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Leaner Life: Smoked Mackerel with Scandi Salad
This one pot wonder makes for a fantastic breakfast or weekend brunch and will definitely set you up for a good day! Packed full of protein, good fats and colourful sources of phytonutrients. It’s dead easy, super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
Leaner Life: Spicy Salmon & Mango Salsa
This one pot wonder makes for a fantastic breakfast or weekend brunch and will definitely set you up for a good day! Packed full of protein, good fats and colourful sources of phytonutrients. It’s dead easy, super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
Leaner Life: Smoked Mackerel, rainbow salad and Haricot Beans
This one pot wonder makes for a fantastic breakfast or weekend brunch and will definitely set you up for a good day! Packed full of protein, good fats and colourful sources of phytonutrients. It’s dead easy, super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
Leaner Life: Prawn, Chorizo and rainbow rice
This one pot wonder makes for a fantastic breakfast or weekend brunch and will definitely set you up for a good day! Packed full of protein, good fats and colourful sources of phytonutrients. It’s dead easy, super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
Leaner Life: Parma Ham Wrapped Cod
This one pot wonder makes for a fantastic breakfast or weekend brunch and will definitely set you up for a good day! Packed full of protein, good fats and colourful sources of phytonutrients. It’s dead easy, super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
Tools to use at home to help you monitor weight
If you want to lose fat and build muscle, our guide to the best tools to use at home to help you monitor weight and track your progress could help. Without a shadow of doubt, it is HARD to maintain the right habits for fat loss in our current environment. Everything is against you: Technology increasingly reduces the need for movement Tasty junk food temptation abounds Processed foods are easier and cheaper to access [...]
How much protein do I need?
Why all the fuss about protein and how much protein do I need? If you’ve ever been on a quest to lose body fat or build muscle, chances are your coach has emphasised protein ad nauseam. Why? What’s the big deal? What’s wrong with your toast and fruit for breakfast? Especially with the growing vegan sustainability movement, you may question whether it’s worthwhile. Seems like a lot of animal-product to consume. Time to clean [...]
Leaner Life: Greek Salad Omelette
This one pot wonder makes for a fantastic breakfast or weekend brunch and will definitely set you up for a good day! Packed full of protein, good fats and colourful sources of phytonutrients. It’s dead easy, super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
Leaner Life: Mexican Bean Chilli
Updated by Rachel Surgeoner: This is one of my go to recipes. It's full of bold flavours and you can play around with the heat levels. The salsa cuts through the chilli and the guacamole gives that wonderful creamy zing topped with more lime. It's a great dish to share with the family whilst not being too high in calories.
Leaner Life: Healthy Vegetarian Breakfast
I'm always on the hunt for a breakfast that gives you some kick in the morning. Packed with protein this Veggie Eggie Breakie doesn't disappoint and will keep you full until lunchtime (or you can have it anytime of the day). Heat the oil in a large deep frying pan and add the finely chopped leeks to start to soften. Add the chopped courgette and red pepper when the leek has started to cook. Give them a couple of minutes to soften before adding the tomatoes, mushrooms and spinach. When they have wilted a little spread your feta evenly and make 4 little circles in your veggie mix...
Leaner Life: Spicy Aberdeen Angus Burger with Sweet Potato Fries & Salsa
Low calorie and low guilt burgers full of protein are this weeks nutritional inspiration. Great for the kids as well. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees °C Cut the sweet potatoes into long chunks leaving the skin on. Place them on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with chilli flakes then place into the oven for 40mins. Finely chop the onion and soften over a low heat in some olive oil. Add the finely chopped/grated garlic once the onion has started cooking.
Leaner Life: Thai Salmon Curry
This is a really simple, quick and delicious dish. One for the week. Follow the instructions below for a mouth watering meal. Cook the tender-stem broccoli for 4 mins in boiling water. When you drain the broccoli keep the cooking water and run the broccoli under cold water. In a wok soften the onion in a good dollop of coconut oil. Add the garlic and the grated ginger and half of the red chilli. Cook for about 4 mins until everything is soft. Add the pepper and courgette and cook for another 3/4mins.
Leaner Life : Pure
LEANER LIFE : PURE Updated by Rachel Surgeoner: Pure offers a wide variety of food that is all cooked/prepared fresh onsite everyday. Out of all the local eatieres we have reviewed, Pure has the most amount of dishes that work within our guidelines. Pure have a number of environmental and social programmes/processes in place. To name a few, all Pure stores are powered by 100% renewable energy, they also donate any unsold [...]
Leaner Life : Pret
THE HEALTHIEST OPTIONS AT PRET Updated by Rachel Surgeoner: Coffee shop or sandwich shop? It doesn’t really matter. Sandwiches, soups and salads make up the majority of the menu. The majority of food is prepare fresh on site everyday. Pret are committed to animal welfare and a reduction in plastic waste, which is good to see from a business of this size. Pret also have an amazing food waste program, in which [...]
Leaner Life : LEON
LEANER LIFE : LEON Updated by Rachel Surgeoner: Good tasting, mediterranean inspired fast food. Leon’s menu is based around the fruit and vegetables that are in season. Not only does this add to the taste of the food, it is also better for our environment (should we really be importing vegetables from half way across the world?). Leon also source fish, meat and poultry responsible and sustainable suppliers. Here’s our recommendations… [...]
Leaner Life : Lunch with Itsu
LEANER LIFE : LUNCH WITH ITSU Updated by Rachel Surgeoner: Asian inspired food, all made onsite, including the sushi. The salmon is ethically sourced from Scotland and the Norwegian fjords and they have 50 dishes under 500kcal. Here is Proathlon’s recommendations for this tasty lunch on the move… LEAN CHICKEN ZERO SALAD PROTEIN 19.3 CARB 8.4 FAT 6.1 FIBRE 9.2 LOW CARB [...]