FFS has a moment with Sarah Wilson .. the woman behind IQS

The Food component of Fitness, Food and Style focuses very much on wholesome, real food that is quick to prepare and nutritious. You'll know by now that I'm not into fussy ingredients or elaborate preparation - just easy food that provides maximum energy. In our household, it pretty much means our day-to-day eating involves no added sugar.

I've now done a couple of "No Added Sugar" challenges here on the blog, and they are amongst the most popular. Hundreds of people have been motivated to join these challenges and it's always such a buzz to hear reader feedback saying how much better they have felt as a result of eliminating added sugars.

One of the people who has really inspired me with our move to sugar free is Sarah Wilson of the IQS (I Quit Sugar) 8-week Program. I've done it myself and loved it so much I became an affiliate and promote it as a great way of getting into the sugar-free zone. 

With so many people loving the benefits of a no-sugar or reduced-sugar lifestyle, the IQS phenomenon has expanded to include fantastic recipe books with hundreds of recipes for delicious no-added sugar snacks, meals and drinks.

I'm always pleased to promote the program and IQS book, as it's come in so handy for transitioning our 4 kids to a low-sugar lifestyle. Truly, if I can hold rocking kids' parties with no-added sugar birthday cakes and healthy, fun treats, then it's a way of life you can adopt with your family too! Our thriving kids are completely used to eating like this and actually don't really enjoy the taste of sugary sweets now at all!

wholesome and delicious no-added sugar pancakes

When the opportunity arose to have Sarah Wilson answer some interview questions, I knew you'd also be wanting to find out a bit more about what makes this superwoman tick.

FFS readers, I'd like to introduce you to Sarah Wilson ...

Sarah Wilson {image from iquitsugar.com}

She is an author, tv host, blogger and wellness coach whose journalism career has spanned 20 years. 

FFS asks: What fitness activity do you schedule into your daily routine to keep healthy?

At the moment for me, walking is one of my forms of transport. It means I get my exercise done, but it also ensures I have pockets in my day - when I walk to the post office, my office, to a meeting - where there is some time to think clearly and recalibrate.  

Most of us don't need big slabs of time to recalibrate, just 5-15 mins here and there throughout the day is enough to stay on track.

FFS asks: Describe your dream meal - what could we expect to find on your plate?

Roast pork, with plenty of crackling! And a stack of green vegetables. 

FFS asks: What’s a childhood habit or mannerism that has followed you into adulthood?

I bite on my lip. When I'm mulling things over. 

FFS asks:  Name three things you can’t leave the house without and why?

In the mornings I don't leave without a green smoothie. Because I'm often eating on the run, I make sure I take a densely nutritious smoothie with me to keep me going. 

I usually don't leave without my bike! I ride, or walk, most places. 

My running shoes. I usually have a pair on me or in my bag, for when I'm walking or riding places. 

If you haven't yet checked out the 8-week IQS Program, maybe it could be something to add to your Santa list, ready to kick off as a New Year Resolution for a fresh and sugar-free 2014??

If you've already kicked the sugar habit, I'd love to know how it's going for you. Leave a comment to let me know.

much love and friendship

xx Dani

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March challenge ~ push ups and greens week 2

Hello everyone, I hope you are having an awesome weekend. We are having such great summer weather even though we're in our first week of Autumn.

Sending you plenty of hugs and sunshine your way especially to all of you in -20C degrees, I can't believe how cold your winter has been. I hope the sun comes your way pronto!!!

Summer time in Autumn

Food

The last few days I have been making some super quick "cheat" meals where I don't have to cook for too long or prep up.

We had a bbq the other night and had some left over organic turkey sausages so I simply whipped up some curry sausages!!! Of course pushed up my greens with these luscious frozen peas!!!

Left over bbq sausages

I checked out my fridge, pantry and freezer and these were the ingredients I found:

- 4 left over bbq turkey sausages (sliced them up)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- yellow curry paste
- mustard powder
- 180 Nutrition coconut protein powder
- splash of milk
- 1 can of corn
- x2 cans of mixed beans/legumes
- 1 cup of frozen peas

Method:

1). Heat frying pan and add sliced sausages, sprinkle mustard powder
2). Crush a garlic, add canned corn and beans
3). Mix curry paste some hot water, added 180 Nutrition coconut protein powder and milk (instant coconut milk/cream)
4). Place all in frypan, add peas and allow to simmer until peas are cooked. Add S&P to taste if required

***NB: A special 10% promo code is provided for those that order 180 Nutrition products via my blog. It's a little thank you from me for supporting my blog***

You can serve this with quiona, brown rice or like us we just had it plain. Added yogurt with some mint and it was super flavoursome.

