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New Year Kick Start Plan

New Year Kick Start Plan

Need some guidance on getting your diet started? Our nutritionist has put together a 2 week healthy eating plan to give you some inspiration.

Here's how it works:

  • Simply pick and mix from the breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack suggestions. Choose one breakfast, one lunch, one dinner and one to two snacks each day.
  • The daily meal combinations typically contain 1200 - 1400 calories. It is important that you eat a minimum of 1200 calories per day.
  • In addition you have a 125ml semi skimmed milk allowance for tea and coffee. If you do not have milk in your drinks, have a Yoplait Petit Filous Fromage Frais (flavour of your choice) instead - approx 60 calories.

Breakfast Choices

Pick one each day. Don't be tempted to skip! Try to vary what you choose across the week.

Boiled eggs & wholemeal soldiers
1 medium egg (boiled), 2 slices of medium sliced wholemeal bread with 7g low fat spread on each slice.
293 kcals
13.6 g fat

per serving

40g porridge oats, 125ml semi-skimmed milk, 100g summer berries, 1 small apple.
278 kcals
5.6 g fat

per serving

Crunchy topped yogurt & fruit pot
125g natural low fat yogurt, 50g fruit compote, 30g honey granola; Layer the fruit and yogurt then top with crunchy granola.
263 kcals
9.5 g fat

per serving

Fruit salad with yogurt & cereal
140g homemade fruit salad (mixed fruit) 125g low fat fruit yogurt, 1 Alpen cereal bar.
251 kcals
2 g fat

per serving

Tropical fruit smoothie with a breakfast muffin & apple
Tropical fruit smoothie (see recipe), Sainsbury's Basics breakfast muffin and a small apple.
269 kcals
1.6 g fat

per serving

Poached egg and baked beans on toast
1 medium egg poached, 1 slice of wholemeal toast, 100g baked beans, 7g low fat spread.
259 kcals
9.7 g fat

per serving

Vegetarian Cooked breakfast
1 grilled medium tomato, 44g mushrooms fried in a little oil (tsp), 100g baked beans, 1 slice of wholemeal toast.
267 kcals
9.3 g fat

per serving

Grilled English breakfast
1 slice grilled bacon, 1 grilled chipolata sausage, a grilled medium tomato, 1 poached medium egg on wholemeal toast.
322 kcals
18.3 g fat

per serving

Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Bagel
1 Weight Watchers Bagel, 30g light cream cheese, 55g smoked salmon.
283 kcals
6.5 g fat

per serving

Lunches Choices

Carrot, coriander & sweet potato soup, wholemeal bread roll with cream cheese
1 pack of Sunbites Wholegrain snacks
Carrot, Coriander and Sweet Potato Soup, 1 small wholemeal roll with 35g Philadelphia soft cheese, 1 pack Sunbites Wholegrain Snacks.
406 kcals
19.1 g fat

per serving

Tomato & pepper soup, 2 Ryvita crispbreads with soft cheese & grapes
1 banana
Tomato and Pepper Soup, 2 x Ryvita Multigrain Crisp bread, 35g Low fat soft cheese, 100g bunch of grapes; Spread the Ryvita with cheese, slice the grapes and add to the Ryvita and cheese.
1 small banana.
397 kcals
12.9 g fat

per serving

Spicy omelette with mixed salad & avocado
Spicy Omelette served with mixed salad with half a medium avocado.
427 kcals
32.2 g fat

per serving

Tuna salad pitta bread with carrot & cucumber sticks
Tuna salad pitta sandwiches, 80g carrot and 23g cucumber sticks with 50g reduced fat houmous.
A low fat fruit yogurt topped with one crumbled 25% less fat rich tea biscuit.
429 kcals
8.7 g fat

per serving

Mackerel on wholemeal toast
125g can of mackerel in tomato sauce on 2 slices of wholemeal toast.
413 kcals
20.6 g fat

per serving

Jacket potato with tuna mayo & sweetcorn, 1 apple
100g jacket potato, 20g low fat spread, 80g of tuna, 80g of sweetcorn, 2 tsps low fat mayo; Cook the jacket potato and add the low fat spread. Mix the tuna, sweetcorn and mayonnaise and spoon over the jacket potato.
1 small apple
409 kcals
25 g fat

per serving

Lean ham, tomato & mayo sandwich with crisps
2 slices wholemeal bread, 2 slices lean ham, 1/2 a tomato, 30g light mayonnaise, 1 pack of Quaver crisps.
441 kcals
18.4 g fat

per serving

Turkey, pasta salad recipe.
416 kcals
12.7 g fat

per serving

Chicken and pepper sandwich recipe with fajita spice.
100g fresh strawberries halved.
428 kcals
7.4 g fat

per serving

Tomato & mushroom tortilla pizza
Low fat chocolate mousse
1 tortilla wrap, 15g tomato puree, 1 medium green pepper, 80g mushrooms, 30g grated cheese, 1 medium tomato, 30g handful of rocket.
Low fat chocolate mousse.
448 kcals
18 g fat

