I need meal inspiration for cooking on Saturday!

It does take a while to get your head around it all and I only feel like I've go the knack of it now - 3 months in! Mind, I don't cook like that every night, I tend to rely on Weightwatchers food like pasta sauces and Tikka Masala sauce, Phillidelphia cheese & hummus because the nutritional info is there plain for me and I don't have to think about it. PLEASE don't be eating plain rice and pasta everyday, you'll go mad and be far more likely to cheat. This diet isn't at all torturous but you do have to be prepared to carefully read the label of every food item that you pick up in the shops!
Not sure if it's ideal, but I found a Mexican smokey chipotle chile sauce (Wahaca range) in Morrisons yesterday. I stirred 2 teaspoons into some veggie rice and it was lovely with cheese (low-fat Pilgrims choice) on top. For me this diet's about COUNTING and reading labels! I can't believe that some people go all their adult lives calorie counting, if it wasn't for a bloody good purpose it'd drive me mad!

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Originally Posted by Ipadmad

Oh Dream, you sound like you've totally got your head around this diet! I'm so fed up with plain rice or pasta with a big of mushroom / courgette / leek on the side. But I'm not a good enough cook to be that creative. I'm going to get DH to sign up tonight (he's spent weeks of being nagged!) and hopefully there might be some other ideas on there too.

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I hope he does sign you up soon as the member's diet section is invaluable. I used it a lot in the beginning, but obviously (I'm not complaining AS! :giggle:) there's a lot of American foods that we can't get here, so with some careful label-reading I've slowly built up a 'bank' of foods that I can buy in the UK. I love creating recipes for this diet (usually relevant for the UK with a lot of products) the challenge to make it interesting and varied is a good one - though not in a T-raising way :bigsmile:

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

I made a couple threads with fancy recipes for the holidays last year -

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...-dreaming.html

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...d-12-11-a.html

Argh looking at these make me depressed, I never have any time to work on my cookbooks and at this rate they'll never get done. i'll have to make a short version

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If you ever want a hand, give me a shout. I JUST love cooking and cook books, I'm so sad they're quite often my bedtime books! :rolleyes:

That is totally my shortcoming because I should have SOMETHING in the way of recipe books. :/

Thank you dreamofpink. I do need to be a bit more adventurous. I guess it's just sort of easier to stick to plainer foods, but I do need to experiment a bit. Thank you

Aah Atomic.. have I told you recently that I love you!? I think you've just won my favourite person of the year award! :cheer::owl:

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Originally Posted by Dreamofpink

If you ever want a hand, give me a shout. I JUST love cooking and cook books, I'm so sad they're quite often my bedtime books! :rolleyes:

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don't tempt me LOL

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Originally Posted by Ipadmad

Thank you dreamofpink. I do need to be a bit more adventurous. I guess it's just sort of easier to stick to plainer foods, but I do need to experiment a bit. Thank you

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what my goal is, is to have the LE Diet be more of a lifestyle and less of a torturous thing to struggle thru for 6 weeks before your sway. I'd like for people to be able to go onto an LE Diet with higher cals for months even before TTC and/or to stay on with ease for months while TTC. white rice and craisins is a recipe for cheating - we want something to live on, not suffer through white knuckled while on the verge of disaster every second! :)