How to Build a Balanced Plate
A simple plate-ratio method for balanced meals when you're not following a weighed recipe: half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter carbs.
Meal Planning
Articles about meal planning from Love. Eat. Keep Fit.: practical reads on food, calories and cooking.
One Meal, Wildly Different Calories
Why the exact same dish can range from 450 to 950 calories, where those calories actually hide, and how to cook one base meal for a household with different targets.
Finding (and Adapting) Recipes That Actually Work
A simple trick for finding better, simpler recipes online, plus a repeatable way to adapt anything you find to your own calorie target.
How to Stay in a Deficit Without Tracking
Four practical tools, planning ahead, the plate method, protein-anchoring, and the hunger scale, that replace daily calorie logging.
Atomic Habits for Food and Cooking
Four practical techniques from Atomic Habits, habit stacking, the two-minute rule, environment design, and identity-based habits, applied directly to eating and cooking.
Kitchen Set Up for Success
Why a few small kitchen frictions can undo an otherwise solid plan, and how a handful of well-chosen basics plus a ready-to-cook fridge zone make the planned meal the easy choice.
Fibre: Hitting Your Daily Target
Practical, meal-by-meal ways to reach the NHS's 30g daily fibre target, with real high-fibre recipes from the cookbook, without overhauling your whole diet.