Jennifer Aniston's cucumber weight control plan: Could a genuine lady survive on a 151 calorie lunch? What does Jennifer ­Aniston really eat? Some claim she curbs carbs on the Atkins diet, others say she’s ­follows the Zone Diet, which involves eating a 40:30:30 ratio of carbs to fat to protein.

Well, ladies, now her personal chefs, sisters Jewels and Jill Elmore, have released a ­cookbook, which finally lifts the lid on the ­contents of Jennifer’s saucepans.

The introduction to this work has been penned by Aniston herself, who reveals that in a time she refers to as ‘BJ: Before ­Jewels’, she lived on an ­assortment of  ­‘prepackaged Zone meals, overcooked takeout and…the ­occasional piece of cheese’.Jen claims they taught her that her kitchen was not a place to store her PowerBars ‘my once-upon-a-time alternative to all food groups!’ but a place to cook food in. Who knew?

On receiving my copy, I was faintly ­encouraged to note that it is entitled The Family Chef. ­Working on the principle that my own family (a 6ft 5in man and two children under five) has no truck with ­carbohydrate-free fare, or anything in which a bit of lemon zest has been passed off as a sauce —

I was ­hopeful that this book may ­contain more latitude than I had previously detected in Hollywood A-list diets.