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The 5:2 Diet: 50 foods with 50 calories or less to help you lose weight

Diet author Kate Harrison offers some tricks and snacks for the two fasting days with low calorie foods to keep you going.

However well you plan your diet, there are moments when the munchies hit and you feel like you need something RIGHT NOW!

Kate Harrison, author of the revolutionary 5:2 Diet, where you eat 500 calories a day for two days a week and eat what you like on the rest, has a few tips.

She says: "I've found the trick is to plan ahead and have something sweet or savoury handy to satisfy any craving and keep you on track.

"I love home-popped popcorn done in a pan with chilli powder, or a handful of olives from a jar.

"Or an Options Hot Chocolate drink satisfies any sweet longings at under 40 calories, too, maybe with a shot of instant coffee in it to make a home-made mocha."

Here are 50 foods containing just 50 calories or less to keep those hunger pangs at bay on your Fast Days.

1.	2tbsp houmous and 2 slices of red pepper, 50 cals	26.	1 Jaffa Cake, 46 calories

2.	12 strawberries, 48 calories	27.	10 spears of asparagus, 50 calories

3.	6 dill pickles, 48 calories	28.	50g canned sweetcorn, 50 calories

4.	½ grapefruit, 39 calories	29.	50g cooked prawns, 40 calories

5.	1 cup of air-popped butter-free popcorn, 31 calories	30.	1 small tangerine, 37 calories

6.	¼ cantaloupe melon, 48 calories	31.	1 oatcake with 2tsp Philadephia Light, 50 calories

7.	2 egg white omelette, 34 calories	32.	1 sugar-free jelly, 15 calories

8.	10 pitted green olives, 42 calories	33.	1 slice of Asda Cheese Singles Light, 38 calories

9.	10 grapes, 35 calories	34.	50 blueberries, 39 calories

10.	1 small pack raisins, 42 calories	35.	1 Quorn banger, 50 calories

11.	1 kiwi fruit, 47 calories	36.	¼ tin Heinz Baked Beans, 49 cals

12.	rice cake with 1tbsp sugar-free jam, 45 calories	37.	½ slice of brown bread, 37 calories

13.	8oz Miso soup, 36 calories	38.	8 dry roasted peanuts, 43 calories

14.	1oz smoked salmon (about one slice) on two wheat crackers, 48 calories	39.	2 marshmallows, 46 calories

15.	7 carrot sticks with 1tbsp low-fat ranch dressing, 45 calories	40.	1 slice of ham, 46 calories

16.	1 slice fresh pineapple, 45 calories	41.	1 Refreshers Ice Lolly, 47 calories

17.	1 small green apple, 50 calories	42.	1 small peach, 38 calories

18.	10 cherries, 42 calories	43.	1 Cadbury Chocolate Finger, 31 calories

19.	7 celery stalks, 45 calories	44.	1 brazil nut, 32 calories

20.	1 slice of chicken breast, 27 calories	45.	2 crab sticks, 44 calories

21.	1 McDonald's Chicken McNugget, 46 calories	46.	1oz fat-free cottage cheese on 1 slice Finn Crisp Crispbread, 38 calories

22.	16 cherry tomatoes, 49 calories	47.	1 Mars Celebration, 45 calories

23.	1 Light Babybel cheese, 40 calories	48.	1 square of dark chocolate, 27 calories

24.	A small scoop of soft-scoop vanilla ice cream, 50 calories	49.	40 sugarsnap peas, 44 calories

25.	Options Belgian Chocolate Hot Chocolate drink, 40 calories	50.	5 salt and vinegar Pringles, 50 calories

The 5:2 Diet Book by Kate Harrison is published by Orion priced £6.99 © Kate Harrison, 2013, www.the5-2dietbook.com

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