The 5:2 Diet Cookbook: 120 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Your Two Days of Fasting

by Laura Herring, William Reavell (Photographer)

FEAST WHILE YOU FAST
Intermittent fasting is the quickest and healthiest way to lose weight. But fasting doesn't mean depriving yourself. With The 5:2 Diet Cookbook, you can easily reduce your intake to just 500 calories a day while still enjoying filling, great-tasting food. The recipes in this beautiful book are low in calories but high in flavor,
- Huevos Rancheros
- Tuscan Bean Soup with Toasted Garlic
- Tandoori Chicken with Minted Couscous
- Grilled Stuffed Peppers
- Stir-Fried Beef with Noodles and Chili
- Almond Fudge Crumble Cookies
- Green Apple Sorbet
- Spiced Hot Chocolate
Featuring a sophisticated, useful design to help you add up calories with ease, The 5:2 Diet Cookbook allows you to mix and match recipes to spread your mini meals throughout the day so you can eat well and feel full. Losing weight and feeling fantastic has never been so delicious.

Genres: Food, Cookbooks

308 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 8, 2013

Reviews

[Alexandra Chauran · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some cool low-calorie side-dishes, snacks and desserts. However, the author is on crack if she thinks they're simple to prepare, as she wrote in the introduction. These are all gourmet foods that are a giant hassle.

[Nattie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am all for intermittent fasting, but I have a different way of doing it. I prefer to fast one day with just liquid and eating the next day, and repeating the sequence. In my opinion, if you are chewing, that is not fasting. I believe the people behind the 5:2 diet have said it's not a "traditional" fast.

This cookbook only has about 20 recipes that I would actually eat, but that isn't so bad because you would only be cooking 6-8 meals per week. As with a lot of diet cookbooks, varying financial situations are not considered. I have to admit that I cannot afford to go on this plan, and we're just talking about the two days.

Most of the recipes require anywhere from 5 to over 20 ingredients, with an average of about 12. That's ridiculous. You're only getting about 8 ounces of food from each meal per serving. Going out and buying all those ingredients for 24 ounces of food per day is a lot to ask of most people.

I selected a breakfast, lunch, and a dinner for each of the two days. I decided to forgo the snacks. I was at the grocery store one day so I decided to price how much the 6 meals would cost. I could not believe it when my calculator showed a figure of around $140, that's $140 for two days of eating on a "fast." Wow! If I spent $140 on two days of food every week, I would be drinking tap water most of the month, because I would be too broke to even buy bottled water and cup-a-noodle soup.

I can be hungry for close to free and not waste any energy doing so, and there is no way I'm doing all that chopping, dicing, and cooking just to be hungry at the end of the day on an impractical plan. 20 ingredients for a meal of which I can only eat one serving of...as if!

[Bookish Enchantment (Katherine Quirke) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best cookbook I have found thus far for those on the 5:2 diet. Easy to follow and easy recipes.

[Robyn Prem · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great cookbook to go along with the 5:2 diet. Some good recipes.