Vegan Banana and Custard Cake

124 calories

This vegan banana and custard cake is an absolute gem, and I would highly recommend trying it out if you have some spare time and fancy a bake!

What you will need:

Dark brown Muscovado Sugar-50g

Self Raising Flour-150g

Custard Powder-50g for cake 

25g for icing 

Sunflower Spread-25g

Vegan egg-2

Spice-1tsp

Banana-2 medium 

Baking Powder-1 tsp

Icing sugar-60g 

Method:

Pre heat oven to 180 

Mix together all the dry ingredients.

Combine all the wet ingredients

Mix together the dry and wet ingredients until combined

Grease a cake pan and pour ingredients in.

Place in oven for 20 minutes 

Mix together icing sugar and 25g custard powder

Wait for cake to cool and add icing sugar on top.

Meal Prep Edit- Gooey Chocolate & Ginger Biscuit Bombs

So today I come with a recipe that every food and fitness lover needs in their life.
These gooey, chocolatey biscuit bombs are a date and ginger centre, surrounded by a doughy chocolate biscuit and they taste incredible.

Ingredients: 

For the centre

25g dates

25g mixed fruit

25g crystallised ginger

For the biscuit

75g Rye Flour 

25g quinoa flakes

20g raw cacao powder 

30ml Coconut Nectar

30ml almond milk 

Method:
Pre heat the oven to 180 centigrade. Add the dried fruit, dates and ginger to a blender and blitz until smooth, add 2 tbsp of water to loosen.
Add the dry ingredients to a bowl and mix.
 Add in the milk and coconut nectar and mix until combined.
Flour your hands and roll the biscuit mix into 11 balls.
Flatten the balls out and add a small amount of ginger mix into the centre of each one.
Roll the biscuit up around the ginger mix and then roll between your palms to make into a round biscuit bomb.
Place in oven for 10 to 12 mins.
Remove and dust with cacao powder.

Essential Rules to Live Your Life By~Motivational Monday #5

1. If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

2. If you don't ask, you wont get.

3.If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place. 

4. You are not the first and you certainly wont be the last.

Today I was having a conversation, and was reminded of a saying my Grandad has drilled into me from a young age 'if you dont ask you wont get.' Occasionally, when we get tired, have a bad day, or week, we begin to feel demotivated, and can loose sight of our end goal. I find that reminding myself of these motto's whenever I feel this way, helps to reassure me that I got this and that I should do what ever I can in my power to achieve the goals I have set myself. If you haven't set yourself goals then I highly recommend that you do, go for a variety of long and short term, it helps you to have motivation. Even if you dont succeed as quickly as you would like, if you keep focused, one day you will achieve them and when that day comes the sense of achievement and self-worth you will feel will be completely worth it. Not only by living by these rules will you feel content and have purpose in your life, you will also never have any regrets, and know that you are doing everything you can to be the best person that you can be. 

What Vegans Eat-Protein Packed Oreo Brownies

Often when people hear you dont eat animal products their first concern is your protein intake. With education in the variety of food out there that contains protein this has never been an issue for me and these brownies go to show why!

This plate of gooey chocolaty goodness is my protein packed peanut butter Oreo brownies! 🍫 they are @oreothins @trunutbutter powder coco powder and melted @greenandblacks chocolate! Only 36 calories a slice, high in protein, and completely vegan they are a fitness fans dream!

Macros:

36cals

1.6g fat

4.7g carbs

1.7g protein

Recipe

Green and Blacks cocoa powder-1.2tbsp

Tru-Nut powdered peanut butter-50g

4 oreo thin biscuits

tsp baking powder

Maya gold organic Dark chocolate Green and Blacks-20g 

100ml dark chocolate almond milk 

Pre heat the oven to 180c

Mix together the baking powder, peanut butter powder and cocoa powder

Melt the chocolate by placing in warm oven 

Stir in the chocolate milk to the dry ingredients, and mix until smooth

Add the melted chocolate to the mix and stir again

Finally crumble in your Oreo thins-I added 4 but feel free to add more!

Bake for 10 minutes and enjoy! 

Are we our own worst enemies, or our own best friends?

Today someone told me they 'were their own worst enemy' and this got me thinking.

We live in a society where we are always comparing ourselves to others as I have mentioned in my previous posts. We have learnt to rely on others to deliver positive affirmations to us, and we have been taught to play down any form of compliment for fear as coming off big headed or too full of ourselves.

This is clearly something everyone wants to avoid, however we dont have to talk ourselves down in order to do that! As soon as you begin talking yourself down it spirals into a habit that becomes a self inflicted prophecy that you end up believing. But how can you prevent this from happening, and how can you get out of this cycle?

It all starts with thinking patterns. 

If you are already in a negative cycle then as soon as you think something negative you have to counter it with something positive. After doing this for 20 days...thats how long it is suggested it takes to learn a new routine/habit, this will become affirmed. The more you think negatively the more positive thoughts will just naturally follow, until you begin believing the positives. Once you have over come this you have to affirm the positives:

Tell them to yourself without a negative. 

Write them down. 

Do this even if you dont believe them trust me one day you will!

'Remember life is more than fitting in your jeans'-Ed Sheeran

I love Ed Sheeran and this is so true, who cares about what you look like focus on personal goals and traits that you love, set yourself goals and targets that arent visual, tell yourself about how you like a part of your personality, or set an aim to be more self-less, more helpful. Just thinking and following these actions will make you feel better about yourself. 

Confidence and Kindness shine through, you look incredible if you are being the kindest version of you you can be :) 

Find something you love and work hard at it every spare minute of the day.

Set your self targets for exercise!

Exercise is an amazing thing. Not only does it release endorphin's making you feel great but it also makes you feel better about your body. Dont worry about aesthetics just try and be the healthiest version of you you can be, eating as well as you can 80% of the time and focusing on finding a form of exercise you love! (I'm a massive fan of walking!) 

finally...

'YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY, YOU ARE TRULY YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND '

these are just my own thoughts, and I'd love to hear what other people think about it 
Emily