Low Calorie Sweet and Sour Turkey Meatballs

Do you indulge yourself when you are on holiday?  I certainly do, so now the holidays are over it’s back to counting calories and cutting out cakes from my diet.  However, that doesn’t have to mean dull and boring food,  I’m on a mission to make some of my favourite dishes lower in calories. First up is Sweet and Sour Turkey Meatballs, the recipe is packed with flavour and comes in at under 300 calories including a portion of quinoa. THE 5:2 FASTING DIET: You can read about my holiday indulgences in French Cheese Cake in the Charente-Maritime  It must have been the French cheese that piled on the pounds…it couldn’t possibly have been the wine and delicious Pineau de Charentes… everyone knows that wine has no calories when you are holiday…don’t they?

I’ve been managing my weight with the 5:2 Fasting Diet for about 18 months now, it’s pretty simple to follow and ideal if you have a hectic schedule and your life doesn’t allow you to follow a routine.  I simply have two days in every week when I eat 500 kcal,  men are allowed 600 kcal.   On the other five days of the week, I eat normally. That doesn’t mean eating everything under the sun and expecting to lose or maintain weight, but you can eat sensibly and enjoy some higher calorie foods on your non-fasting days.  

 

  Now back to the Sweet and Sour Turkey Meatballs, making the meatballs is simple and adding flavours to the meatball mixture really helps to lift the turkey mince which can be a bit bland without a little help.  Using lots of vegetables helps too, not only with the flavour, but also with the calorie count.  Vegetables are generally lower in calories than meat or carbs and they help to fill you up.   

LOW CALORIE AND LOW COST

Sweet and Sour Turkey Meatballs are low calorie, and they are also a low-cost meal.  I calculated these prices from a leading supermarket, but you could probably get the cost down even further by buying at a market or a discount supermarket (prices calculated August 2016). Turkey Breast Mince £3.00 per 500g Red pepper 50p Baby corn and mangetout £1.60 Spring onions 12p Ginger 5p Oyster sauce 60p Rice wine vinegar 50p Chutney, ketchup and marmalade 20p Garlic 3p Oil and spices 10p £6.70 – 4 portions at £1.67 per portion  6 portions £1.12 per portion  (with quinoa £1.58 per portion) Quinoa –  60g –  47p

 

Get more 5:2 Diet Recipes from the  Pinterest Board 5:2 Fasting Diet  recipes from me at Farmersgirl Kitchen, Lavender and Lovage , London Unattached and Freycob Good Food Made Easy with more that we have pinned.  Read more about the science behind 5:2 intermittent fasting at The 5:2 Fast Diet

We loved these Low Calorie Sweet and Sour Meatballs, what’s our favourite low calorie recipe?