5-2 diet recipe for Toad in the Hole and low-calorie recipe planning: I think it is much easier to diet when the weather is good. At this time of year, I really want comfort food, warm starchy things that fill me up with a kind of internal heating system. And if I wasn’t following the […]
Greek Yoghurt Stuffed Sea Bream and the 5:2 Diet
A Greek Recipe for the 5:2 Diet and some Hellenic Memories: My first visit to Greece was a shock. I was on a Schools Cruise – in the 1970s some of the cruise liners used to rent out space in the bows of the ship to school groups. We flew from London to Athens into […]
Adapting Recipes for the 5-2 Diet – Fish Tagine
Spicy 5:2 Diet Fish Tagine Sometimes on a 5:2 diet fast day I get a real yearning for a spicy dish. I think spice helps to reduce hunger pangs and stop you craving sugar too. Curries and Tagines can be quite high in calories – if you want to make a low-calorie version, you need […]
Poached Chicken with Wild Garlic Pesto – a 5:2 Diet Recipe
Poached Chicken with Wild Garlic Pesto – Making Diet Food Tasty The healthiest of food can suddenly turn into something rich and calorific quite easily. Butter and cream based sauces will simply blow the calorie allowance for a 5:2 diet fast day – and frying, even in healthy olive oil, can wreck any attempt at […]
Salmon Goujons – Low Calorie Tasty Mouthful.
Salmon Goujons for the 5:2 Diet – Low Calorie and Full-Fat options! Do you remember that poem about Jack Sprat and his wife? This recipe reminds me a little of that – a dish that will work if you happen to be on a low-calorie diet or even doing a 5:2 diet fast day like […]
Healthy Moroccan Style Sausage Casserole
Low-Calorie Moroccan Style Sausage Casserole with Heck Chicken Sausages: I haven’t given up cooking, though at times it may seem that all I am doing is eating out. I have a store of healthy and tasty recipes that I’ve been working on over the last few months just waiting for Christmas to be over. If […]
Cooking with Quorn – Meat Free Tarragon Chicken
One Pot Tarragon ‘Meat-Free’ Chicken: Quorn is a healthy substitute for meat. In addition to preprepared replacements for a whole range of dishes including sausages, chicken escalopes, steak pies, burgers and chilli, there are also packets of quorn ‘meat’ which you can use as a substitute for beef or chicken in a range of dishes. […]
Soup Story – Low Calorie Creamy Leek Soup
Low Calorie Creamy Leek Soup – experimenting with Raw Food: I should be doing the 5:2 Diet. I know I should be – I’ve put on a bit of weight and I’ve discovered that the 5:2 diet is a way that works for me – if I fast (500 calories) one day a week I […]
Low Calorie Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup
Diet Soup Recipe – Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato: It is definitely soup season again. Any regular reader may have noticed that I am not the most patient of cooks. While I prefer to cook from scratch, I am quite prepared to take shortcuts. And, although I would always recommend buying your vegetables ‘whole’, sometimes […]
Healthy Burgers? 5:2 Diet and Healthy Portobello Mushroom Burger
Healthy Portobello Mushroom Burger: OK, I fibbed just a bit. You probably wouldn’t quite have your mushroom burger like this on a 5:2 diet fast day. The bread roll adds a whopping 150 calories and to me, that’s a bit of a waste of calories as it won’t help fill you up for long. But, […]