Low-Calorie Tarragon Chicken for the 5:2 Diet and Pinot Gris: Today I got a craving for Tarragon Chicken. One of the challenges with any diet, including the 5:2 diet, is that weird psychology that kicks in and makes you really want what you shouldn’t be eating. I cared for my diabetic mother for some time […]
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 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 […]
Low Calorie Celeriac Soup – with Wicked Blue Cheese Croutons
Low-Calorie Celeriac Soup Recipe. As any regular reader of London-Unattached may have noticed I share recipes for a lot of home-made soup. Celeriac Soup is one of my own personal favourites – I love the taste of celery and by using celeriac I can avoid the stringy bits on normal celery you are supposed 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 […]
Spicy Prawn and Coconut Asian Noodle Bowl – 5:2 Diet Recipe
Spicy Prawn and Coconut Noodle recipe with Coriander and Ginger: Dieting in the summer is so much easier – somehow as the nights close in and the temperature drops, our minds turn to sticky toffee pudding, sausages and mash and delicious calorific food that really doesn’t work on a fast day. But, despair not. There […]
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 […]
Mediterranean Chicken en Papillote – a 5:2 Diet Recipe
Mediterranean Chicken En Papillote – Chicken Parcels: Cooking en papillote is a great method for anyone trying to eat healthy food or to diet, whether you are following the 5:2 diet like me or not. Essentially, your fish, vegetables or meat are put into a pouch made from foil or parchment with whatever seasoning you […]
Wild Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce
Alaskan Wild Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce: Have you ever wondered about that deep red salmon you sometimes see in the supermarket? For whatever reason, I thought ‘sockeye’ referred to the cut rather than to a particular type of salmon. In fact, it’s a particular type of salmon – one of five found wild in […]
Cod with Fennel and Tomatoes – 5:2 Diet Recipe
Low-Calorie 5:2 Diet Supper – Cod with Fennel and Tomatoes: I always seem to end up on a diet in January. This year I’m trying a slightly new approach, though still based on the 5:2 diet, which worked VERY well for me last year until I went on a few gastronomy trips. I’m trying to […]