{"id":675275,"date":"2026-03-23T05:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:02:39","slug":"the-everyday-food-prue-leith-86-swears-by-to-get-well-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675275\/","title":{"rendered":"The everyday food Prue Leith, 86, swears by to get well fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dame Prue Leith<\/a> might be in her mid-80s, but she exudes health and wellbeing (she even has a new book out called Being Old And Learning To Love It). So what\u2019s her secret? Speaking to Good Housekeeping, she revealed exactly how she looks after her health \u2013 from the staple she eats when she\u2019s feeling under the weather, to her favourite comfort food and her daily exercise routine.<\/p>\n

\u2018At the moment, I\u2019m just recovering from a cold,\u2019 she says. \u2018I was really feeling lousy, run down and full of cold. John [Prue\u2019s husband] asked what I\u2019d like for supper and I had yogurt, granola and grapes. I do love yogurt. If I\u2019m feeling low, I\u2019ll just eat yogurt.<\/p>\n

\u2018My favourite comfort food<\/a>, though, if I\u2019m really tired or if I\u2019m in a hurry, is scrambled eggs, often with some prosciutto \u2013 either fried in a pan or in the air fryer. It goes wonderfully crisp.\u2019<\/p>\n

Prue says she\u2019s conscious of \u2018what\u2019s healthy and what\u2019s not\u2019, adding: \u2018I never buy ready-meals and I love cooking, so I cook from scratch. We grow a lot of our own veg and we go to a very good farmer\u2019s market. So I know that we eat well, but I never think about it \u2013 and I wonder if that\u2019s the secret. In doing that, you still keep the joy around food; eating healthily never feels like a punishment. I don\u2019t always get my five a day \u2013 but sometimes, I\u2019ll have 20 a day. I just think food should be a joy.\u2019<\/p>\n

In January, Dame Prue announced she was stepping down from her role as judge on The Great British Bake Off<\/a> \u2018after dithering for two years\u2019. \u2018Of course, I do know what I\u2019ll be missing,\u2019 she wrote in The Times. \u2018The dithering was because there cannot be a better job in the world. I know I\u2019d enjoy it if I stayed… But I do want to reorganise my life a bit. Ideally, I\u2019d like to work in winter and play in summer.\u2019<\/p>\n

And even though she confesses she finds exercise<\/a> \u2018boring\u2019, she has a set routine that she does every day. \u2018I had a physiotherapist, who told me that I absolutely had to do a bunch of exercises and she gave me 30 stretches and leg lifts to do,\u2019 she says. \u2018She said they should take 45 minutes because you have to do them very slowly, but I find it so boring. I go at it like a steam train. I do a whole lot in 10 minutes!\u2019<\/p>\n

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