Super Tuesday

Breakfast was the same as yesterday, so I won't include a picture! I washed it down with a bottle of pepsi max as I need the fizzy caffeine hit! For lunch, I went to one of my favourite cafes, La Provence. They have a really fantastic salad bar, so I got a salad with lots of spinach, beetroot, red cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, olives, carrots (boiled and raw grated) an egg white, and a little sweetcorn. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture, but I'm planning to go there on friday for my final lunch, seeing as I'll miss the place when I go, so I'll take a picture then! I sat in the park to eat lunch, with my good friend Andy, who works around the corner - we thought we better catch up once more before I'm no longer working in the area!
I snacked on a chocolate digestive in the afternoon to keep me going, although it did make me want more chocolate! I spent most of the afternoon profiling Russian beer drinkers - it's amazing how many beers are apparently suitable for the drinking occasion 'in the morning when you have a hangover'! The world of international market research can be fascinating sometimes!
I was also highly amused by the daily mail reader who complained about the picture on the Maoam sweet wrapper - some people take life a little too seriously!
When I got home, I did some baking - as it's my final week in the office, I've volunteered for 'doughnut thursday' - which means it's my responsibility to take in treats for the team. I made Nigella's quadruple chocolate loaf cake and a basic banana cake (not really from a recipe, just two mashed bananas, about 200g flour, 125g butter, 175g sugar, a tsp of bicarb and 1/2 tsp cinnamon) - they both seem ok, I'll take picures in the morning, if they're still looking good!

Then I had dinner, some mushrooms and courgettes fried in a little balsamic, served on top of some salad, with a poached egg on top (cooked in my poach pod which is a fantastic invention!) and a couple of pieces of Sainsbury's tomato and basil bread, which is really tasty!

Not quite finished being domestic, I decided to test out my new blender and make some houmous. I used a can of chickpeas, a good few glugs of olive oil, the juice of a lime (a lemon would have been preferable if I'd had one!) some salt and some paprika. The blender worked ok, although the mixture needed poking around a few times which wasn't ideal. But for £25 I can't complain, especially as I paid for half of it with amazon vouchers from filling in surveys!

Normally I'd want some bed time chocolate right about now, but I think the cake batter, combined with all the protein in my dinner from the egg and mushrooms, and I'm a little too full.

Off to sleep instead - early start tomorrow for the gym!