The end product, inspired by Jamie Oliver as he is renowned for his bangers and mash type recipes.

curry sausages with beans

Here are some more wonderful array of green recipe ideas being tagged to our #pushupsgreens challenge. How glorious do these look?

Push ups and greens challenge

Even baby Zali is loving her green juice, we simply placed apple, celery and parsley and both girls were asking for more! more! more!

Green juice for baby's

We have had some amazing push ups pictures tagged to our challenge as well, here are some more amazing people participating in our March challenge.

Push ups 4 week program

Fitness

Week 2 is already here. Below are our increased reps. Please ensure you rest in between the sets and let me know how you are going with your push ups?

4 week push up program

I have managed to squeeze my 15 minutes workouts this weeekend, loving the short bursts of resistance and interval training. Beats working out for hours at the gym especially when I have our 4 little angels to play around with. For more information on the fitness program I follow, go here.

Leave me your thoughts on how creative you have been in the kitchen with your greens, how your push ups are going etc..... Are you enjoying it? Also have you been cutting down your sugar since our No Added Sugar challenge. If you need inspiration and how to quit sugar completely, you can buy Sarah Wilsons I QUIT SUGAR here or click on the side tab. It's a real eye opener!

Until we meet again. 

♥ Dani 

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Day 12 - no added sugar challenge

Day 12.....can you smell the roses????

I love Valentines Day, I'm one of those hopeless romantics (and yes my husband tends to deliver every year) however, we have agreed I'd much rather them spread out throughout the year. I see no point spending $200 on the one day!!! Well, I do but that's another romantic story....

How have you survived the last couple of weeks? Can you believe we only have 2 days left? Awesome! I'm pumped and so proud to know there are many of you across the globe doing this with me. I really appreciate you. I sincerely do.

Do you think you will be able to continue this way of living after the challenge ends? I really do hope to do our best. Our kids are brilliant and are such a supporting force to make this happen and live a more healthier lifestyle. It's not that we ban the sugar or say no! no! no! YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT!!! IT'S GOT SUGAR IN IT! Instead we just know it's not healthy for us, no panic, no fretting of missing out. Well, let's just see how we go.                                                                                                                      

As a super treat on Valentines Day I will be making our family Gwyneth Paltrow's berries with caramelised cream which she shares in Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook. Make sure you grab yourself a copy. Pretty cool meals in there that won't even make you want sugar any more.


Our day today in a nutshell.

Various errands, plenty of home domestic bliss, more errands and of course fun times with the kids!!! Trying to fit in one on one time with the boys and their reading whilst girls are playing together. We also plan for our day and get everything ready for another day at school, work and my home office of course! :-)


Breakfast
Pear porridge with blueberries

Pear and blueberries porridge

Method: Cook oats on stove top with canned (or fresh) pear with juices and add milk. Cook until fluffy. When serving I mix frozen blueberries to cool it down for us all as we are typically rushing to get all kids out for our school run!


Morning snack
Ricotta & watermelon with almonds

Watermelon with ricotta and almonds

Lunch
Beef salad

Afternoon snack
180 Nutrition coconut (green smoothie)
handful of spinach
1 banana
A glass of milk/water

Incredible HULK and SHREK green smoothies

Our kids love these and named them a few years ago when SHREK was out so for those that need to get greens into their babes, name it after their favourite super hero and cartoon character. I do the same when I make broccoli soup!


Dinner
Quinoa turkey burgers with salad

Just a reminder to send me your meals that you would like me to "make over" into more of a healthier option for us all!! I know I love to eat taco's but have converted them into cos salad cups. Little things like that make a huge difference and can change your entire family's health around! We still need it looking and tasting cool.

Until we meet again tomorrow.

♥ Dani 

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Day 10 - no added sugar challenge

Did someone just say 10? WOWZA! Well done everyone, what a superb team we are. I am so happy to read all your comments and glad we have each other for support. Another 4 days to go!! We can do this!!!

Today was a fun filled day with the kids and Adrian. We try to do as many kids activities together as a family over the weekend as during the week we are pretty time poor as it gets late in the evening when Adrian arrives home and it's time for the kids bed routine.

