Breakfast
Fruit Explosion Smoothie
If you don't already have a NutriBullet or something similar I highly recommend you do. These smoothies are brilliant for breakfast or for an evening meal if you've had a big lunch and they are done in literally seconds.
Ingredients
- 1 Banana
- 1 handful Blueberries
- 1 nectarine
- 2 apricots
- 1 tsp chia seeds super food
- Coconut water fill to 3/4 full once all the ingredience is in
- ice cubes
Instructions
- Place all ingredience in pot screw on lid and blitz, job done!
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Lunch
Fayesfitbox Roasted Sweet potatoes
What a tasty combination this is, roasted sweet potato & caramelised onion with feta cheese and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. This dish is excellent hot or cold so works for an office lunch.
Ingredients
- 4 large sweet potaoes remove skin and dice
- 1 pack feta cheese or vegan replacement dice
- 1 large red onion slice
- 1 tbsp Coconut oil
- Balsamic drizzle
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180f whilst preparing the pnions and sweet potatoe.
- Get a large baking tray and add the coconut oil, sweet potatoe and red onions. Season with salt and pepper.
- Put the veg into the oven for 50 mins checking on and stirring every now and then.
- Dice the feta and take the potato out of the oven pour into a bowl and mix together then drizzle the balsamic on top.
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Dinner
Cod with Quinoa Explosion
Cod & Quinoa with Caramelized Red Onion, Bell Peppers, pineapple and Garlic.
The Quinoa can be served hot or cold I personally I like it best cold it's full of protien and flavour, an excellent meat replacement for vegetarians and vegans.
Ingredients
- 6 cod fillets
- 1 tsp Coconut oil
- 1 red onion diced
- 3 peppers diced
- 1-2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 cup of quinoa
- 3 cups of boling water
- pineapple
- 1 vegtable stock cube
- 3 courgettes
- lemon
Instructions
- Heat the coconut oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and peppers; cook for 10 minutes or until the veggies are tender and golden brown.
- Spiralise your courgettes.
- Once the peppers and onions are tender and golden brown, add the minced garlic and stir constantly for 60 seconds.
- Boil the kettle at 3 cups to the stock cube then pour combine with the vegtable and quinoa and leave to reduce and soften it will take about 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile add some coconut oil t a frying pan and cook the cod for approx 3 minutes each side and put the courgettes in the microwave for about 3 mins.
- Serve with a slice of lemon.
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Breakfast
Smoked Salmon, Eggs & Mushrooms
Lots of flavours here with smoked salmon,eggs, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and asparagus.
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 2 pieces smoked salmon
- 6 stems Asparagus
- 4 Mushrooms
- 6 Tomatoes
- 1 tbsn Coconut oil
Instructions
- Put eggs in water in a saucepan and turn on to med/high heat.
- Put frying pan on med/high heat and add coconut oil.
- Once oil is melted put in the mushrooms, tomatoes and asparagus.
- By now the water should be begining to boil, set your timer for 4/5 mins depending on how running you like your yolk.
- Keep turning the mushrooms and asparagus until cooked through.
- Take eggs off heat and run under cold water removing their shells, slice them length ways.
- Place the mushrooms, tomatoes and asparagus on the plate adding the eggs and salmon last.
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Lunch
Grilled watermelon and feta cheese salad
Deliciously juicy watermelon and feta salad, refreshingly perfect for the summer.
Ingredients
- 1 Baby watermelon
- 4 ounces Feta cheese
- 1 handful fresh basil leaves
- Balsamic drizzle
Instructions
- Cut the watermelon into inch thick chucks.
- Place under the grill it will takes approx 3 mins each side.
- Cut off rind and cut into 1 inch cubes
- Toss the watermelon in with the feta and torn basil leaves.
- Finally add the balsamic drizzle.
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Dinner
Chilli with cauliflower rice
Delicious healthy low carb version of a mexican favorite of mine.
Ingredients
- 500g Lean mince meat Source your meat from a farmers market or butcher where its organic and free range.
- 1 tin Tomatoes
- 1 large Onion
- 2 Red peppers
- 1 knorr Beef stock jelly
- 1/4 tsp Chill powder Less of more depending on how hot you like it.
- 1 tablespoon Balsamic vinegar
- 1 carrot grated
- 1 large Cauliflower
- 1 pot Total o% Greek yogurt
- 1 Tablespoon Coconut oil
- 1 tin Kidney beans
Instructions
- Put a wok onto heat with coconut oil the chop your onion.
- Add onion to wok and cook until translucent.
- Add mince meat and cook through until brown.
- Now add the chilli powder, balsamic vinegar, sugar, grate carrot and tomatoes.
- Boil a kettle ready to put in stock cube while this is bubbling away.
