Simple, lighter recipes for any night of the week: soups, dinners, lunches, snacks and desserts that still taste like real food.
Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Turkey Chili: 3 g of Fat a Serving, Still Thick and Deep A pot of chilli made with regular beef mince runs to 18–22 g of fat a serving, and a fair amount of that is the layer you can see pooling on top. Swap in
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Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Chicken Parmesan: 9 g of Fat a Serving, Baked Not Fried Classic chicken parmesan is a cutlet shallow-fried in oil, buried under whole-milk mozzarella and served on buttered pasta. Done that way it lands somewhere near 30 g of fat a serving, most of it from
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Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Beef Stroganoff: 8 g of Fat a Serving Without Losing the Sauce Stroganoff is soured cream and butter poured over beef, and every low-fat version I had tried before this one split, went grainy, or tasted like beef in yoghurt. Which, to be fair, is what
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Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Chicken Pot Pie: 8 g of Fat a Serving, No Pastry Required Pot pie is one of those dishes people give up on first. The fat is not really in the filling — it is in the pastry, and in the butter-and-flour roux that makes the
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Lasagne at 5 g of fat per serving – extra-lean turkey mince, blended low-fat cottage cheese in place of ricotta, and mozzarella only on top.
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Creamy macaroni cheese at 5.4 g of fat per serving – a cornflour sauce and blended butternut squash replace the butter roux, with sharp cheddar for flavour.
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Eight weeknight dinners, every one under 3 g of saturated fat a serving — the number that actually moves LDL, with total fat and calories listed for each.
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Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Lentil Shepherd’s Pie with Cauliflower Mash (4 g of Fat) Shepherd’s pie is usually a fat trap: lamb mince, butter in the mash, milk or cream on top. This version rebuilds it from the bottom up — lentils instead of meat, cauliflower cut through the potato, and
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Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Baked Salmon with Lemon and Dill (5 g of Fat) Salmon has a reputation as a fatty fish, and it is — but the fat is the useful kind, and portion size does the work that avoidance usually does. A 130 g fillet lands at about 5
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Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Chicken Alfredo (No Cream, 5 g of Fat) Restaurant fettuccine alfredo is built from double cream, butter and a great deal of Parmesan — commonly 40–60 g of fat in a single plate. That is a week’s allowance for some people on a very low-fat diet,
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