Happy New Year!

Its 2 min before midnight and you have no idea how psyched I am for next year. New year new goals new attitude! I already have my motivation book set. It's gonna help me have an amazing 2013 with a balance of great grades, great food, great workouts and great memories with my family and friends!

My book has things like goals, healthy foods I can bring to school so I never run out of ideas, a workout and study schedule and recipes to try. I plan to put in pictures and motivational quote-y stuff too! Also I'm planning to embark on mission ABB. Abs by Birthday >:) My determined face lol.

Here are some of my goals for 2013. Not resolutions because no one ever keeps those and I WANT to keep these!

1) Get better at time management. I don't know how I manage to waste so much time on my phone! YES IM AN ADDICT.
2) Straight As (with the exception of Chinese) for End Of Year Exams and top 10% in cohort.
3) At least a B4 for Chinese.
4) Run 5km in 30 min. I currently take 40-45min :-(
5) Abs By Birthday!!
6) 8 min plank
7) Learn to love exercising.
8) Be a genuinely more positive, happy and friendly person.

Wish all of you an amazing 2013 and a happy new yearrrrr!

Microwave sticky date pudding

Oh my gawwwwwwwd asdfghjkl. Did NOT expect this to turn out well. I feel like a microwaving god of healthy puddings :'D What's with all these amazing recipes lately? This is awesome for post workout (thats what I ate it as) especially if you made a protein sauce to go over it! But I don't use protein powder so this will do~ Please try this and lemme know how it turns out.

Choconana peanut butter foldover

You know when I know something is good? When I take a gazillion photos of it and I'm unable to short list them. Picture spam in this post. I just HAD to capture all the angles of this dark chocolate and peanut butter stuffed, banana pancake fold over.

Coconut crusted stuffed french toast

Here's a random old recipe I never shared! It's coconut crusted French toast stuffed with chocolate peanut flour butter and topped with raspberry compote :) It's really good and I had a foodgasm eating it. Don't know why I never posted it up here lol. Maybe I didn't even have this blog then!! Omg I should post my older recipes up here??

I'm back from Switzerland!

Hey guys I'm back from Switzerland. The land of watches and chocolates. It was FREEZING over there. My god I was this close to turning into a block of ice. I ate moderately healthy on holiday. Sorry I didn't blog at all while I was traveling. There was only wifi in SOME hotels and that was only in the lobby for most of them. All my snacks were healthy unless my brother bought some random food (like pancakes. Omg why eat unhealthy pancakes when I can make my own healthy protein packed ones!!) to try from a Christmas market or something and I had to try some. You know to be nice and all! I ate loads of bratwursts there too. German sausages. Not so healthy but what can I do? A few of the meals we got served there came with dessert. I usually only ate half my dessert or less and I ate most of the main course given to us :) At the chocolate tasting at the nestle factory, I just had tiny bites of dark chocolate (and one ordinary one) which probably totaled up to less than two pieces! I didn't have a single unhealthy breakfast :) It was buffet style breakfast every morning and I most of the time had eggs and cereal. Sometimes I had cheese and crispbreads too :)

Staying fit on holiday!

Leaving to the land of switzers tonight! Switzerland! Well actually 0145 tomorrow haha.

It's a family holiday so I really want to relax and enjoy myself! Although I'll probably eat some "not so clean foods" on the trip (part of the experience of traveling), I don't want to go too crazy so I'm bringing along some healthy snacks :-)

Here's what I'm bringing:

1) 2 packets of fiber one cereal
2) 1/2 packet of pumpkin seeds
3) A box of 5 go natural nut bars (but I ate one already so 4)
4) 1 packet of nuts
5) 1 trail mix bar
6) 4 mini boxes of raisins
7) Packet of dried raspberries

Zucchini chicken lasagne

This is honestly so good. It tastes exactly like real lasagne. My brother gave it his approval and he isn't exactly a healthy eater so it really is a legit lasagne tasting :) Plus it's low carb high protein! You can also make zucchini into fettuccine by slicing thin strips of zucchini length wise!

Ingredients
1/2 tbs olive oil
1/4 onion chopped
200g minced chicken
1 small tomato
2 tbs tomato paste
1 tsp minced garlic
1/4 cup water
McCormick Italian herbs
3 tbs cottage cheese
3 tbs mozzarella cheese
1/2 Zucchini

Method
1) Slice the zucchini into strips using a vegetable peeler.
2) Sauté onions in olive oil.
3) Add in minced chicken.
4) When chicken is cooked add tomatoes, tomato paste, water, garlic and Italian herbs.
5) Cook for 10 min more till the tomatoes have gotten soft and turned into a sauce. I like leaving some chunky bits in there though.
6) Then layer lasagne in a baking dish in this order. 1/2 meat sauce, zucchini, cottage cheese, zucchini, meat sauce, zucchini, mozzarella.
7) Bake at 190•C for 12 minutes.

Enjoy! Xx