What do you eat on your 500 calorie days ?

[bishboschone]

That is all..looking for ideas

Salad - leaves (spinach, rocket, watercress)
Crunchy veg - peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, grated carrot
Protein - hard boiled egg, chicken breast, prawns.

On FDs just lemon or lime juice or balsamic to dress, though I did yesterday tip a tub of grapefruit segments over my salad as a very refreshing dressing!

Garnish with snipped spring onion, sushi ginger, or some blobs of fake caviar (the black or red stuff from IKEA)

Don't know if this would work for you bish, but on FD I always eat the same things.
I reckon that as I'm a creature of habit (aren't we all?), that I'm able to stick to this way of eating as it's become a way of life now (13 months in / 4.5 stones weight loss).
As others have said, not having to think too much about food is a great help on a FD.
I swear there are more adverts for food on the telly on my FD's.
Breakfast is 2 home made, no fat, breakfast muffins (if you ignore the 2 eggs, which make 12 muffins) - recipe from somewhere on the internet, forgotten where.
1 small piece fruit mid afternoon.
Supper - home made Summer veg curry (recipe found here on MNet on the 5:2 recipe page).
The curry freezes OK (though it is definitely nicer when freshly made) so 1 batch of curry makes enough for 2 weeks worth of FD's.
1 small piece fruit for pud.
I drink tea with a splash of skimmed milk - as many cups as I feel I want.
This has become embedded now in my psyche so I know what comes next and when and I rarely feel hungry on FD's.
Good luck to all fasters.

Love this thread- its given me so many ideas

The miso soup I use (Wakame brand, available from Tesco) is 18 cals per sachet.

Zero noodles divide opinion - some people find them gross and slimy, others find them OK. They're certainly worth trying - though they are expensive if bought from Holland and Barrett. If you have an Asian store and can locate Konjac noodles, those are the same thing. Best served with a really spicy sauce or in a Tom Yum style soup.

And apologies - I was replying to the last post on the first age - doh!

Been doing it since mid-Jan and lost about 6lbs so far.

No breakfast other than a cup of tea - which I always drink with no milk or sugar anyway.

Lunch I try to keep under 200 cals. Day 1 usually a WW soup (between 77 and 87 cals), 2 breadsticks (23 cals each) and a WW fat free fromage frais. Day 2 either reduced fat houmous and crudites or a greek salad or salad nicoise.

Dinner up to 300 cals. Trying to be veggie on day 1 and fisshy on day 2. Last night was a small piece of steamed salmon, 5 small new potatoes and some green beans. I need some more evening meal ideas actually.

Oh and actually I always seem to end up thinking about or reading about food on fast days as it is BBC Food and Drink on fast day 1 and The Restaurant Man on fast day 2!

I've been doing 5:2 for about 16 months and just have dinner (I do have quite a few teas and coffees with milk though).

My dinners vary from very healthy (eg stir fry chicken & lots of veg) to lazy (ready meals, esp. M&S), and to lazy and odd (eg won ton soup from the takeaway, two bowls of porridge).

I did 5:2 for 12 weeks and lost just over 2 stone. I haven't done it for about a year and I haven't put any of the weight back on.

It's been brilliant.

I'm considering it again to get rid of 10lb or so that's hanging around. And just looked on here for inspiration.

How well does courgette ribbons work as a pasta substitute? I'm finding I feel quite ill nowadays after pasta but love it, so I'm looking for a viable alternative.

Thanks.

We always skip breakfast and lunch (other than black coffee/herbal tea) to save the cals for the evening. Tend to have prawns at least once a week (hot prawn salad, with prawns dry-fried with chilli, garlic, onion, lemon and basil) on an enormous plate of leaves. Then usually an oat bar with a cup of tea at bedtime. For me, it's about not going to bed hungry, as that's miserable. So by hoarding the calories till later, that really helps.

I have been having either a fuller-for-longer meal from M&S (beef rendang is my favourite), or a piri piri chicken breast from Tesco (this is one of my favourite things ever, they are so good).

www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=268236996

Both come in at about 315-350 cals, and I have some green beans and/or salad too.

The rest of the day is just a couple of milky coffees and mint tea.

First day for me today. Just black tea for breakfast (don't have milk or sugar anyway). I am having a pot of ready made soup for both lunch and dinner. The calorie count for both pots is 498. Other than that, lots of black tea, diet coke, maybe some mint or herbal tea along the way. Wish me luck, not feeling massively confident but will do my best. By the way Primal, a piri piri chicken breast sounds yum, may have to try.

Do - they are lovely.

I drink LOTS of mint tea on fast days. I am quite addicted.

Tonight I will be having a Greek salad omelette, (eggs, olives, mushrooms, a little onion, tomatoes and a little feta cheese melted on top).

370 cals if i follow the recipe exactly (which I will). I will make it for 2 people and pop it under the grill to melt the cheese, so it will be more like a frittata.

Gorgeous.

A massive cup of coffee at breakfast, with milk: 30 cal
Water and herbal teas through the day, miso soup for lunch if I'm desperate 18cal
No food till I get home at about 4pm: kids having a snack, I have my non-negotiable supplements (cod liver oil 9cal, rosehip powder preparation 40cal) and a cup of tea.
The dinner at about 6pm is protein and veg, joining in with the family, today some quiche 250cal, lots of steamed broccoli 60cal and possible a salad of lettuce and tomato 40cal

Dessert diet yoghurt 50 cal

That usually just about comes in at 500

Today is a bad example because of the shop-bought 'normal' quiche. More often I make chicken stir-fry, omelette or bake some white fish fillets with tomatoes then staying under 500 is easy. Even having just one grilled sausage is possible.

My basic rules for keeping low on fast days are no carbs and minimal fat. Green veg (not peas). Lots of water.

My losses depend on whether I have enough self-control to stay within my TDDE the rest of the time. should be easy really, but I find it hard no to join in when my active kids need to stop for a snack... Lost just under 1lb per week since mid-jan, I can live with that.

Sainsburys do a pack of lean beef slices with chilli flakes at 112 calories. Perfect for a FD lunch and incredibly tasty.

www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1394108949023

Can't make link work, sorry.

Breakfast: nothing
Brunch/lunch:11/12am - berry fruit & low calorie yoghurt or veg soup.
Dinner: omelette/salad/stirfry or low calorie ready meal - the meal soups from Sainsburys usually.
Drinks: low sugar cranberry juice & sugar-free squash.

Miso soup is great bishboschone Michael Mosley mentions it in the book quite a few times.

Sorry, I just replied to a first page post without scrolling to the end of the thread!!