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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. Eating Clean. A 5-2 Fast Day Recipe Idea Under 300 Calories. Roasted Beetroot and Carrot Salad With Puy Lentils, Rocket And Feta.
My first post for 2014. Proof that I have well and truly been in laid-back holiday mode. Yesterday I even fielded a couple of phone calls and text messages asking if everything was alright as I hadn’t posted for a … Continue reading
Posted in Salads, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Beetroot, Carrot, Fasting Diet, Feta, Gluten free, Healthy, Lemon, Lentil, Rocket, Salad, Summer
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 400 Calories. Inspired By My French Heaven’s Lentil and Salmon Salad.
Today’s 5-2 fast diet recipe idea is inspired by Stéphane at My French Heaven’s post Dominique’s secret recipe for lentil & salmon salad. Scrolling through my reader last weekend I was totally at a loss as to what I was going to offer … Continue reading
Posted in Salads, Seafood, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Fasting Diet, Gluten free, Healthy, Lentil, Salad, Smoked Salmon
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Day Recipe Idea Under 300 Calories. Red Lentil Dahl With Roasted Vine-Ripened Cherry Tomatoes, Green Beans and Mint.
Red Lentil Dhal makes a brilliant 5-2 fast day diet meal solution. Low in calories, healthy and bursting with flavour it marries well with a wide variety of seasonal vegetables. It’s early summer here, so today I used green beans, … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Beans, Dhal, Fasting Diet, Healthy, Lentils, Mint, Tomatoes, Vegetarian
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 100 Calories. Grilled Corn Salsa.
To commemorate the first day of summer we fired up the barbecue and roasted a couple of ears of corn. This incredibly healthy and delicious Grilled Corn Salsa is very easy to prepare, playing a starring role in a low … Continue reading
Posted in Salads, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Capsicum, Chilli, Corn, Fasting Diet, Healthy, Salad, Spring Onion, Summer, Tomato
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Meal Idea Under 400 Calories. Spicy Chinese Style Roasted Green Beans With Stir Fried Pork.
Inspired by a glorious platter of Szechuan green beans recently enjoyed at a favourite Chinese restaurant, this meal idea is incredibly tasty and highly addictive. Traditionally the beans are deep fried in hot oil until blistered, then stir fried with … Continue reading
Posted in Pork, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Beans, Chinese, Fasting Diet, Healthy, Intermittent Fasting, Pork, Spicy, Stir Fry
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 100 Calories. Egg Omelette And Nori Rolls Filled With Fresh Salad.
This is almost too good to be true. A fresh and delicious 5-2 fast day meal option for under 100 calories. Egg Omelette and Nori Rolls. Based on the idea of sushi rolls. Without the rice. I’ve always marvelled at how long … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Egg, Fasting Diet, Gluten free, Healthy, Nori, Omelette, Salad, Vegetarian
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. The 5-2 Diet. Putting It All Together. For Under 500 Calories a Day.
It sounds to good to be true. Eat whatever you like, within reason, five days a week. Drastically restrict your calories to just a quarter of your recommended daily intake for the remaining two non consecutive days a week. Feasting … Continue reading
Posted in Musings & Inspiration
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Fasting Diet, Food, Healthy, Low Calorie, Recipe, Under 500 Calories
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. 5-2 Diet Recipe Ideas Under 400 Calories.
Here is the fourth instalment of my 5-2 diet recipe ideas by calorie count category. Each image in the picture gallery represents a recipe that carries an energy count between 300 and 400 calories per serve. Given the only meal I … Continue reading
Posted in What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Fasting Diet, Food, Healthy, Low Calorie, Recipe, Under 400 Calories
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. 5-2 Diet Recipe Ideas Under 300 Calories.
The key to a successful fast day? Healthy meals that pack a flavour punch. The perfect plate? Seasonal. Prepared from scratch. Low in fat and carbohydrate. Includes a moderate amount of lean protein. Jam-packed with vegetables, herbs and spices. Vibrant. Colourful. Full … Continue reading
Posted in What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Fasting Diet, Food, Healthy, Low Calorie, Recipe, Under 300 Calories
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Eat, Fast And Live Longer. 5-2 Diet Recipe Ideas Under 200 Calories.
All of the recipes in the gallery above are between 100 and 200 calories per serve. Ranging from traditional brunch offerings of smoothies, compote and eggs to more substantial soups and salads. On occasion I have made three selections from … Continue reading
Posted in What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, 5:2 Diet, Diet, Fasting Diet, Food, Healthy, Low Calorie, Recipe, Under 200 Calories
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