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Hi, Shelli, and welcome. Thanks for your input – stay tuned for adjustments.
In the meantime, please do take advantage of our digital guides (in “My Downloads” above) for more explanations, and our 14-day sample menu planner at the same location, and please feel free to ask specific questions here. You can also switch around the food items throughout the day to better fit your tastes.
2 Tbsp uncooked oats that are cooked in water/milk will yield about half a cup of hot cereal.I just joined as well…..after reading through the Express 14 Day Meal Plan I am left wondering at a few of the suggestions for meals.
Are you allowed to use a FF dressing on the lettuce, tomato, cucumber that is suggested I suppose for a salad? or is the 1 tsp. of olive oil suppose to be your dressing…….also several times in the different meal suggestions it has “2 tsps. coconut milk”, for what?Toby
FF dressings are fine if they are organic/all-natural – check the label for any odd and undesirable artificial ingredients – but yes, the olive oils is indeed intended for that. If you use an FF dressing, you can use the oil for something else, or even swap it out for another source of fat that you prefer (i.e. avocado in your salad).
Regarding the coconut milk – it depends what you chose it for when you went through the Menu Planner program. It is quite popular as an ingredient in sauces for rice or proteins (meat/fish/poultry or substitutes).This site was very understanding when watching the video. You can not sample the site until you sign up, once signed up it is very confusing. If it would have said I was going to have to go cross country to find the foods in my diet, I would have never joined. Really I never heard of half of this food and dairy your talking about. Everything talks about organtic, raw, thought this was going to be easy just like the video said. I don’t really think it’s been to easy and I haven’t started the first day. Please explain the easy to me.
My husband and I are having a hoot reading these comments, we agree with all of you who feel confused. But we are going to incorporate some of things slowly and try to get some new habits. Even if we double the amounts we may still be hungry.
Hi, Leeann. Where do you live? There may be an easier solution to finding the foods for your menu. For example, major chains like Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s carry them, and they can be purchased online.
One of the major principles of the program is to avoid processed food, including at the genetic level. It is based on research suggesting that the body’s metabolism is optimal when most foods are consumed in their most natural state. It may take some getting used to, but habits will eventually form. Hang in there – it really is worth it.I guess I agree with all of this – the menu plan seems unusable as I went through it. I’m not so sure that I really understood what I was going to get for my money? I need motivation and practical menus –
One of the online guides deals specifically with motivation, and hopefully you will find mutual support in these forums. Can you specify what about the Menu Planner is not practical? Thanks.
I am making small changes to the way I eat, following the menus that I have generated from the menu planner. On the menu planner I have gone through and clicked everything that I recognise in each section, it takes a while but the more you tick the more variety you get in your menu so it’s worth taking the time initially. Once you have your menu if there is anything that you don’t like you can swap it for something else. At the very bottom of your weekly menu there is a free vegetable list that you can click on and you can add these to your meals. Good luck!
Evenings used to be my problem time but now I can look forward to a healthy planned snack about 7.30pm and that suits me fine.
I like the gentleness on this forum, and the international flavor of its participants. Support is so important. The trouble with so many sites/diets is counting calories, fat grams, etc. Here I just enter what I eat, and if I monitor the AMOUNT (can be a problem for me) of food on my plate, it’s a really easy peasy — and VERY healthy — way to eat. I find that listing my food and my weight can keep me on track. I am thinking of listing the amounts, too……I have long ago put my dinners on a salad plate, but it’s getting to be time to put it all in a saucer……just kidding….
Hugs,
Mary Ellen
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