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RECIPES AND MENUS
EatingWell Diet Recipes and Menus
What to eat? Try our mix-and-match sample menus and recipes for great meals and planning.
Excerpted from The EatingWell Diet book.
The EatingWell Mix & Match Menus are designed to inspire newcomers to our weight-loss program—or to help recharge you anytime you need to come back for a boost. You’ll find sound ideas from EatingWell’s Test Kitchen and our recipe wizards for four weeks of great eating.
The menus provide approximately 1,500 calories per day, with room for adjusting if your calorie goals are higher or lower.
No matter which menus you choose, you’ll be eating well, with an abundance of whole-grains to provide extra fiber and micronutrients that help you feel, and stay, fuller longer.
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| USER COMMENTS — Add Your Comment |
How about a 1200 calorie sample diet for those who are more sedentary?
Eileen, Naperville, IL |
How about you either:
A) Go for a 20-minute walk
or B) Take out an extra 200 calories on each day, which is really easy seeing as how all the calories are listed?
yeesh.
Mary, Austin, TX |
Is there any way you could list the carbs for each item?
Nancy, Chicago, IL |
I don't eat salt, can you list the sodium.
Allie "Pat" Foster, Alexandria, TN |
I really enjoy going to this site, it helps me in so many ways. If you have any more meal plans please send them to sistahsouljah18@yahoo.com, because I need to loose 65 pounds.
Fabiola Beauchamps, Oakland Park, FL |
What about an ingredient list for grocery shopping?
Tracey, Herbert Sask, FL |
I love this site. It is so helpful when I have a Menu plan to follow for each day. Is is possible for you to do a 30 day/month menu plan for your viewers? Then it is easier to do your grocery shopping. Thank you for a job well done. I know your viewers appreciate it and the menus are quite delicious.
Maxine, Tucson, AZ |
Mary, you're rude. She was just asking a question. That said. What a great site! Easy planning.
Erin, Tampa, FL |
How about a few more meal ideas. I really love this site; it helps me lose the extra weight I have had for sooooo long.
Debbie, Pasadena, NL |
On page 87 in the book, Day 6 suggestion for dinner includes a recipe called "Orange-Infused Green & Red Peppers" on page 223, but no recipe can be found. Is it available somewhere that I can find?
Vicky, Benton City, WA |
To Vicky in WA: If you paste the recipe name in the online search, you should be able to find the orange-infused bean recipe. See also the Zesty Green Beans on page 224 (seems like the same recipe as the online Orange-Infused version). Hope that helps!
Sarah, Santa Clara, CA |
New to this site. Looks very helpful.
Maggie, South Australia, |
Can you offer suggestions that are completely dairy-free?
Denise, Lowell, MA |
I recommend this cookbook, it's one of the best I've seen. On another subject.... Mary, there is no excuse for being so rude.
Kellie Norton, Salem, OR |
Just stop eating three things it will make a difference white flour, white sugar and fried stuff.
nosheen, Lahore, PA |
Have you a menu plan for GlosemicIndex diet?
Marian Royston, Palm Desert, CA |
I would agree that a menu planning tool that also generates a shopping list would make the EW Plan even more wonderful. Thanks for being here!
Steve, Palm Harbor, FL |
I cannot have more than 6 grams of protein a day, can I still lose weight? Is there any whole day menus with this amt. of protein?
Verna Tela, Methuen, MA |
How about a menu for those with high cholesterol? It should stick to the 30% rule -no more that 30% of calories per day can come from fat.
Emma, Rockville, MD |
Love this web site thanks
catherine wallace, Charles City, VA |
Verna, That is an extremely restricted protein diet-- way too low to be healthy (and, dare I say, practically impossible to follow as 1 oz of meat has 7 g protein). Are you sure that is what your MD has ordered for you? If you have renal disease, I strongly suggest you visit a Registered Dietitian in your area (preferably one who specializes in renal problems). Good luck to you!
Cindy, Norman, OK |
Could you have a menu for non-cooking men? Something like 1/2 turkey sandwich on rye, 1 orange and some wheat crackers? :o) There's no way I would follow 3 or 4 recipes in one day!
Wayne, Dubuque, IA |
I would like to be able to print the picture of the food at the same time I print the recipe out.
