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Why set up our meal planner if the meals selected for us do not reflect our choices? Even with hitting the exchange button, it still does not give us choices from what we selected in our meal planner set up. This is extremely frustrating and time consuming. The end results end up being undesirable and/or useless. For instance, I set quinoa as a grain I like. When a grain is chosen for me on the menu and I would like to exchange it for quinoa, it won’t give me quinoa as a choice. I like sardines, but it never gives me that as an exchange for another protein that I don’t want. Again, what good is the menu planner if it doesn’t really work for me? Also, I do not have tv dinners checked but it keeps wanting to use one for an exchange for me. Useless. What alternative can I use to make my menu choices more desirable? Please help. Thank you.
I tell you, I have the same. I get meaty and fishy things to exchange although I’m haven’t ticked those because I’m veggie-vegan. I also get seitan, and I didn’t tick that either 🙂
Hi mjffey, cute dog. So I am not the only one having this problem. It is so time consuming trying to find a substitute for almost every item in every menu. On so many of them, there is no suitable substitute, even though I know there should be some from what I checked in the meal planner. How do you handle it? 🙂
Hi, LadyTundra. I will forward your query about grains to tech support. Regarding sardines, because they are canned in oil, they have added fat, and if your other choices are high in fat, it will not appear on the menu. This is usually the challenge people face with the Menu Planner. We will look into making a modification that may help here.
Other than that, when you wrote that the menu does not reflect your choices, are there other items you checked that never appear, or are there items that you did not check that appear?
Beyond that, note that the menu you receive has the benefit of framing your day – food portions, food groups and combinations, and of course timing. If you make your own healthy food choices according to that frame, you can make swaps on your own, too.Hi, mjffey. If you are a vegetarian/vegan, be sure to enter the vegetarian route of the meal planner – no need to deal with meat and fish there.
Hello Ossie. Yes to both questions. Items that I did not check appear and items that I did check never appear. Thank you for responding to my questions. However, I have decided to cancel my membership. This planner is very problematic for me and I feel that I do need a better, more reliable guide at this time. I do think that your site has some good sounding recipes and I regret not being able to try them out but I am opting out. Thank you for help.
Hello Ossie. Yes to both questions. Items that I did not check appear and items that I did check never appear. Thank you for responding to my questions. However, I have decided to cancel my membership. This planner is very problematic for me and I feel that I do need a better, more reliable guide at this time. I do think that your site has some good sounding recipes and I regret not being able to try them out but I am opting out. Thank you for your help.
Hi Sharon,
I did check the vegetarian option at the beginning. I’m the one that can’t get through the menu planner because of the “protein” problem. We emailed.
Cheers,
Marie-JeanneHi, Marie-Jeanne. Good to talk with you again. Just so I’m clear – are you saying that you checked the vegetarian route, but meat, fish, and or poultry products are popping up on your swap outs? I ask because if so, I will contact tech development. As you know, we are working to optimize this important route.
Yep, that’s what happens, and I get tofu, and seitan, but I didn’t tick those, because I can’t get that here.
Cheers,
MJHi, Marie-Jeanne. Thanks for the information about non-veg items in the veg route – I will forward that information to the tech support team.
In the meantime, where do you live? I will look into soy/wheat-based protein products in your area.I live in the West of Ireland. There is a shop that sometimes sells tofu, but that’s 1.5 hour drive. That’s a bit much for a bit of tofu 🙂
I use Linda mccartney sausages, Asda veg. lemon and herb piri piri bean burgers, and vegetarian/vegan veggie fish fingers, so that will do me nicely.Hi, Marie-Jeanne. It is good to read that you have access to some items.
Below is a link to online ordering in Ireland, including of tofu and seitan – delivery is free on orders over 65 euro http://plantgoodness24.ie/categories/27/Meat_amp_Fish_Alternatives/Tofu_Seitan_Tempeh.html/1/nazwa-descThank you Ossie, it seems that your techs must have done a little tweaking as more things are showing up now, even my quinoa. It could still use a little help but it is better, thank you. I wish that I could remove some of the items on my daily menu and start over fresh so that I had more choices that would suit me but I guess that is asking too much. I will give this a try and I am just substituting what I want in the same food line and doing it that way. I hope this will work alright? When I want to change a menu and it comes up with only one choice of some kind of nut roast or something like that, it is very discouraging. How can I make this work?
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