Healthy makeover recipes
Enjoy all your favourite classic comfort foods, but with a slightly healthier twist, and check out our healthy makeover recipes. Brownies, sausage rolls, carbonara and flapjacks all get the lighter touch, plus many more.
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Healthy budget recipes
Veggie shepherd’s pie with cheesy root veg mash
Shepherd's pie gets a veggie makeover in our easy recipe. Swap meat for lentils and plant-based mince, then top with cheesy root veg mash.
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Healthy makeover recipes
Smoked fish pie with butterbean mash
Our easy smoked fish pie is topped with butterbean mash for a nutritious, lower-carb take on the family favourite. You can make it ahead, too.
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Favourite lamb recipes
Lighter Lancashire hotpot
Our lighter Lancashire hotpot is a better-for-you version of the family favourite, made with lean lamb, mushrooms and plenty of veg.
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5:2 recipes
Peri-peri spiced chicken with cauliflower rice and charred corn cobs
This flavour-packed peri-peri spiced chicken recipe is a perfect 5:2 diet main. Serve with cauliflower rice and charred corn cobs.
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Chicken curry recipes
Fruity chicken curry traybake
Take a pack of chicken breasts and make our easy chicken curry traybake – its creamy, fruity sauce is delicious with naan or rice.
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Snacks and nibbles
Root vegetable crisps
These homemade vegetable crisps are the perfect snack with a hot toddy and are cheaper and healthier than shop-bought alternatives.
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Healthy makeover recipes
Low-sugar mini plum pavlovas
We've given a classic recipe a healthy makeover and created these low-sugar mini plum pavlovas. Test them out on guests at your next dinner party.
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Vegan dinner recipes
Lighter caponata
Our lighter take on the classic Sicilian dish, caponata, is less than 250 calories per serving – perfect if you're following the 5:2 diet.
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Healthy family meals
Healthier steak and caper stroganoff
We've used half-fat crème fraîche and stretched two sirloin steaks to feed four people in our healthier steak and caper stroganoff.
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Teatime traybake recipes
Lighter plum and almond traybake
This moist and fruity almond and plum cake turns a teatime treat into something saintly that's lower in sugar and fat but still tastes sweet.
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Snacks and nibbles
Healthier vegetable spring rolls
These bundles of veg, encased in crispy pastry are brilliant all year round. Our healthier spring rolls are lower in fat and calories too!
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Ice cream recipes
Healthier chocolate ice cream
We've reduced the fat in our healthier chocolate ice cream recipe by using semi-skimmed milk and just enough cream to give it a wonderfully silky texture
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Chicken breast recipes
Healthier chicken satay
A lot of the calories in satay come from the peanut butter, so we’ve replaced a good portion of that with natural yogurt
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Healthy makeover recipes
Healthier beef stroganoff
We've made classic beef stroganoff a little healthier by using lean steak in a lighter, yet satisfyingly creamy mushroom sauce.
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Shepherd's pie recipes
Healthier shepherd’s pie
This healthier shepherd's pie recipe swaps some meat for lentils to reduce the fat, and uses cauliflower in the topping to cut down on carbs.
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