Menu:

B: Small amount of leftover cottage pie with sweet potato for topping
L: Large Bowl of home made Butternut Squash soup
D: Baked Salmon with pesto and home made ratatoille
S: Possibly caramel ricotta creme

Water 35floz (one litre) so far (100floz before the day is out)

Good Hazy!! What do you think of this?

Change the title to read Daily South Beach Menus

I think its just a bit more clear this way. If you want to change the title, hit the report post button and put in what you need it to be.

It is such a good way to help others with new ideas for their menus and to help newbies to get the food right as it can be very confusing at the beginning.

Are you thinking keep this as a rolling daily menu thread? If so, I'm happy to do that and anounce it on the SB thread so that people dont have to keep re-posting it daily.

I started a new thread every single day for months until Demi and a few of the others started helping me out by doing it....I was quite bored of having to post a new one each time.
If you think it's a good idea to just run one then I'm happy with that.

Scrap that last message....I just realised you had already chatted to Demi about it! Shame I didn't read your journal first!

No matter!! Good job!! It looks great!!

Today's planned menus:
Breakfast: FF Greek Yoghurt with ricotta, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, V8 juice
Mid-morning snack: Celery sticks with hummus
Lunch: Tuna Mayo with rocket, baby spinach and cherry toms
Mid-afternoon Snack: Pear
Dinner: Thai Fish Stew

B: Plain Yogurt..made a broccoli omelet and left for work witout eating it :-(
Snack: Black beans and artichoke Hearts/ 3/4 ounce low fat cheese
Lunch: Ate out/unplanned Large chicken salad with full fat mexican dressing and guacamolli(sp)
Snack: Broccoli and low fat cheese stick
Supper: Black bean chicken chili AND a glass of red wine.

The only concern I have about this great thread is that newbies may not know if the menus are phase one friendly. But I guess there is a learning curve to everything.

Great point! If people could post phase 1 or 2 or whatever to begin with then that would be great

Todays Menu: Phase 2

B: one medium zuchinni & one large mushroom sauteed with 2 eggs and 2oz low fat cream cheese to make an omlette.
L: Chicken caesar salad (no croutons) with LF dressing
D: Thai chicken curry with half a cup of wholegrain rice with thai spices.
S: none

Water 100 floz

My planned menus for today (Phase 2):

Breakfast: FF fromage frais with ricotta, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, blueberries and V8 juice
Mid-morning snack: Celery sticks with hummus
Lunch: Omelette with side salad
Mid-afternoon Snack: Pear
Dinner: Grilled salmon with spinach and courgettes

OK, I'm going to post some of my menus for phase III, maintenance. The maintenance meal plan guide is locted with the others in the Food Lists thread up top, just in case anyone wants to look at it. It is similar to phase II but it allows for much more flexibility.

If you have trouble reading these menus as it could trigger some to read certain foods.....please be forewarned!!

Phase III for 12/1. Friday

B- 1/2 cup greek strawberry yogurt, 1 flax bowl muffin w/ s/f raspberry syrup, coffee w/ low fat H&H and splenda
s/l- 1/3 cup hummus w/ baby carrots, 2 ozs salmon filet
s- 1 apple, 2 ozs cashews
d- seared tuna filet, butternut squash. 2 squares 85% lindt chocolate
s- 4 prunes, 4 rice bran crackers

70 ozs Water + supplements( potassium, calcium/mag/zinc)
*note- I'm avoiding wheat and still restrict most flour.

food for today 12/2- PHASE III

b- 1/2 cup dannon carb control yogurt, 1 flax bowl muffin, 1 cup coffee w/ L/f H&H and splenda
l- 3 ozs leftover seared tuna filet w/ romaine lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, 1/4 avocado, snap peas, cucs, carrots w/ balsamic vinegarette dressing
s- 1 wasa rye/oat crispbread w/ PB and apricot spread
d- salmon filet w/ sauteed onion, bell pepper, garlic, plum tomato. pistachios, 2 squares dark choc
s- 5 dried apricots, 1 TLC almond crunch bar( 80 cals)

My Phase 2 planned menus for today are:

Breakfast: FF fromage frais with ricotta, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, blueberries and V8 juice
Mid-morning snack: Pear
Lunch: Omelette with side salad
Mid-afternoon Snack: TBD
Dinner: Lamb with Flagelot Beans, cauli mash, oven-roasted sweet potatoes, broccoli

Great thread. Judy, appreciate you including maintenance as I'm almost there And thanks for including the updated SB lists; I didn't know about those. A few questions-comments:

(1). Now, before I start posting meals here again, want to say I am open to feedback if anyone feels I am not enough on plan that it would confuse Newbies.........I am doing roughly SB from my memory of reading the original meal plans and food lists 1 year ago,w hich for me is about like this:

- Phase 1: veg, protein, fat (little or no dairy, no fruit, nor starch), but my version is higher fat dairy (about 2 cups of 3% milk or half and half per day bc I really prefer it in my coffee and have noticed so far, I can still lose with). I know that choices should always be the lowest fat possible, but I always weigh that with taste and convenience, so it depends. Obviously, good fats such as olive oil and nuts should be chosen. SO far, I've found that I haven't had to worry about restaurant or prepared sauces and marinades even though ahve sugar, but as I'm smaller now and need less to lose, I have a feeling I may need to watch that.

- Phase 2: veg, protein, fat, 2-3 fruit, 2-3 dairy, 1 starch

I tend to do Phase 2 with periods of Phase 1 to compensate for excesses that I do occasionally.

(2). Judy, I tried bowl muffin a couple of months ago (recipe from forum) with mostly flax meal and some almond meal when I didn't have Carbquick yet and I could only eat 3 bites as it sunk like a rock in my stomach and was really not good. BUt I'm not giving up bc I love muffin type stuff. Ordered CArbquick but haven't tried it yet. Any recommendations? Hopefully, it makes a difference. I have the recipes here about doign egg bacon version (the one I tried) or Sf syrop (I ordered that too - need to try it).

(3). SO, I'll put in my meals occasionally to help me keep on track if no one objects to my interpretation of the program. My latest idea (since I hate measuring, writing and counting numbers generally re. food), is to look up the carb count of my most commonly eaten carbs (some I'm aware, some not) and make a comparison table so easier to choose from, i.e.: 1 bread = half cup rice= 1 fruit= half cup SF ice cream= 1 protein bar, etc., etc. Open to any comments.

Thanks and I'll be back to write more likely at the end of the days since it's generally hard to know in advance, especially today on Sunday.

Latté Lover