| kimvic
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| As a newbie, what do you feel are the best things to have on hand when starting out on Phase 1? I need all the tips I can get! :lol: |
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Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:05 pm |
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| chicsndvl
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| beans, 2% cheese sticks, veggies, veggies, veggies, chicken, turkey breasts, almonds, natural peanut butter, SBD friendly salad dressing |
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Thu May 01, 2008 2:07 am |
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| megnliz
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Make sure to have a lot of variety, or you'll get bored with the diet, and stray towards "bad foods"...here's my shopping list:
Eggs(tons of eggs, there's so much you can do with them)
Green Beans
Broccoli
Celery
Eggplant
Zucchini
Articokes
Lettuce
Onions
Bell Peppers
Spinach
Low Fat Parmesan
Low Fat String Cheese
Low Fat Cream Cheese
Low Fat Mozzarella
Skinless Chicken Breast (make sure to get Chicken Breast, the rest of a Chicken's body to too fattening)
Any Seafood
Exrta Lean Meats
Dry Roasted Peanuts
Chicken Broth( a lot...you can use it to flavor anything)
Sugar Free Jell-O Cups, or packages
Balsamic Vinatgrette
Canola Oil
V-8 Juice
No Sugar Added Fudgesicles
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray
Smart Balance Spread
Skim Milk
Low Flat Plain Yogurt (IMO, not-so-tasty, but flavor can be added to it)
Bottled Water
Splenda
Flavor Syrups
Beef Bullion
Chicken Bullion
^^You can use bullion in place of broth, I find it easier when I'm cooking
There's plenty more stuff in the book, but this is just my personalized list. :)
Also, I have a hard time remembering exactly what to look for when reading the nutrition facts & ingredients list, so I make a note on my shopping list of what to look for::
Look for foods with good amounts of:
Monounsaturated Fat
Polyunsaturated Fat
Fiber
Protein
Avoid Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Sugar Carbs. Most things have a little bit of these things in it, but keep with very minimal.
On the ingredients list, AVOID these words:
Sugar
Corn Syrup
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Glucose
Frucose
Dextrose
Honey
MSG (Monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer. Most food manufacturers know better than to use this now, but some still use it)
Starch
Any Grains
Lactose (in all dairy, but it is a sugar, so keep it minimal)
also, Cheese:: 6grams of fat or less per once. |
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Thu May 01, 2008 2:56 am |
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| RedRox
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My standard suggestion is to go through the P1 food list thread here (linked into the P1 FAQ sticky above, not the links to the upper right of the forum posts as those are VERY outdated) and circle or underline everything you like to eat now and focus on those things first.
Pretty good list megnliz! But fructose is on the list of acceptable sugar substitutes (you just have to count the calories towards your sweet treat limit) and lactose is a fairly low GI sugar and is OK and encouraged in the allowed forms of milk and yogurt. Also some allowed veggies like tomatoes have a fair amount of natural sugars which is fine as well. So tomato sauces may have 5-8 gms of sugars on the nutritional label and still be fine to use as long as they don't have added sugars in the ingredients list.
Finally, SBD friendly salad dressings are any dressing with less than 3 gms of sugars and made from predominantly good oils like olive oil or canola oil. Lots of std. commercial dressings work. You don't have to buy SB branded products at all. And small amounts of sugars are OK if they are further down the list and totals are not over 3 gms per serving.
Plan on lots of extra time for awhile as you learn to read nutritional and ingredient labels and find products that meet guidelines!
Also, recipelover also has some "shopping list" links in her Recipe Summary sticky thread in the Recipe and Food forum here. |
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Thu May 01, 2008 3:40 am |
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| kimvic
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| Thank you all for your help. I will be coming back to these boards quite often for help and support! |
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Thu May 01, 2008 1:34 pm |
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| Sugarplum Fairy
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Get a bottle of ICBINBS (I Can't Believe it's Not Butter) spray
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a bottle of sugar free pancake syrup. MMMMmmm
This stuff will come in handy. |
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Thu May 01, 2008 1:52 pm |
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| Magna
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And, while you're stocking all those foods in your refrigerator and pantry, you will also find it helpful to get rid of non-SBD foods, or at least as many as you can. Obviously you have to take other people in the household into account, but, for example, if something is mainly a treat just for you or if no one else cares much about it, you might as well get rid of it. Donate whatever you can to charity, give it to neighbors, etc.
It's easier to make decisions now about whether you'll eat that chocolate bar or those french fries rather than when you are in the throes of temptation. If you don't have it around, your decision is made. :) |
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Thu May 01, 2008 5:01 pm |
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