This seems like the perfect time to announce: we’re adding meal planning to our Fitness & Nutrition Consulting services!

Two-week menus, with grocery lists (for locals a grocery delivery service called Relayfoods may make it possible for me to actually buy the groceries and have them delivered to your house for a fee…looking into it), based on your goals and current stats. Two weeks seems the right length: it provides pretty good variety and you can repeat it indefinitely, rearrange it or use it as a guide for future menus.

A problem with a lot of the meal plans in plant-based nutrition books that I otherwise admire is the inefficiency…one day you’re instructed to make a soup for dinner that serves 10 and the next day lunch includes a different soup and so on. I try to maximize efficiency in menu planning because a) people work and b) you’re wasting a lot of food otherwise!

I actually just put together a one-week FAT LOSS meal plan, based on my blog recipes and recipes from The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook that I and my mom are taking for a test run starting Monday. I’ve made some changes in my daily menu (see Part I and Part II of registered dietitian Jeff Novick’s super clear guidelines on these) that so far seem to be working and the meal plan takes it to the next level.

In celebration of rolling out our meal planning services,you can have this one for free if you like! Keep in mind, you’ll need the McDougall cookbook to implement it exactly, and there’s no portions specified – it’s simply a general menu and groceries to prepare it. Contact me if you’d like to try it!