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Healthy meals from tomorrow.wish to join me

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I've just sat here and ate 6 jam tarts and i'm utterly disgusted in myself!

Anyway, i'm shopping tonight and i've decided to healthy eat (under 5% fat 'ish' for adults & healthy meals for kids) from now on.

I'm going away now to plan my meals for the next fortnight and i'll post them later......does anyone wish to join me and give some moral support?
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  • I'd love to, kippers :) Been meaning to do this for a while, but as I live on my own, I have no one to boot me up the backside! Perhaps we can boot each other :)
  • kippers
    kippers Posts: 2,063 Forumite
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    Just been shopping...this is my meal plan for the next two weeks for me and my family:

    Grilled Pork chops & veg
    Chicken Zorba, pitta, nat yoghurt, pilaff rice & salad
    Chicken Veg & gravy
    Spag bog (fat drained off meat after browning)
    Low fat curry with turkey breast and loads of veg
    Chicken in bread crumbs, very low fat chips & beans
    Low fat chicken fricasse
    Salad & Jac Pot, ham etc
    Chicken & veg
    Pasta & salad
    Low fat Curry (again, but we love it).

    Glad you are on board Nicifer_noonoo, let me know how you get on. I'll post again tomorrow night when i'm getting withdrawal symptoms from lack of cakes!
  • MrsTinks
    MrsTinks Posts: 15,238 Forumite
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    I have just joined Tesco E-diets and tonight should have been veg pasta. Looks like it will be Tomato soup and macaroni :rotfl:
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  • I'm up for it... just me to cater for, so I know what you mean, Nicifer :P but what with work stress and a skewed sleeping pattern etc I give up too easily on the ol' healthy eating. I rarely eat takeaways or fried stuff but my downfall is getting prepacked shop sandwiches ( which I don't even like very much ) pop, crisps and chocolate if am too tired/stressed/lazy to make something properly. Which is bad for me physically and mentally !

    Although I do love my food, and I also love making stuff fron scratch etc, if life is strained then I find I have to sneak meals up on myself at the last minute or else I feel nauseous :( which is a bit of a !!!!!! when trying to preplan meals. I try and get round this by eating a lot of snackish meals involving fruit, cheese, homemade soups which Ive frozen in small portions, and salad.

    Was quite good today - had cereal for breakfast, home prepped cheese and watercress rolls with carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes and washed down with apple juice, snacks were 3 digestive biscuits and a handful of grapes, and am now making jacket potato with the rest of the watercress, mustard and cress, cucumber, beetroot and more tomatoes for dinner.

    let's hope I can keep it up tomorrow ! :D
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  • vixtress
    vixtress Posts: 1,153 Forumite
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    count me in too!!
    ive just joined the losing weight thread, had me 'lightbulb moment' yesterday and really need to do somthing about it!!
    dont think my problem is so much what i eat, its the amount :o i tend to dish up the same for me as for OH, i am also bad for 'a few biscuits' here and there etc, etc it all adds up!!
    there are 4 of us....me, OH and 2 littlies (2 & 5)
    so here we go!!

    made sausages and roast veg for dinner, made a concerted effort at portion control and am still more than satisfied, just shows what a greedy !!!!!! ive been :o
    - prior planning prevents poor performance!

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  • MrsTinks
    MrsTinks Posts: 15,238 Forumite
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    I recall whatching Paul McKenna doing something on telly a while back about portion control... and it was very interesting! He asked some very large people to go to the canteen and pick what they would normally eat. They came back with HUGE plates... then he made them eat it with blindfolds and they only ate about 1/4 of the portion they would normally and they felt full! Eating on "the hoof" also increased the portions and amounts of meals and snacks because the brain never had a chance to realise it had eaten and to so many it becomes a habit to eat rather than a reaction to hunger :)
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  • vixtress
    vixtress Posts: 1,153 Forumite
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    if you listen to his lose weight cd its all about eating till you are full and really concentrating on what you eat, its reaal just comon sense but it works, i just have to get my act together and listen to it again !!!
    - prior planning prevents poor performance!

    May Grocery challenge £150 136/150
  • sandy2_2
    sandy2_2 Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    I've got his (PMc) cd and book. have listened to the Cd regularly, but I find it sooo relaxing I fall asleep.
    He did a similar thing with a video some years ago. the video had some lovely views of the sea etc and I always dozed off in that as well
  • floyd
    floyd Posts: 2,722 Forumite
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    sandy2 wrote: »
    I've got his (PMc) cd and book. have listened to the Cd regularly, but I find it sooo relaxing I fall asleep.

    Ha ha I did that on the train once while listening to it then made a big grunting noise when I woke up :eek:

    I'm in, have actually been trying to do this for aout 4 weeks but to have some support always helps.

    Most days, lunch is vegetable broth with pearl barley (no spuds in it or fat) and breakfast is weetabix with skimmed milk so they are standard.

    Ooh Kippers, my friends mum used to make Quorn Zorba when we were teenagers and I loved it, must have a go again :T
  • kippers
    kippers Posts: 2,063 Forumite
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    Hi all, its my day off today so i've already started thinking of nothing but food. Anyway this morning i had Porridge made with milk with a small chopped banana and a few raisensmixed in...yummy.

    If i can tear myself away from this website i need to prepare tonights dinner of pork chops, & lots of veg. I'm hoping my family don't notice the changes too much as i think it will do my hubby and two girls good.

    How long do you think it will take before i stop craving sweet things? I gave up diet coke at the beginning of last year nd i can't stand the smell of it now, i wonder if this will happen with sweet things also?...hope so!
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