Timothy S. Harlan, M.D.My eatTHISdiet

If you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol or just learn how to eat healthy, you've found the right place. My free, interactive diet planner, My eatTHISdiet, will help you create weekly meal plans - complete with recipes and shopping lists - to make eating better and eating healthier easy for you and your entire family.

My eatTHISdiet is also perfect for those with food allergies or health issues like GERD / acid reflux, lactose intolerance, and those who use Coumadin® (warfarin).

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Original eatTHISdiet: Comfort Food Diet
Meal Plan Servings

You've determined that your total caloric intake should be 1800 calories per day.

The table below shows how many single servings you should eat from each Dr. Gourmet recipe you will cook on eatTHISdiet. On the 1800-calorie per day plan, you will eat two servings of a breakfast recipe, two servings of a lunch recipe, and one and one-half serving of a dinner recipe.

  Breakfast: blue circle Lunch: yellow triangle Dinner: red square Extras

1800 Calorie

blue circle  blue circle yellow triangle  yellow triangle red square  red square  

More About the Recipes

Recipes and menus have been labeled with a circle, triangle or square so that you can swap them easily in case you're allergic to a particular food.

blue circle The Blue Circle menus are for breakfast.

yellow triangle Yellow Triangle menus are for lunch.

red square Red Squares are for dinner recipes or menus. Often a side dish is recommended with the main course for dinner. That's included in the red square. Side dishes, or Extras, have no shapes assigned for this reason.

red square = yellow triangle yellow triangleOne red square is equivalent to two yellow triangles. (That is, one serving of a dinner menu or meal is equivalent to two lunch servings.)

Each individual recipe is labeled with the number of servings it makes inside each shape. For instance, this square shows you that the recipe will serve 2:

square 2

Each recipe has the approximate time next to it. Here is a dinner recipe that will take about 45 minutes to prepare and will serve two:

square 2=45

Menus that take more than 30 minutes will usually have leftovers or are for special occasion meals.


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