Thank you
Gwen Wright, Danforth, IL |
Verna is probably on a pre chronic renal failure diet. my husband went on that shortly before his kidneys failed. anyway. this diet is helpful but it should only be used as a stepping stone to self-guided dieting. learn to use food labels and plan small meals LIKE those listed on this diet. the more you use food labels, the easier it is to pick out foods to fit in your diet. vegetables are always low in calories/carbs and high in fiber/nutrients. i recommend that anyone looking for a great diet just increase the amount of vegetable on your plate and decrease the amount of meat and bread. learn how to record your calorie intake for more accurate dieting and always talk to your dr before doing ANYTHING health related. its tedious but YOU'RE WORTH EVERY AMOUNT OF EFFORT! :) GL!
krysta, Santa Rosa, CA |
Do you have any add'l weekly meal plans for the Eat More Weigh Less Diet plan? I enjoy the initial 5 day plan featured in Family Circle Jan 2007, but would appreciate add'l variety.
Holley, Moreno Valley, CA |
Although Mary did it in a rude way, the point is still valid. 1200 calories diets are, for the most part, unsafe and should only be followed if your doctor has placed you on one.
Sedentary lifestyles can be much more dangerous than eating poorly.
I would suggest that simply adding chores, walking around a shopping center, swimming at the local Y would all be ways to get moving and enjoy a fuller lifestyle and menu
Michael, New Ulm, MN |
I am new to the site and love it. I used the Eating Well menu planner to make a week's worth of meals. The link is green above the sample menu. It took about 45 minutes. It adds up the calorie counts based on what you add for meals and snack. It is drag and drop. If you read the articles on this website, THIS IS NOT A DIET!!! This is a way to eat healthy for life. Forget Glycemic index, forget about how many carbs and all of those other "diet" things!!! If you are looking for a diet with all the answers and everything spelled out for you, perhaps you should try somewhere else. If you truly want to change the way you eat for life, do the work. Don't for get exercise. (ps for eileen: If you feel you are so sendentary that you need such a dangerously low amount of calories you really do need to move more. This is from someone with fibromyalgia and in constant pain who joined the gym to make the change.)
Cathy, Erie, PA |
FYI some sedentary people are not that way by choice. myself, I am confined to a wheel chair. I would be so happy if someone would give me some suggestions besides walking. This summer I am going to see about exercising in the pool. I realy do enjoy and use the the in formation from the newsletter.
Thank you.
, Tulsa, OK |
Sorry to Tulsa. It's easy for us able bodied to forget that the sedentary lifestyle is not always a choice. Good for you to try pool exercises. In my community there is a health center that has an accesssible warm therapy pool complete with a lift for wheelchair bound to make the transfer. Also, I went to my search engine and typed in "exercises for people in wheelchairs" and got 176,800 hits- everything from simple advice to exercise videos for sale. Some were rather obvious and strenuous (wheelchair basketball) and some were less obvious (doing just the arm motions of more "traditional" exercise videos). If you truly are committed, exercise can be everywhere. Again apologies to Tulsa.
Cathy, Erie, PA |
Nosheen is absolutely right. My health improved when I gave up on those three things and started taking a 20 to 30 minute brisk walk everyday. A balanced diet starts by choosing the right foods and getting the exercise that you find most adequate for yourself (age, health conditions)really makes a difference. To Tulsa: exercising in the pool sounds great. Love this site.
Marcy, Funchal, Po |
I'm disabled and can't really exercise. 1200 caleries is more than my body can loose on. Taking our 200 is often hard to do, which 200? Any way to improve the food intake choices to make it easier to loose, also more Vegatarian?
Judy, McConnells, SC |
This is a great site
Adrian, Gallup, N. |
The receipes are great but I always have left over ingredients that go to waste. Can you come up with a week of meals that utilizes all ingredients so you get your money's worth?
Lisa, Pittsburgh, PA |
I'm a newly diagnosed type II insulin (injections and pills). I need to lose over 50 lbs immediately while maintaining my diabetic food requirements. I will exercise but I really need a menu or meal plan to help me lose the wait safely. Can anyone help? It will be sincerely appreciated. This is the best site I've found so far!
Millie, Jacksonville, FL |
I finally found a website with recipes for healthy cooking and sound delicious as well as helping you loose weight. The only problem I have is I live alone and most recipes are for 4 servings. I can save the leftovers but when reheating the leftovers they don't taste as well as when you first cooked them. It would be nice if the recipes where listed for the amount of people you are cooking for. Other than that I love the website.
Kathleen, Pensacola, FL |
To Millie--Here is a diabetes friendly meal plan: eatingwell.com/diet/recipes_menus/heart_healthy_meal_plan.html
Anon, Brooklyn, NY |
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