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 […]
Cream on a 5:2 Diet Fast Day? A 5:2 Diet Recipe for Cream of Mushroom Soup
5:2 Diet Recipes – Autumnal Flavours in this Cream of Mushroom Soup. Cream of Mushroom soup – not an obvious 5:2 diet soup recipe. But it’s the first of September, it feels like the start of Autumn and it’s a year since I first started doing the 5:2 diet and since I started posting my […]
Diet Celery Soup Recipe
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 […]
Carpathia: Food From The Heart Of Romania
Lettuce Soup and more – a collection of Romanian recipes. During lockdown we travel to foreign climes in our imaginations and our kitchens, our palettes traversing borders, opening our minds to new taste experiences. Visuals help too so a cookbook with evocative photographs is a boon. Carpathia: Food From the Heart of Romania is one […]
Of Cabbages and Kings…
Cabbage Soup – A Dorset Delicacy? OK, perhaps not. But, the humble cabbage was first grown in England in Dorset, in Wimborne St Giles on the estate of Anthony Ashley (1551-1628), who introduced cabbage to England from Holland. If you visit the village, you can find his tomb in the Parish Church, along with a monument […]
Truffled Cream of Mushroom and Cauliflower Soup
A 5:2 Diet Staple and Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe: Some time ago I tried making cauliflower cream. The idea is to create something that has all the consistency of cream but none of the fat content or calories. Or at least, FAR fewer calories. Blitzing an entire cauliflower actually makes rather too much for […]
5-2 Diet Fast Day – Low Calorie Broccoli Soup
5-2 Diet makes you wake up younger! OK, it’s a headline! But today is a 5:2 diet fast day and I need to keep myself feeling good I am definitely losing weight and inches on the 5-2 Diet, and this morning according to my scales I am also getting younger:). And actually the point of the […]
Pappa di Pomodoro
Pappa di Pomodoro – Bread and Tomato Soup: This simple rustic soup has its origin in Italy. It works best if you use good, homemade or artisan bread. And, although many recipes will suggest you use fresh tomatoes, I only do so in the summer when the tomatoes in this country are ripe and full […]
The Butternut Squash Soup Challenge – a 5:2 Diet Recipe
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup – an Easy 5:2 Diet Recipe: I’m back in the kitchen and cooking again, after what seems like an eternity of travel and meals out. Needless to say I am back on a 5:2 diet fast day so cooking up a new 5:2 diet recipe – although bizarrely I actually managed […]