20min recipe: Pad Thai noodles
A quick, easy and delicious spicy dish, perfect for staving off wet-weather chills
Recipes
15-minute recipe: Fresh tagliatelle with creamy walnut sauce and lardons
A speedy, low-GI meal ideal for sustaining energy throughout training
15-minute recipe: Stir-fried curly kale, almonds, chorizo and poached egg
A light, superfood-based lunch to repair muscles and complement your training diet
Go-Faster Nutrition: Chilli chocolate chicken with quinoa
A step-by-step video guide to issue 294’s magazine recipe
How and why to fuel up for a top recovery
Jill Leckey, Senior Sports Nutritionist for Science in Sport (SiS), shares her top recovery tips
Optimal nutrition
It’s important that you don’t let your nutrition practices let you down at the critical time. Here's Andy Blow's proven advice…
Spaghetti with pork and apple meat balls
A fantastic endurance and immune system booster that’s bursting with flavour
Good Carbs Vs Bad Carbs
How to tell your slow-release energy foods from those whose effect is over quickly…
Pre-Exercise Nutrition
Spreading your energy consumption across the day is the perfect way to accommodate round-the-clock training sessions. Just keep an eye on those high-GI cabrs…
Spinach, prosciutto and pinenut spaghetti
A speedy, flavoursome recipe, ideal after a long training session
Grilled scallops and asparagus
A lightly cooked dish full of texture and nutritional benefit
Rhubarb and raisin muffins
A sweet treat with a fruity boost – the perfect post-training snack.
Chicken and Veg with Pepper Dressing
An ideal slow-energy release lunch or post-work workout meal
Barley Risotto with Goats’ Cheese and Veg
A nutty, flavoursome recipe that can help lower cholesterol
Caramelised Pears with Coconut and Vanilla Rice
A good fix of carbs and fruit together, and is designed to be eaten hot or cold
Garlic Chicken Thighs with Colcannon Mash and Onion Gravy
This variant on a British classic is much healthier than the same dish made with sausages.
Vegan Spiced Dahl with Butternut Squash, Broccoli and Spinach
A single cup of cooked dried peas in your daily diet provides 65% of your recommended daily fibre. They also provide protein, B vitamins and isoflavones, which are helpful in reducing the risk of developing breast and prostate cancer.
Vegan Mediterranean Vegetable Paella
Paella is an excellent way of adding a multitude of vegetables to a meal, making it an easy way to get most of your five-a-day in one pan
Potato Cake Topped with Ham, Mushrooms and Pesto
An adaptation of the Alpine classic Rosti. Designed to be made with cooked potatoes, it's equally good made from raw.
