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BBC Budget Meal Plans

New recipes from the Test Kitchen this week We’ve been busy in the Test Kitchen developing and testing recipes for BBC Food. So far, we’ve created four different meal plans designed to work together and provide a week’s worth of budget recipes. Whether you are looking for ideas for a family of four or six, or recipes for one or two, I hope you’ll be inspired. Our budget was no more than £10 for the single person meal plan, per week, and £1 per recipe per person for …

A Very Different Christmas

A few weeks ago, I appeared on ITV This Morning sharing my ideas for a more flexible festive season. Everything I made could be divided into portions, including the turkey! To watch the full piece, which aired live on the programme with Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, click on the link here – or read the tips and recipes below. Making individual portions is a great way to avoid waste. Only take out what you need when you need it – great if numbers change, or if you need to …

The Fast 800 Recipe Book – One Year On

It’s hard to believe that more than a year has passed since the publication of the Fast 800 Recipe Book. I loved working on the book alongside Dr Clare Bailey and it’s been amazing to see it become such a resounding success. Every day I hear stories of how people are conquering their weight loss goals with the help of the Fast800, following our Mediterranean style recipes alongside Dr Michael Mosley’s best-selling plan. Since the launch of the book the Test Kitchen has been as …

Freezing Sandwiches – ITV’s This Morning

After a long and uncertain Summer, schools are settling back in and it’s time to start getting back to some kind of routine. Whatever the new normal might bring, some things remain the same, and by lunchtime kids will be looking forward to lunch! If your mornings rush by in a frantic blur, it might be best to get ahead and freeze sandwiches for the week. On a recent visit to ITV’s This Morning, I joined Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes in the studio kitchen to share some of my top tips …

Fast 800 Recipes

It’s non-stop in the Test Kitchen at the moment and I’m thrilled to be working on some really delicious, health-focused recipes with Dr Clare Bailey – GP, health columnist and Dr Michael Mosley’s long-term collaborator (and wife!). Clare has been joining us in the kitchen, creating some brilliant ideas for a cookbook to go alongside this year’s bestseller The Fast 800. Our new recipes are packed with protein, low in carbs and calories, and make the most of gorgeous …

The Healthy Gut Handbook

Over two years ago I read The Diet Myth, Professor Tim Spector’s brilliant book on food, nutrition and microbes, learning how trillions of tiny organisms in our guts can influence our weight, mood and immune system. I was so impressed and intrigued by what I read that I was very keen to write a recipe book to partner Tim’s research. The research into good gut health is so new, and the field so lively and varied, that I’ve read hundreds of reports, articles, features and studies in order to …