At the beginning, we worked together. We would plan what we would eat, looking at luscious recipes and traditional dinners, making decisions about what we wanted to cook. We did our shopping and in just over three hours we prepared and cooked calorie counted meals for the whole week making sure that no meal exceeded 400 calories. Most doctor recommended diets suggest you do not consume less that 1000 to 1200 calories a day.
We invested in TV dinner trays, plastic separated freezer containers and small aluminum casserole containers with lids and once we made the dinners we divided each recipe into the number of portions that would make them contain less than 400 calories, cook and freeze them. We had a variety of frozen dinners in the freezer and we (and the others in our family) could help ourselves without the fuss of planning and cooking when we were the most hungry.
As you may guess, the first part of our plan was labour intensive - we had to get calorie counts for every meal we wanted to make. These included our mom's traditional spaghetti recipe, and even comfort food choices.
But now we have hundreds of recipes - all calorie counted with instructions about how many portions they need to be divided into. Some were high calorie, so the portion was quite small. However, sometimes you need to splurge and it is great to have a portioned snack or dinner that never goes over 400 calories.
Okay, I can hear you saying - why not just buy frozen dinners at the grocery store?
Actually, that is what gave us the germ of the plan. can you guess why we didn't just do exactly that?
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