pscheeren wrote:I don't think that I can just eat potatoes and sweet potatoes.
And nobody is telling you to. Have you read the introductory info on this food plan? It's a heck of a lot more than eating potatoes! For examples, check out the recipe section under the Education drop down menu, or check out the dozens of McDougall/Starch Solution blogs, website, and Facebook communities out there.
But I might be able to eat oats and frozen fruit for breakfast.
You can also eat pancakes and French toast and scrambled tofu and dry cereals and hash browns (OK, they're potatoes), or just leftovers from the night before's dinner.
Potatoes and canned Progresso vegetable soup for lunch.
As others have mentioned, watch out for the ingredients, like salt and hidden oils and dairy, as well as meat products. I know you don't want to hear it, but this *is* a lower-sodium food plan. In packaged foods, the sodium level should be equal to or lower than the calories per serving. Dr. McDougall wants us to use no-added salt items in cooking and if we want, just add salt to the food at the table. That means no-salt added tomatoes, beans, broth, etc. when making our own soups and no added salt in the canned commercial soups. I don't know if any Progresso soups meet that criteria. Very few commercial plain old soup stock/broth even meet those guidelines. If all you want is soup for lunch, you'd be better off making your own - find one of the hundred or so in the recipe section or in these forums you may like and make up a batch, and pack it in individual servings and refrigerate or even freeze it like that and just reheat one each day at lunchtime. You can even have a sandwich with it if you want.
Green bananas whenever I want 24/7.
Dr. McDougall wants those who need to lose weight to restrict fruit to just 2 or 3 pieces a day. If you don't need to lose weight, then go ahead, but watch your triglycerides.
Long grain brown rice and Campbell's tomato soup for dinner.
Sorry, but not only is it way too high in sodium to be allowed (480 mg per serving, and each can has 2 1/2 servings), but it has added oil. And that's the regular canned one - I didn't bother looking at the shelf-stable microwave ones.
I love salt.
But Dr. McDougall doesn't. It'll take a few weeks but your taste buds will change over time to enjoy the lower salt meals that are part of this food plan.
I think I can eat that way for a long time and be happy.
After making some adjustments and finding foods you like that are allowed, sure, but be prepared to do a little bit more cooking than you're doing now, if all you're eating is canned soup, rice, and green bananas. If you hate to cook, do a search using the Advanced Search in the forums and look for "SNAP" by user "JeffN" and you'll find Jeff Novick's simple 5 ingredient, 10 minute meals. He has a whole Facebook photo album of them called My Simple Recipes that shows the completed meal and the recipe is in the first reply under each one:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 124&type=3, and if you like to see them being made, he has a series of videos, too:
https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/shopping/dvds/Like Vegankit suggested, look over at the approved packaged foods section and find some of the items to substitute for what you're already eating if even one pot and 10 minutes is too much cooking for you.
As you'll learn, the McDougall Starch Solution food plan is more than just potatoes.