; it is organic sprouted rye bread and unlike my other preservative free rye bread it is moist and resembles a loaf of bread. Aka it is AMAZING! ❤️ 

I served my rye bread with organic olive and sunblush tomato hummus, organic cucumber and leaves and a serving of ham from the local butcher.

The whole thing was so tasty- and extremely filling- I actually left some food! This never happens!!

I hope you are all having a healthy and nutritious week too! 

Sofit xxxxxx

Forgot to make breakfast?

I know people say that being healthy is easy and you're making excuses if you don't eat clean... But I am not one of those people!

I know for a fact that eating clean 100% takes some thought and effort. A lot of preparation is needed to have a perfect diet.

My breakfast tends to consist of 2 boiled eggs and 2 portions of fruit. But if I'm not home the night before in order to boil some eggs then I find myself grabbing something from a shop or cafe, which means if I am running low on will power that morning, I end up with a low nutrition and high carb option. I just can't help it. The croissants smell so good, the toast shouts out my name and don't even get me started on McDonald's hash browns!! (Hey- nobody is perfect!)

So as you can imagine- I was very happy to find myself having a smoothie twice last week for breakfast. No effort required and no health shop needed. The local corner shop stocks these babies! :)

So breakfast was a smoothie and some nuts (which I always have in my bag) which I would call a perfectly clean and nutritious breakfast.

Some people criticise these type of smoothies due to their sugar content. But let me remind you that all of the sugar is naturally occurring from the fruit & there is no added sugar or nasties.

To put it simply:  220-260 calories of this is better than 200 calories worth of empty nutrional beneficent food (eg hash browns!!!).

Make healthy choices.

Sofit xxxxxx

Monday food diary entry.

FOOD DIARY:

Monday 28th October, 2014

•Breakfast consisted of a black coffee, 2 boiled eggs and a portion of pineapple.

•Lunch was a fish cake and olive salad, with a portion of grapes for desert.

•On my journey home I had a portion of mixed nuts and seeds.

Dinner was, yep you guessed it, eggs and salmon!! 🙈

I do realise that my posts are getting repetitive, but I am enjoying my meals so much. They are quick to prepare, paleo friendly, filling and nutritious. What's not to love?! :)

I had smoked salmon with poached eggs and a big salad. Eggs topped with lots of pepper of course.

I would call that a clean and nutritious day! Any comment or criticism?

I hope you are all having a clean and healthy Monday. I didn't make it to the gym, but I have been 100% clean.

Same again tomorrow!!

Sofit xxxxxxxx

Sunday salad prep

It's quick, it's easy, it's cheap and it's nutritious.

A big salad pot and fruit packed and ready with 2 boiled eggs for work tomorrow.

Layer it up 

Top it

I also have some yummy snacks from the new morrisons that has opened right near my house - happy sofi! :)

A mini pack of grapes and my favourite- juicy pineapple!! :)

Have a great healthy week!

Sofit xxxxxx