Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be filming a What I Eat
in a Day video. I haven't done one of these in ages, which actually focuses on me. I've
shown you what the kids eat and what we eat as a family, but, today, I'm going to show
you my diet, what it's been like lately. I'm trying to be healthy. Some days are better
than others, though, but I think filming today will actually really help me because I'll
be being accountable to you guys and wanting to show you a healthier diet, so I'll just
show you what I eat on an average day. Let's get into it. This is what I had for breakfast.
For breakfast this morning, I'm having a coffee with a little bit of milk in it. It's just
an instant one, but it's really nice. It's this one here, Nescafe Azera. We really like
it. We don't have a fancy machine or anything. Then I'm also having some porridge. It's just
instant. It's what I have pretty much every morning. It's just really easy to put into
the microwave, and then it's a nice, healthy breakfast. Jackson loves it, as well. I just
put some cinnamon on top today. Sometimes, I'll add some raisins or fruit, but, today,
it's just plain. Sorry if this looks a bit uninspiring, but that is what I have.
The boys have just had pancakes. Haven't you, boys?
Yeah.
Yeah. All gone already.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Jackson also has some Rice Krispies. I also carry around a water bottle like this
most of the time. I've been trying to make a massive effort to drink more water this
year. This is one of those bottles that actually tells you what times and how much you should
be drinking. I try to drink two of these a day and just carry it around with me. Some
days are better than others, and I've actually put in a little bit of squash, which is a
lemon squash. It's sugar-free, but it just makes me drink more if there's a little bit
of flavor to it. It's about 10:00 AM now, and I'm going to
have a snack, and I'm also going to get Jackson one. I made this the other day. It's a little
trail mix. I'm going to include it in a video very soon, but you basically put Cheerios,
nuts, raisins, dried fruit, popcorn. I put a little bit of chocolate chips in there,
as well, and you have yourself a really simple, healthy, but also really yummy trail mix.
I'm going to get him a bowl of this, and then I think I'm going to have an apple sliced
with almond butter on top because I love that snack. It's also really healthy, and as a
treat, I'm going to have a sparkling water. I've been trying to drink more water, as I
said, and we recently got a SodaStream, which I'll show you how we use. It basically turns
tap water into sparkling water in seconds. It's powered by a CO2 carbonator, and it's
so simple to use. I'll show you how I use it. I've basically given up drinking any type
of fizzy drink, but this really feels like a treat because I will flavor the water, and
you can even flavor water with natural fruit, natural fruit juices, as well, and have a
fizzy drink, and it sounds silly, but it feels like a really nice treat for me, so I'm going
to do that now. This is the SodaStream Spirit here. It's a
really sleek design. It's nice and tall, as well, and you don't need to plug it into anything.
You can literally put it anywhere. If you take the back off here, the CO2 carbonator
just goes at the back, and this is reusable for about three years and will save you buying
loads of single use sparkling water bottles, and this one cylinder can actually make 60
liters of sparkling water, so it does last for a long time. I'll just hide that.
It's really easy to use. It comes with a carbonating bottle like this, and all you have to do is
fill it up with water. I like to use really cold water and then a little bit of flavoring,
as well. I've got this lemon and lime sugar-free flavoring that I really like.
[crosstalk 00:03:53].
I'm just going to fill it up.
[crosstalk 00:03:56].
Then you can fizz it [crosstalk 00:03:59] the SodaStream.
[inaudible 00:04:01].
Should we show them how we do it?
Yeah.
Yeah, because you love watching, don't you?
Yeah.
Fill it up to the line. I just add quite a lot. I think I'm going to make quite a lot.
Then you just put your water into the SodaStream like this, and then there is a button on top,
which will release the CO2. You just have to push down for two seconds for one burst
of it. It's three pushes for a light fizz, five pushes for a fizzier water, but you can
adjust the fizziness to however much you want, so maybe if you were letting an older child
have a bit of fizz in their drink, you could just push it down once if you wanted it to
be really lightly fizzed. I'm going to do three fizzes, though, for myself, but, again,
as I said, you can make it fizzier if you want to or whatever, and I normally fizz it
up before I flavor it. I just that's the way I do it. Just push down like this. You can
see it, and that's it, and now I have my sparkling water. Going to use a tiny bit of this to
give it a bit of a flavor.
Mommy.
Yeah. This is literally that easy to use. It helps
me to hydrate and to not have sugary, fizzy drinks, and it's also better for the environment
than buying lots of individual plastic bottles. If you want to find out more about the SodaStream,
I will put the links in the description down below because they've actually said that my
viewers can have 15% off the SodaStream Spirit if you use the code sparklemarch, but I'll
put the links and details in the description down below, as well.
Now, Jackson and I are just going to enjoy our snack. Jackson likes my snack, as well.
That's a good boy. It's yummy. Just having a lunch date with Matt while Jackson
is sleeping. He has [inaudible 00:06:15] potato and prawns. Random. I'm having a smoke salmon,
cream cheese, and cucumber sandwich with some salad. We're at one of our favorite little
cafes. It's called [Calcutt 00:06:31]. We're actually sitting outside because it's quite
mild. It's really, really nice. I've got that sandwich and then I did have a soy latte and
some water, but I forgot to blog it. There you go. It's all gone.
I just want to eat my lunch, but she's making me record her.
Tonight for dinner, we're having a lamb meatball curry. This is a recipe that was originally
a HelloFresh one, and we like to keep the cards and remake them. It's really yummy.
It doesn't look like much. I feel like this is a bit uninspiring, but you basically make
the meatballs up, and then you add ginger, curry powder, and cumin, and then you add
chopped tomatoes and sugar snap peas, as well, and I'm just serving it with rice.
Because it's quite a strong flavor, the boys are going to have something different, and
what they're having is something that they like to have after swimming, and it's a nice,
easy one for me. This is one of [Frazier's 00:07:33] favorites.
They're having breaded cod with rice, light soy sauce, and peppers. I feel like the peppers
are quite random, but that's a veg that they love, and I just know that they will eat it
all up. Getting your dinner, dinner.
Now, we're [inaudible 00:07:57].
Stop it. [inaudible 00:08:04] really cute. Frazier
said he's okay with just cuddling. When you have five kids, they just all mix [inaudible
00:08:15]. It is about nine o'clock now. All the boys
are in bed, and we've come downstairs. I've got myself a decaf coffee. It is just that
instant stuff again I really like, but obviously decaf, and then I also have to catch up on
the drinking my second bottle of this because I'm at 4:00 PM on this, so I'll drink that
as we're watching TV tonight. We've been looking for something sweet to eat, but there is literally
nothing worth eating in our house, which is probably a good thing because if we have stuff
here, then we will eat it. Same with if I have wine in the house, I will drink it. I
don't actually drink at all at home anymore, so we just don't buy it because just calories
that I didn't need, and sometimes I'd have a glass of wine after a really busy, hard
day, but actually didn't need to, so I don't do that anymore.
[crosstalk 00:09:07].
I only have a bit of Prosecco if we ever go out for dinner or something like that. Matt
doesn't drink at all, so that helps, as well because I think if we were both drinkers,
we might be like, "Oh, should we share a bottle of wine," but Matt doesn't drink, so that
does help, but, anyway, I am massively digressing, but I hope you enjoyed this video. Let me
know what you think in the comments. If you want me to do more like this, I'm happy to.
Thank you so much for watching, and thank you to SodaStream for collaborating with me
on this video. The discount is in the description, and I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.