The Fast 800 Recipe Book by Dr Clare BaileyDefault Title (2024)

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Does the Fast 800 book contain recipes? ›

Book overview. This fabulous companion cookbook offers a collection of delicious, nutritious recipes to help you incorporate the new 800-calorie programme into your daily life.

written by Dr Michael Mosley and Dr Clare Bailey.

The first recorded cookbook that is still in print today is Of Culinary Matters (originally, De Re Coquinaria), written by Apicius, in fourth century AD Rome. It contains more than 500 recipes, including many with Indian spices.

The NHS recommends eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, but if your aim is to lose weight, there's one type that you may want to avoid altogether. Dr Mosley, who created the Fast 800 diet and popularised the 5:2 diet, claims bananas aren't as beneficial as you think when it comes to weight loss.

How does the Fast 800 work? The first stage of the diet works on the premise that when we eat refined, typically 'white' carbohydrates, like white bread, pasta and rice, they are easily broken down in the gut to release sugars which, over time, leads to fat accumulation and possible insulin resistance.

A cookbook by former MasterChef contestant Elizabeth Haigh has been pulled from circulation over claims she plagiarised the work of another chef. Fellow cook Sharon Wee claimed Haigh's book Makan "copied or paraphrased" recipes and anecdotes from her 2012 book, Cooking in a Nonya Kitchen.

The first recorded cookbook is said to be four clay tablets from 1700 BC in Ancient Mesopotamia, but by the 1300s, cookbooks were a norm for kings and nobles. In 1390, Forme of Cury (The Rules of Cookery) was published for–but not by–King Richard II.

The earliest known written recipes date to 1730 BC and were recorded on cuneiform tablets found in Mesopotamia. Other early written recipes date from approximately 1600 BC and come from an Akkadian tablet from southern Babylonia. There are also works in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting the preparation of food.

Dr Mosley said his best four breakfasts were porridge, overnight oats, eggs - especially omelettes and kippers.

Avoid sweet fruits

Enjoy berries, apples and pears, which have less sugar than sweet, tropical fruits such as mango, pineapple and melon.

Can you eat potatoes on fast 800? ›

Other things to cut out are starchy carbs including bread, pasta, potatoes and white rice. Instead, he recommends switching to whole grains like bulgur (cracked wheat), whole rye, wholegrain barley, wild rice and buckwheat. So, thankfully, carbs aren't completely out the window. He added: "Brown rice is okay.

Black coffee and tea – For fasting, black tea and coffee are great as they have virtually no calories. If you are a coffee lover, be mindful of your caffeine intake – we recommend no more than two cups of coffee a day. Sparkling water – Carbonated water is a good option if you want to mix up your drinks.