Meal Plans - Eat This Much
spuf66
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I've been looking into various Meal Plans that are out there to maybe supplant what we became used to on the BL. To be honest, I didn't really follow the meal plans there because my wife cooks pretty healthy dinners and the BL only listed either all the meals for the shopping lists or just the dinners. I did try out some of the breakfast recipes and I've pretty much settled on 3 different breakfasts that I typically eat. But if there was something more flexible out there, I may be inclined to give it a go.
So the first one I would like to talk about is the "Eat This Much". This looks very promising as it is and yet, is still a work in progress. There is a free version but you can sign up for a 2 week premium trial and if you pay for an annual plan for Premium, it works out to $7/month or $9 when you go month to month. I think the free version will just give you a taste of how it works but the premium is a huge step up.
You start out by entering how many calories you would like to eat over the number of meals of the day. So if you enter 5 meals, it will generate breakfast/lunch/dinner plus 2 snacks. You can also highlight foods you don't want to eat and what kind of diet plan you would like to be on. The Premium plan allows you to generate meals a week at a time and adjust various aspects of the meals, manage your grocery list and what you have in your pantry, plus it will enter the meals in a calendar and you can incorporate using leftovers in lunches from a previous dinner. There's plans for a mobile app so it's all web based at the moment. They send you an email with your meals with ingredients and directions for each as well as an overall shopping list and you can track what you actually cook and how you liked it. I think you can also add your own recipes as well. There's a lot more features to go into but hopefully, I've given enough detail about it to see if you would like to try it out.
I've run into some others but I'll hold off listing them as I like this one the best and I want to give us time to digest
this service without the distraction of other things.
So the first one I would like to talk about is the "Eat This Much". This looks very promising as it is and yet, is still a work in progress. There is a free version but you can sign up for a 2 week premium trial and if you pay for an annual plan for Premium, it works out to $7/month or $9 when you go month to month. I think the free version will just give you a taste of how it works but the premium is a huge step up.
You start out by entering how many calories you would like to eat over the number of meals of the day. So if you enter 5 meals, it will generate breakfast/lunch/dinner plus 2 snacks. You can also highlight foods you don't want to eat and what kind of diet plan you would like to be on. The Premium plan allows you to generate meals a week at a time and adjust various aspects of the meals, manage your grocery list and what you have in your pantry, plus it will enter the meals in a calendar and you can incorporate using leftovers in lunches from a previous dinner. There's plans for a mobile app so it's all web based at the moment. They send you an email with your meals with ingredients and directions for each as well as an overall shopping list and you can track what you actually cook and how you liked it. I think you can also add your own recipes as well. There's a lot more features to go into but hopefully, I've given enough detail about it to see if you would like to try it out.
I've run into some others but I'll hold off listing them as I like this one the best and I want to give us time to digest
this service without the distraction of other things. 0
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Thanks havent heard of this.0
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Sounds like an interesting program Scott. I'll have to check into it. I printed to PDF all the BLBC stuff. Like you, I'm down to 3 staple breakfasts...just because I like them. I haven't really followed the plans much since week 9 of the BLBC. I just keep the unhealthy stuff out of the pantry and fridge. I have a tried a few different recipe's independent of the meal plans, that's about it. I've got a good pace of weight loss going, I figure if it's not broke, don't fix it. Once the losses slow, perhaps I'll pay more attention to it.0
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Yeah Rudy, you got a good thing going right now so I'm with you on not fixing something that works for you.
Since I live kinda far from a decent grocery store, we go on a grocery run every 2 weeks so that takes a lot of planning and we just went today so maybe for next time, I'm going to get into this program a bit and see what I can come up with. My situation is also a contributer on not really following the BL meal plan since on any given Saturday (the day we usually go to the store), you only see the next week of meals and not 2. I guess I could've just been behind and use the current week as next week and the following week as the 2nd week (if you can follow that logic) but I didn't. I just used MFP to track my calories and avoid the unhealthy stuff as much as I can, but I am finding I would like to have a bit more variety in my diet then what I typically eat.0 -
Thanks for this info Scott - I'll definitely look into it. Funny enough, I also have 3 breakfasts that I settled on out of all the BL breakfasts. I just can't get up early enough on a workday to make a 3 egg-white omelette where I have to chop up 6 different veggies! And I don't necessarily follow the plan to the 'T' on the other meals either, but it gives me options, and like you said - variety. Left to my own devices, I'd probably make the same 4-5 meals over and over and forget all about the other ones. So when I'm making lunch the night before, I look through the options and pick one unless I already had something specific in mind. Same for dinner. It's just convenient.0
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