Gillian McKeith’s Chocolate Replacement!

Posted by RachaelHopper on Thursday 24 Apr 2008

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Rachael presents The ‘diet Coke’ Break weekdays from 2pm on heat Radio:

It's Thursday and we've had some cracking guests on this week's 'diet Coke' Break! Producer Laura and I were slightly scared to welcome Gillian McKeith to heat Towers on Monday (see pic). Scared because we were in the middle of lunch and you know that Gillian isn't backwards in coming forwards when she thinks you're not eating the right stuff!

I got off lightly with my beetroot soup and wheat free sandwich (yes, I am that much of a crawler), but Laura got sharp shrift over her cheese sarnie – apparently cheese can give you "wind", although I must point out that Laura's has NEVER disgraced herself in the seven months I have known her.
 
Gillian was in to plug her new Food Bible – you can win copies on today’s show, and she gave us a top tip for beating that mid-afternoon chocolate craving. Laura and I tried making it – WATCH IT HERE – Let us know what you think! Here's the recipe from the book:
 
Cacao Bean Smoothie: Blend two small bananas, half a cup of soya milk, some raw cacao bean nibs and raw cacao bean powder (from health food shop) together.
 
You can add cinnamon powder or ginger if you want.
 
Drink!!
 
On Wednesday we welcomed author extraordinaire Marian Keyes, who popped in to promote her new book This Charming Man which is out in May. I hope I didn't embarrass myself, but I love her books and you always get a bit gushing when you meet your heroes, don't you? Anyway, the book looks fab and Marian has agreed to come back and see us again – she seriously loves her heat – or maybe she just said that to stop me dribbling over her!
 
Catch you live at 2pm!
 
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