Dish of the Day: Smoked mackerel salad
Serves 1
318 kcals per serving
Ingredients
1 tsp quark or low-fat, plain fromage frais
3 tbsp or ½ cup cooked green lentils or Puy lentils (1bsp or ¼ cup of 40g dry weight)
4 cherry tomatoes, halved
Ground black pepper, to taste
100g mixed salad leaves
50g or ½ fillet cooked mackerel, skin removed and flaked into pieces
Dish of the Day: Greek baked butter beans
Serves 4
311 kcal per serving
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour plus cooling
Ingredients
large onion, finely diced
2 cloves of garlic, finely diced
250ml LighterLife Savoury Stock
2 tbsp tomato puree
2 x 400g tinnerd chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp dried oregano
3 x 400g tinned butter beans, drained
Bunch fresh parsley, chopped
If you’re trying to lead a lighter life but feeling confused about what you should and shouldn’t be eating, look no further! We’ve looked at various food labels and identified the important facts about the nutritional information found on the foods you buy when you shop.So what do you know about what’s inside the food you’re eating?
If you’re living a lighter life and managing your weight after weight-loss the word ‘calorie’ can become a popular part of your vocabulary. We all know that eating too many can lead to weight gain, but do we understand what a calorie is and why it’s important in weight management?
Dish of the Day: Aubergine Couscous Salad
Serves 2
300 kcal per serving
Preparation time 5 minutes
Cooking time 20 minutes
Ingredients
2 tsp tahini paste, oil drained off
1 aubergine, sliced into disks
100g couscous (dry weight)
150 ml LighterLife Savoury Stock
1 tbsp pine nuts
8 cherry tomatoes, halved
3 spring onions, sliced
Small bunch mint, chopped
Juice of 1 lemon
Are you living a lighter life? Did you know that the typical full English breakfast contains over 1000 calories and a whopping 75.5 grams of fat?
We have been busy putting together our own healthier take on the traditional breakfast, swapping high-calorie ingredients with less calorific and lower fat options that still contain the same rich flavour, so now you can enjoy one of the nations favourite breakfasts guilt-free! The ‘grill-up’ is a delicious alternative to the stodgy British fry-up, and at 434 calories and 16.5 grams of fat, it won’t pile on the pounds!
Everyone at LighterLife is unbelievably proud of colleague Maxine Holland, a member of our Quality Assurance Team, who bravely took part in the mighty London Marathon challenge on Sunday 22 April and completed the gruelling 26.2 miles in just 5 hours, 12 minutes and 28 seconds…far exceeding her expected finishing time!
A highlight for Maxine was passing TOWIE star James ‘Arg’ Argent at around the half way point…
‘I was starting to flag and suddenly there was this huge crowd’
…that crowd was just the motivation Maxine needed, at that point in the race, to keep running.
Hair and make-up artist Roxanne New has over 25 years experience in the beauty industry, here she reveals to LighterLife some of her simple beauty tricks to roll back the years, surgery-free:
Start with skincare
Use a gentle, desensitizing cleanser to reduce redness and balance the natural oils in your skin. Dermalogica’s New Reformulated UltraCalming Cleanser will distress your skin.
Dish of the Day:
Chicken Pitta Pockets with Hummus Drizzle
Serves 1
Per Serving: 318 calories
Ingredients:
Cooked chicken x 50g, shredded
Finger length cucumber, cut into strips
Small carrot x 1, grated
Cress x 1 punnet
Reduced-fat hummus x 1 tbsp
Quark or low-fat, plain yoghurt or fromage frais x 1 tbsp
Wholemeal pitta bread x 1, cut in half and split open
LighterLife was very proud to sponsor ‘Sleepless in the City’ last month the first ever twilight walk held by The Stroke Association, continuing with the strong partnership that has been built with The Stroke Association over the last 4+ years.