Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dieting with Remember The Milk

If you’re keeping up with some New Year’s resolutions in full swing, or just watching what you eat, this week’s tip shared by bonniefaust, offers a good way to keep tabs on what you’re eating:

Like many people, my husband and I made a New Years Resolution to lose a few pounds. He’s opting for the Weight Watchers online program while I follow the Eat Clean program.

The best way to stay on track is to plan your meals out, so I started listing different foods that we like and tagging them respectively.

For example, I make a large egg white frittata with tons of veggies that we usually share. I created a list called “FOOD” and each task is a different food (not a whole meal, just individual dishes). So I’ll list “Egg White Frittata” and tag it the following ways:

• #breakfast
• #main
• #WW (for Weight Watchers)
• #EC (for Eat Clean)
• #2 (number of points for WW)
• #Protein (It’s an Eat Clean protein)
• #CCV (It includes Eat Clean Complex Carb Vegetables)

In the notes I can specify quantities and any directions/recipe info.

Now, when I’m planning meals (well he plans his own breakfast and lunch for himself using this shared list) I just search for #breakfast & #EC and it brings up all the breakfasts I can have. He can use the same list and create his meals. I included the points because sometimes he is hungry at the end of the day and wants something but only has a certain number of points left. So he can simply search #2 or #1 or #3 and it will include foods that have only 1, 2 or 3 points each.

Thanks for sharing this tip, bonniefaust! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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