This question kept me up late last night:
Why don’t you make shopping lists for people instead of meal plans? let people make what they want, when they want it. when the food is out, you’re done eating until the next shopping list is published.

Really, its a very good idea.
A predetermined weekly shopping list that contains a set number of calories, fruits and vegetables provides an incredible amount of flexibility while at the same time helping people ‘target’ a certain calorie intake.
Basically, take a weekly calorie goal, and eat it through out the week in any manner you like. Once meal per day, three meals per day, 32 meals per day….what ever suits you best. BUT, when the food runs out..the food runs out.
This would be a great way to learn what a certain calorie intake ‘feels’ like.
The simplicity and logic makes this an intriguiging idea.
I checked with John Barban and […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

NEWS FLASH: Over the next couple days your email in-box is going to be FLOODED by people promoting Meal Plans.
My guess is your going to get a MINIMUM of 5 emails over the next week.
You’re going to here all kinds of stories of why you absolutely MUST get a meal plan.
And, surprisingly (under the correct circumstances) even I am going to be one of those people!
Here’s the deal:
I’m not just blindly promoting some random product – I am promoting it for a specific purpose ANDfor a specific reason.
That reason is I lost a HUGE debate with Eat Stop Eat science editor John Barban.
This debate led to John creating meal plans.
It was about 2 months ago, we were sitting in Williams Coffee Pub in Burlington Ontario, I was having a cappuccino and John was having a black coffee (he was fasting).
Out of the blue, John drops this line on me
John: “You […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

NEWS FLASH: Over the next couple days your email in-box is going to be FLOODED by people promoting Meal Plans.
My guess is your going to get a MINIMUM of 5 emails over the next week.
You’re going to here all kinds of stories of why you absolutely MUST get a meal plan.
And, surprisingly (under the correct circumstances) even I am going to be one of those people!
Here’s the deal:
I’m not just blindly promoting some random product – I am promoting it for a specific purpose AND
for a specific reason.
That reason is I lost a HUGE debate with Eat Stop Eat science editor John Barban.
This debate led to John creating meal plans.
It was about 2 months ago, we were sitting in Williams Coffee Pub in Burlington Ontario, I was having a cappuccino and John was having a black coffee (he was fasting).
Out of the blue, John drops this line on me
John: “You […]

Original post by Brad Pilon