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The Midlife Kitchen: health-boosting recipes for midlife & beyond

Mimi Spencer

Sam Rice

Delicious recipes for perimenopause and the menopause.

'No fads. No gimmicks. Just delicious, health-boosting food' - Daily Mail

As featured in The Times and the Daily Mail.


This new edition has been updated by the authors and an expert nutritionist in line with the very latest research and advice.

Are you at a point in your life where health is becoming more of a priority? The perimenopause and menopause years are a great time to take stock of what you eat - in fact, midlife is a glorious opportunity to wrest back control of your eating in the interests of health, happiness and a long life.
This is what The Midlife Kitchen is all about: eating gorgeous ingredients in the most delicious combinations to give yourself the best possible odds for a healthy future. Mimi Spencer and Sam Rice have created more than 150 recipes to restore, rejuvenate and revive - with them you can future-proof your life through your forties, fifties and well beyond.

Busy lives require simple, sustaining recipes that incorporate health-giving ingredients without too much fuss, so each recipe features Mimi and Sam's unique colour-coded star anise system, highlighting the specific health benefits of the dish.

  • Classification : Cookery, Food & Drink
  • Pub Date : JUN 19, 2025
  • Imprint : Mitchell Beazley
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781840919646
  • Price : INR 2,199
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Mimi Spencer

Mimi Spencer is best known for co-authoring The Fast Diet with Michael Mosley, which introduced the concept of 5:2 intermittent fasting to the world. The Fast Diet has sold over a million copies worldwide, with translations into more than 30 languages.

During a 30-year career in journalism, she wrote about 'all the good things in life' - fashion, beauty, food and travel - as a features writer and columnist for numerous national newspapers and magazines including The Times, the Observer, Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard. She has written five cookbooks, including The Midlife Kitchen, focused on health and well-being as we age.

A lifelong devotee of yoga, Mimi trained as a yoga teacher in 2021, and she now runs regular retreats near her home in Sussex (therestisyoga.co.uk). When she's not on a yoga mat, Mimi can be found in her studio making pots, which she shows at the Two Kats and a Cow gallery in Brighton.

@mimispencerceramics

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Sam Rice

Sam Rice is a freelance food, drink and health writer and a member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is best known for co-authoring the Sunday Times bestseller The Midlife Kitchen with award-winning journalist and co-author of The Fast Diet, Mimi Spencer. Sam writes regularly for the Telegraph and Top Santé magazine. She lives in Bath.

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