I can’t believe I haven’t posted a blog for nearly a week!  It has been a mixture of some excellent eating and some truly diabolical.  I need a strategy or substitute for something to do rather than eating garbage when I feel stressed or upset.  Any suggestions?  How do you slim people out there deal with stress or things that make you sad?

There were plenty of really healthy meals this week as well so in addition to the garbage I did manage to nourish myself with a wide variety of wonderful foods.

I tend to always start my days well and make very healthy breakfasts such as:

This sunny tropical breakfast of coconut yogurt, mashed banana, chia seeds and fresh mango.

A warming bowl of porridge made with almond milk and chia seeds and served with a large dollop of almond butter.

An eggy stir fry with brown basmati rice and kale.

When my lovely nephew Harry stayed, both boys were very enthusiastic smoothie makers!

Lunches and suppers are more hit and miss but some of the healthy ones I made and will definitely have again are:

A really light and delicious str fry of button mushrooms, a large Portobello mushroom, corn scrapped from the cob, pak choi, onion and spinach.

I stir fried the vegetables with 1/2 a tablespoon sesame oil and then added a little bit of water to stop the vegetables sticking and allow them to steam a little.  Served with some brown basmati rice and soy sauce.  Such a quick meal to prepare after a busy day in the office.

This was a lovely meal Lara made.  The salmon fillets were marinated in honey and soy sauce and then baked in the oven in a covered dish so they didn’t dry out at all.  Then she stir fried some carrots and pak choi and mixed the vegetables and salmon in with some wholemeal Udon noodles.  Yummy and quick and easy to make.

Some of you are revolted by my green smoothies and some I suspect are secretly impressed 🙂 .  Well I set out to make the greenest of all green smoothies.  This almost deserves a post to itself !  I started with a huge handful of raw kale. Plus half a small avocado and the juice and pulp of a lime. Some walnuts for protein.  The only non green ingredient (and the hemp milk I used). Then for the ultra greenness half a teaspoon full of matcha powder and half a teaspoon of Spirulina, the superfood of the week. Ta daa.  The Spirulina makes it a greeny blue colour so it looked lovely and was the perfect consistency.  But how did it taste?  Well, this one was not for the faint hearted but I drank it and convinced myself I felt increasingly healthy as I swallowed each mouthful. This was much easier eating.  I know there are tales about how you shouldn’t cook batches of rice and keep them in the fridge because of food poisoning but I do it.  I am blessed with a cast iron constitution I inherited from my Father and whenever I make rice, I make enough for at least 3 meals.  So when I come home, all I have to do is heat it up.  This meal was a stir fry of a left over salmon fillet with rice, onions and green leafy vegetables. Really good.

I had one very long day this week.  I left the house at

and flew up to Glasgow for the day. Unfortunately my flight back was delayed as the plane had a flat tyre 🙂  So I missed the beginning of the play we were all watching at the theatre.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time was superb. 

It is on at The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue which is a delightful traditional old theatre.  Yet the set they used was very modern and really clever. We all loved it.  I wasn’t sure if a ten year old would enjoy it but he was completely engrossed all the way through and at the end declared he will be an actor when he grows up.  This was taken in the interval hence the empty seats.  The house was full and if you are lucky enough to live near London, I really recommend you book tickets for this one.

I tend to not take photos of the bad food but I did last night.  To celebrate hubby’s birthday we had a curry.  James chose to have a takeaway rather than eat in the restaurant so I collected another delicious curry from The Raja.  I had the King Prawn Makhni which was too sweet and rich for me but I did enjoy it anyway.  Served with sag paneer (spinach and paneer cheese), pilau rice, mushroom rice and an onion bhaji.

I also had some of the lovely coffee and walnut cake Lara made for her Daddy which she decorated with his favourite sweets, Minstrels.I do hope I can behave better this coming week.