Meatless Monday {2020 – week 37}

So here we are: week 37 of Meatless Monday 2020… This week has been a good week filled with sunshine and friends and family and outdoors living, feeling very lucky this week, I hope you are too 🙂

Here’s what we wore:

Me: Mac= GAP {thrifted from Barnardos}, Dress = Monsoon {thrifted from Vinted}, Leggings = new on eBay, Sandals= Clarks

Boys: Shorts and Hoodies, T-shirts: Various sources/gifted/thrifted or supermarkets, Backpacks = Skiphop, Sandals = Sainsburys TU

What’s in my ears:

I decided to pick Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert for this months credit from Audible, I absolutely love both the film and Elizabeth Gilbert herself, so I thought it was high time I listened to the book which made her so famous! And to my delight it is read by her too which always makes me enjoy an audible book so much more when it is read by the author, it always has so much meaning :). I am absolutely loving it so far and how much extra information and insight into her true story you get from the book 🙂 – definitely a good use of this months credit. Definitely worth a read.

Here’s what Amazon has to say about this monumential book:

It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

Amazon

Here’s my week in 4:

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1. Free plums to make jam: A lovely lady in my village messaged me (who I had got some plums from in previous years after asking on our village Facebook page if anyone had any going spare) to ask if I’d like some this year too, of course I said yes and so she dropped me off a huge bag! So it was time to get jamming! Plums and blackberries, both free and sourced from the village 😊❤️. 1600g sugar and 2080g fruit! I ended up with 9 and a bit jars of Jam! That should keep us going for a while!
2. Another milestone on Instagram: I hit another milestone on instagram this week – 3K of follows 😀 I am just loving how many like-minded people I am finding to connect with now who care about the environment, and in the words of my sister “being on the right side of history” in general, for anyone who isn’t sure about the potential for positive effect of social media marketing, I’m telling you there is so much good in this world of ours and so many people who care. I just love being part of it all and building a brand to be super proud of all the way through – thank you thank you for your support in helping me build it further <3 it really does mean the world to me.
3. Swimming in a pond: As the temp soared at the beginning of this week we were lucky enough to have a play date with my beautiful friend and yoga teacher who has a swimming pond. It really is magical there and so lovely to swim in nature with my boys – such a blessing <3
4. Family walks: We ended our week on a high with a lovely family walk in Oak Woods and Stockgrove local to us. It is such beautiful woodland there, and I just love that we’re raising the boys to love nature as much as we both do, it is so important to me and in the words of my husband “one of my favourite things to do” 🙂

Video(s) of the week:

I went back to This is US this week and I’m on to season 4 now and there’s several new characters being added to add even more intrigue. Its so gripping and so well written feel good and quality TV, shot in a very similar way to Lost, in that the timelines jump forward and backwards in order to get you knowing the characters more and more each episode, I love this as it just continues to grow so organically each episode and you get more and more understanding as you go.

What we ate this week…

Breakfast:

I had a cup of my favourite tea and the boys had their milk and we all had fruit & teacakes. Then our very kind friend in the village dropped us off a massive bag of plums from her garden so the boys had a couple of those on their walk to school. When I got back from the school run I had a fresh mint tea with mint from the garden.

Lunch:

Mid morning I snacked on a bowl of bacon rasher crisps (which are surprisingly both vegetarian and vegan!), and the two remaining Jaffacakes from the weekend and a cup of tea and cup of water. For lunch I made some veggie crepes, using fresh beetroot and carrots from my neighbours garden and some pepper which I had in the fridge anyway too. Late afternoon, I knew I had a after-work food shop to do so had an apple, a lemon and sugar crepe (with the leftover batter) and a couple of pieces of chocolate to keep me going 🙂

Dinner:

I snacked on these Bruschette Chips (from Lidl) whilst cooking, they taste like little mini pizzas – yummy 🙂

For dinner, I had seen an idea on instagram to do a creamy spinach pasta, which looked really good, so I bought the stuff and then only when I taste tested I realised I wasn’t keen on the taste of spinach on its own like that, so I went about adding a few extra ingredients in order to save the dish. I added some sun-dried tomatoes chopped up, a couple of spoonfuls of red pesto and lots of Parmesan, in the end it was pretty good 🙂

I had a cup of rooibos tea before bed.

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