Hi there,
I'm Willeke from county Galway and I started Atkins (again) last week. I'm glad t have found this Irish community, it'll be nice to swap tips about where and what to buy.
Had to laugh about toodlepips opinion of soy isolated protein powder. Yes it is vile, but you know, you get used to it. I have it as breakfast. I used to cook porridge with protein powder in it, but cook only the protein powder now, with water, some olive oil, a bit of sweetener and cinnamon. It's like a thin warm custard and very nice! It keeps me easily till lunch time.

What do you use for sweetener? I can't have aspartam, so that rules out the powder sweetener. I bought two bottles of fluid sweetener when I wa sin the Netherlands last month, and that works fine for me.
That's something we should have here, definitely!

Ah well, this is enough for an intro, I hope somebody still reads this thread!!!
Willeke