- Add about half a pint of water and stock cube to the wok and leave to simmer for 10 mins.
- Meanwhile chop the red peppers into small cubes.
- Now add the peppers and kindney beans.
- Now take your couliflower and cut of the hard stalks you dont need that part. Put the cauliflower into the food processor until it looks like white snow.
- Once the chilli sauce has reduced right down you are ready to take it off the heat and put the cauliflower in the microwave for 5 mins.
- Serve chilli with Greek yogurt on the side.
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Breakfast
Porridge with fresh fruit
Energising organic jumbo porridge oats made with coconut water and fresh fruit.
Ingredients
- 1 cup jumbo organic oats
- 1 Pint Coconut water
- 1 Banana
- 1 handful blueberries
- 2 strawberries
Instructions
- Put oats and coconut water into a saucepan on a medium heat.
- Meanwhile slice your fruit ready to put on top of porridge
- Make sure the oats are cooked to your liking then take of heat and place in bowl and add fruit.
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Lunch
Fayesfitbox Quinoa & Peppers
Quinoa with Caramelized Red Onion, Bell Peppers, pineapple and Garlic.
The Quinoa can be served hot or cold I personally I like it best cold it's full of protien and flavour, an excellent meat replacement for vegetarians and vegans.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Coconut oil
- 1 large red onion diced
- 3 peppers diced
- 1 cup of quinoa
- 3 cups of boling water
- 2 slices pineapple chopped
- 1 vegtable stock cube
Instructions
- Heat the coconut oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and peppers, cook for 10 minutes.
- Once the peppers and onions are tender add the quinoa and about 3 cups of boiling water mixed with the stock cube.
- Once simmering leave to reduce and soften it takes 15 to minutes.
- Once reduced add pineapple to serve.
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Dinner
Fillet of Steak & New Potatoes
Fillet of steak and sauteed new potaoes a fantastic post workout meal.
Ingredients
- 1 Steak fillet
- 1 tbsp Coconut oil
- 5 New potatoes
- 1 handful green beans
Instructions
- Preheat grill to 175f and place steak under once hot cook for about 5 mins each side depending on how well done you like it. I like mine medium well.
- Meanwhile put new potatoes cut in two into the microwave for 4 mins.
- Add coconut oil to a pan and add the green beans and new potato chucks turning occassionally and serve.
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Breakfast
Fill Me Up Breakfast
Somedays you make a breakfast and it looks so nice you don't want to eat it 😉 Who am I kidding nothing looks that nice!
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 2 slices Nitrate free organic Bacon
- 1 handful shiptake mushrooms
- 1 Tomatoe
- 1 tablespoon Coconut oil
- 1/2 Avocado
- 6 cherry tomatoes
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Put large frying pan on med/high heat and add coconut oil.
- Once oil is melted add in the mushrooms, tomatoes and bacon.
- When the mushrooms start to brown add the eggs, once they are done nearly dont flip them over for the last 20 seconds.
- Chop the avocado to serve garnish with pepper.
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Lunch
Chicken Fayesfitsoup
Homemade soups are a great luch option which you can make in batches and store. If you dont have a facility at work to heat food up a flask can keep it hot for up to 12 hours so there really is no excuse with this one 😉
Ingredients
- 2 white onions roughly chooped
- 2 Carrots roughly chopped
- 2 sticks celery roughly chopped
- 1 litre chicken stock
- 1 bay leaf
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 1/2 tbsp Coconut oil
Instructions
- Lightly fry vegtables in large saucepan with coconut oil until soft.
- Add stock, bay leaf and salt and pepper to taste.
- Shred the chicken from bone and 1/2 to soup and the bones for flavour, simmer for 20 mins.
- Remove bay leaf and bones then liquidise, return back to saucepan and combine with the remaining chicken to simmer for 5 mins and serve.
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Dinner
Carb free fish cakes
Delicious carb free fish cakes with avocado mashjust add lemon juice.
Ingredients
- 2 Filllets Salmon uncooked romove skin and chop
- 1 egg
- 1 avocado very ripe
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 cloves crush garlic
- 1 tbsp Coconut oil
- 1/2 lemon
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Remove skin and stone from avocardo place in bowl with white vinegar and mash. addsalt and pepper to taste.
- Remove skin from salmon fillets and chop into small pieces.
- Put a large frying pan onto heat adding coconut oil.
- Combine salmon with agg and salt and pepper.
- Put approx 2 tbsps of the fishcake mixture into the frying pan for each cake using all of the mixture up cooking for 2 mins each side.
- Serve with avocado mash and fressh lemon.
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Breakfast
I Heart Breakfast
When you have a good breakfast you don't get to hungry during the day and increases your chances of reaching your body goals.
