Kayla Itsines friendly meals

As I said this past week, I’m doing the Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Challenge.  So I thought I would just share with you some of the Kayla friendly meals I’ve made/ eaten these past two weeks.  And just a word to the wise, preparation is key.  I craved the easy things so much more when I hadn’t packed a lunch or snack I was looking forward to.  I’m the type that will eat something just because I’ve made the effort of making it and it will not go to waste.

And here it is, meals for days, literally.

 

Starlings Cafe – Rye toast, home-made pesto, roast tomatoes, avo and rocket.

Breakfast bowl – Frozen berries, yoghurt and muesli.

Chicken salad – Mixed leaves, cucumber, tomatoes, basil pesto, carrots, avo, feta, chicken strips, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.

Fruit platter & breakfast bowl – pineapple, kiwi, oranges & breakfast bowl.

Beginning of the month cracker – Cracker bread, boiled eggs, tomatoes, avo, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds & basil pesto.

Essential – hot water and lemon.

Middle of the month cracker – Cracker bread, humus, tomatoes, basil pesto & feta.

Morning Glory – recipe for the banana pancakes & strawberries.

Pick me up – Strawberries, kiwi, yoghurt, granadilla & banana smoothie with bananas and granadilla on the side.

Deliciously Undecided – Sweet potato bake with biltong shavings.

All Day Son – Omelette with cheese, humus, tomato and feta and roasted butternut, spinach and humus with sesame seeds.

Necessity – morning cappuccino at Starlings Cafe.

Please excuse some of these, they were taken on my phone, probably at night so that explains the horrid lighting.

I’m not sure if anyone actually likes to see other people’s food, so please let me know if this is a big no?  Like phoning Le Boyfriend to tell him all you ate that day and the calorie count.

Yay or nay?

Le’Chelle

Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide

As you can probably tell by the title, this is about Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide, which you have probably seen pop up, well everywhere! I’ve probably spent over two weeks stalking the transformation pictures on Instagram and reading over everything on her site, to make sure this wasn’t another one of those “Oh that’s definitely anther person in the thin picture” or “don’t eat anything at all and then when you feel like you’re about to pass out, eat a cube of cheese” kind of diet.  I’m not in for that!

Having read everything and seeing these crazy pictures and life changing stories from women all over the world, I decided to get my sisters and mom on board with me.  And let be honest, when you see these pictures you immediately want t0 sign up for whatever those women are taking/doing.  I’m not a jump in, ask question later kind of person so trust me when I say I have researched this back to front.  And I’m IN!

100% in.  I say this here because I know myself.  If I don’t tell someone or in this case, many someones, I may not feel accountable enough! So here I am, saying that you can ask me if I have done the workouts or if I’m sticking to the eating plan.  Today was the first workout day, and boy did it whip my butt.  Literally.  This is not a get ‘get rich quick’ thing, or in this case, get healthy quick, you work flipping hard for the body!

I’m feeling the burn, but loving the energy and excitement I feel being active again!  Here’s to the next 12 weeks!

 

Le’Chelle

 

Monochrome Spice Girls

Ps, this is my best tourist kid face.

COAT: YOURS       |       TSHIRT: Cotton On       |       LEGGINGS: Cotton On       |       SHOES: Topshop       |       LIPSTICK: MAC – Amorous

Sometimes I just don’t feel like thinking about putting an outfit together, and those are the days I wear leggings as pants.  Yes, you read that, leggings as pants.  Though I must admit, my one redeeming factor is that the bum is always covered.  This was one of those days.  Also, featuring another one of the coats we are selling.  How cool is it? And so similar to one I covered far too much, at Zara.  It’s ahmazing!

This past week has been consumed by birthday prep for my sister, and YOURS stuff, like, YAY, a photoshoot!  So things will be uploaded soon!

Hope you are all keeping warm on this wintery Cape Town day.

Le’Chelle

Apple & Cinnamon Muffins

This weekend a good friend of mine came over for breakfast & I thought something different like apple & cinnamon muffins would be fun.  It turned out that they were her favourite, so we made them together, and they went down well.  It’s a simple recipe that doesn’t take too long.  The only thing that is a bit time consuming is the stewing of the apples.

INGREDIENTS:

Batter:

120g butter

1 cup castor sugar

2eggs

10ml baking powder

2ml salt

2 cups cake flour

125ml milk

zest of 1 lemon/orange

60ml lemon/orange juice

Apple & Cinnamon mix:

4 apples

4tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp cinnamon

 

METHOD:

• Peel and cut apples into small cubes, then place them in a pot with the sugar and cinnamon.  Stir until apple are soft.
• Heat oven at 180ºC.
• Grease muffin tray.
• Add orange/lemon juice & zest to milk (it will curdle, this is fine).
• In electric mixer, whisk butter until creamy.  Add sugar and beat until pale and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.
• Beat in the baking powder and salt.
• With spoon, fold in half of the flour and then half of the milk into the batter; repeat.
• Fold in apple & cinnamon mix.
• Spoon into muffin tray.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
• Remove muffins from tray and place on cooling rack.

Makes 12 cupcake sizes or 6 muffin sizes.

Side note:

It may look like it has curdled but that’s just form the juice and zest, no need to worry.

Depending on how much of a citrus taste you want you can adjust the lemon/orange juice.

 

Let me know if you try this recipe.

Le’Chelle

Raw lemon and coconut truffles

We try really hard to eat right and follow a Paleo diet, but lets be honest, its hard!  When your boyfriend eats anything from chocolate, pizza and pasta, oh creamy pasta, I love you.  And he says things like “I can’t do cardio because then I’ll lose muscle” – firstly, ARE YOU KIDDING?! Secondly, which women do you know that has this ‘problem’, even your skinniest friend, for the fear of putting on a few when she gets older.  Men hey.

Well we (Christi & I) like to do a Paleo detox every few months, and though we are failing miserably at the moment, because life is busy and overwhelming right now.  So we eat the easy things.  In an attempt to try and have some healthy snacks around the house so we don’t shove biscuits and chips into our mouths simultaneously, I made these lovely lemon truffles.

And boy have they gone down well.  So if you’re a snacker like my sister then you’ll love these.

INGREDIENTS:

• Juice of three lemons (if you love lemon, if not, use one for a more subtle lemon flavour)
• 1 1/2 cups unsweetened desiccated coconut
• plus 1/2 cup for coating
• 4 tbsp honey
• 4 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• pinch of salt

In a food processor combine all the ingredients for about a minute until the mixture forms a dough like consistency.

Use your hands to form small balls with the mixture.  I made the balls quite small as I imagined that the lemon would be quite strong (I love lemon, so this was perfect).

In a separate bowl, coat the lemon balls with coconut, transfer to a plate and leave in the fridge to set for 15-20 minutes.

Makes approx 25 truffles.

GLUTEN FREE       |       WHEAT FREE       |       SUGAR FREE       |       DAIRY FREE       |       GRAIN FREE

I left them in the fridge for the snacker (Christi) and they kept well, for a good few days, I’d say at least 5 days.

This is such a quick and easy recipe.  You could make it before you go to work or just before a dinner party.

 

Let me know if you make these and how they come out.

Le’Chelle