Question

[Glenn]

Hello

I am new to the program and prefer to eat my green salad with cherry tomatoes. Since I am allowed ½ a tomato in a meal, can I assume that I can eat several cherry tomatoes that weigh about the same as ½ of a big tomato?

Also, can I eat 1 whole Roma tomato instead of ½ of a regular big tomato?



Thank you

[Wilma]

Hi Glen and welcome on board {hi}

You may include a tomato in your vegetables but no more than 1 whole tomato a day and no more than 1/2 a tomato per meal.

No grape or cherry tomatoes, please. :noway:

You may eat Roma tomatoes if you prefer but please no more than 1 tomato a day and no more than 1/2 a tomato per meal even if the Roma tomato is smaller than the 'standard' tomato.

Following is a recipe for a stuffed tomato (see the recipe book):
{pot}
Tomato half (allowance)
Steak (allowance)
Salt & Pepper to taste
Herbs to taste
1 x Cracker

Remove the pip of the tomato half. Mince the steak and season to taste. Place the tomato shell in an oven dish and stuff with steak. Crumb the Cracker on top of stuffed tomato. Pre-heat an oven to 180°C / 350°F and bake tomato for 30 minutes. If microwave oven is used, cook the tomato on High for 8 minutes.

Serve immediately.

[Shasha]

{hi} Glenn

:thinking: I do have a salad dressing recipe for you to try: make a big handly bottle that you can keep in the fridge for ages - it just keeps and keeps so well.

200 ml plain white or even apple vinegar
500 ml water
Sweetener to taste
½ teaspoon salt
Chop up nice fresh herbs – such as fennel, basil, thyme, rosemary, a bit of mint etc - you can also use dried plain herbs to bring in more variety in the flavour (remember no msg and starch additives)…

Just in case you like a creamy dressing: take 20 ml of the above and mix with your 5 ml diet mayonnaise.

You may add balsamic vinegar to the above to make a sauce to pour over your stir-fry while cooking - the balsamic helps to make your food brown and it will taste different when you mix it with the salad dressing recipe.

Bon appetite! :drool: