I’m pleased to announce the winner of my Coles Gift Card as Ms Kerryn Woods aka the fit and fabulous one at 50. I chose Kek as the winner because she not only supplied me with one recipe, she outdid herself and supplied four! If you haven’t visited Fitbodies Food before, you’re in for a treat – lots of healthy recipes made from easily sourced ingredients.
This week has been the week to get back into some training. With my girls being on school holidays, strength training has had to take a backseat, however, I’ll be back on it next week.
Here’s what I did:
Monday: Teach RPM
Tuesday: Run with Emma approx 45 minutes. Strength training canned due to all day migraine that came on shortly after I got home..bummer!
Wednesday: RPM with John, deadlifts with Emma. I was rather impressed by my 70kg lift this morning. Even more impressed that Emma can lift 80kg, no problem.
Thursday: Run #2 with Emma – approx 45 minutes and a little hillier. Didn’t stop to walk until I hit the upward climb home (and that is one nasty sucker). Teach pilates, including some very concentrated tricep work. Today my abdominals, glutes and triceps know they’ve had a little workout!
Friday: Outdoor cycling session – 50 minutes, focus – consistency of pedal stroke and using the glutes. Teach Cycle – today was the “Yellow Jersey” ride of endurance – 70 minutes of fun and frivolity. Was disappointed that my HRM has started to play up – according to it, I was in tachycardia for most of it (220 bpm..NOT)
Saturday: I’m teaching Cycle again in the morning – the format is currently as much of a surprise to me as it will be to my participants – meaning I’ve got to hop off the blog and hop onto Itunes.
My grocery buying challenge has gone fairly well with the following results:
$40.00 fruit and vegetables
$85.00 groceries
$20.00 meat (including some really tasty dog bones)
Where do carrots that are slowly becoming flexible and snow peas that are starting to lose their zip go instead of being thrown out? Into a left over rice and chicken concoction – that’s what.
How to make:
Grab an onion, some ginger and garlic paste and saute until fragrant. Add whatever protein you want – I added 300g chicken breast mince that was hiding in the recesses of the freezer. Add as many leftover vegetables as you like and 200g of brown rice. To make it taste even better, throw in a mixture of tamari and honey.
What are your favourite uses for leftover vegetables?
Hope everyone in blogworld has a wonderful weekend!
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Aww, thanks luvvie! You know I can’t resist a food challenge.
I’m the queen of using up past-their-best veggies. You know, if you chuck most things (carrots and snow peas would be perfect) into iced water for half an hour, they crisp up? When that fails me, I make soup or a veggie sauce. Those dry-looking mushrooms? They’ll soak up the liquid in a pasta sauce and be as good as new. That spotty-looking cabbage? Chuck the outside leaves in the compost and the rest can be sliced up and go into a soup.
It’s leftovers for dinner in our house tonight – what doesn’t get eaten will be frozen for lunches next week. Waste not, want not and all that.
Well done on your exercise this week. Hugely impressive.
Aw thanks
One question. How do you know that the dog bones were really tasty? Personal taste-test or talking dog?
One of my favourite uses for really old and manky vegetables is to give them to the chooks. Nothing better than having the yukky stuff recycled into the form of a delicious egg.
How does Toby go with the chooks. Lucy is beside herself – think she wants to play with them, rather than kill them, but still!
You have cut your spending hugely! Wow. And I’m impressed with your vegetable using – I am quite good with cooked leftovers but will admit to being defeated sometimes by vegetables that are fading fast and don’t get used before they fade altogether…
Thanks Kari! Welcome back!
Veggies that are lsoing the will to live go into soup. I’m all for a cleanout-the-fridge veggies soup.