Y'all aren't going to believe my latest plan

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melissa-dallas

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Me, your Texas brisket, chili & prime rib loving friend is doing a VEGAN delivered meal service Monday through Friday.

I have gained a tremendous amount of weight the last two years. I am too tired to cook when I get home. I am tremendously stressed out.by my job. I am tired of eating the same two things all week. My cousin used to have a local company deliver prepared meals weekly that were tasty & healthy but most of the places that do this were prohibitively expensive. I noticed a neighborhood place that does a subscription service that was reasonable ($110 a week for breakfast, lunch & dinner for five days delivered). Only problem-it was vegan, but they get terrific reviews, mostly from people who are trying to eat better but are NOT vegetarian or vegan. I found a groupon and picked up some stuff to try. For the most part, it is delicious. The two sisters who own & do it all are not preachy and get that most of their clients are not vegan or vegetarian.

I am learning some interesting, healthy & delicious new ideas. I am eating what I want on weekends, including ribeye, eggs, etc. I am losing a couple pounds a week and eating lots more veggies, fruits, beans. Their food is almost exclusively "good" carbs. Very little wheat or grains or fat. Beans, a little brown rice. If I want a pat of butter on my veggies or a slice of mozzarella on my vegan lasagna I add it., but not a lot. I won't do this forever, but I am sure enjoying not thinking about being forced to cook during the week when I am too tired to do it, or feeling like what little time I have on the weekend has to be devoted to getting ready for next week.

 
Brava! I think you'll like it. I did that once at a week-long *spa* visit.

This facility was in TENN. and advertised itself as a fitness resort/spa. Let's debunk the resort part right now:

It cost $600 a week instead of $3,000 a week for room, board & exercise classes. So it was more like a rustic summer camp environment--but for adults.

You could pay extra for massage treatments, but I didn't go that route. I was there to exercise and eat healthy for a solid week without having to get up at 0'dark hundred, commute for an hour, sit on my butt for 8 hours, commute home, cook dinner, watch TV and go to bed.

There were no TVs in the room; just one small one in a common area. This was actually good because I was so tired at the end of the day I fell asleep immediately.

The heated pool wasn't. It's possible I burned extra calories shivering during the water aerobics classes.

Meal options were set at the beginning of the week: low fat with meat or low fat vegan (is that an oxymoron?). No middle ground.

We started each day with a hike in the HILLS of TENNA. First day was 1 mile...but by the last day we were hiking 8 miles. And even though we stretched our muscles both before and after each class/hike, I would lay in bed with my calf muscles twitching. I'm pretty sure they hadn't had that much of a workout since majorette drills in high school.

There were aerobic, yoga, and personal defense classes (basically, punching a dummy which was surprisingly cathartic.)

I lost 10 pounds and 10 inches in 7 days--during a vacation. Usually I gain weight on vacations and kept it off. And found I actually LIKED vegan meals because they broadened my idea for meals quite a lot.

I think you'll enjoy this break.

 
Also a great way to try new foods without having to re-stock your pantry. Sounds like a fun

thing to do and you get a respite from cooking with nutritious meals and the added benefit of weight loss. Win, win!

 
This is a very good plan and it works. My son did it--one name for it is Vegan before six

(or a similar idea) and was developed by the former NYTimes food critic who also had gained weight.
DS doesn't "do" it so much any more because it just completely re-formed his ways of eating.
Good luck!!

 
Sample Menu

Breakfast-all have a cup of fruit to go with them, often apple slices or orange segments. Black Bean Taco, Tofu Scramble Taco, or oatmeal. The oatmeals are cooked in almond milk and have chia seeds & fruit-. Orange cranberry, apple walnut cinnamon, blueberry almond. Southwest "frittata" tofu bake with peppers, onion, potato & tomato.

Lunch-Eggless Egg salad (like this a lot) plate with celery & carrot sticks, fruit, whole wheat pita chips & a small trail mix cookie. Soup and salad-soups this week were spicy black eyed pea with greens and thai butternut squash. Small (half) cranberry chick pea salad wrap with fruit & salad. Grilled Tempeh dalad-like this a lot.

Dinner-all have a container of veggies to cook along with meal or salad. Shepherds Pie(bottom is lentils) very good, BBQ Tempeh & sweet potatoes with broccoli, Thai green curry veggies on btown rice, veggie lasagna-zuchinni & mushroom (who knew nutritional yeast tastes cheesy?), they make killer good mushroom marinara, spaghetti & "meat" balls on whiole wheat pasta. Chipotle black bean tacos with corn salsa. Veggie enchilada with beans & rice.

The menu rotates weekly.

http://naturesplate.biz/pages/full-menu

 
Especially when the nice lady comes to my door on Sunday afternoon with a big bag

and I don't have to think about feeding myself until next Saturday. Beautifully packaged too. I'm not heating the boxes & bowls and am saving them. If nothing else I have sure learned how to pack lunch and breakfast to take with me.

 
I'd love to see a photo of the food when it's delivered. (The packaging, really.) I've been

cooking for a family for the past few months and the way I bring things over is very utilitarian. Ziplock containers, etc. I know it could be more beautiful but I'm focusing on making it as delicious as possible. By the time I shop, cook, pack it up, and get out the door, I'm so tired....

Her prices baffle me too. She must have a lot of clients. Or she's taking too little profit. That happens a lot with new businesses.

 
I'll take a picture. Remember cost of living here is far below where you live.

$110.00 here buys a whole lot more than $110.00 there. Our lower cost of living is reflected in our salaries too.

 
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