The Midlife Kitchen
health-boosting recipes for midlife & beyond
Published on 28. August 2025
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-84091-964-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
'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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 193 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1138 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84091-964-6 (9781840919646)
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05/2017
Mitchell Beazley
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Persons
Mimi Spencer (Author)
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.
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
Sam Rice (Author)
Sam's food journey began in 2012 following the shock death of her youngest brother, Ben, from type 1 diabetes. She spent the next few years experimenting in the kitchen, trying to find healthy foods she loved to eat, and quickly learned the power of the food we eat to heal and sustain.
The Midlife Kitchen was the culmination of everything she learned during those years, and her subsequent book, The Midlife Method: How to Lose Weight and Feel Great After 40, has also helped thousands of midlifers improve their health. Her latest book, Supercharge Your Diet: Ten Easy Ways to Get Everything You Need from Your Food, was written to give people back control over their nutrition in the increasingly complex food landscape we now live in.
Sam is the nutrition expert at the Daily Telegraph, where her writing centres on making good nutrition accessible to all. She's a recent graduate of the Leiths Nutrition in Culinary Practice programme, the best training of its kind in the UK, which focuses on translating nutritional theory into practice in the kitchen. Her latest endeavour is an MSc in Clinical Nutrition at Aberdeen University.
@midlifekitchen
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.
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
Sam Rice (Author)
Sam's food journey began in 2012 following the shock death of her youngest brother, Ben, from type 1 diabetes. She spent the next few years experimenting in the kitchen, trying to find healthy foods she loved to eat, and quickly learned the power of the food we eat to heal and sustain.
The Midlife Kitchen was the culmination of everything she learned during those years, and her subsequent book, The Midlife Method: How to Lose Weight and Feel Great After 40, has also helped thousands of midlifers improve their health. Her latest book, Supercharge Your Diet: Ten Easy Ways to Get Everything You Need from Your Food, was written to give people back control over their nutrition in the increasingly complex food landscape we now live in.
Sam is the nutrition expert at the Daily Telegraph, where her writing centres on making good nutrition accessible to all. She's a recent graduate of the Leiths Nutrition in Culinary Practice programme, the best training of its kind in the UK, which focuses on translating nutritional theory into practice in the kitchen. Her latest endeavour is an MSc in Clinical Nutrition at Aberdeen University.
@midlifekitchen