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Carol Pfeiffer
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I felt the same way at first. I actually put together a spreadsheet to help me with my meal planning because it was tough for me too. A lot of folks use meal planning apps. That can make it a lot easier. It was really hard for me the first couple of weeks, but once I had a couple weeks of menus planned it started to get a lot easier.

I use a lot of the recipes on the site. They help me find stuff that I like. Most of the recipes freeze well, so I make a dish then put aside additional servings for later. I would recommend going through those and trying out the ones that sound good to you.

Today, for instance, my menu was:

Protein shake smoothie (Vanilla with ~2 cups of spinach and an orange with a little added vanilla extract)
Snack: 1/2 cup grapes with 1 Tbsp almond butter
Lunch: Zucchini stuffed turkey burgers (recipe on this site) with mustard and dill pickles
Snack: 1.5 oz lean, low sugar (check the ingredients/nutrition label) jerky
Dinner: Chicken Apple salad (recipe on this site)

Some of the other options I like in my menus.

2 Scrambled eggs (or an 2 egg omelette) with artichoke heart and sundried tomatoes (you have to find the kind with no additives in a sealed pouch – not the kind in a jar stored in oil). I like this combination because the sundried tomatoes have a nice tanginess and I just have a thing for artichoke hearts.

1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of cottage cheese mixed with garlic. I slice up a bell pepper and eat the cottage cheese with the bell pepper.

(On the protein shakes, I put spinach in them when I don’t have enough veggies for the day, but you can always take out the spinach and have another serving of veggies)