Permalink Reply by Jill on January 4, 2008 at 11:38am
Well I cannot speak to which "rules" are right or wrong. I can tell you at first that I was scared to death to do anything different than my one meat, one vegetable during each meal......then I found some recipes on the web that mixed veggies during a meal. I just made sure to weigh them all together to be sure I wasn't eating too much.
I still had the same results, mixing veggies or not. So my food was much tastier with a coupla tablespoons of chopped onion, a garlic clove and then tomatoes.
That's funny, I had the same thought when I read that part of the book too. I think it's a typo. I'm not mixing my veggies. It's only for 6 weeks, not the rest of my life. I can make that small sacrifice for 6 weeks.
Ok I did some reasearch and found the REAL answer to the question in the Q&A section of the book. It it only when eating a salad that you can add onions, tomatoes and cucumbers. I'm done with Phase II and now I know my salads could have tasted much better. lol
When I first read this I was momentarily perplexed. Now I interpret this to mean " Don't have your steak, chicken breast or fish separately from your ONE vegetable: have your large handful of lettuce (together) with your steak" (?). Is anyone else reading it this way?