per serving

Dinners Choices

Provencal Beef Slow Cooker Stew, with mashed potatoes & winter vegetables
Yogurt & apple
Provencal Beef Slow Cooker Stew recipe served with 120g of mashed potatoes, 80g carrots and 85g broccoli.
1 pot of low fat fruit yogurt (125g), 1 x 100g apple.
502 kcals
13.5 g fat

per serving

Veggie Chilli with brown rice & salad
Fresh fruit salad
Veggie Chilli recipe served with 50g brown rice and 30g (2tbps) of low fat crème fraîche. Mixed leaf side salad.
140g homemade fruit salad.
500 kcals
12.4 g fat

per serving

Rosti Topped Turkey Pie with roasted vegetables
Rosti Topped Turkey Pie recipe served with roasted root veg (50g sweet potato, 65g parsnip, 50g butternut squash) with spray oil.
1 Muller Rice dessert (1% fat).
487 kcals
6 g fat

per serving

Lime & Honey Stir Fried Pork with egg noodles
Strawberries & crème fraîche
Lime and Honey Stir Fried Pork recipe served with 75g egg noodles.
100g fresh strawberries and 30ml low fat crème fraîche.
491 kcals
22.2 g fat

per serving

Red Pesto Chicken with new potatoes & green beans
1 pear
Red Pesto Chicken recipe served with 120g new potatoes, 90g green beans.
1 x 170g pear.
514 kcals
13.4 g fat

per serving

Grilled Salmon Fillet with mashed potato, broccoli & green beans
Strawberries & low fat yogurt
Grilled salmon fillet recipe served with 90g (2 tbps) of mashed potato, 90g green beans, 85g broccoli.
Low fat fruit yogurt with 100g fresh strawberries.
488 kcals
19.6 g fat

per serving

Quorn Shepherd's Pie with broccoli
Peaches & ice cream.
Quorn Shepherd's Pie recipe served with 85g broccoli.
120g tinned peaches and 60g (1 scoop) of vanilla ice cream.
499 kcals
12.6 g fat

per serving

Chicken Risotto with mixed salad
Raspberry jelly pot
Chicken Risotto recipe with mixed salad.
Low sugar Raspberry Jelly Pot.
537 kcals
8.2 g fat

per serving

Creamy Bacon & Mushroom Carbonara with mixed salad peppers
Fresh grapes
Creamy Bacon and Mushroom Carbonara recipe served with mixed salad with 4 rings of coloured peppers and 15ml Pizza Express Light dressing.
100g red grapes.
488 kcals
15 g fat

per serving

Spicy Beef Stir Fry with wild rice
Fresh fruit salad
Spicy Beef Stir Fry recipe served with 125g long grain and wild rice mix.
140g Homemade fruit salad.
497 kcals
11.7 g fat

per serving

Apple, Orange & Ginger Pork Chops with peas & sweetcorn
Yogurt & summer fruit compote
Pork Chop recipe served with 120g boiled potatoes, 85g peas and 50g sweetcorn.
100g natural yogurt with 50g summer fruit compote.
498 kcals
8.7 g fat

per serving

Smoked Haddock Pie, cauliflower, broccoli & carrots
Weight Watchers Belgian Chocolate Mousse
Smoked Haddock Pie recipe served with 90g cauliflower, 85g broccoli and 80g carrots.
Weight watchers Belgian Chocolate and Vanilla Mousse.
475 kcals
7 g fat

per serving

Turkey Meatballs in Tomato Sauce with tagliatelle
Fresh galia melon
Turkey meatballs recipe served with 50g tagliatelle pasta.
300g (2 slices) of galia melon.
551 kcals
17.3 g fat

per serving

Veggie Burgers with sweet potato wedges & salad
1 apple
Veggie Burgers in a flour tortilla (recipe) served with 65g sweet potato wedges, mixed salad.
1 x 100g apple.
491 kcals
11.4 g fat

per serving

Snacks Choices

Low fat fruit yogurt of your choice
112 kcals
0.9 g fat

per serving

Cereal bar (e.g. Alpen Fruit & Nut)
109 kcals
2.2 g fat

per serving


95 kcals
0.1 g fat

per serving

Muller rice dessert pot
143 kcals
3.1 g fat

per serving


68 kcals
1 g fat

per cookie

Two digestive biscuits
140 kcals
6.3 g fat

per serving

Sunbites Wholegrain Snack with 40g Doritos
Mild salsa dip
130 kcals
5.5 g fat

per serving

Fruit sticks & crème fraîche dip
200g Pre-prepared fruit sticks (from any supermarket) dipped in 30ml half fat crème fraîche.
130 kcals
4.9 g fat

per serving

Fruit sticks & crème fraîche dip
Based on 250ml bottle of Innocent Strawberry and Banana Smoothie.
130 kcals
4.9 g fat

per serving

Fruit smoothie
Based on 250ml bottle of Innocent Strawberry and Banana Smoothie.
140 kcals
0.3 g fat

per serving

Veggie sticks with houmous
30g Carrot, 23g cucumber and 30g celery sticks dipped in 60g mini pot of reduced fat houmous.
100 kcals
5.7 g fat

per serving

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