Fancy living on 500 calories a day? Nope, me neither but I’ve seen a tonne of articles recently claiming to help people on the 5:2 diet get on well with their fasting days where they only eat 500 calories. Some of these articles are saying that you should start your day with 40g of porridge oats or some Belvita Breakfast biscuits and it’s just not sustainable, nor is it going to keep the person full. They’re also saying to blow at least half of the calories in the first meal of the day. Some of these meal plans don’t even have a lunch included but, I don’t know about you, I wouldn’t be able to last from breakfast until dinner on some sugary breakfast biscuits.
3 Tasty Ways To Eat More Vegetables
Eating clean is all about adding fresh, nutritional ingredients into every meal and as I’ve always loved fruit and veg anyway it wasn’t a massive jump for me to commit to a slightly ‘cleaner’ diet. Eating veg is a great way of getting full without eating shedloads of calories and obviously, they’re fab for you. Here’re 3 ways of getting more veg into your everyday diet!
3 Recipes That Love Honey
During my little clean eating stint I’ve been trialling a little bit of the Steens Raw Manuka Honey as a sweetener for a lot of my favourite meals and snacks. It’s amazing in porridge and in smoothies but I’ve got three recipes ideas to share with you today that I’ve also been really enjoying. So, what’s different about this honey to your average squeezy? Well for a start it’s a lot more opaque and doesn’t, in my opinion, taste as sweet as your average out-the-bottle honey.
My Favourite Lunches & Snacks This Week #CleanEatingChallenge
Last week, I finished my first full week of clean eating as part of the Clean Eating Challenge that my Crossfit Box runs and I thought I’d share some of my favourite lunches and snacks that I’ve had recently. Hopefully if you’re trying to eat a little bit healthier this will show you that you don’t have to eat really small portions. I’ve also recently got Invisalign so my meals are slightly bigger as I’m only eating 4 times a day as opposed to have three meals and two snacks or six smaller meals a day.
My Favourite Smoothies + WIN A Breville Blend-Active With AO.com
I love a good smoothie! They’re perfect for a quick fix in the morning or a refreshing hit of fruit or veg alongside a meal. Whether you’re into green juices or protein shakes the Breville Blend-Active Smoothie Maker is perfect for blending all your ingredients together smoothly. I thought I’d share with you a few of my favourite smoothie and shake recipes and give you guys the chance to win one for yourself courtesy of AO.com! All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below and check out the Ts & Cs at the end of the post.
Revolucion De Cuba Pre-Opening Night #MoveToCuba
I’m always wary of ‘opening nights’ as usually they’re not actually as good as the restaurant or bar would be as they were actually operating in my opinion. I’ve been to my fair share of press nights that have been a disappointment where you leave hungry and having only had one watery cocktail. Revolucion De Cuba has completely reincarnated my enthusiasm for press events after their event this week. Pretty damn awesome!
My Top 6 Things To Do In London
Incase you missed it – I went to London a few weekends ago for a quick city break and thought I’d share some of my favourite places and some recommendations for anyone who might be planning to head to London but aren’t sure what to do apart from the usual sight-seeing and shopping. I wasn’t the most au fait with London before this trip, I’d been a couple of times but would never say that I ‘know’ the city so it was fun to explore.
Cook Your Way To A Healthy Smile
Today I’m working with Simplyhealth to improve the nation’s dental health purely by adding a little bit more healthy food into our diets! They’ve created a really useful infographic all about which foods are great for dental health.
To work towards this cause, I received an organic food box containing a whole load of yummy stuff to create some healthy recipes from. There was chicken legs, pork sausages, celery, apples, mature cheddar cheese, semi-skimmed milk, baking potatoes, summer spinach (which by the way is HUGE), walnuts and some Brazil nuts. An awesome load of healthy food to kick off my week well. I love to eat and I aim to eat a pretty balance diet of mainly fresh, home-cooked food with the occasional naughty pizza.
Currently Craving: Middle Eastern Food
TravelBag have created this awesome interactive map of Dubai’s restaurants and have challenged me to choose some Middle Eastern food to create so before I tackle the actual cooking one day soon I thought I’d have a scout round Pinterest and see what lovely recipes I could find.
I love this kind of food anyway and I had similar whilst I was in Greece, they’re a fan of the pitta bread and Shawarma style of chicken which I really like. I’ve made falafel, a classic Middle Eastern snack, a few times and it’s actually so easy. All you have to do is blitz up chickpeas, spinach, feta, spices and flour in a food processor and form small patties of the mix before you fry them off.
Win A Pair Of Tickets to The BBC Good Food Show!
Fancy feeling all festive at this year’s BBC Good Food Show in either Birmingham or London? I’ve got the chance for you to win a pair of tickets to the show of your choice right here!
With mega-chefs like Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood, Hemsley & Hemsley and our absolute fave – Tom Kerridge, you’ve got the chance to watch amazing demonstrations, learn some new skills and answer those burning (sometimes quite literally) cookery questions!