Clean and Lean - Turkey Burgers

Turkey can often be seen as a drab and boring meat. It's bad reputation is down to the tendency to over cook it on Christmas day and then be forced to eat leftovers for weeks afterwards. It's a shame really because turkey is lean, cheap and can be very tasty! I actually bought all of the ingredients...

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Quick and easy banana muffins

Sometime the inevitable happens and you buy a bunch of bananas and by the end of the week you have one, solitary, freckled banana left. It feels too wasteful to throw it out but it's not enough to make a proper banana loaf. This week I resolved to find a solution for my one banana and eventually decided...

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Clean and Lean - Super Mince

I'm slowly making my way through the Clean and Lean diet cook book and have been meaning to make this so called "Super" mince for a while. Given that I still had 4 packs of mince in the freezer (thank you Waitrose and your half price event in January...) and wanted to keep the grocery bill down...

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Chocolate Cake with Salted Buttercream Icing

So, I think it's safe to say this doesn't come close to being classed as clean and lean. But look at it! It's a strong-crumbed chocolate cake, not too sweet, that allows the sweet and salty caramel icing to come through. You really don't want to make a sweet chocolate cake as it would be too much...

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Clean and Lean - Pancakes

In an effort to overhaul my diet before heading off to Australia in a month I've decided to revisit the clean and lean diet. It seems more relevant than ever, given that there has been a lot of talk recently about how it's really sugar that is the food villain, not fat. I completed a successful week...

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