Finding Balance
Healthy eating that leaves room for real life.
Finding Balance is a simple way to make everyday eating easier: delicious meals built around protein, fibre, variety and an awareness of calories. Many recipes aim for around 400 calories, 30g protein and 10g fibre — not as a rigid set of rules, but as a useful baseline you can return to.
Use it as your everyday baseline, while leaving room for meals out with friends, parties, celebrations, holidays and all the other bits that make life enjoyable. The point isn’t perfection. It is finding balance, whatever that looks like to you.
Two ways to find balance
Choose the version that works best for you. Keep the book open on the kitchen worktop, or take the growing app with you wherever you go.
The Finding Balance app
The growing, practical way to use Finding Balance every day.
The app contains every recipe from the book, alongside a growing collection of new recipes added regularly. Search for inspiration, plan your meals, create an automatic shopping list, save favourites or use What I’ve Got when you need ideas from ingredients already in your kitchen.
- Over 130 recipes including my older ‘lighter’ recipes
- New recipes added regularly
- Weekly meal planner
- Automatic shopping list
- Saved favourites
- Find recipes by ingredient
£5 monthly or £50 annually*
*If you have purchased the book, please contact Jemima for a code for £20 off.
The Finding Balance book
A beautifully photographed collection to cook from again and again.
Finding Balance brings together over 50 single-serve recipes, including earlier Lighter recipes from Instagram and the newer calorie-aware, high-protein, high-fibre collection.
With full-colour photography and wire binding that allows it to lie flat while you cook, it is a practical book to return to whenever you want eating well to feel easier.
- Over 50 single-serve recipes
- Earlier Lighter favourites
- Full-colour photography
- Wire-bound to lie flat
- Simple, everyday ingredients
- Made for everyday cooking
£20.00
A healthy baseline. Plenty of room for life.
There is so much noise around food that eating well can begin to feel more stressful than it should. Finding Balance strips it back to a few useful principles: protein, fibre, real everyday food, plenty of variety and an awareness of calories.
The numbers are only part of it. The food still has to be delicious, satisfying and something you genuinely want to eat.
Finding Balance is designed first and foremost for anyone who wants everyday healthy eating to feel easier, more enjoyable and less complicated — without making food their entire life. The recipes provide a reliable place to begin: simple, satisfying meals built around protein, fibre, variety and an awareness of calories, using ingredients you can find in a normal supermarket.
You can use them as an everyday baseline, follow them as written when you want a little more structure, or adapt them to suit your appetite and the rest of your day. Because the recipes are portioned and the nutritional information is clearly set out, they can also provide useful meal ideas for people following a calorie-controlled weight-loss plan, intermittent fasting or a 5:2-style approach, The Fast 800, or using GLP-1 medication. They can be used as written on more structured days and added to when you need more.
Finding Balance is not a prescribed diet or medical programme. Anyone using medication or following a medically supervised plan should follow the advice of their healthcare professional.
- Protein
- To help meals feel satisfying.
- Fibre
- For fullness, variety and gut health.
- Calorie awareness
- A useful structure without rigid rules.
- Flavour
- Because every meal must be worth eating.
Many recipes aim for around 400 calories, 30g protein and 10g fibre. These figures are an approximate framework, not a promise that every recipe meets every number.
From Jemima’s table
I’m Jemima Prest, a home cook, mum of four and the creator of Finding Balance. I’m not a nutritionist or a trained chef — just someone who loves cooking and sharing food that feels good in every way.
Finding Balance grew from sharing recipes on Instagram and discovering that healthy eating doesn’t have to be restrictive. Today, there are two ways to use it: the growing app, with recipes, planning and shopping tools for everyday life; and the wire-bound book, designed to lie flat on the worktop while you cook.
What I wanted was simple, delicious meals that give you a reliable baseline, while still leaving plenty of room for family meals, celebrations and everything else that makes life special.
Frequently asked questions
- Are the recipes suitable for vegetarians?
- Yes. There are plenty of vegetarian recipes, and many of the others can be easily adapted.
- Are the recipes suitable for people using GLP-1 medication?
- The recipes can provide useful meal ideas for people using GLP-1 medication, with an emphasis on protein, fibre, variety and calorie awareness. Finding Balance is not a medical programme, so always follow the advice of your healthcare professional.
- Do I need any specialist ingredients?
- No. The recipes use straightforward, everyday ingredients available in normal supermarkets.
- Are the meals suitable for families?
- The recipes are created as single servings, but the app makes them easy to adapt for families. Simply select between one and four servings and the ingredient quantities adjust automatically. Recipes from the book can also be scaled up manually.
A little more from Jemima’s Table
Recipes, ideas and Finding Balance news, sent occasionally.