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From:	Davide (host239-130.pool80104.interbusiness.it)
Subject:	Re: Ways to follow this plan on the go
Date:	May 6, 2006 at 1:07 am PST

In Reply to: Ways to follow this plan on the go posted by naturelover on April 20, 2006 at 9:35 am:

I'm trying hard to follow this plan, but I don't have much time to prepare meals so I was wondeirng if anyone has easy ways to follow this plan with minimal food prep time and/or ideas for meals out of the house?

Of all the diets out there Eat2Live is the one that requires less preparation work and time

What I do is preparing a week worth of food the sunday morning.

- I peel, wash and cut veggies and keep them on the fridge anytime I need them or just want a snack to crunch: carrots, celery, zucchini, fennels
Same for fresh fruits that need to be peeled and have their seeds removed etc ..

- I keep a countainer of diced veggies: onions, leek, peppers, mushrooms so I already have them ready

- I also keep containers of cooked veggies like cauliflower, cabbage, eggplants, artichokes

- I have bags of frozen veggies like broccoli, string beans, peas, bruxeless sprouts and corn combs in the refrigerator so I just need to boil some water, add the veggies and let boil for 5 minutes

- I keep also dressings on small containers in the fridge like blended macadamia and kales, avocado guacamole, garbanzo beans, garbanzo hummus, orange and walnuts, blended pumpkins and mustard and sesame tahini

- I make nut butter too on sunday monday just putting on the blended differen kinds of nuts (macadamia, pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, cashew, pistachos) and adding a tbs of soy milk and blending

It's very fast to put nut butter of a slice of whole wheat sesame bread or adding it to cooked veggies.

- I buy cheap organic dried beans (cranberry beans, kidney beans, red lentils, azuki, black eye beans, broad beans and split peas) and soak them on saturday and cook almost 1kg of them on the pressure cooker. When they are cooked I keep them on the fridge when I need them
But it's also fast to buy canned beans and open a can when you need them

- I also cook some grain: quinoa and whole rice and keep it in the fridge

It takes me 45 mins circa in the sunday morning to prepare my food for the week.
When I have the fridge and cupboard packaged with food how do I create a meal out of them?

oats and nuts from the cupboard
fruits pieces and soy milk from the fridge

mid morning:
two slices of whole wheat bread and nut butter

lunch:

take two cups of beans and veggies from the fridge
open a can of tomatoes sauce
put together and just heat for 1 minute

green salad with two tbs of sauce from the fridge

mid afternoon: shake
blend for 20 secs:
2 bananas,
1 cup of soy milk
30 grams pistachos

dinner:
take half cup of rice and 1 of beans from the fridge
stir fry a bag of frozen veggies
add diced onions and tofu
heat and serve with a cashew sauce

salad again with tahini

dessert:
small cantaloupe and blended salad with lettuce, avocado and brazilian nuts

It's very easy to create a meal just take
one portion of beans,
one portion of veggies,
either sauce or a small handful of nuts
and a fruit

The combination are infinite you just need to have the whole week you fridge full of prepared, washed, peeled, cookeed, dished food to take and combine

In his newsletter Dr Fuhrman stressed the importance of soups: how cooking in soup is a gentle and ideal form of cooking that retains all nutrients in the water. So think:
soups, salads and shakes/smoothies

Smoothies and soups when you're on the go and salads when you have more time

Nutritional bars have been mentioned on a reply to your post. I made my nutritional bars on the sunday morning and they last for a week

This is the recipe:

2 cups homemade nut butter
3 tbs honey
1/2 cup oats
1/2 cup semase seeds and wallnuts
3 tbs raisins

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and if too dry add some soy milk. Mix thoroughly and spread the mixture uniformly on a square pan. Refrigerate for 4 hours
Remove from fridge and put the square pan ouside down on a cut board so that the square-shaped block come out. Cut in equal bars and package each bar on a silver food-paper envelope
You should obtain 14 bars each 10g of protein, 15 grams of fat and 25 grams of carbs

Davide

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