Chicken And Vegetable Soup under 500 Calories! There’s nothing as heartwarmingly filling on a cold and windy evening than a bowl of home made chicken and vegetable soup. Bonus is that it contains very few calories meaning it can be enjoyed with 2 slices of seedy bread and REAL SALTED BUTTER (if I couldn’t have proper salted butter I just wouldn’t bother)! There’s no real method to my soup other than I make stock by boiling up a chicken carcass […]

Pumpkin Katsu Curry Recipe! Using up my leftover Halloween table decoration of a blue pumpkin has been lots of fun. The blue pumpkin turns out to be delicious (far less earthy than orange ones) and has lent half of itself to my sweet pumpkin puree which I have made into muffins, saved some in the freezer for a Christmas pumpkin pie and kept a jar of in the fridge for yogurt topping. You can see how I made the sweet […]

Pumpkin Soup Recipe! I used half my leftover Halloween blue pumpkin to make a sweet pumpkin puree which I used for muffins, yogurt topping and froze some of for a pumpkin pie (see my sweet potato puree recipe here) but with the other half I made a savoury pumpkin puree which went half way to making pumpkin croquettes for a katsu curry (see that recipe here) and half way to making this soup. The soup is super tasty and SO […]

Veggie Curry Under 500 Calories! After indulgences at the weekend I’m back to what some of my friends think is my extreme diet but actually… I don’t really mind it at all, especially when I get to eat yumminess like this. Basically I’m an all or nothing kind of gal & that’s why this, in the past, has always worked for me & hopefully still does. It’s kind of like the reverse 5/2 (diet for 5 off 2) but was […]

Mushroom Souvlaki Under 500 Calories! I am as of this morning 1stone and 1lb down from my starting point 5 weeks ago proving my Monday to Friday diet is working wonders. I eat 500 calories per week day mostly taken up in my evening meal and people keep asking me, with aghast looks, what on earth I’m eating on such few calories. This is why I’m sharing some of my best #Under500cals recipes because you’d be surprised at quite how […]

Spicey Falafel Flat Bread Wraps Under 500 Calories! **** SPICEY FALAFEL FLAT BREAD WRAPS UNDER 500 CALORIES **** . .I’m struggling to get all the ingredients for the regular food I make on my Monday to Friday low cal diet so I made these spicey falafel wraps with salad, raita & flat bread using things from my cupboard & left over bits & bobs in the fridge. Without meaning to blow my own trumpet it was absolutely delish. Easy, cheap […]

Cajun Prawn Courgetti Under 500 Calories! This was inspired by a dish in our @simplycookcom box which I have recently tried for £3 and liked very much but am not sure I’d want to part with £9 for. You get some great ideas if you struggle choosing what to make ending up with the same dishes over and over and the herbs and spices they deliver to go with the fresh ingredients and store cupboard fodder you already have are […]

Easy Empanadas! It seems to be rather conflicting about the origin of Empanadas when you Google them but they are definitely eaten in Spain, Portugal and Mexico to name just a few places. I first had them in a cafe in Leytonstone and I adored the sweetness to both the crumbly pastry (I’m not usually a pastry fan) and the filling despite the dish very definitely being savoury. They are little filled pastry pockets to eat as a light or […]

Veggie Chilli And Nachos Under 500 Calories! After some treats this weekend it’s time for me to get back on my 500 calories a day (during the week) diet which is working for me & after 2 weeks I’m 6lb down! That’s not to say I don’t have tasty food, not when it comes to this #Recipe at any rate! #Veggie chilli & nachos is delish, easy to make, super filling & even my kids don’t say a word about […]