Another sun shining day and I took this picture to showcase how I utilise my time whilst supervising and having fun with the kids, along with blogging and working on my weekly planner.

Today was my day of rest but managed to do a little practise with my headstand (you may remember my handstand pose last month). I am really loving my yoga stretches pre and post workouts. I do want to take it to the next level and actually go to a class. Until then I practise and self teach myself at home.....

Headstand (Shirshasana) yoga pose

Headstand (Shirshasana) is often referred to as the king of all yoga poses. Here are some reasons why headstand should be practiced everyday. 

1. Improved circulation occurs with a headstand practice. Because the heart constantly has to pump blood upward to the brain, the headstand gives the heart a rest and reduces unnecessary strain. In addition, while in headstand de-oxygenated blood is able to flow more easily from the extremities to the heart.

2. A headstand simulates a “face lift” by letting your skin hang in the opposite direction (which is always a good thing!) By reversing the flow of gravity, the inverted position of a headstand also flushes fresh nutrients and oxygen to the face, creating a glowing effect on the skin. We all love beautiful fresh and youthful looking skin :-)

3. Some yogis say that it will even convert grey hair back to its natural color! So I'm doing these every day since I have no colour pigmentation in my hair! Headstands increase nutrients and blood flow to the scalp, decreasing onset of grey hair.

4. Increases your sexual hormones, so you can expect better sex with a consistent headstand practice. Headstands stimulate and provide refreshed blood to the pituitary and hypothalamus glands. These glands are vital to our wellbeing, and are considered the master glands that regulate all other glands in the body (thyroid, pineal, and adrenals). 

5. When the adrenal glands are flushed and detoxified with headstands, we create more positive thought. Depression will decrease, as going upside down will almost always put a smile on your face. 

6. Once you have perfected these you can do a headstand at the next party you attend. Your friends will be extremely impressed!

7. Strengthen deep core muscles. To hold a straight headstand for an extended period of time, the practitioner must engage the obliques, the rectus abdominus and the transverse abdominus. To really engage and strengthen the core, pike the legs by lifting and/or lowering both legs at the same time when coming in and out of the pose.

 

Please ensure you learn a headstand from a qualified teacher, these should be avoided if you have neck injuries, extremely high blood pressure, ear and eye problems, if you are menstruating, or have acid reflux.

Our food today;

Breakfast

Scrambled eggs with bacon, feta and spinach

Clean eating scrambled eggs

Ingredients:

8 eggs (serves 6 people)

5 slices of rindless bacon

1/2 cup of feta cubes

splash of milk

minced garlic

spinach leaves to serve

Method:

Cook bacon with garlic until golden. In the meantime whisk eggs, add milk, feta in a bowl and pour into frypan on a gentle heat. Swirl and stir until cooked to your liking. We served ours on a bed of spinach and sundried tomato pesto. Real quick, kids had a second serve.

Morning snack

180 Nutrition chocolate protein drink

1 banana

1/2 cup berries

250ml milk

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Lunch

Chickpea and 3 mix bean vegetable salad

Afternoon snack

Corn thins with laughing cow cheese

Vegetable sticks and cherry tomatoes 

Dinner

Prawn salad with tartar sauce

Clean eating tartar sauce with prawns

Tartar sauce

1/3 cup of plain yogurt

1-2 tbsp of dijon mustard

3 diced baby pickles 

5-6 diced capers

pinch of salt

1/2 tsp of lemon juice

Mix all these together and enjoy a guilt free dipping sauce!

Dessert

Watermelon with ricotta cheese

I hope you had a sensational weekend and are looking forward to finishing off strong this week with the no added sugar challenge. Have you found the Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook helpful, do you think you will kick the habit after 14 days as well? Let's see how we go. I would like to try and perhaps incorporate some indulgences throughout our week so we don't go out and binge. But hey! That's just me.  

Any plans for Valentines Day?

♥ Dani 

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Day 8 - no added sugar

Hi. Yes. I am much better today than yesterday. Thank you for asking.

Sheesh! I haven't felt that bad in a while but I'm sure it was a combination of other things going on here. Restless nights with the warm weather and kids waking up for some water in the middle of the night. Remember we have 4, so they don't all wake up at the same time for that drink of water, it's sporadic!

