Quick, Easy Low-Calorie Sweet and Sour Chicken for the 5:2 Diet: A little while ago I was sent a sample of Truvia, a natural sweetener that is almost zero calorie. The idea was supposed to be that I could cook with it, but when I checked, I found I’d been sent small sachets, the sort […]
5-2 Diet Prawn Curry for a Fast Day
5-2 Diet Prawn Curry: 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 read more about them on my most recent post of 5-2 diet tips) and partly because I’ve been out a lot. But this low-calorie diet prawn […]
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 […]
Diet Celery Soup for the 5:2 Diet
Low-Calorie Celery Soup – 5:2 Diet Celery Soup Recipe I’m still doing the 5-2 diet, despite all apparent appearances to the contrary. Some weeks I find I don’t have 2 days when I can fast, but I try to balance that out on the weeks when I am less busy. And I am slowly […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 5-2 Diet and Me
The 5-2 Diet – a Lifestyle Choice? When Michael Mosley’s Horizon TV programme about the 5-2 Diet first aired, some months ago now I watched, fascinated. Many of the diet and nutrition ideas I’d grown up with, like eating three balanced meals a day and never eating less than 1000 calories a day, seemed to […]
5:2 Diet Recipe Chicken, Aubergine and Chickpea Lebanese Style
A Lebanese Pantry used for a 5:2 Diet recipe: OK, I’ll admit there’s a bit of calculated cooking going on here. I’ve been intending to enter Bethady Kedy’s competition to win a trip to The Lebanon for a while, and I needed to blog about something Lebanese as part of my entry. But, I’m also […]
Simple Low Calorie Beef Stroganoff
Diet Beef Stroganoff – a Healthy Low Calorie Treat after my 5:2 Fast. I make variations on the stroganoff theme whenever I want something that tastes a little luxurious. It is stunningly simple and depends on good quality ingredients and careful preparation to make a delicious meal. This evening I’ve made a diet beef stroganoff, […]
Skinni Meat Review and Giveaway
Having your Meat and Eating it – Skinni Meat Range – Perfect Diet Meat for Carnivores: While I do genuinely try to cut back the quantity of red meat I eat, becoming a vegetarian is probably not on the cards for me. I love my meat casseroles, bolognese sauces, chilli con carne, burgers and sausages. […]