5-2 Diet Prawn Curry: Shopping List: Raw Prawns (Shrimp) Tomato Passata Coconut Milk Onion Chilli Ginger Garlic Mustard Seed Cumin Tumeric Cayenne Pepper Lemon Juice Fresh Coriander (Cilantro) Cooking Oil It feels like a while since I’ve done any cooking. Partly because I was testing some ready meals suitable for the 5-2 diet (you can […]
5-2 Diet Spicy Tomato and Lentil Soup
5-2 Diet Recipe – Spicy Tomato and Lentil Soup Whether you are trying to follow the 5:2 diet or following a more conventional low-calorie diet, soups are a wonderful thing and this diet tomato soup, spiced up with chilli or paprika (or both) and thickened with healthy lentils is no exception. Warming, filling and healthy […]
Low Calorie Leek and Potato Soup
Diet Leek and Potato Soup Recipe – comfort food from my childhood: Every weekend that I am in London I wander over to the Farmers’ Market at Oval. My first stop is always the same. I go to the first farm stall to buy chicken carcasses – 4 for a pound. I boil them up […]
Low Calorie Chilli Con Carne with Cauli Rice for the 5:2 Diet
Spicing it up with a low-calorie Chilli Con Carne recipe: I’m trying my best to lose a bit of weight again – and back doing the 5:2 diet. Being sent a pack of meats from West Coast Foods which are part of their Skinni range and are very low fat is quite a help. I’ve […]
5:2 Diet Recipes – Three Ingredient Banana Pancakes.
5:2 Diet Recipe for Three Ingredient Banana Pancakes: Hurrah! I’ve actually hit my target weight (60kg) through the 5:2 diet and am now theoretically maintaining by doing a mixture of one fast day a week and something called 16:8 where I eat within an eight-hour window. But, it’s Christmas and I’m fully anticipating gaining a […]
5:2 Diet Frugal Fasting – Turkey Leftovers
5:2 Diet Frugal Fast Days – Spicy Turkey Meatballs These low-calorie spicy turkey meatballs are a result of looking for healthy ways to use turkey leftovers. One of the biggest challenges of the 5:2 diet for me has been how to cope with family Christmas. To some extent, I haven’t tried too hard. An advantage […]
5:2 Diet Curried Parsnip Soup
Curried Parsnip Soup for the 5:2 Diet. I didn’t plan to write this recipe for curried parsnip soup up on London-Unattached nor was I doing a 5:2 diet fast day when I made it, but when I was busy eating it yesterday for lunch and tweeting (yes I know…it’s sad!) three people asked me how […]
5-2 Diet Recipe – Cauliflower and Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
Cauliflower and Jerusalem Artichoke Soup for the 5-2 Diet This is one of my favourite winter soups. And, although Jerusalem artichokes are quite expensive, it is worth adding one or two to the dish because they give a lovely nutty flavour and add just enough texture to make this soup thick and comforting. And, DO […]
Skinny Toad-in-the-Hole for 5-2 Diet
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 […]
A Fishy 5:2 Diet Recipe – Herring Escabeche
5:2 Diet Herring Escabeche and how travel influences our food. Making this 5:2 diet dish, I believe, is Karma. Just before I left for Portugal, I was talking with John from Delishfish about the new herring season which starts in June. He was explaining to me that the new herrings, called Maatje in the Netherlands, […]