The results are in and I’ve found that most of you are not on diets! 18% equally are either watching what they eat or are on a diet of such, but 64% of you aren’t on any diet.

I constantly have to watch what my eat because I can put on weight whilst even looking at food, but something I do try to indulge in is dinner. Not that it means I don’t consider what I put in my mouth. There are definitely ways you can reduce the amount of calories whilst cooking your normal dinner.

Some of these include:

• Reducing the amount of oil to saute
• Using water instead of oil to saute or cook your onions at the start
• With soups avoid the oils altogether by dumping all the ingredients in at the start - including the water - and leaving to boil/simmer
• Using spray oils
• Avoiding cream and subsituting with milk or light sour cream/cream fraiche or light cottage cheese
• Using low fat or sugar free versions of the ingredient

Most of these don’t impact on the flavours of your finished dinner, in fact most of the time you won’t even notice it!

What are some of your useful tips or how do you keep in shape?

Next poll: What vegetable do you dislike the most?