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Recipes
Big Bites
Hearty, hunger busting main meals to fill you up on Fast Days (FDs).
One Dish Wonders
One pot meals that shine: casseroles, slow cooking, stir frying u0026#038; quick sauté.
Main Attractions
Main dish star entrees suitable for the family, company and treating yourself to something comforting–better than Mama used to make–and guilt-free of course!
By The Seashore
Seafood entrees for quick and delicious Fast Days (FDs).
Meatless Mains
Vegetarian entrees with a satisfyingly hearty appeal.
Oodles of Noodles
Veggies noodles, low calorie, low carbohydrate pasta substitutions so good, you can’t believe they’re low calorie.
Proteinpalooza
Basic proteins to form the foundation of quick and delicious Fast Day (FD) meals in minutes. Double or triple recipes, portion and freeze for convenient meals.
Beef
Chicken
Turkey
Pork
Lamb
Lamb offers a great nutritional bang for your calorie buck on Fast Days (FDs) and non-fast or feast days. It’s perfect for your 5:2 Fast Diet or your alternate day intermittent fasting lifestyle.
Other Birds
Soups and Stews
Fast Days (FDs) and soup go hand-in-hand. It’s easy to make quick and delicious, super-low calorie fast day soups on the fly. Make a big pot and eat on it all day!
Salads
Salads make filling and satisfying Fast Day (FD) meals. Eat them as a side dish in a smaller portion, or add an extra handful of salad greens and your favorite protein. Be sure to check out FDHD “near-zero” salad dressings and break-up with that bottled dressing.
Fast Day Breads
Fast Days Healing Days have super low calorie, low carb breads, muffins, quick breads, flatbreads, wraps, tortillas and crackers to help you live a sustainable intermittent alternate day fasting lifestyle.
Fast Day Flatbreads u0026 Tortillas
Replace that high calorie, high carb, gluten-filled flatbread and tortilla with Fast Day Healing Days super low calorie and low carb wraps and tortillas.
Fun Food
Playful Fast Day (FD) recipes to put the “FUN” back into fun-ctional. Great for you food doesn’t have to be boring!
Wraps
Perfect Fast Day (FD) quick foods on the run-completely portable. Sandwiches and wraps can be perfect for the IFer (intermittent faster)!
Nachos-Tacos-Tostadas
Fast Day Recipes should never feel boring, that’s why we bring put the FUN in FUN-ctional and healthy food. Enjoy a dose of Tex-Mex and Hispanic flavor.
Side Dishes
Learn how to cook the vegetables, side salads, and fruits to pair with any Fast Day (FD) entree
Veggies
Vegetable side dishes add bulk to Fast Day meals helping you feel full longer and providing important vitamins, minerals and fiber to your diet.
Condiments
Fast Day condiments to replace all those bottle dressings, sauces, and spices with questionable ingredients.
Seasonings u0026 Spice Blends
Sugar-free, gluten-free, msg-free spice blends take the worry out of great tasting food. Just a few minutes, and your lovely organic herbs and spices will create spice blends and condiments more flavorful and nutritious than store-bought
Salad Dressings
Fast Day salad dressing solutions. No more sweet dressings, unless you want the dressing is “supposed” to be a sweet dressing!
Sauces u0026 Gravies
Fast Days Healing Days bring you robust sauces to fill your intermittent fasting Fast Day (FD) or Down Day (DD) with bold flavor and a lot of BFTCB (Bang-For-The-Calorie-Buck.
Fast Day Snacks
Low or no-cook fast day snacks to help you get past the mean hungries. Simply fix and enjoy, but don’t forget to add them into your daily FDB (Fast Day Budget).
Low Cook FD Snacks
Almost no cooking involved and little skill necessary to make these delicious and satisfying quick pick-me-ups, perfect for Fast Days (FDs) or Down Days (DDs) and any time in between.
Desserts
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plan can include desserts! No deprivation needed when you alternate day fast with Fast Days Healing Days recipes.
Cookies and Bars
Super low calorie and low carb Fast Day (FD) desserts to cure that sweet tooth and help you stay on track.
Puddings u0026 Custards
Fast Day puddings fill you up and leave you guilt-free. Sometimes appeasing a sweet tooth with healthy, delicious, rich dessert helps you stay on track and focused on healing.