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 2 slices Nitrate free organic Bacon
- 1 handful shiptake mushrooms
- 3 cherry tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon Coconut oil
- 1/2 Avocado
- 6 cherry tomatoes
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 1 hanful Kale
Instructions
- Turn on grill to 175 and place bacon and tomatoes on tray underneath.
- Paut a saucepan on to simmer and add kale.
- Put coconut oil in a frying pan and add mushrooms.
- When the mushrooms start to brown add the eggs, once they are done nearly dont flip them over for the last 20 seconds.
- Chop the avocado to serve garnish with pepper.
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Lunch
Fayesfitbox Honey & Ginger Chicken
Very popular sweet 'n' sticky chicken meal works well for a pack lunch or evening meal.
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts
- 1 thumb size piece fresh ginger
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- 6 tbsp soy reduced salt
- 6 tbsp Honey runny
- 1 lemon juice
- 10 Tomatoes sliced
- 1 cucumber sliced
- 4 handfuls spinach leaves
- 1 spring onion chopped to serve
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to 200 f.
- Mix the garlic, ginger, soy, honey and lemon togther in a bowl coat both sides of the chicken and marinate for 20 mins.
- Put chicken onto a baking tray leave marinade in bowl and cook for 20 mins. Then turn over brush with marinade and cook for a further 15 to 20 mins until cooked through.
- Prepare your salad for your lunch box or plate.
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Dinner
Butternut Squash Noodles with a Mushrooms and Garlic Sauce
Tasty butternut squash noodles with a garlic mushroom and caramelised sauce oinion thats totally gluten free. This dish can be made with butter intead of coconut oil if you are not folowing a vegan diet. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 Butternut Squash Medium size
- 1 tablespoon Coconut oil
- 8 ounces Mushrooms sliced
- 2 teaspoons Garlic powder
- Salt and pepper To taste
- 3 tablespoons Coconut oil
- 1 red oinion diced
Instructions
- Chop off the top of the the butternut squash, as well as the bulb with seeds and reserve for another use.
- Peel the rest of the squash until you no longer see green. You should be left with bright orange flesh. Cut in half and being to spiralize until you're left with all noodles.
- Heat the coconut oil and add the garlic powder and red onion cooking until soft.
- Add the mushrooms and cook until water released and the mushrooms start to brown, season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Meanwhile, melt the coconut oil in a separate pan over medium low heat. When it begins to bubble, add the squash noodles to the pan, tossing with tongs so the noodles get coated. Season with salt and pepper and cook noodles until they are al dente.
- Combine mushroom and oinion mixture and serve.
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Breakfast
Colourful fruit bowl
Brighten up the start of your day with this colourful fruit platter served with optional Total 0% Greek yogurt.
Ingredients
- 3 plums
- 1 handful Blueberries
- 2 slices pineapple
- 2 handfuls Strawberries
- 1 handful rasberries
- 2 tbsp Total Greek yogurt
- 8 cherries
- 1/2 mango
Instructions
- Chop plums, strawberries, mango and pineapple then add to a bowl with the blueberries, rasberries and optional total greek yogurt on the side for serving.
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Lunch
Mushroom Fajitas
I absolutely love mexican food its full of flavor and very filling. This no carb version is amazing and I'm sure you will love it as much a we do.
Ingredients
- 1 large red bell pepper diced
- 6 large yellow bell pepper cut in half, these are instead of tortillas
- 1 large green bell pepper diced
- 8 Mushrooms sliced
- 1 large red onion thin
- 1 tablespoon Garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon chilli powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pot of 0% total greek yogurt
- 1 large ripe tomato
- 3 avocado very ripe
- juice 1 large lime
- leaves handful coriander and stalks chopped, plus a few leaves, roughly chopped, to serve
- 1 small red onion finely chopped
- 1 chilli red or green, deseeded and finely chopped
- 250 g ripe vine tomatoes
- 1 small red onion
- 1 red chilli
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
Instructions
- Put the entire peppers in place of tortillas in the oven for 25/30 mins they need to be cooked through ready for the filling. I put tops i just put in for the last 15 mins so they don't fall apart.
- Make the guacamole: use a large knife to pulverise the tomato to a pulp on a board, then tip into a bowl. Halve and stone the avocados (saving a stone) and use a spoon to scoop out the flesh into the bowl with the tomato.
- Tip all the other ingredients into the bowl, then season with salt and pepper. Use a whisk to roughly mash everything together. If not serving straight away, sit a stone in the guacamole (this helps to stop it going brown), cover with cling film and chill until needed. Scatter with the coriander.
