WIAW - Lunch at the Beach

Morning everyone! It's What I Ate Tuesday Wednesday again! Thanks to Jenn, as always, for hosting such a fun party! :)


Before I get started, I just wanted to mention the horrific riots that have been happening in the UK the last few days. I have to admit, I'm not always the best follower of the news (when I do get a chance to sit down, I tend to prioritise reading blogs, oops!) but to be honest, I've found out more on Twitter than I've been able to find on the news anyway - the news I've read seems to be giving a very limited version of events? Either way, I can't believe everything that has been happening, it is so horrible :( I know there are some bloggers that live in the affected areas, so I just wanted to say that I hope you're all keeping safe, my thoughts are with all of you, and let me know if I can help in any way.

Moving on to lighter things for now...

After being away for a few days on holiday, I was extra glad to use my coffee machine yesterday morning...hello caffeine!

Then it was time for breakfast. Whenever I eat this for breakfast I always think I should make it more often, and yesterday was no exception! I wanted to use some of the reduced blueberries I'd picked up, as well as my new sunflower seed butter...

... so I made Averie's delicious Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat Cake! Topped with sunflower seed butter and more fresh blueberries...

This is so tasty and so filling, love it! :)

Late morning, we made the most of Liam having an extra day off work, and the sunshine, to head down to the beach.

We first played on the beach...

Mr Grumpy!

But he can smile really!

Toby hates the feel of sand on his feet so spent the whole time on our laps or the body board!

Before eating lunch at my Mum's beach hut. I had my favourite - egg mayonnaise salad from a local sandwich shop. It has cooked pasta, potato salad, coleslaw, couscous with raisins, leaves, grated carrot, beetroot, sweetcorn and red onion, topped with lots of egg mayonnaise...

This is so full of flavour, and really filling - I sometimes share a pot with my Mum, but this time my Mum and I got a salad pot each, but gave some to the children...more food for me, yey!

After lunch, we headed to the park to play for a bit and then went home via Costa. I had a vanilla iced latte and a banoffee cupcake...

The cupcake was great - lots of cream cheese frosting (my favourite) and toffee sauce in the middle, *drool*...

I think having a Costa in town is going to be an expensive habit!! Luckily I can only really go in when Liam, or a friend, is with me as navigating through the small entrance is a bit tricky with Toby's huge pushchair!

Once home, I had a couple more iced coffees...

I'm loving my coffee routine at the moment! I make a pot of coffee in the morning, have one or two mugs hot, and then put the rest of the pot in the fridge to have iced with milk and vanilla stevia drops. Yum!

As usual, I had a snack whilst cooking dinner. There was only one medjool date left in the pack so a bit of a smaller snack than usual...

but I was glad as it meant more room to eat the amazingness that was dinner!! Creamy coconut daal with some spinach stirred in at the end, topped with crispy fried paneer...

This was fantastic! I've had mixed success with cooking daal in the past, sometimes finding it a bit bland, but this recipe was perfectly spiced. The paneer added crunch and extra bulk, I was full after this plate!!

I didn't think I'd need an evening snack after that dinner, however just as we were about to go to bed, our wedding photographer arrived with our wedding photos!! So a late-night snack of rhubarb fool was needed to sustain me long enough to look through the photos!

We're going to look at them properly later when Liam gets home from work, but there are some really nice ones in there :) Can't wait to sort them out properly for albums/blog posts etc!! :-D

And that was the end of my Tuesday! I'm trying to eat a bit more consciously today as my sweet treat consumption has been creeping up lately! So far today I've had a nice big breakfast, so I'm going to see if that will keep me going til lunch! Lots of housework to be done as our landlord might be visiting this week, so that should keep me busy/distracted!! & with that, I better get on, make the most of the rest of Toby's nap time!!

What was the best thing you ate today/yesterday? And does anyone have any personal recommendations for websites/companies you've used to print photo albums? We decided to organise the printing of our wedding album ourselves to try to save some money, so we have a CD with the edited photos on which we own copyright to, but we need to decide what to do with them next!