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The 5-2 Challenge. My Fast Day Snack With Crunch. Oven Baked Beetroot Crisps.
Sweet, earthy beetroot. Perfect fast day food. High in fibre and antioxidants. Low in calories and fat with an impressive energy count of only 45 calories per 100 grams. A cooler weather vegetable, beetroot also happens to be in abundant … Continue reading
Posted in To Serve with Drinks, Vegetables, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Beetroot, Chips, Crisps, Fasting Diet, Gluten free, Vegetarian
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The 5-2 Challenge. Winter Greens. Radicchio and Endive Salad with Fennel, Apple, Crisp Pancetta and Roasted Hazelnuts.
It’s mid winter and I’m craving salad. Winter greens are far more robust than their more popular summer siblings. Crisp with a crunchy texture and slightly bitter taste my favourite winter greens have to be baby endive with its delicate, curly, … Continue reading
Posted in Salads, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Apple, Endive, Fasting Diet, Fennel, Food, Hazelnuts, Pancetta, Radicchio, Winter
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The 5-2 Challenge. Cooking From Scratch. Home Made Yoghurt In A Jar.
I like to include yoghurt in my menu planning for fasting days. Relatively low in calories, high in protein it keeps me feeling fuller for longer. Most important for keeping the hunger pangs away. All yoghurts are excellent sources of protein, … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Breakfast, Cooking From Scratch, Fasting Diet, Food, Milk, Yoghurt
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The 5-2 Challenge. The Lowdown on Potatoes. Baked Potato Skins With Colcannon.
Back in Sydney after days of holiday eating I’ve decided to squeeze in a fast day before the weekend. The bottom line? One fast day this week is better than none. Thankfully the 5-2 diet is proving to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Small Bites, Vegetables, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Bacon, Cabbage, Colcannon, Fasting Diet, Potato, Vegetables, Winter
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The 5-2 Challenge. Sweet and Healthy. Blueberry and Apple Breakfast Compote.
I’m taking a break from the 5-2 Challenge this week. Third week of the school holidays and we’re going away. As flexible as this eating plan may be, there is no way I’m adhering to two restrictive 500 calorie fast … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Fruit, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Apple, Blueberry, Compote, Fasting Diet, Food, Lemon, Vanilla
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The 5-2 Challenge. How To Build Your Own Skinny Stir-Fry. My Version? Stir Fried Chicken With Red Capsicum, Broccolini and Chilli Jam.
Stir fries have to be the perfect 5-2 fast day meal. Healthy, nutrition, low in calories and very easy to prepare. Fast day or feast day I’ll often prepare a stir fry for dinner using whatever is in season or … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, Rice, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Broccolini, Calorie Counting, Capsicum, Chicken, Chilli, Fast Diet, Stir Fry
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The 5-2 Challenge. Layering Flavours. Spiced Pumpkin, Orange and Ginger Soup With Gremolata Crumbs
What to eat when you are ravenously hungry on a cold and blustery fast day? Soup. More specifically a non dairy, homemade vegetable based soup. Incredibly low in calories, warming and more importantly filling. Today’s offering? A Spiced Pumpkin, Orange … Continue reading
The 5-2 Challenge. A Man Sized Fast Day. Seared Salmon Fillet With Lemon, Garlic and Chilli Roasted Cauliflower.
The guidelines for the fast day diet clearly stipulate that women should not consume more than 500 calories on a fast day. Men have a slightly more generous 600 calorie allowance. The only comment I can make about my latest … Continue reading
Posted in Seafood, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Cauliflower, Chilli, Fast Diet, Garlic, Lemon, Salmon
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The 5-2 Challenge. A Japanese Inspired Noodle Bowl. Spicy Chicken Soba Noodle Soup With Broccolini and Spinach
There is something about the colder weather that makes me want to comfort eat. On the menu for my latest recent fast day a Japanese inspired Spicy Chicken Soba Noodle Soup. Nourishing. Filling. Warming. Unfortunately my fast day resolve was … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, Soup, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Chicken, Fasting Diet, Food, Intermittent Fasting, Japanese, Soba, Soup
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