Chocolate Energy Bars

I wanted to make my own energy bars, so I raided the cupboards and found all the usual trail-mix kinda stuff.... and decided to see what would happen if I mixed them all together. (You’re starting to get the gist of how I cook now aren't you :p )

This was what I found

Ingredients:

40g Oats

15g Walnuts

5g Goji Berries

15g Linwoods Ground Sunflower/Flaxseedmix

15g Desiccated Coconut

1 Scoop Chocolate Whey

20g Almond Butter

10g Sunflower Seeds

10g pumpkin Seeds

50g Mixed Raisins

20g Manuka Honey

4 Egg Whites

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Step one

Weigh out everything and mix the dry ingredients in a bowl

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Step two

Add the honey, egg whites and almond butter to another bowl and mix well, then combine the two and pour into a shallow dish or baking tray. Use parchment OR coconut oil to grease the dish, this WILL stick!!

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Step three

Bake at 170C for 25 minutes until golden and spongy on top

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Step four

Remove from the oven and test with a skewer to ensure cooked through thoroughly

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Step five

Cut up into 10 squares and when cool, wrap in cling film for easy chuck-in-the-handbag-ability!!

Yeh I know they look dodgy :/ But they're yummy!! 

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Macros

Each Bar

108 Calories

9.9g Carbs

5.1g Protein

5.4g Fat

1.3g Fibre

 Love Flash xXx

Banana and Oat Cookies

Yes I know, I’m a genius!

These are the most simple, easy, quick, NUTRITIOUS and tasty cookies EVER and they’re perfect for breakfast.

 Shove your Belvita where the sun don’t shine!

4 Ingredients = 4 Cookies

1 Banana

40g Oats

½ tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Vanilla Ext

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Step 1

Moosh together in a bowl

Step 2

Smear a teeny bit of coconut oil on a baking tray and make 4 splodges

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Step 3

Bake at 180C for 15 mins

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Step 4

Take pictures of them and tag me in them on IG and FB

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Step 5

EAT ALL THE COOKIES!

Love Flash xXx

Spicy Beef Jerky

As If I didn’t already LOVE my dehydrator, enough!

I decided to put it to the test and make some beef jerky. Now I absolutely love beef jerky, it’s one of my all time favourite snacks (and it’s super healthy!) But it really is soooooo expensive in the supermarkets here. Even more so in motorway service stations!!

It was beyond simple and I’m so pleased and slightly amazed by the results! Everyone who’s tried my first batch has said:

“Wow, that’s better than the packaged stuff!”

It’s not as chewy as the pre packaged stuff you can buy, so doesn’t taste like your fighting your way through the sole of an old shoe.

Ingredients:

(as usual, whatever I found in the cupboard)

∙A few drops of Tabasco sauce (to personal taste)

∙Worcestershire Sauce

∙Light Soy Sauce

∙Fillet Steak (obviously)

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Step 1

Slice thinly the steak into bite size pieces

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Step 2

Pour the marinade into a shallow dish

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Step 3

Layer the meat in the dish so that it’s only one layer if possible

 

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Step 4

Cover with cling film and get all the bubbles out so that the marinade gets the top of the jerky

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Step 5

Leave for at least 2 hours, overnight if possible in the fridge

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Step 6

Pat dry the steak with kitchen roll until all of the excess marinade is gone

 

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Step 7

Layer in the dehydrator, and set it to the lowest setting, (I used 40C) and leave for 24 hours

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Step 8

Congratulations. You now have Jerky.

 

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Love Flash xXx

Lost At Sea..

Yup, That’s pretty much how I'm feeling right now. The weather is utter rubbish just now in Aberdeen which has caused cancelled flights for a few days. I was meant to be off yesterday at lunchtime but it’s now scheduled for 8am tomorrow.

Fingers crossed!!

I get a few days at home before my Chris gets off his rig too and we head down to Englandshire for a few days to view some housies! 

 SOO frigging excited to be buying a house with the man I love ADORE 

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Anyways... back to food.

I’ve got a huge mountain of recipes in my little black book that my brain has devised and I need to perfect each one before sharing them on here for you, but not a lot of time, so I need your help to pick one of the following deserts:

·Clean Chocolate Torte

·High Protein Pina Colada Ice Cream

·Raw Carrot Cake

Leave a comment below and let me know which one tickles your fancy, and if I get no replies, then I’ll post pictures but wont share the recipe.