- Make the salsa: Halve the tomatoes, then squeeze out and discard the seeds – this seems a bit wasteful, but it really intensifies the flavour of the salsa. Finely chop the tomato flesh and onion. Halve, seed and finely chop the chilli. Mix the tomato, onion and chilli in a bowl with the coriander and some salt and pepper. At this point the salsa can be covered and chilled for up to 2 days, but bring it back to room temperature before serving.
- Saute’ everything in a large pan, adding the spices about half way through.
- Fill your peppers and serve topped with salsa and guacamole and Greek yogurt, exclude yogurt if you are following a vegan diet.
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Dinner
Melanzane alla Parmigiana
This has to be my favorite italian dish and its allowed on the Fayesfitness meal plan s that makes me very happy indeed.
Ingredients
- 2 garlic clove crushed
- 6 tbsp olive oil
- 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 4 aubergine cut into long, 5mm thick slices
- 85 g Parmesan freshly grated
- 20 g pack basil leaves torn
- 1 egg beaten
Instructions
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. In a shallow pan, mix together the garlic and 4 tbsp of the olive oil. Cook over a high heat for 3 mins, tip in the tomatoes, then simmer for 8 mins, stirring every now and then. Stir in the tomato purée.
- Meanwhile, heat a griddle pan until very hot. Brush a few of the aubergines with a little oil, then add to the pan. Cook over a high heat until well browned and cooked through, about 5-7 mins. Turn them halfway through cooking. Lift onto kitchen paper and do the next batch.
- When all the aubergines are cooked, lay a few of them in the bottom of an ovenproof dish, then spoon over some sauce. Sprinkle with Parmesan and basil leaves. Add seasoning, then repeat this process with the remaining ingredients. Finally, pour the egg over the top, sprinkle over a little more Parmesan, then bake for 20 mins or until the topping is golden.
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Breakfast
Sunday breakfast
Now this is a super special breakfast and its great with or without rye bread. I recommend eating carbs after a workout when your body is burning like a furnace.
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 2 slices Nitrate free organic Bacon
- 6 Asparagus
- 4 Mushrooms
- 1 Tomatoe
- 2 slices Rye bread
- 1 tablespoon Coconut oil
Instructions
- Put eggs in water in a saucepan and turn on to med/high heat.
- Put frying pan on med/high heat and add coconut oil.
- Once oil is melted add in the mushrooms and asparagus.
- By now the water should be begining to boil, set your timer for 4/5 mins depending on how running you like your yolk.
- Chop the tomato and place the rye bread in the toaster.
- Keep turning the mushrooms and asparagus until cooked through.
- Take eggs off heat and run under cold water removing their shells. slice them length ways and place on top of rye bread.
- Put the mushrooms and asparagus on the plate and you are good to go.
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Lunch
Simple Balsamic Salad
This salad goes with anything simply add a chicken breast or even cheese its very quick to make and lovely as a side dish
Ingredients
- 1/2 cucumber sliced
- 10 cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 Avocado
- 1 handful white cabbage chopped
- 1 handful red cabbage chopped
Instructions
- chop all cabbage place in bottom of bowl add tomatoes, sliced cucumber and avocado. Top your salad with a balsamic drizzle.
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Dinner
Sunday Roast Beef
A healthy spin on a sunday roast. I have a great farmers market close to my house, the meat is organic, locally sourced and oustanding quality it really does make for a lovely sunday roast.
Ingredients
- 1.5 kg top side of beef
- 1 large pack Asparagus
- 1 large bag New potatoes enough for 4 each
- 2 packets tomatoes on the vine
- 1 handful thyme
- 1 tso chilli flakes
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tbsp Coconut oil
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 red pepper sliced length ways
- 1 orange pepper sliced length ways
- 1 large red onion chop into segments
- 8 Mushrooms sliced
- 2 courgettes sliced
Instructions
- To prepare your beef:
- Take your beef out of the fridge 30 minutes before it goes into the oven. Preheat your oven to 240°C/475°F/ gas 9. Chop the vegetables, pile all the veg, chilli flakes and herbs into the middle of a large roasting tray with some coconut oil oil. Drizzle the beef with olive oil and season well with salt and pepper, rubbing it all over the meat.
- To cook your beef:
- Place the roasting tray in the preheated oven. Turn the heat down immediately to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and cook for 1 hour for medium beef. If you prefer it medium-rare, take it out 5 to 10 minutes earlier. For well done, leave it in for another 10 to 15 minutes.
- Now put veggies into the oven for the last 45 minutes of cooking. Baste the beef halfway through cooking and if the veg look dry, add a splash of water to the tray to stop them burning.
- When the beef is cooked to your liking, take the tray out of the oven and transfer the beef to a board to rest for 15 minutes or so. Cover it with a layer of tinfoil and a tea towel.
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