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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Miso Glazed Black Cod and More
Two Low-Calorie Healthy Ideas for Alaskan Black Cod For years I thought black cod was the same fish that I buy from the supermarket to make fish pie or fish and chips. Perhaps better sourced, perhaps better cooked. I’ve eaten miso-glazed black cod in some of London’s top restaurants. And, I just thought that the […]
Healthy Recipes for the 5:2 Diet Fast Days – Mushroom Stroganoff
Managing 5:2 Diet Fast days – Mushroom Stroganoff with Lentils. I’m back into the 5:2 diet now, my first full fast day for a few weeks will be tomorrow. In the meanwhile, I am attempting to ease myself in gently by eating light meals today like this diet mushroom stroganoff with lentils that would potentially […]
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 […]
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 […]