And the lettuce doesn't keep, so you have to eat it quickly, then go back for more. Fresh food has to be handled carefully, it takes time and money to stay on top of a healthy diet.

I managed fine when I was on the zone diet, but it does take organization and planning. When you are used to convenience foods, however, it would seem like an insurmountably hurdle.

Planning is the key. If you're only ever going to eat 'when I'm hungry' then you will never eat healthily. Plan all of your meals at least a day ahead - what you are going to eat and approximately when.

Also, every meal you eat shouldn't necessarily be tastier and more wonderful than the last. It is essentially just fuel remember and consider this when you plan your meals but if all the lovely flavours are important to you then make something more special once each day - if you have a family they can join you and remember that since you're planning your meals now they'll all know when to be at the table.

God, I hope I don't sound like your Mum!

We don't eat junk food at all hardly. Most of our meals are home cooked using whole foods. We don't use sauces out of jars aside from BBQ or Tomato. We have a good herb rack and make even our own curry from scratch.

The problem is, the cost of whole foods in Australia is very high, especially if you want to eat Australian grown products (which is stupid I know, but a huge amount of our fresh produce is imported from Asia). Anyway, it's expensive to eat healthily over here.

It's time I got organized now though. I've got a load of dirt coming to build up my vege garden for spring planting.

No, it's not stupid, not at all. :headshake:

I buy several bags of baby spinach each week, and it usually last that long. It's a good deal...

I don't know if it's the climate here or what, but baby spinach grows like weeds here. If I have four plants in, that's more than we can handle in this place, and the best thing about it is you just snip off what you want, and new leaves are grown in their place within a week.