Main Meals

Watching the whole family tuck into the weekly Sunday roast while you enjoy a salad isn’t an option. With a little forethought and creativity you...

Starters are not always part of our home-cooked meals, although people enjoy them when eating out. They are a useful addition to low calorie...

Vegetables are packed full of health-protecting nutrients to keep our bodies going and it’s been proved that eating more vegetables every day is one...

There is a wealth of variety in the seafood on offer, from succulent, nutritious fillets of white and oily fish to healthy seafood platters of prawns...

Do you ever have a longing for a favourite meal and change your mind because you are wary of piling on the calories - and the pounds? It is still...

When it comes to seasoning our food, we have an impressive array of spices and flavourings at our disposal. Learning to use them in ways which...

There’s nothing like the smell of a barbecue filling the hot summer air and making the taste buds tingle. When you are watching the calories,...

It is a fact that for most of us the comfort foods which cheer us most tend to be high calorie foods that leave us feeling guilty later. With some...

All kinds of meat, whether beef or pork or lamb, are excellent sources of protein and make the kind of filling dishes traditionally regarded as...

Nobody wants to be the Billy-No-Mates at parties, stuck in the corner with a healthy fruit platter and telling everyone how many calories there are...

Potatoes have been subjected to some very unfair slurs by dieters over the years. They have been booted off the low calorie menu but it's the...

Poultry is a good source of protein in our diets and the versatility of the meat makes for a huge variety of recipes. Chicken, and particularly...

Whatever the main focus of a meal, be it meat, fish, poultry or game, you can add variety to the dinner plate, in taste and colour, with imaginative...

Sauces can transform the most ordinary meal and make it irresistible. However, if we are following a low calorie diet we may feel we have to play...

Do you have a sweet tooth, or a savoury tooth? Most of us have a preference for one kind of food or another - but in both cases we need to take...

Risotto is an Italian favourite that has been enjoyed around the world for generations. Originally a starter it’s now enjoyed as a substantial,...