Hi Jane
We don't really plan our our individual meals, but my husband and I keep an assortment of meats, vegetables and browns around and then pick something to eat when we get home. We usually end up with leftovers, which we use for our lunches when we're at work. Often we just cook meat on our gas grill. We use different seasonings or rubs to make it more interesting. If we get bored with that, I will make some sort of stovetop meal like pasta with meat sauce or a stir fry from ingredients we have in the house. If, when it's time for dinner, nothing particularly jumps out at you as something you want to eat, how about just picking some kind of meat and cooking it?

How is breakfast?

Allison

: Hi everyone

: To cut a long story short, when I
: came here for the first time in
: 2009, I was extremely depressed
: and because I needed rid of the
: depression, I went through all
: four steps in one go, like I know
: many other people here have done.

: I have had success here and there, my
: best year was the first year I
: detoxed, (2009) and things kind of
: went downhill from there, but have
: also been good for almost two
: years 2014-2015 when I had a great
: job that I loved and everything in
: my life around me was stable
: probably more by luck than
: anything else.

: The thing I have always struggled
: with this whole time is food. I
: have never actually known what
: foods I want to eat. I have
: potatoes not prozac and just read
: back through the section on step
: one, and was thinking well I think
: I'd like a bacon and egg sandwich
: on brown bread, but it takes too
: long in the mornings to make it
: (I've tried making it the night
: before and it just didn't taste
: right, I ended up not being able
: to eat it past one bite).

: Even with sugars I don't know which
: ones I like, obviously they all
: give me effects but I tend to just
: get whatever, I look around and
: just buy things, for the effect of
: course when its sugar. If I go out
: for a meal I have a lot of trouble
: choosing something, even dessert.

: So because of this, I struggle with
: the taking things slowly, as no
: foods interest me more than
: others, I just want to get it
: done. Eating has always been
: something that just has to be done
: in my mind. I always go off sugar
: full blast all or nothing. I know
: we are mostly all or nothing
: creatures, but because I don't
: particularly "enjoy"
: food, I find it really hard. Sugar
: has really always been the only
: food that interests me. So
: obviously off sugars, everything
: has the same effect so which do I
: choose?

: I wish I still lived with my parents
: and had them cook my food, then I
: wouldn't have to think about it.
: This may sound really simple to
: other people, but I find it very
: distressing. Whenever I go food
: shopping on sugars, I don't know
: which foods to buy, in case I
: would prefer to eat something else
: when meal time comes. How someone
: can make a decision about what
: they are going to eat tomorrow is
: hard enough, but what about 3 days
: time? I can't afford to leave it
: until I want to eat because the
: food shops round here have no
: nutritious foods, they are all
: English corner shops (i'm in the
: UK) and to go supermarket shopping
: each day would cost too much time
: and too much money as I'd need to
: get public transport to go get it.

: Can anyone suggest anything? This
: stops me even doing step one
: because I don't know what foods I
: like. Does/did anyone else ever
: have this problem when they
: started the program and if so, how
: did you deal with it.

: I find it easier when off sugars as I
: have less choices to make, but I
: feel I never got the benefit of
: going through the steps slowly and
: this is why I keep going back to
: sugars.

: Thanks in advance for any responses.

: Love

: Jane
: xxx