The Frugal Cook

Fellow 5:2 dieters will almost certainly have discovered prawns are a great fast day food. What you might not know is that brown shrimps ...

Sooner or later everyone on a diet turns to cottage cheese. Everyone except me, up to now. I’ve always loathed the stuff. But with ordi...

Although I find I can skip lunch more readily than I used to when I started the 5:2 diet there are days when the hunger pangs just won’t...

I know I've been banging on a lot about 5:2 lately so here's a recipe which isn't part of the diet or that you could run up a...

After 24 hours of eating pure protein* I was gagging for something veggie tonight and hit on the notion of trying to make a low calorie v...

It is, of course, not just what you eat on a fast day but how much you eat of it. 500 calories a day (or 600 if you’re a lucky male) is n...

I was particularly sad to hear of the death of cookery writer Katie Stewart the other day as her books were a bible as I was learning to...

Looking at the arctic scene out of the window this morning I must admit the last thing I wanted to do was fast but having worked out toda...