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Sugar Free Challenge - Friday & prep for next week

Cooper27Administrator•

4 years ago•6 Replies

Morning everyone

I'm doubling up on my post today, with a post to help prep for next week too. That means we're talking about meal planning.

Meal planning is something I've done for years - it's a helpful tool for healthy eating in general, as well as for budgeting. I sort my meal plan on a Friday ahead of shopping on Saturday, so I can prepare a shopping list. I'll post it all below later today to help.

There are no hard and fast rules to meal planning, it depends on your circumstances and general lifestyle, and I'm sure I'll be "teaching granny to such eggs" if I go into detail. It might be better if I just allow people who need help with this to ask below instead.

The benefit of doing this, is that you tend to save money by only buying the food you need, and sweet treats are less likely to find their way into your trolley too.

Let me know if you have any questions

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Subtle_badger4 years ago

Off topic from meal planning:

I noticed on one of the locked threads you mentioned Davina McCall's sugar book. I picked it up in a book store many years ago, and put it down again nearly as quickly. There was nothing sugar-free about it. It was just a series of highly sugary foods, replacing the refined sugar with other sugars that were metabolically similar. The dishes were no healthier than the ones with cane sugar in them.

In fact, I remember that she used agave syrup. I googled that, and it's infact 85% fructose, so distinctly less healthy than cane sugar.

So yes, steer well clear of that book.

Cooper27Administrator• in reply toSubtle_badger4 years ago

Thanks for confirming, this is basically what I'd heard at the time, so I've never even looked at the book!

Cooper27Administrator4 years ago

This sounds good

I was going to do a bit on sugar free treats tomorrow, you should share your recipe with us for that.

Cooper27Administrator4 years ago

Meant to post this earlier, but this is my plan and shopping list for next week (ignore the headings on the paper, it's a scrap pad).

I have a bit in the freezer and get a veg box delivered on Thursdays's, so the shopping list doesn't cover all food.

• in reply toCooper274 years ago

Thank you Cooper27 for sharing your shopping list. It is very well rounded with healthy proteins vegetables, and nuts. I like the smoothie list you have and wonder if it is pre-packaged? 🤔 I love smoothies and I make it from scratch with acai and yogurt. Have a wonderful weekend! 😊🙏🌺

Cooper27Administrator• in reply to4 years ago

I've been making smoothies recently with a pea protein powder mix, berries and avocado. I need the berry phytonutrients at the moment