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What is eatwell?
Eatwell is not a diet - it’s a unique, new lifestyle service. It allows you to eat a healthy, balanced diet without the hard work of menu planning, shopping and preparing meals.
It’s unique because it recognises the importance that lifestyle factors play in shaping our eating habits and addresses them. It deals with why and not just what, you eat.
We understand that it’s not always a lack of good intentions that prevent us from eating a balanced diet. A lack of time, nutritional expertise and professional cooking skills are what stop most of us from preparing good, wholesome meals, three times a day, seven days a week.
So we fix that for you.
Our nutritionist develops a range of menus which we prepare fresh each day and deliver to you. By using the best ingredients and subtle flavours our chefs create delicious but simple meals that will change how you think about ‘healthy’ food.
You get to enjoy restaurant quality food, but food that forms part of a nutritionally balanced diet. You also get a lot more time to get on with the more enjoyable things in life.
You can spend between eight & ten hours a week planning, shopping for and cooking a healthy diet - that’s the equivalent of a typical working day. Just think what you could do with all that time saved.
The importance of changing habits
Your eating habits are so deeply engrained in your lifestyle that trying to change them overnight is extremely difficult. Eatwell works on two counts. It immediately improves your diet, but also gives you the time to change your shopping and cooking habits gradually. By removing the hard work, we help you to break engrained habits and let you make positive changes to what you eat at your own pace.
Weight loss
Eatwell doesn’t make miraculous promises about weight loss. Sustained weight loss is achieved through changing a variety of lifestyle factors, not just what you eat. But if weight loss is one of your goals, Eatwell will help you towards achieving your aims through improved eating habits. And the time that eatwell can save you can be put towards changing some of these issues, like exercising regularly.
Would it be good for you?
What prevents you from eating a healthy diet in the first place? Very often it’s habit and convenience. The ‘easy’ food options have become engrained in our lifestyles, so changing them requires more than just willpower.
Eatwell may be the most effective way of changing your eating habits in the long term,
if you...
struggle to plan a healthy diet each week
don’t have time to cook healthy meals every night
you want to exercise regularly & eat healthily but can’t find time to do both after a busy day at work
aimlessly wander around the supermarket looking for inspiration
end up throwing out a small fortune in fruit & veg, bought with good intentions but gone past their use by date
you have tried diets before but slipped back into bad habits
can’t resist snacks
can’t keep up with the fads in what’s good for you or not
have to cook for your family and haven’t got time to prepare a separate healthy meal
The benefits
- a healthy balanced diet without any hard work
- it will help you to achieve sustainable weight loss goals
- you’ll be able to cut out processed foods & snacks from your diet
- it will save you an extra 8-10 hours a week - more time to do what you want to do
- a balanced diet provides long-term health benefits and improvements in short term health indicators like energy levels & skin condition.
And you’ll be enjoying fantastic food! Everything you eat will be prepared by chefs. If you’re enjoying your food you’re less likely to slip into old habits.
How much does it cost?
Eatwell costs from as little as £8.50 per day, up to £15.50 per day for the full service. Eatwell offers outstanding value - considering you’re getting a nutritionist, personal chef and food shopper in one service. Similar services in London cost over £300 per week.
Click here to see the full price plan
How it works?
We try to keep it simple.
- Order a weeks worth of food at a time.
- Choose to follow a five day plan Monday - Friday, or a seven day plan, Monday - Sunday.
- Opt for evening meals only or a full menu of breakfast, lunch and evening meal.
- We offer 10 meal options a week so you’ll always have a choice.
- There’s no membership, signing up or direct debit payments
Do you want to eatwell?
Call Jill Tinsley to place your order on 07980 815222 or 0151 428 6842 or email jill@breakbread.co.uk
What is the balanced diet approach?
Eat Regularly: three meals a day. This regulates your appetite and stimulates your metabolism to convert calories into energy more efficiently. eatwell ensures you don’t skip meals.
Sensible portion sizes: don’t eat too much at one sitting. eatwell controls your portions in line with recommended dietary requirements. Your appetite will quickly adjust.
Variety: a balanced diet should incorporate all food types. Vary your sources of protein, try and include a couple of portions of oily fish a week. Vary the fruit and vegetables you eat to maximise the vitamins and minerals you take in, and ensure you eat five portions a day.
Eat fats in moderation: we need fats in our diet, and they help make food taste great. But keep within sensible limits and try to use unsaturated fats such as olive oil & vegetable oil, which can help lower cholesterol, and avoid saturated fats such as butter.
Eat wholegrain and unrefined carbohydrates: they release their energy slowly throughout the day which means your appetite is controlled for longer. We avoid refined carbohydrates which release their energy almost instantaneously and can leave you feeling hungry a lot more quickly.
Avoid processed foods and snacks: they are packed full of calories and additives but provide little nutritional value. You often eat snacks ’just because they’re there’. Cut them out of your shopping basket or choose healthier ones such as nuts, dried fruits, seeds or flapjacks.
Avoid food boredom: if you are eating varied food and enjoying it you’re less likely to slip into old habits.
None of this is rocket science, just sound nutritional practice. But if this isn’t how you currently eat every day, it’s difficult to make wholesale changes to your eating habits and get on with the rest of your life at the same time. So let us do it for you.
Sample menu
Porridge with dried fruit & nuts
Oats release energy slowly & help you feel fuller for longer
Superberry & seed wholemeal muffin
Berries are a good source of vitamin C & antioxidants
Natural yogurt with homemade fruit compote
Dried fruits contain iron
Bagel with smoked salmon, low fat cream cheese & watercress
Salmon is an oily fish high in omega 3
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Courgette, feta & mint tortilla served with green leaf salad
Feta is a good source of calcium, riboflavin & vitamin B12
Hand-carved ham salad with a carrot, poppy seed & almond salad
Carrot is a great source of beta carotene, an antioxidant
Smoked trout & new potato salad
Potatoes are high in potassium
Roasted chicken with a fennel, pink grapefruit & watercress salad
Fennel is high in potassium & vitamin C
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Lemon & dill poached salmon served with a lime yogurt
Oily fish is the best source of omega 3 fatty acids
Italian meatballs with a fresh tomato basil sauce, with roasted peppers & beans
Beans contain great amounts of B vitamins and iron, are low in calories, fat and salt and contain lots of minerals such as calcium, zinc, potassium and magnesium
Thai green chicken curry with steamed broccoli & green beans
Chicken meat is rich in protein and low in fat. It also provides important B vitamins
Beef in ale casserole served with mustard & herb mash, steamed carrots & peas
Peas are a rich source of potassium
Salmon fish cakes with a roasted cherry tomato & basil sauce served with a mixed leaf salad
Cooked tomatoes are an excellent source of lycopene & high in antioxidants
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