…but first I just have to share a couple of tasty eats from over the last couple of days!
Yesterdays breakfast:
Butternut smoothie made with roast and frozen butternut squash blended with vanilla rice milk, cinnamon, ground ginger and a dash of vanilla extract topped with treacle granola, crystallised ginger and almond butter sauce (1 tbsp of almond butter mixed with a little hot water from the kettle until drippy – so good, you get much more nut butter this way and that melty texture). I had so many of these back in autumn, and yes this tasted a little autumnal to be eating in June, but oh so good!
This mornings breakfast:
Teeccino Almond Amaretto herbal ‘coffee’ and Peanut butter puffins cereal (both from my iHerb order, more on that in a mo) with strawberries and soy milk. I loved the peanut butter puffins, so delicious paired with the strawberries!
Dinner the last couple of days has been the most gorgeous Sausage and Tomato Rice made with some of my seitan sausage, plus steamed asparagus, spring greens and broccoli:
Last nights dessert was some wonderful carob protein ice cream:
1 scoop of chocolate sun warrior protein powder, vanilla rice milk, 1 tbsp of carob powder, ice, water, stevia, xanthan and guar gums, carob flakes and choc covered sunflower seeds, nom!
Workouts have been the usual stuff, Yoga for Runners again yesterday morning, 3,2,1 gym workout last night and a quick and speedy 45 minute interval and abs and core gym session this morning before work – I love my Friday morning workouts!
Grocery shop round up
As I said a few posts back I thought it might be useful to post the details of some of my grocery shops as I struggle to try and save money. Here’s my grocery shops from this week, plus a few special deliveries!
Monday:
Organic soy milk x 2, happy eggs x 6, romaine, bag of mixed leaves, strawberries, unwaxed lemons, cooked ham, ginger, cucumber, living parsley, courgettes, red onions, white onions, sugar snaps: Total £16.54
Thursday:
Spring greens, mushrooms, organic broccoli, asparagus, romaine lettuce, jazz apples x 2, strawberries, skimmed milk (James is back on the dairy), frozen peas, brita water filter – Total £16.59
Today’s organic veg box:
Bunched onions, summer greens, radishes, little gem lettuce, aubergine, asparagus, tomatoes, apples, nectarines, cantaloupe melon and bag of potatoes and wet garlic (both included for free!): total £16.75 I can’t wait to get cooking with these beautiful organic veggies!
iHerb order:
My first time ordering using the airmail option. I wanted to get more stevia to stock up (addicted to this stuff!), raw crackers as my One Lucky Duck bag is almost empty, Peanut Butter Puffins – I had to try these after seeing them on Nicky’s blog, and some Almond Amaretto Caffeine free Teeccino as I love the Chocolate Mint version I bought in NYC. Total with shipping $28.70 /approx £17.50
I decided that I would make good use of the discount code I have available and place an order to stock up on some of my faves and some new stuff. I got Vita Coco 100% Pure Coconut Water x 4, Biona Organic Soya Beans x 3, Dorset Cereals Tasty Low-Fat Flakes Apple Cherry Raspberry & Cranberry, Provamel Organic Natural Yofu x 2, Sojade Natural Soy Yoghurt with Bifidus, Clear Spot Organic Tofu Smokey, Taifun Basil Tofu, Taifun Tofu Rosso, Taifun Beechwood Smoked Tofu, Meridian Organic Cashew Butter, Yogi Tea Green Chai, Yogi Tea Sweet Chilli Mexican Spice, Mapletons Fru Grains, sesame date bar (included free!) Total with discount £33.58
Not too bad on the money saving front, even though this seems like a lot it will last for a long while. I did make a good saving on the Goodness Direct order which has well and truly stocked my fridge and cupboards, I was also quite happy that the refrigerated stuff has good long use by dates well into July. As I’ve bought a couple of smaller shops nothing has been wasted either. Obviously the iHerb order was a bit of a one off (promise!), at least I saved on the usual DHL shipping and customs charges. My plan for the rest of the month is to use up as much as possible from what I already have, just supplementing with fresh fruit and veggies.
June Sponsors GIVEAWAY!
Keeping Healthy and Getting Stylish June Sponsors Rude Health and Cosy Tea have kindly provided some awesome prizes for my June giveaway!
5 lucky winners will each receive a pack of the new Rude Health Apple and Cinnamon 7 Grain Granola:
This is tasty stuff!
A further 2 winners will receive a full set of the complete Cosy Tea range:
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This includes the following varieties:
- Breakfast
- Earl Grey
- Rooibos with Vanilla
- Chamomile
- Lemon Green
- Jasmine Green
- Peppermint
- Blueberry
To enter (each of these counts as a single entry – please leave a separate comment for each one):
- Leave a comment to this post with your favourite flavour tea or favourite flavour granola :-)
- Follow me via Google Friend Connect or ‘like’ my Facebook page (links under the ‘follow me’ section on the right) or follow me on Blog Lovin or Twitter and leave a comment below stating that you have done so
- Tweet about this giveaway mentioning @keephealthstyle and leave a comment below stating you have done so
- Post about this giveaway with a link back to this post on your blog and leave a comment below stating that you have done so
Giveaway open to UK residents only (sorry International friends!) and closes at 12am GMT Friday 17th June 2011, good luck!
