I have the same issue, and what I find works for me is frozen veggies. The flash-freezing methods used these days are really pretty good. Veggies start to lose nutrients as soon as they are picked, and they lose more and more the longer they sit around. So flash-frozen veggies, in many cases, have more of the nutrients than the "fresh" ones in the supermarket produce section - which have often been picked prematurely, spend days being trucked from California, or flown up from Chile, or whatever.

Veggies loosely frozen in bags easily let you just shake out whatever amount you need for a meal. You can easily keep a variety in the freezer. I also love some of the bags of mixed stir-fry veggies, and I do indeed love to stir-fry.

Clearly this does not work for salads, but I'm not much of a salad fan anyway. I like cooked veggies sauteed in bacon grease and/or butter, coconut oil.

I don't know what city you live in, but have you checked out Real Milk ? It might help you find a source.

I have cut back on my dairy but not given it up. However I only buy cheeses made from raw milk, and I buy raw heavy cream through a local food cooperative. I found mine via the local chapter of the Weston Price Foundation, so that is another avenue to check out.

I don't drink or use milk at all - far too sugary and carby for me. But I do love the raw heavy cream and treat myself to a pint every two weeks.

LOL! I think I'm already twinned to Wyvrn! But that'd make us triplets!

I subscribe to the theory in "Catching Fire" - I think we've cooked for 2 million years. But sous vide isn't just cooking. It's about vacuums and high pressure - techniques borrowed from the processed food industry. To keep from diverting this thread, I posted more about this in the sous vide thread here:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost...5&postcount=168



Yes, it all comes down to planning. I had a pretty good breakfast and I have food for lunch - some salad veggies and I have meat in the freezer. But after that I have no food and no plan. I need to go to the store in a bit or I'll end up at the deli again.

I buy frozen peas sometimes, but that's about it. I have very limited freezer space, and it's mostly taken up with grassfed beef since that's hard to come by and I buy a lot at once.

Also, I confess to being a vegetable snob. I like fresh veggies, organic and picked same day if possible, and I do love salads.

I just read that you say you like your salads and are fussy about veggies, so maybe the above approach will not work for you. But if so I'd just say then to be less concerned about "variety". I mean you don't have to have variety every single day. When I was eating more veggies I tended to only buy one or two choices at the supermarket. I would buy a big cauliflower and eat it every day until it was done. Then I would buy asparagus on sale and eat it every day until it was done. Then I would get a big green cabbage and eat it every day until it was done. There is no real "rule" I'm aware of us that says you must have different veggies for every meal. That's just a good way to waste a lot of veggies, IMHO, for people like us who live alone and cook for one.

Actually the last month or so I've been virtually veggie-free, on a primarily meat and eggs (and dairy) diet. It's rather liberating actually, and I have broken a several-month long stall and lost 17-18 pounds.

Oh man, I am lusting so madly for a sous vide machine. I don't see how I can possibly justify the expense since I'm losing my job, and my credit card balance is already insanely high (mainly from cancer treatments for my dog). I wish I could tell every single person who plans to give me a Christmas gift to "just give me $10 instead" but that never works and just insults people. They would much rather give me a gimcrack $10 object that I'll never use and will eventually toss in the trash or donate to a rummage sale.

You've said a couple times that your cooking facilities are not as good as you've had previously, and you don't have much freezer space. So just exactly what sort of facilities *do* have have available? Maybe it would make it easier to come up with some ideas that might work better?

Peas! The food of Satan! . I can still remember the horror of my mother trying to force me to eat peas when I was a little girl. One of the most wonderful things about moving away from home was the liberating realization that I would never have to eat peas *ever again*. The only use of a frozen bag of peas, IMHO, is an ice pack for a bruise or sprain.

A Foodsaver helps keep your food fresh. I like using it with the canisters since they're easy to reuse.

It worked for me and I'm doing the diet for health not weight loss.
Eating the same meals over and over with added variety only when i really craved it, helped me to be organized with the diet and stopping cravings for the things I should eat. I no longer eat something I shouldn't because I don't have idea what to eat for lunch or breakfast.

Thank you!! Great resource. I did find one very excellent dairy that delivers to NYC: http://www.uddermilk.com. I just wrote to them about their delivery schedule. They have all kinds of great food besides dairy - eggs, chickens, beef, all from naturally-fed animals. And their prices are very reasonable.



Again, thanks!! It turns out there is a group in NYC. Their Web site (http://www.wprice-nyc.org/) is still under construction. It might be nice to connect with them.



I like milk in coffee. I really don't enjoy cream in coffee - I don't like the taste. Maybe I'll get off coffee again when I'm out of what I have. But I have to be careful about that. Last time I stopped drinking it for a while, and then wanted it but wouldn't let myself buy it and ended up eating out for breakfast every morning (eating out = bread).



I've got to have variety or I will not be able to stick to this. I guess we are different in that way - variety matters to me. Also, I'm really unconcerned with weight loss - that is not my goal even slightly. I'm just trying to stop the progression of colon cancer by eliminating neolithic foods that are suspected to exacerbate it. (I have ulcerative colitis and my last colonoscopy showed some precancerous changes.)

Some of the food stores near me sell packages of fresh veggies all cut up - different combinations. Whole Foods does it, and several other grocery stores near me. That's an option.



I enjoy eating and I want to continue to enjoy eating. It's one of the great joys of life. Each time I get hungry it's an opportunity for pleasure. I'm not willing to give that up, and it's not necessary. I just need to develop some new recipes and habits - new delicious foods that won't harm my health.



Perhaps, but I have no space for another appliance. My apartment is pretty small and nothing more will fit.

People who are not on a diet and claim to enjoy food and eat whatever they want and go often to the restaurant, eat always the same things. Just like animals. Even the average family of four will serve for lunch and dinner the same things at least four or five time a week.

When I chose to start an healthy diet I realized that I was worried about the lack of variety. This is probably instinctive when you give up certain foods. I was so worried about variety that I felt like I should be eating something different every day and never repeat the same meal, not realizing that even gourmets eats the same meals over and over. It's like as if giving up so many foods, triggered an obsession for excessive variety that I didn't have before.

Because of this I would run out of ideas and refuse to eat what I had eaten one or two days before and would fell off the wagon periodically. Variety is important for me but I add variety selecting different veggies according to seasons, using different spices, packing on different kind of fish and meat each month. Eating something different at every meal, as someone who don't need to lose weight, would be impossible for me and at least at the beginning alternating the same meals was necessary to get used to the new WOE. But I agree with you: even if the meals were always the same, they were delicious as I refused to eat anything that didn't taste delicious and make my mouth water.

What might work is eating the same basic meal at breakfast and lunch and devote your dinner to try a new recipe every day or every other day. Even cuisine fanatics who post the most delicious recipes on the web, make fancy dishes only at night while still eating the same chicken salad over and over for lunch.

I don't think that's my situation.



This definitely isn't my situation. That's a little extreme. I just want to continue having the same amount of variety in my diet as I currently have. Maybe there are a dozen typical meals I'll eat over the course of the week, switching around. Many of these involve foods I don't want to eat anymore, so a certain number of my typical means are no longer an option. I'm just saying I want to replace these with something else.

The advice to always eat the same thing every day just doesn't meet my needs. I wouldn't be happy and I wouldn't stick to it. I don't need an insane amount of variety, but I do need some.