Low Calorie Dinner

King Prawn & Chicken Skewers

full meal only 440 Cals

This light and colourful dish is both tasty and filling and packed with vitamins

Chicken
Cabbage
Cherry Tomato
King Prawns
Mushrooms, button & one large mushroom
Mozzarella (3g)
2 small sweet  peppers
4 sprouts
1 tablespoon sweetcorn
Coriander to garnish

Seasoned chicken & prawns with paprika

Under 400 Calorie Fish Dish

Following our theme for ideas for your Fast Day:

The above shows the raw ingredients for the tasty but low in calories Fish Dish.

Ingredients:

Large mushroom with 3 sliced cherry tomatoes - 50cals (100grm total)
Corn on the cob  - 50 cals
Red Pepper - 40 cals
assorted peas & beans - 50 cals (100grm)
9 large frozen king prawns - 96 cals
Frozen cod in parsley sauce - 110 cals

393 calorie fish dish

                                              

500 Cal Meals

This weeks menu under 500 cals was tasty, simple to make and quite filling.

Chicken & Noodle Soup - 70 Cals

Fish Dinner -

Birds Eye Salmon with Thyme & Lemon Sauce - 230 Cals
Corn on the cob - 50 cals
Sprouts - 40 cals
Sugar Snap Peas - 40 cals
mushrooms - 25 cals

Total 425 Cals


More Fast Ideas

Under 500 Cals

Doing the Fast Diet? - Under 500 Cals dish ideas 

  More Details about this diet

Here I will be adding dishes as and when I complete my fast days so that you can actually see what under 500 cals really looks like.

Chicken Stir Fry under 400 Cals

150 grams chicken
100 grams sugar snap peas
50 grams mushrooms
3 strawberrys
3 carrot battons
seasonng to taste

Directions
Stir fry using 1 cal spray in a none stick pan

Dinner Idea
Tomato and Basil soup for starters - 110 cals
Chicken Stir Fry - 340 cals
hot chocolate drink - 40 cals
Total  490 cals


Remember, ladies get to eat 500 cals on a fast day and guys get to have 600

More Fast Ideas

Prawns & Strawberry Fast Diet Food

Under 500 Calories 

This recipe is ideal if you are following the Fast Diet and are wondering to what to eat on your fasting day. 

Only 350 calories

Ingredients

125grams of fresh cooked prawns

3 large strawberry's

4 baton carrots

quarter of iceberg lettuce finely chopped

sprinkle of fresh coriander

Seasoning - Sea Salt, Black Pepper,Toasted garlic

Why not add a bowl of home-made carrot and coriander soup plus one tangerine and the total sum would be  aprox 480 to 500 cals. 

Remember if you are on the fast diet, this is just one day and you can eat & drink whatever you normally do for the next 5 days and still lose weight. 

See "following the fast diet"

The Fast Diet

The  Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley & Mimi Spencer

  Is this just another diet book? Actually no its not, this is finally the book that can at long last find us as a nation getting healthier, and lighter. The title really says it all - "Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer" and it does exactly what it says on the tin and there are many testimonials to back it up. 

Why does this diet book make sense?  When the author Dr Michael Mosley whom is a medical journalist with the BBC first alerted us to this book, he did so only after presenting us with some amazing and scientific facts. As a 55yr old guy who was getting to the age when being overweight was causing other problems and could lead to an onset of diabetes he decided to see if all the scientific facts of dieting added up. Discovering that he did you can read how and why fasting in the way he describes really does work. The best bit about this is that for the rest of the week you can eat and drink normally and you will still lose weight. Is it too good to be true?..... Well according to one of the many testimonials I think not... 

A busy mum with 3 children writes " This diet fits beautifully round my social life, as the fast days are so flexible. Its not that hard to resist temptation for one day because I know the next day I can have donut or a curry and a few glasses of wine if I want  and without feeling guilty. The proof is, literally, in the pudding, I have been eating like this but sticking to my 500 cals on a fast days I am still losing the weight"

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Tzatziki

Greek Yogurt and Cucumber Sauce also known as Tzatziki

Having just come back from a holiday in Corfu, I fell in love with the Tzatziki. This of course varies slightly as some people prefer to use dill instead of mint, however I loved the freshness of this particular recipe Its easy to do, however to make it just right you do need to allow plenty of time for the  preparation. 

Ingredients

Greek Yoghurt either normal or low fat

1x Lemon

1x cucumber

garlic clove x 2

fresh mint - few pieces 

sea salt

Directions

Sieve the yoghurt for 2 hours. I used doubled up kitchen roll over a jug securing with an elastic band and poured the yoghurt in it to drain for 2hrs. This is important as this will remove any unwanted water from the yoghurt and ensure your tzatziki is the right consistency.

At the same time I also peeled and de-seeded the cucumber. Then I chopped into pieces added to a sieve and sprinkled sea salt on and also left to drain over a bowl for same amount of time.

Add  cucumber, galic, salt and pepper and sprigs of mint to a blender and mix well. Add the blended mixture to the strained yoghurt and stir well. Put in fridge and leave for another 2 hours so that all the flavour blends.

Serve with crusty bread or crackers for a really healthy snack any-time day or night.