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Wow, amazing buys. Too many to mention…was curious as to if you prefer provamel or sojade yog? Thanks for hosting this fabulous giveaway too. I’ve never had anything from Rude Health or cosy tea before. My fave tea is very boring- peppermint but I do like trying others. Fave granola, raisin and hazelnut!
I follow you with google
I follow you on twitter
Liked your facebook page
Woohoooo I can enter this giveaway haha!
I’m still getting into teas and only really like the fruity ones so far but the amaretto one I smelt when we were in Olive & Bean smelt AMAZING so I’m going to give it a try! As for granola, gosh I love it! I’m in love with the tropical Bear granola at the moment as it’s quite summery :)
tweeted about the giveaway!
I follow you on Twitter!
I tweeted!
I posted about it in my last post!
Lemon green tea is my FAVORITE! <3
Following on twitter! and in my reader
tweeted! =)
oooh lovely Earl Grey is my favourite tea for a Friday afternoon but I always have english breakfast in the morning and assam if I need a strong cuppa.
I follow on google and twitter (@Gemma_DS)
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ok i’m a moooooron and not in the UK. so don’t enter me!!!! <3 haha my bad
My favourite tea is (slightly boring) green tea with lemon – very refreshing! I follow on GFC, Twitter, and I tweeted :)
xxx
I follow you on twitter
Peppermint is and always has been my favourite, especially in the evenings with some raw dark chocolate!!
I tweeted!
I love my chai tea. Other favourites would have to include tea pigs yerba mate and cosy teas roobios and vanilla! :-)
I love green tea with jasmine!! have a cup every day! :)
Gosh I’m so jealous of your iherb and goodness direct hauls! I swear I’d order almost exactly the same stuff if I were to place an order, we must have the same tastes :)
Loving the giveaway prizes, got my fingers crossed for this one! My favourite flavour of tea would have to be chai closely followed by earl grey. That said, I love pretty much all herbal & fruit teas so I’m easily pleased!
I thought I already followed you on twitter! gahhh sorry I do now! :)
I think I already follow you on both Twitter and my Blogroll :)
I tweeted too :)
Favourite flavour of tea would have to be plain old English Breakfast Tea, and favourite granola is a tie between Lizi’s Belgian Chocolate and Lizi’s Maple Pecan. I still have a portion of the latter that I hid from myself last December and never found! I lost one of my favourite bowls in the process…I really wish I could remember where I put it!
On a random bowl-related note, we have those exact glass ones your smoothie and cereal are in. Small world ;)
xxx
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Hi, following you on twitter (@suunny_sideup)
thanks :)
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My favourite flavour granola is the original Quaker’s granola. Haven’t tried the rude health range though, but they sound yummy!
Thanks
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Ahh tea and granola, two of my favourite things in life! To be honest i just love a simple cup of english tea, with superfruit granola sprinkled over oats!
Following on bloglovin!
I pretty much love all granola! And my favourite tea is peppermint tea!
I follow you on Bloglovin and on Twitter!
i liked your facebook page!! this is tough-cant i have both?! the Granola would be great over smoothies and oatmeal, and mayb in handfuls out of the box…..
I have a thing for blueberry tea at the moment- so delish!
Such a fantastic giveaway!
Lindy xxx
I also follow you on twitter xxx
I just liked you on Facebook :)
My favourite flavour of tea has to be anything berry related :) and i love any granola that’s got dried cherries or cranberries, yum!
Lemon green tea is my favourite tea. It makes it taste less ‘earthy’ than plain green tea.
I’ve no idea what Teeccino is but the words Almond & Amaretto make me thing I would love it!
And I follow you on twitter @angeruns
Fav granola flavour is honey, raisin and nuts! xoxo
already following you via google! x
Lipton iced tea is my favorite in the summer! :)
my favourite tea is green tea, cant get enough of it!
i follow you on twitter as @Harpssss
i follow you on google friend connect
i have liked your facebook page!
My fave tea flavour is stash vanilla nut creme. So good. But I love trying new flavours.
Going to have a look a Goodness Direct now, the discount code is excellent. I’d love to enter your giveaways. My favourite tea is Rington’s Organic Peppermint – I like any mint tea but this is the nicest I’ve tried.
I follow your blog via GFC, thank you!
Wow what a great lot of shopping! I did not even know there were different delivery options (I still have not ordered but I keep looking!- from i herb I mean).
I love peppermint tea, it is now my evening treat before bed! :) Fab giveaway
PS (forgot)- fave granola is cinnamon and raisin. :)
Oooooooooo I haven’t seen this new rude healths cereal before so yay to trying this deliciousness! Loving your eats as always, have a fab weekend x x
What an amazing haul of goodies!! And thanks for the goodness direct discount, have already utilised that!!