New day today and guess what? NO ADDED SUGAR!!! Day 8! That's right, still going strong like you! Well done! Super proud of us all and it's so great we are all on the same road. Some of you are stronger than us (who could easily slip back and get into the sugar routine) to those that are doing this challenge for the very first time. This is huge! I don't think you realise what a superb effort you are doing!!!! BRAVO!!!! Xx


Today we made some of these fruit slush icy poles as the kids have been wanting dessert after dinner recently. So here's what we had after dinner tonight.

Sugar free icy poles

Grab whatever fruits you have and your blender and blend away!!! Set in moulds until frozen and enjoy!

Breakfast

180 Nutrition coconut protein shake 

with 1 banana and milk

Morning snack

corn things with laughing cow cheese, avocado and tomatoes 

Lunch

Tuna bean salad 

1 small tin of tuna

1/2 cup beans mix (red kidney, chick peas etc...)

1/2 cup corn

1 sliced small cucumber

squeeze of lemon

So light and very refreshing. When I don't have time to make or cook a lunch, this is my tin pantry emergency food. Simply mix all the ingredients in a bowl and enjoy! 

Afternoon snack

yogurt with strawberries and canteloup 

Dinner

Home made pizza's (this recipe always varies as I mix new ingredients each and every time)

Clean eating home made pizza's

For the base I'll crush in a garlic, sprinkle chia seeds, oregano and rosemary herbs and the base is like a herb bread which I make with wholemeal flour. For those celiac or wheat=belly bloat readers, use gluten free flour. I also need to make mention that when you do this pizza base in your fry pan, heat your grill in your oven. Once you add the toppings in the pan and the base is cooked (takes 2 minutes), all you need to do is further melt the toppings and crust under the griller (another 2-4 minutes). 

NB: you don't bake this pizza in an traditional oven style method. It's the Jamie Oliver pizza stove stop type pizza which will never make you buy take away pizza EVER AGAIN! We love it!!!

Here's an example of how I cook it on the stove top in a fry pan...... 

Healthy quick and easy pizza's 

Clean eating pizza's ready in 5 minutes!!! 

Dessert no added sugar icy poles

Also for those that read my post yesterday about sugar being the addictive drug, I later edited this post and added this great article healthy sugar alternatives. Let me know your thoughts. 

Everyone has different views, Sarah Wilson author of I QUIT SUGAR talks about it. She also makes reference to David Gillespie's SWEET POISON book, his entire family has NADA as well! I have to get that book as well to read up on all this sugar stuff. Anyone else read these books or is it just me???? 

Before I go, just a gentle reminder to.......

WE CAN DO THIS!!! See you tomorrow.

Xx Dani

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Day 7 - no added sugar challenge

We're half way there!!! Woo hoo!! How good!!!

I'm pretty excited myself, the sensational R&B artist Craig David (7 days) is following me on Instagram so in commemoration along with motivating me for a further 7 days, here is the wonderful Craig David below. He's looking in tip top shape I must admit.

Craig David 7 days

Today was another hot day but managed to squeeze in my FYM workout and was happy to get a few chores done while Zali was asleep. Things can get on top of me if I don't do little things every single day. If I leave one little thing, it's double the amount the next day.

How are you going? What's your eating been like, minus all this sugar? Are you bringing your snacks? Making your lunch, choosing healthy meals when not at home? Doing your meal preps etc....?

Here's mine for the day.

Breakfast

Poached eggs with smoked salmon and asparagus 

Snack

Vegetable sticks with sweet potato dip

Lunch 

Salad in a wholemeal wrap
180 Nutrition protein shake

Snack

3 serves of fruit and handful (5-6) of walnuts

Dinner

Salmon grilled with vegetables

Quick bbq tonight and made life real simple by placing the zucchini and sweet potato on there as well. Dinner ready in 10 minutes!!!

Dessert
Choc berry mud sorbet from Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook

I really had a terrible day today with a banging head ache and really super duper lethargic! Feeling better now as I type but sheesh I hit a slump between 12-5pm!!!

Hope you are feeling well and look forward to reading your comments below. Half way there!!! YAY! So proud of you!!!

Xx Dani

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Sugar a powerful addictive drug

Hello everyone, just thought I would do a quick post to show you what to look out for next time you go shopping. I went to the supermarket and took these pics so I hope they are clear enough for you to see.

