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Hi all, I'm new to the 5:2 world and am wanting to diversify my evening meals on fast days. Could some kind person/s give me some ideas please?
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Hi Selena, I'm with you here, first day today.
I was going to have some plaice for dinner with rice and lemon jucie. Doesn't sound inspiring yet I know, so if you get any other ideas let me know

Hello!

I put all my 5:2 recipes up on my blog, they are all healthy and balanced, and generally are under 250 cals per portion - feel free to have a look

http://imcountingufoz.com

I think it's fair to say I wouldn't have continued this diet past week 2 without the hairy dieters cookbook. There's a fair few recipes here and more elsewhere online but well worth buying the book. I've tried 4 or 5 different main meals and they've always been extremely tasty to the point they made you wonder how they were as low cal as they said.

http://tinyurl.com/9ubj4am

Tonight's dinner hasn't been decided, but the last two fast days meals I had (I just have one meal in the evening) were:

Salmon fillet 'pan fried' which actually means a spritz of fry-light in the pan, salmon in flesh side down, lid on, turn over after a few minutes and cook through, remove skin. Served with 1/2 sachet tilda brown microwave rice and a bag of sainsburys prepared veggies - carrot, broccoli and courgette, a tsp light soy sauce, plus 100g strawberries for dessert. 500cals

Whole tin (drained) of chickpeas heated through with 80g grilled lean bacon (all fat removed), 100g chopped fresh tomatoes, 100g baby spinach, dressed with 25ml hellmans fat free vinaigrette. 453 cals (I had a square of Lindt 70% choc as well which pushed me over to 514 cals)

I don't have any fantastic ideas but I don't eat meat and quorn ready meals are very low cal and you can pad them out with veg. I am having quorn frozen shepherd's pie and its 213 calories. Leaves me enough to allow 8 cups of tea and a hotdog finger roll with my dinner tonight. Roll on 6pm!! X

Haha. That's not all them villas with my dinner

I've been posting my recipes to my blog as well.

Thanks guys, some good stuff so far! I'm fasting tomorrow and not decided what to have

I find I get more for my 500 cals if I avoid the very carby things like bread, cereals, rice, pasta.

My dinners are usually based around a small piece of protein (chicken breast, slice of ham, seafood is great - prawns, scallops, crab meat etc) with a pile of veg (steamed leeks or courgettes, my little microwave saucepan is brilliant for these)

Or else a veggie soup, usually well flavoured with Tom Yum or similar paste.

I've been posting my recipes to my blog as well.

NikkiN, your blog is lovely, and those recipes are mouthwatering.

This is my lazy/very busy day staple which is very filling, takes three minutes to make and is actually delicious. I rinse and drain a pack of Zero noodles (made of yam and about ten calories per pack) then cook them in a pot of carrot or pumpkin soup (most supermarkets sell the fresh ones at c 180 cals) with a teaspoon of fresh chilli and a good handful of green vegetables- broccoli , spinach, whatever you like, plus some small pieces of chicken or- for meat-free days- quorn chunks. All around 300-350 cals. At the end of a fast day it really does full you up while feeling quite virtuous and leaves room for a treat. I now prefer the Zero noodles to rice or wheat ones and although they're not cheap they are satisfying when you want a carb-y meal.

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Check out the recipe section here on the forum! Lots of good ideas there too. Plus Moogie is working on a super addition where the recipes will be searchable according to various criteria (calories, type of meal, veggie etc.). Look out for it..she says it's coming very soon!

Thanks for that, I think I'm being a bit dim coz I can't find the recipe section? Can you post a link?
Ta x

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Go to the home page (link at top left of your page under the slice of pizza!) and there you will see all the sub-forums including the recipe section, the general chat section, questions forum and (my favourite) nerdy stuff!! Enjoy!