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Originally Posted by dvh5000
I'm new, too. I bought the book, bought the groceries, and plan to start cooking phase 1 dishes the night before I eat (having a day job makes day food prep challenging).
I'm wondering - do I HAVE to eat EVERYTHING listed in a day's meal plan, based on the breakdown of the food in the intestines, or can I skip foods/ingredients I don't necessarily like (like the ricotta desserts, or radishes in the salads)? And, by the way, where DO you find Ginger Sauce in the grocery store??? Is Ginger paste an OK substitute?
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I have rarely used a recipe/meal plan from the book. I just plan my meals by the principles (nicely summarized
here). You don't ever have to eat something you don't want to - I mean, you should be eating ~ 4.5 cups of veggies/day and you should try to maximize nutrient-rich ones, but there is no vegetable you
have to eat if you don't like it... same with proteins and fats ...
I ate a ricotta "creme" once and only once - hated it. I often have nonfat Greek yogurt made the same way and I love that. For sure you don't have to eat radishes if you don't like them. I don't know what the ginger sauce is, sorry...
You don't have to eat
everything - I often don't, as I am not going to shove food in if I am not hungry. But if you end up routinely under-eating, or not hungry for what you have planned, that might warrant some tweaking of the diet. But the beginning is all about figuring out what works for you.
First day of Phase 1 and new