YOGURT

Farmers Union Greek style yogurt NO ADDED SUGAR with 7.2g of sugar in the nutrition information

Dairy Dream Thick & Creamy ADDED SUGAR with 18.6g of sugar in the nutrition information

There is no actual added sugar in the first product, yet the nutrition information states there is 7.2g of sugar in it. THAT'S OKAY. You get that with the dairy products, its natural sugar. It's the other product which has added sugar and increases it to 18.8g which is what we want to avoid.

NUT & FRUIT MIX

Pic 1 fruit & nut mix has no added sugar in the ingredients, whereas Pic 2 has sugar listed

My new IG friend Karin also helped me out with some foods in her local New York grocery store. Below she shows hummus dip, almond milk, roasted turkey breast, yogurt etc...  with some that have no sugar in the ingredients list and has highlighted ones that did have added sugar eg: brown sugar, organic cane sugar. 

So always check in the ingredients list, does it have sugar? Yes. Put it back and grab another one. 

No. Great. Grab that and you're done. Apologies for my poor camera and pics on here but I hope you get a little bit of an understanding of how to identify those foods that have added sugar in the ingredients list.

Also here is a wonderful article from Karin Adoni, Nutritionist and a Health Coach who wrote this to help support our sugar challenge and give us some more knowledge from a professional perspective. 

"You’ve heard of good carbs and bad carbs, good fats and bad fats. Well, you could categorize sugar in the same way.

 “Good” sugar is found in whole foods like fruits and vegetables, whole grains and   Legumes because it’s bundled with fluid, fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

 For example, one cup of cherries contains about 17 grams of sugar a cup of chopped carrots 6 grams and a small sweet potato 26 grams of sugar, but all are so full of good stuff that it would be practicing bad nutrition to banish them. “Bad” sugar, on the other hand, is the type not added by Mother Nature, the refined stuff that sweetens sodas, candy and baked goods.

So Why do we need to Avoid Sugar?

Sugar stimulates a physiological stressor-reaction cascade that provokes

adrenaline and cortisol release and thickens the blood.

Sugar effectively disables your immune system by impairing white blood  

Cells functioning.

Sugar decreases your body’s production of leptin, a hormone critical for

appetite regulation.

Sugar appears to fuel cancer cells.

Sugar promotes fat storage and weight gain.

Sugar disrupts the effective transfer of amino acids to muscle tissue.

Sugar intake over time spurs insulin resistance, subsequent Type II

diabetes and the entire host of related health issues like nerve

damage and cardiovascular disease.

Yes sugar is that powerfully

So how will we know what contains natural sugar and what not?

Look in the ingredients and look for added sugar, they are so many words for sugar so here is a list of what you should be looking for:

Brown sugar

Fructose and crystalline fructose; high-fructose corn syrup

Invert sugar

Rice/corn/maple/malt/golden/palm syrup

Corn sweetener

Maltose

Sucrose

Glucose

Molasses

Syrup

Dextrose

Honey

Raw sugar

Lessen the sugar intake by skipping any product that contains sugar (or one of the above aliases) in the first three ingredients.

Absolutely avoid it if sugar gets mentioned more than once in the ingredients list.

Question anything claiming to be a "natural" or "organic" substitute for sugar; such sweeteners still contain calories and don't bring nutrients to your diet that are needed. 
If a product claims to be "reduced-sugar", it still contains sugar probably less then in the regular version, but its still too much sugar.

So just to wrap it up if you need a little bit of sweetness in your day go for products like stevia, sugar alcohols (eg: vanilla essence) blackstrap molasses or organic/raw local honey. For more info check out I QUIT SUGAR ebook and for those already reading it, what are your thoughts?

Another great article and read is healthy sugars at the organic lifestyle magazine. What do you think? Do you think you can break the SUGAR HABIT?

Happy HUMP DAY everyone and congratulations on making the half way mark!!!! Remember it takes 3 weeks to break a habit. Week one, gone. Welcome WEEK 2!!!! I'll be posting my daily food journal later today. Happy Thursday!!! 


Xx Dani

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Day 6 - no added sugar challenge

It was a super duper hot day today. Lucky we have our pool now, huh? The only drama I am faced with these days is the leave in conditioner or treatment I need to have for having my hair wet all the time! Yeah right, like that's a real dilemma in my life.....

Seriously who has time to do their hair at school pick up time? Swoop it all up in a bun, clip one of those funky clips in it and I'm off. Just need to air out the hair and rewash and treat it with care over this hot heat and salt/chlorinated pool. Otherwise, I will be abusing my hair!
Any whooooo!!! I sound like I need some sugar, don't I?

