Prettygreen Paleo : Day 13: [Still] Away from Home

Another 6 hours of lectures today (following the 6hours of yesterday).

Woke up feeling pretty good, and still pretty chuffed with myself for having the forethought to bring my mini blender.

Breakfast

Fresh raspberries, blueberries and blackberries
~40g Kinetica whey (Vanilla)
~300ml coconut milk
dash of water (to thin it out)
crushed mixed nuts on top

Just look at that colour! You KNOW its gotta be doing good!

So the preparation paid off! Soooo much better than the other option of not eating...

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Only thing was, I forgot to take a tin opener for my coconut milk.. This meant an 11pm enquiry at the hotel reception last night, met with confused/bemused/concerned faces... Hmmm time for drastic action!

I'm not really proud of this (except I am, a little bit, purely for on-the-spot ingenuity).. but when they told me that they didn't have a tin opener I could use, I passed on attempting to explain the Rules of the Crossfit Leeds 30 Day Challenge.. and errrrr told them I was diabetic and needed it for the morning....! GAH

Well, it worked. The little man on reception immediately rushed to the kitchen.. and opened my can himself - with the tin opener screwed to the surface (hence their initial refusal).

So whilst I don't ordinarily advocate lying to get what you want, or generally pretending you have a medical condition you don't, in this instance, I did, and it paid off. Win.

Lunch

Pre-prepared via my trip to tesco (mainly for my morning's fresh berries) last night:

Salad of soy beans, peas, mint, spinach, lettuce, pine nuts, cherry tomatoes
Small fruit salad: mango, kiwi, blueberries, pomegranate

Tea

Tea was on the move, as I managed to get the 17.35 train - after the day's mental strain (by 4pm on Saturday its hard to keep concentrating on lecture slides) I just wanted to come home.

I've always like LEON. They generally make super tasty, fresh food with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients (changing menu), high welfare produce, organic where possible, minimal processing, naturally low-GI foods, sustainability, etc.. (i.e. my kind of thing!).

For example, their delicious brownies are made with ground almonds instead of flour (hmm sounds familiar) with dark Valrhone chocolate and fruit sugar (no normal sugar). And did I mention, they're delicious..??

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They're also really good with food labelling - including all the ingredients, in a clear way you can understand (prob helps that there's no weirdo additives to try to conceal anyway).

The server in the Kings X branch was very helpful re ingredients as well. I went for/we assembled between us:

Salad: broccoli, chilli, lettuce, chard, tomatoes, mixed fresh herbs, roasted seeds, seasoning
Small black coffee
with Falafel I had bought in Tesco before (chick peas, onion, chick pea flour, olive oil, water, garlic, lemon juice, salt, bicarb soda, coriander, cumin, parsley, pepper)

A bit later I sauntered off to the CafeBar and after some amusing banter regarding the price of ice, got a nice cup full of it... and came back to my seat to pour out:

Cheeky little smoothie (pre-prepared this morning) - as above
Handful of leftover berries

Yes I did get a few odd looks. Whaddyagonadoaboutit??

Got home in decent time, to a hungry hungry James... I was pretty hungry by then too, so.... this happened -

Supper...?? or Tea mk2...?

Big ol batch of bolognese (what a reliable meal!):

Bolognese sauce (onion, garlic, carrot, red pepper, courgette, [paleo] stock, tomato, bay leaves, parsley, basil, sea salt, black pepper, a little balsamic, water)
Fresh spinach (bed of)

*** I TRIED to do the spaghetti squash magic trick!! BUT I failed!!! -