Finding your way around a kitchen can be tough if you’ve never cooked before and always relied on someone else cooking for you or used convenience foods. Similarly, if you aren’t used to cooking with low protein ingredients because you haven’t been on diet for a long time, it can be overwhelming. Having a bank of delicious recipes that you are confident to cook will help to make the low protein diet easier.
Choose 2 or 3 staple meals and practice them to perfection. Getting in the kitchen and feeling confident about what you are making could result in cooking low protein meals becoming a new hobby or even passion.
Batch cooking and meal planning can also help to make the low protein diet easier. Make a plan of your meals for a week and write a shopping list based on this. If you know what you’re having each day in advance, there is less chance of eating too many phe exchanges because you haven’t got the right food in the cupboards to make a meal!
There are plenty of tasty low protein recipes available here, for you to start getting used to this change in your diet.
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