Absolutely love ALL granola!! And my curretn obsession with ginger means any ginger flavour tea is a winner with me!!
Already a facebook fan!!
Mentioned on twitter! (@fayeruns)
rooibas would definitely be my favourite flavour tea (:
your smoothie with butternut squash looks amazing! I’ve never used squash in a smoothie, might have to give it a go!
Hope your having a gooood weekend x
That apple and cinnamon granloa sounds AMAZING!!!
I follow you
I like your FB page
and I have tweeted… I still get a tiny giggle saying that!
My favorite is……lemon green tea!
I’ve liked your facebook page!
oh wow, i love all teas, my fave is nettle, closely follwed by ginseng. fingers crossed! x
i follow you on twitter. x
i liked you on fb. x
I follow you on twitter
I have tweeted about your giveaway!
I have recently just tried Peppermint tea and I really enjoyed it. Hope I win so I can discover some new tea flavours to enjoy!!
I’ve finally remembered to link to the giveaway in my latest post: http://www.almostovernow.com/2011/06/saturday-review-you-are-what-you-eat.html
:)
xxx
My favourite tea is Tea Pigs Popcorn and my favourite granola is any with coconut and loads of nuts
I follow your blog
And I follow on twitter!
And I tweeted!
I live in Norway so I wont enter your (great) giveaway!
Just had to comment and say that I love your meals as usual :) Especially the morning smoothie! I have never ever thought about adding roasted frozen squash to a smoothie-but when I try to taste it in my mind, it is really good :) And with ginger and almond butter- mmmm :)
Enjoy the rest of your weekend :)
I’m gonna try my luck at this one because I’m a tea-a-holic and I’m going through my second granola phase of the year! Ok…..so my fave tea is Mighty Leaf Tropical Green Tea. Mmmmmm!
Fave granola – Jordan’s almond and raisin one – simple and yummy! I already follow you on twitter :-)
i liked you on facebook :-)
i tweeted!!
i tweeted!
My favourite tea is without a doubt roibos – it’s especially good flavoured with caramel.
I’ve liked you on facebook and I already follow you on twitter :-)
I wish you would come to my house and be my personal chef, your food looks so tasty and delicious!
I love green tea :) Flavoured green tea doesn’t float my boat too much. There’s a place in Liverpool called Brew that do amazing flavoured teas. They do earl grey lattes and sangria fruit tea punch! They are my faves. Amaaazing.
Riverford farm has been doing a lot of promo around here lately, I’m very tempted to get a box so it’s great to see what one actually looks like! My favourite tea is peppermint tea, and I love any granola. Yum.
I love chai, esp. the authentic Indian masala chai. Also love making my own “mint tea” with fresh mint leaves…
Peppermint tea is my fave and I am addicted to granola!
I just tweeted about the giveaway :)
Aww I am SO happy to have found your blog! a) a fellow Sainsbury’s shopper (finally a blog with things I can buy over here!) and b)someone who tries airmail when items can’t be bought over here… You have given me some oomph to get buying!
And now for my granola giveaway entry…
Rude Health Original is AMAZING. I love it as is, but it’s also great as a base for mood-dependent variations (add a bit of this or that- even cocoa with coconut has featured in the past… in front of a Friends DVD-athon!) or to recreate some other mueslis and granolas on US blogs that we can’t get over here e.g. Kashi cereals. Extremely useful!
Oo and now the tea… am I boring if I say that good old English Breakfast is my all time favourite? It doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate other flavours… just that I’m yet to find one that has the ‘body’ and satisfaction-inducing feeling of a good English cuppa :)
…and tweeted too!
Pumpkin Pie tea by Stash is one of my favorites, and I love cocoa granola!
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Moroccan mint green tea is my absolute favourite!
I love rooibus at the moment.
If you regularly buy both soy milk and tofu you should invest in a soy milk machine and make your own. Far cheaper, fresher and with no additives and no nasty packaging. I am almost evangelical about mine!
I follow you on twitter and facebook and I love nettle and mint tea ♥
just about to ‘tweet’…
…successfully tweeted and blogged x x
Have posted bout ur giveaway!
http://zoetcwedding.blogspot.com/2011/06/lauras-june-sponsors-giveaway.html
Hav also liked ur facebook page :)
Oh and my fave flavour of tea is honey and chysanthumum tea :)
Oh man, I always see giveaways at the last moment! I am a huge tea freak & really love all types, however, for me, nothing beats a good ol’ cuppa English breakfast tea.
Ooh & I follow you on Friend Connect :)
I adore green tea with lemon, very refreshing first thing of a morning :)
and my fave granola is….. apple and cinammon! honestly, it really is!
My fave tea flavour is Blueberry
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I follow your blog via GFC
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I tweeted the comp
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