Happy Sunday, I hope that you have all had a wonderful week. Aiden and I have battled colds this week so it has been a bit of a crappy one for us. Also the weather has been a bit pants too, which means we have been stuck inside for most of this week. I’m literally climbing the walls now, but thankfully we are both feeling a lot better.
Baby Aiden has kept all cosy and warm in his super cute Emu boots!
The past couple of weeks Aiden has slept for longer during the day, which means I’ve actually had time to make myself a salad for lunch instead of warming leftovers through or heating up soup. Yes, seriously! I tend to eat during his naps or when he’s settled, but if he’s awake and fussy it can be hard to spend time on my meals.
I really appreciated the time to make this delicious salad of mixed leaves, stuffed olives, chickpeas, leftover roasted sweet potato and squash, feta cheese and manchego cheese. The cheese and olives were left over from a cheese platter that we had for lunch when my family came to visit during the week. They’re staying for Christmas this year so it was a great way to decide what cheeses to buy for our usual cheese board. Everyone agreed that the manchego cheese wasn’t great, but I thought it was quite nice on my salad.
My week wouldn’t be complete without soup. This was a shop bought one and it was pretty tasty; sweet potato, coconut and chill really go well together. I had this with a chopped apple on the side and a few slices of cheese. I tend to have bigger lunches these days to mitigate times when I have to go longer until my next meal if Aiden doesn’t nap or feeds for longer.
This bowl of porridge was epic! I made simple plain oats and topped it with everything that took my fancy including chocolate Coyo, Chocshot, honey, figs and blueberries. I will definitely be making this bowl of goodness again and I’m big fan of the chocolate Coyo with a squeeze of Chocshot.
Someone may assume that I’m a bit obsessed with Nakd bars at the moment, especially the new flavours. They are handy for me to have on hand as a healthy snack, breastfeeding makes you very hungry even in the early hours of the morning. If you haven’t tried the Bakewell version yet then check out my copycat version that I posted earlier in the week.
I got signed off from my doctor last week at our 6 week check up to work out again, but I really haven’t felt like it this week. It wasn’t just my cold putting me off I really just had no desire to do anything. I’m hoping next week I feel more motivated and fit some yoga and walks in. I know it’s going to be difficult at first trying to fit exercise in my day with a newborn, but I’m going to do what I can and try my best.
Do you have a favourite cheese? What is the worst cheese that you have ever tried? I’ve always wanted to try a Stinking Bishop, which is meant to be the most stinkiest cheese known to man!
What have you been up to this week?
I love salads like that. The more ingredients, the better! My favourite cheese on a salad is Wensleydale and cranberry although I also love goat’s cheese.
How lovely that you are having everyone over for Christmas. Dan and I still end up traveling to both sets of parents (4 hours apart) over the Christmas week but we’ve both said in the future we must host Christmas at ours.
The Wensleydale with cranberries is a firm family favourite of ours, so yummy! Goatβs cheese a personal favourite of mine, especially on salads or roasted veggies.
Looks like a good week the salad looks yum!
It was a pretty good week considering we both had colds. π
That salad looks delicious, in fact everything in your post looks delicious and Aiden looks very cute in his boots x
Thanks Stephanie! π
It looks so great!
Thanks!
I love plain old chedder but i do sometimes indulge in the Cheshire with cranberries or apricot yum!
I love dried fruit mixed in with cheese – fab combo!
My favourite cheese has to be feta. I would eat it all day every day if I could.
I can’t believe that I still haven’t tried the Christmas pudding Nakd bar.
I’ve been loving feta this week, it just goes with everything.
All the food looks so good and making me feel really hungry x
Ha! Thanks Nicki.
I think it goes goat’s cheese, feta and then baked Camembert… and cream cheese! Not a huge fan of cheddar though strangely enough and mozzarella is nice enough but a bit dull and bland at times. Glad to hear you’re able to get some good meals in! It all looks fantastic as usual π
Camembert…yum! I love mozzarella in a caprese salad and on a pizza, but I agree it can be bland otherwise.
That salad looks delicious Jemma! Hope you’re both feeling better!
Thanks Claire! We’re feeling much better now thank goodness.
Yum Yum Yum! I love the food you’ve pictured – adding cheese to salads is my favourite thing ever! Oh and I can’t get over Aidens name! It is so adorable and I love it!! <3
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Thanks! We’re a big fan of is name too, so it’s really nice to hear that other people like it. π x
Your salad looks so good! I still need to track down the Christmas Pud and Bakewell Tart Nakd bars! x
I found mine in Tesco’s. π
Even though you have the all clear from the doctor does not mean you should rush into anything- start when you are feeling ready.
I love Wenslydale with cranberries, or goats cheese, but only in small amounts as I get fed up with cheese very quickly!
Thanks for the reminder Maria, you are so right. I’ll start when I feel ready so then it doesn’t feel forced and I will enjoy it more. π
Just to be a bit of a correction geek here. The stinkiest cheese on the records is a French cheese called pied de dios. Translated it means the foot of god and it’s delicious!
I love the baby shoes ! and that salad looks amazing!!!!