The 5-2 Diet, Meal Planning and Leftovers Back to the 5-2 Diet for me this week with a 5-2 fast day today and on Saturday. One of the biggest challenges for me at this time of year if I’m trying to lose weight is that my fridge and store cupboard tend to be overful with […]
5:2 Fast Diet Tips Part Two and Fish Pie
Tips for 5-2 Diet Fast Days and a Low Calorie 5-2 Diet Fish Pie. The 5:2 Diet or Fast Diet has become very popular in the UK since Michael Moseley’s programme on Horizon. For me, while there may be some secrets to intermittent fasting, the reason the 5:2 diet works and helps you lose weight, […]
Steamed Thai Style Fish for the 5-2 Diet
Steamed Thai Style Cod Recipe for 5-2 Diet: This 5-2 diet recipe for Steamed Fish uses one of the simplest ways to cook healthy food. Steaming fish involves no added fat but allows you to add seasoning in the form of ingredients cooked in the steamer. What a great concept for the 5-2 diet fast […]
5-2 Diet Meal Planning and Recipes
More on Planning for 5:2 Diet Fast Days I’m really not good at meal planning. It’s probably because living along, I’m used to catering for myself in a kitchen foraging kind of way. At best it leads to inventive cooking. At worst it’s only me who gets to see and eat what ever I happen […]
5-2 Diet Haddock with Lemon and Parsley Crumb
5-2 Diet Haddock – Tangy Fish in a Crisp Crumb: This is another recipe using some of the wonderful fish that John at DelishFish has sent to me. It’s very easy and quick – the sort of thing you can rustle up in the time it takes to microwave a ready meal. And, trust me, […]
5:2 Diet Goes to Sicily
5:2 Diet Recipe – Tuna, Aubergine and Tomato with Courgetti! This 5:2 diet recipe takes its inspiration from three sources. Firstly I caught Nigel Slater making Courgetti on Making the Most of It. Now, I am a huge Nigel Slater fan, I have the books, I even sometimes make recipes FROM the books, but actually […]
5:2 Diet Update and Rose Veal
Rose Veal and More About My 5:2 Diet Journey;) No I haven’t given up on the 5:2 diet. In fact I managed to find a sensible day for a fast yesterday, though I had to shape my meals around a lovely piece of Rose Veal that I brought back from Boscastle. One of the great […]
5:2 Diet Recipe – Livorno Fish Stew
Skinny Fish Stew Recipe for 5:2 Diet: I’ve written before about Fish Stew from Livorno or Cacciucco alla Livornese. It’s a traditional Italian dish, so making a skinny version seems rather inappropriate. Luckily, because it is fish and tomato based, it really doesn’t need too much changed. Of course, if you are not trying to […]
Seared Scallops for 5:2 Diet
5:2 Diet Recipe Seared Scallops with Chilli Lime Butter Along with a number of other food bloggers I was rather taken by the 5:2 diet as described on a recent Horizon programme where Michael Mosley highlighted some research that suggested that by having two days a week of ‘semi fasting’ you could not only lose […]