Filling five two diet recipes

Looking for 5:2 diet inspiration? Here are some tasty AND filling meal suggestions for only 500-600 calories a day!

If you're feeling a tad uninsipired by recipe suggestions for the 5:2 diet then look no further. We've listed our favourite recipe ideas for the diet du jour from The Fast Diet Cookbook, by Mimi Spencer and Dr Sarah Schenker (£14.99, Short Books). Happy eating!

Breakfasts:

• Soft boiled egg (1) with asparagus spears = 90 calories

• Watermelon with a quartered fig and parma ham = 185 calories

• Yoghurt, plums (2, quartered), flaked almonds (1tbsp) and 2 tsps agave nectar = 264 calories

• Grilled portobello mushroom, cherry tomotoes, spinach and a paoched egg = 124 calories

• Prawn omelette (2 eggs, 30g prawns, 1/2 courgette) = 207 calories

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Lunches:

• Ratatouille with rye bread toast = 173 calories

• Beetroot soup with a spoon of creme fraiche = 116 calories

• White crab and artichoke salad = 226 calories

• Tuna Fagioli (tinned tuna, tinned beans, red onion, lemon juice, tomatoes, parsley) = 286 calories

• Mushrooms stuffed with mozzarella, pecorino and spinach = 159 calories

Dinners:

• Smoked haddock with wilted spinach and a poached egg = 211 calories 

• Salmon fillet with pesto and ribbon vegetables = 327 calories 

• Turkey burgers with tomato salsa and corn on the cob = 333 calories

• Lean pork meatballs in tomato sauce with steamed kale = 264 calories

• 2 egg omelette with emmental cheese, tomato and rocket = 300 calories

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