Bye bye 1000, hello 810

After a short discussion with my house mate this morning, we made the decision to ditch the 1000 plan and to go onto the 810 plan instead. After we've eaten the food we'd brought for the 1000 plan. Our decision to do so was based on one simple thing; neither of us can be bothered to eat breakfast and drinking a shake is quicker and easier than weighing cereal, bolting it and then washing the bowl at 2.30am. If truth be told, we find it easier to do this diet with the food option taken out than to suffer the monotony of the same food for such an extended period of time - I can handle the two weeks when moving up the plan, but not months of rotating porridge, with muesli, with shredded wheat.
So, the next few months will be fun. Three shakes (we've so far only managed to get two down our throats per day, or even just one, which is really crap). No more Coke, bread rolls, fruit juice, snack pots or tinned soup. Joy.

And now for our allowed foods:
Protein
350g Steamed Tofu
80g red lentils, dried
225g Chickpeas, canned, drained
80g Chickpeas, dried weight
70g Soya beans, dried weight

Plus three tablespoons of any of the following:
Vegetables
Asparagus
Broccoli
Cabbage (inc pickled)
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Pak choi
Courgette
Cucumber
Fennel
Green Peppers
Green salad leaves
Kale
Leeks
Marrow
Mushroom
Red radishes
Spinach
Spring onions
Watercress

It now falls to me to come up with an interesting way to combine these items. I have never used most of these items in my cooking. And my favourite way of marinating tofu (with Tamari) is not allowed because of its salt content, which sucks. It used to be so much easier when we used to eat meat, eggs and cottage cheese. Oh well. I guess that it shouldn't hurt too much to eat the pre-marinated tofu until I've found a decent way to marinate the other stuff and find an interesting thing to do with the lentils, chickpeas and soya beans. If we could eat chilli and onion, I'd happily make lentil soup.
Well I'm not going to worry about it now; tonight is not the time to look up recipes. I can worry about that tomorrow.