These days my most favourite picnic or packed lunch food dish is a frittata – I prefer it to a sandwich, salad or wrap. This one, made with seasonal broad/fava beans, mint and halloumi cheese is a new favourite and may well prove popular for those who avoid meat for whatever reason. You can use[Read More]
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Chicken and Courgetti/Zucchini ‘Heat-Me-Up’ Lunch Bowl: The Bariatric Cookery Lunch Box Club Idea 8
It’s hard to make the case for February – save to say it’s thankfully a miserly short month. Here in the UK it’s still cold, the days are brief and lacking much sun, and Spring seems an age away. But we still have to trundle into work and often equipped with little save a cold[Read More]
Tight-Budget Parsnip and Ginger Soup
Confessions first this early New Year – I haven’t quite or completely got back on track in a serious way! I am blaming illness in the house (and beyond) for this but I also must take some responsibility for the natural urge I have after the holidays to still opt for a bit of[Read More]
Hail Caesar! The Bariatric Cookery Lunchbox Meal Idea 7
Caesar Salad is a great lunchtime option, but the less healthy part of it – the oily croûtons and heavy dressing can often mean it’s not so great or ideal for the WLS lunchbox. But if you tinker with the croûtons and choose a light Caesar dressing then it makes a sensible and most enjoyable[Read More]
New Potato, Roasted Pepper and Tuna Salad: The Bariatric Cookery Lunchbox Club Meal Idea 6
Here’s a wonderfully simple lunchbox idea made with cooked new potatoes (in their skins) with roasted peppers, tuna and green salad leaves. Cooking the potatoes for this dish means they can be tossed in the dressing while still hot and they will soak up the flavours, but you can use leftover cooked ones if it[Read More]