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I also have a number of projects I've just started:

 One long term, one not so long term, and one I’m aiming to have finished ASAP!

In case you didn't know... (and if not, where have you BEEN?!) I've just qualified as a nutritionist and I'm super excited about what challenges that holds for me in the near future! So the project I'm hoping to have finished soon is getting my website up and running so that I can start taking clients and get myself settled into my new role. 

The second project I'm working on just now is adding to my qualifications: I'm doing my Personal Trainer course! So... soon I’ll not only be able to feed you into shape, but I’ll be able to certifiably kick your butt into shape as well.

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My third project is long term, and slightly scary! I'm not going to share what it is just yet, but this is just me putting on record that as of ....

NOW!

Project: Scrap. . . Has begun.

I am aiming to have it complete in 18-24 months.

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Love Flash xXx

Chocolate Fruit and Nut Bites

As promised, here are my chocolate fruit and nut nibbles!

These were, yet again, the product of one of my random:

 ‘What would happen if I....’ thoughts...

Basically I went into the cupboard to find something and was faced with about 15 packets of opened dried fruits and nuts so I decided to use them.

So... Ingredients:

5g each of:

-Sesame Seeds

-Pine Nuts

-Goji Berries

-Dried Sour Cherries

-Dried Blueberries

-Shelled Pistachios

10g each of:

-Walnut halves

-Desiccated Coconut

-Hazelnuts

-Flaked Almonds

-Raisins

1 Scoop of Chocolate Whey

1 pot of Dark chocolate Alpro Soya Yogurt

100g Fage 0% Total Yogurt

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Step 1

Chop up all your fruit and nuts

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Step 2

Mix your Whey, Fage and Alpro Soya together

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Step 3

Add the fruit and nut and mix again

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Step 4

Spoon into silicon moulds

 (conveniently I get 10 portions!)

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Step 5

Put into the freezer for 3-4 hours

(I of course, impatiently poked them every 30 minutes to see if they were ready yet, they look exactly the same as when I put them in!!!)

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Step 6

Pop out the moulds when they are hard.

Leave for 5 minutes before eating.

(If you can resist... my first one was a lollypop!)

Keep in the freezer for up to a week 

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And courtesy of My Fitness Pal here is the breakdown:

Love Flash xXx

When Food Wins the War...

You should be familiar with my insane eating habits by now and know that I absolutely love eating... EVERYTHING! 

I am a self confessed pig. I have no 'full' signals, I have no 'off switch' and I will continue to eat until I quite literally, can’t physically fit any more down my neck. 
(See previous NYC Food Porn post for reference) 

I'm also very proud of being able to maintain a toned figure.

Hence the ‘Food Vs Fitness’ title to my Facebook page, and all my healthy recipes I love to create and share with you all on here :)

I suspect a lot of people think that I exaggerate the amount I eat, but you only have to ask my family or my boyfriend that in fact, I can eat them all under the table.

Anyways... the point of this post is to share with you my latest holiday food porn pictures. My boyfriend and I went to Belgium in February and although I took a considerable amount of food out with me with the full intention of being 90% good... 

I failed... Miserably.

 But, it was damn fun failing. (Besides I think my darling Chris would have been annoyed with me if I’d been eating Tupperware pots of chicken all the time)

So without further rambles, here is some Nom-Tastic foodie pics for you.

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The Champagne and Seafood bar at Edinburgh Airport

Our Seafood Platter for Two

From Top: Oatcakes, Gravadlax, Dill Gradavlax, Crab and Egg, Poached Salmon, Smoked Mackerel Pate

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The window display in one of the many chocolate shops in Ypres town centre

And yes, we took several large boxes home!

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My Chris and I having a cheeky beer <3 nbsp="">

Hoegaarden 

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Steak Tartare is possibly one of my FAVE things to eat!!

Yes I had it two nights in a row at different restaurants!!

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 Baileys Coffee 

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See!! I did eat healthy sometimes!!! Pineapple and a protein shake <3>

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Not food related but I thought these shoes were cute 

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Playing Bananagrams in the pub with a cherry beer 

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And Desert! I love apple pie!!

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Was soooooo tempted to get the XXXXL Burger! hahaha

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My Chris' EXTREME cheesy pasta. It was huge!!!

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Chippies

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An Amuse Bouche

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Hope you enjoyed that,

Cheers!

Love Flash xXx