Candy and Fudge
Enjoy low carb candies to take the bite out of hunger or when you only one a bite of something sweet–even on Fast Days.
Beverages
Fast Day (FD) beverages help fill you up, not fill you out and give a nice break from your usual water. Try a Long Tall Hunger Buster or a creamy, dreamy Gluco Shake to chase hunger away for hours!
Hunger Buster Bevs
These Fast Day (FD) hunger busting beverages are filling without adding a bunch of calories. They also give you a nice break from water without popping a can of diet soda.
Fast Day Faves From Friends
Collected and selected Fast Day favorites – recipes and meals from community members, best selling authors, doctors and more!
Fast Day Friends | Seafood
FDHD favorite collected and selected light and breezy, 5:2 fast day seafood recipes perfect for the intermittent fasting lifestyle.
Fast Day Friends | Salad
Collected and selected salads (both side salads and big salads) from our intermittent fasting community: 5:2 Fast Diet, 4:3, ADF, JUDDD, and EOD.
FD Meal Plans
One Meal
Fast Day (FD) meal plan featuring only 1 large meal.
One Meal u0026 Snack
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans featuring one main meal with a small snack which can be eaten whenever you’re the hungriest.
One Meal u0026 Dessert
Love dessert? So do we! Here are Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans focusing on one main meal with a bit of sweet afterward.
One Meal u0026 Snack u0026 Dessert
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans featuring a central meal complete with dessert plus a small snack to be enjoyed at any point in the day.
Two Meals
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans featuring 2 meals per day: either breakfast u0026#038; dinner, lunch u0026#038; dinner, or breakfast u0026#038; lunch.
Two Meals u0026 Snack
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans featuring two main meals and a small snack which may be eaten at your hungriest time of day. All total 500 calories for the day!
Two Meals u0026 Dessert
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans featuring two full meals with your choice of timing and a dessert! Yes. Dessert!
Three Meals
Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans featuring 3 full meals — for those who need to limit calories to 500 cals per day, but can’t fast all day.
Three Meals u0026 Dessert
So you want “3 squares” and a spare, huh? No problem! Fast Day (FD) Meal Plans that feature 3 delicious meals and a dessert. For 500 calories per Fast Day!
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Resources
Glossary
US u0026#8211; UK Food Conversions
Proteins
Want to know the closest thing to beef eye of round in the UK? FDHD can help answer your questions about proteins; the various names, both US and UK and where to find them.
Vegetables
Want to know the closest thing to curly endive in the UK? FDHD can help answer your questions about vegetables; the various names, both US and UK and where to find them.
Fruits
Want to know the closest thing to a plum in the UK? FDHD can help answer your questions about fruits; the various names, both US and UK and where to find them.
Cooking 101
Cooking 101 – Helpful Cooking Basics
Helpful tools, tips and tricks to make 5:2 Fast Day (FD) and ADF recipes, meal plans and shopping fun.
BMI | LBM | Calorie or TDEE | Protein Calculator
Book Reviews
Fast Days Healing Days Book Reviews to help make your fasting lifestyle easy!
Product Reviews
Tools and gadgets to make your Fast Day (FD) or Down Day (DD), cooking experience easier or more fun. Play with your food!
Fast Days FRIDGE | FREEZER | PANTRY
Fast FAQs
ADF Science
Nutrition
Learn more about the science of nutrition and alternate day fasting (ADF), sometimes called every other day dieting (EOD), of which there are many popular formats such as 5:2, 4:3, JUDDD, EOD, and more.
Biology
Learn more about how the brain (our thoughts or cognitions) influence cellular function as it relates to intermittent fasting with calorie restriction in addition to learning about the intricacies of the gut-brain connection and epigenetics (the study of how we can control gene expression through diet and lifestyle choices).
Psychology
Learn how small changes in “how we think” influence “who we are” and how it relates to successful lifestyles.
Ask Dr. Varady
Fast Days Healing Days bring you the collected and selected pearls of ADF wisdom from Dr. Krista Varady, PhD, author of The Every Other Day (EOD) Diet, associate professor of kinesiology and nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago and leading alternate day fasting researcher.
ADF and 5:2 Studies
ADF | 5:2 Articles
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