Low-cal doesn’t mean low joy: Meet the Instagram chef making your favourite comfort food lighter Alex Hughes, the creator of ‘Low-Cal Kitchen Bangers’ and a social media sensation with over a million followers, shares how she’s transforming indulgent favourites into guilt-free delights – proving you don’t need to ditch carbs or cravings to stay on track.
Alex Hughes, the 30-year-old behind hugely popular Instagram, Facebook and TikTok accounts Alex’s Kitchen Bangers, has been creating recipes to cut down calorie intake without compromising on taste.
From breakfast flatbread pizza and smashed cheeseburger tacos, to lamb kofta kebabs and salted caramel cookies, she’s on a mission to prove that everyday food can be comforting and no food groups needs to be cut out.
Sharing her story with an impressive 1.1 million followers on Instagram alone, Hughes has healed her own relationship with food and her body, after years of yo-yo dieting and depriving herself of her favourite meals.
Hughes grew up in an era of size-zero supermodels and women’s magazines that promoted skinniness, and got into a cycle of crash dieting and gaining weight from her teenage years.
