i haven't really done a food diary this week but its all been chosen from the magazines 7 day menu.
That's a really expensive way of doing SW. It's designed to showcase the amount and variety of food you can eat on SW rather than how to do it on a budget.
The 7 day plan means you have to buy in a lot of new ingredients, you can't take advantage of special offers in the shops, and you can't use leftovers from one meal to make another because they are all individual meals using a lot of different ingredients.
When you go to class and start to get your head around it it will be much easier (not to mention cheaper) to plan you own meals for the week.
For instance, you could get a big box of mince, cook it on day 1 for cottage pie, add tomatoes and herbs on day 2 for spag bol, and then pep it up with chilli beans on day 3 for a chilli with rice. Or when I cook pasta/rice for an evening meal I cook a bit extra. Throw in some veggies and a dressing and you are sorted for lunch the next day. The 7-day menu plan from the website doesn't do things like this. It's 21 standalone meals and that is why it is so expensive.
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