PR1's Menu - What do you think?

[DarlingBri]

Originally Posted by imagood1

What might help all of you is to purchase a set of measuring cups an measuring spoons online and have them shipped to you.

There are pros and cons to doing the conversions. Yes, it's easy to chuck everything into a cup, but we still need the weight equivalents to shop and for almost all general cooking, as recipes are in metric. Some of us (ahem) also like the precision of being able to weigh food.

Plus, beans come in handy 200g packs, so once you know one cup of beans = 100g, that's perfect for two people. Also, 75g mushrooms = 1 cup, so I just weigh out 150g bags of mushrooms right in the store.

Most people doing Atkins in metric will have a food scale in their kitchen. (This is how my husband knew we were serious about Atkins - I threw out the toaster and replaced it with a metric food scale!)

It took me about a week to become efficient with this, but overall I'd say it's easier to work with the cups converted to grams if you're living in a metric society.

[PR1]

I did find a measuring cup which had US and European measurements on it, so that was great.

Started on Sunday and weighed 15st 3, now down to 14st 10. Target is 13stone, so another 24 pounds to go.

Finding it remarkably easy, probably because I like the food I'm eating anyway and of course I've got willpower which is definitely needed.

Not sure how I'm going to "wet the baby's head" when my son arrives into the world in around 11 days, maybe a water on the rocks?