Burbage

True, we prefer obesity to boredom. Another cheap way to eat is to get good at fishing.

Japonica

This may sounds like a dozy question, but how do you make egg white omelettes here anyway? In Canada, they sell plain pasteurized egg white in cartons (like whipping cream-sized cartons). I've only seen eggs here. Do people really crack eggs and toss out all those yolks?

Not that I'm craving an egg white omelette...ha.

Japonica

There was a family of 4 in Canada in the newspaper who were profiled because they were eating "well" and healthily on something like $250 Cdn a month (Aussie $ is about 0.95 Cdn). But they ate very little meat, lots of vegetable soups (they had their own garden), lentils, baked their own bread. I think some of the ideas are good to adapt and use but I couldn't start serving lentil and veggie stew here daily or I'd have a riot on my hands.

emelems

Apparently you do throw out the yolk (1.5 points) and keep the white (zero point)... you do 2 sprays with the oil spray can into the frying pan.. you then chop up lots of mushrooms or other zero point veg and lots of herbs, fry the veggies and then whisk up the egg whites.. add to the pan and cook then add the herbs and WHAM! you have a no point egg white omlette.. for the entire WW zero point experience, one should parboil BNS (short for butternut squash).. cut into wedges.. and then bake like chips... omelette and chips for no points...

Alternatively you can just do what normal people do and eat a proper dinner made with proper ingredients

Em x

JackTheLad

meringue with mushrooms and herbs in it?



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moneypenny20

Not quite, meringue has sugar in it but whatever, it sounds revolting.

emelems

It looks and tastes pretty much as it sounds, so I have been told...

Em x

Burbage

Why on earth would you want to throw out the yolk?

moneypenny20

Because that's where the calories are apparently. Load of twaddle in my ever so humble opinion.

Burbage

I'm not following this at all. You want to live off 21$ a week and eat no calories?

moneypenny20

Don't look at me, nothing to do with me. I eat proper food and probably spend a bit more than $21 in the process. Don't do diets, food is meant to be eaten as it comes. If we were supposed to only eat the white bits of eggs, chickens wouldn't produce the yellow bits now would they

emelems

was just pondering on the ridiculousness of some dieting and things people do...

Em x

Dorothy

A woman I used to work with was a client of Dr Bernstein in Toronto. Her breakfast was 1 egg white made into an omlette and black coffee (no sugar). Lunch was 2 lettuce leaves, 1 slice of deli ham and 1/2 cup fat free milk. Dinner 3 oz poached fish with 1/2 cup steamed green beans and 1/2 cup non fat milk. No fruit was allowed and she had to go 3x weekly to have vitamin injections. All that cost her about $200 weekly because it was "medically supervised".

Cheetah7

Ive seen those diets in the chemist and I always notice them when I am buying chocolate or something.

'Betty Baxter' I think its called, and I am occasionally met with a horrified glance when I buy my sugar fix. Even better when I am in there with period pain and I am buying chocolate, painkillers and a can of red bull and its always next to the Betty Baxter stand.

Betty Baxter Schmaxter - Ill stick to the chocolate!

newjersey

When I hear stories like that, I recall that Dr. Atkins (of the no-carb diet fame) has died a seriously ill man. Which is a bit ironic if you ask me.