HOW HAS DAY 6 BEEN FOR YOU?

Relatively breezy, easy, lemon squeezy here. Only because I have been down this road before and I can't stress how important it is to have a meal plan. YOU NEVER FAIL. Back in my corporate days my manager used to say plan your work, work your plan and that I did!!!!

So here I am bringing those skills to you LIVE! on Fitness Food And Style!!! :)

Breakfast

Organic corn flakes with almond milk and 1 banana

Snack

Hard boiled eggs x2 with sugar snap peas and cucumber

Lunch 

4 beans salad mix

Snack

Yogurt fondue with cantaloupe, kiwi & strawberries

Yogurt fondue

This was super refreshing today and such a great idea when you have visitors over. I sometimes also make flavoured yogurt fondue by blitzing a mango through it, or some walnuts, chia seeds etc....just for some texture when you dip your fruit in it!

Dinner

BBQ meat platter with grilled vegetables and salad

BBQ meat platter with lamb chops and stuff mushrooms

I typically season our meat with S&P, crush some garlic and with lamb a sprig of rosemary in the mix. The mushrooms I also seasoned and crushed some garlic and added some beautiful Meredith Goats Cheese, sprinkled some parsley.


Dessert
Avocado and coconut popsicles recipe in Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook

These went down a treat! Our kids are used to things looking a bit green as we typically make our SHREK or HULK smoothies after school with a banana, handful of spinach, chia seeds and milk/yogurt.

Okay, I'm off to jump in the pool to cool down. See you back here tomorrow. Nearly half way guys
Xx Dani

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Day 4 - no added sugar challenge

Hello my beautiful friends, how are you?

Me? A little pressed for time tonight, so I will need to make this post real short and sweet. I also need to find MORE time and get stuck into Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook and get the nutritional table and food comparisons to you PRONTO!!! For those that cannot wait, I urge you to grab yourself a copy here (or click on the right hand side picture) so it can assist you with your sugar cravings.


What can you do to avoid eating sugar foods? Plan your meals. This is key! Even if it's for 2 days in advance. For an example;

Take your piece of fruit and walnuts when you go out.... to a play date, friends catch up, shopping WHEREVER?? You know what you are putting in your mouth rather than the muffins they will be serving or those nice smelling donuts you can smell in shopping centres!!! You are in control remember, if you want this you will pack your food and prep your meals.


Exercise today

Did my resistance training today and man I ALWAYS get a complete body workout. I love the fact that it only takes me 15 minutes to workout in the comfort of our own home while I can still play with the girls. Had a refreshing dip in the pool afterwards with a cool down stretches.



Style update

I get such a buzz when I can still look like the Gwen Stefani's of the world without paying the same price tag! Today I snapped up 3 pairs of jeans for $30! Back in the days I would've spent $250 on a PAIR of jeans alone!!! But no! Not today! They are such a lovely pastel colour, just the right summer denim to slip my legs into! Either go to your local Factorie store or simple buy online www.factorie.com.au and snap this bargain!

Coloured denim in lemon,  iceberg and baby pink 

YAY NO SUGAR TODAY!!!

Breakfast

Waffles with ricotta and blueberries

Blueberry waffles

Same as my crepes mix, I either blend oats into fine flour or wholemeal AKA wheat, add some eggs, vanilla beans and buttermilk. Typically I make the mixture that little bit more thicker. This was a lot quicker for our breaky this morning using the waffle machine and we ate them with ricotta and fresh blueberries. Then flew to school drop off!!!!



Snack

Yogurt with fresh raspberries

Lunch 

Vegetable frittata 

Snack

Fruit smoothie with 2 serves of fruit

Dinner

Vegetable and beef stir fry

Again a super quick meal for me when I'm short on time and swimming in the pool all afternoon with the kids!!! 

Method:

1). Heat olive oil in wok and add chopped onions and crushed garlic

2). Add beef strip and cook through

3). Add your choice of vegetables (frozen is fine) and preferred sauce and dinner is done!

We served ours with brown rice tonight. 

How is everyone coping without sugar. I have done this before so I am doing okay. As long as the stuff isn't in the house, I'm good. However I won't lie as I type this, I could easily open up a block of chocolate and smash it!! 

I won't though, we are doing this together. If I can't, YOU CAN'T!!! We can do this!!! See you tomorrow. 

Xx Dani

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