17 Day Diet Recipes

Ok here goes, the 17 day diet is fairly restrictive in phase 1, but here are some of the things we've been enjoying:


Breakfast
Real Eggs - It's an egg substitute made with 99% egg whiles that actually tastes like scrabled eggs. A little more expensive, but worth it for the hubby's cholesterol, and my egg yolk intolerance. Sold at Costco, you get 6 little cartons of the stuff, but it goes pretty quick when you're feeding 2 people. We use them to make omlets, add leftover taco meat to make it a crazy scramble, or just make good old fashioned scrambled eggs. Sometimes my hubby eat real, whole eggs, which you are allowed on the diet, but he has borderline high cholesterol, so I've told him no more than 4 yolks a week to try and get his numbers down.

Yogurt - I only buy Lucerne Plain Fat Free Yogurt because EVERY other bottle I've looked at contains High Fructose Corn Syrup (aka, double sided sticky tape for fat) and if I'm dieting, I refuse to eat the stuff. No point in sabotaging myself from the get go. So anyways, Lucerne Yogurt, between a half cup and a whole cup (you'll figure out how much you need), mixed with an equal part of frozen berries. I defrost and then slightly heat the berries just to take the bite off the cold yogurt. If the berries are tart, I'll add some stevia to take the edge off.

Lunches and Dinners
These really are interchangable...I try and make lunch the bigger meal, but it doesn't always happen. The three things I've made so far that have been really big hits, I'll post the recipes to separately so you don't have to go through all this rambling every time you need to find them. But so far they are:

1. Chicken and veggie soup
2. Spicy Chicken soup
3. Taco meat (for it's versatility)
and 4. Loaded Burgers