... or Too many Vegetables required to Zone properly?
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I perused over to the 1-2-3 LifeStyle Blog, and the following article was posted.
I've seen several folks mention how they thought that there might be too many vegetables to consume in a 3 or 4 block meal.
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The Blog posting very nicely addresses that concern:
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Many times I get questions from Zoners who are aghast at all the favorable carbohydrates they think they have to consume at each meal.
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Here’s an example:
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“I'm a little bit confused about vegetable portion sizes. You say that 4 cups of mushrooms equals one block, 2 green peppers equal one block, 10 cups of spinach equal one block, and 1 ½ cucumbers equal 1 block. Really?!!
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“That would mean that for lunch or dinner I would eat 4 cups of mushrooms, 2 full green peppers, 10 cups of spinach, and more than an entire cucumber? That seems impossible (and very undesirable)…Sorry to bother you with such a basic question, but the portions--at least for the vegetables--seem really insane.”
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I also have been asked this question:
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“Are you telling me I have to have 12 cups of broccoli at one meal? You’ve got to be kidding…10 cups of lettuce?”
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It’s true four cups of broccoli equal one block. But nobody wants to eat that much broccoli or even chop that much broccoli for each meal.
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Also, treat lettuce as a freebie. The amount of lettuce used in a side salad certainly won’t budge your block count.
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Let’s say you used 4 cups of broccoli for one block. It could be cooked in 1cup tomato sauce (2 blocks) with nine chopped olives (3 blocks) and topped with 3 ounces of chicken. That would make a meal for a typical woman. A man might want to add a small piece of fruit, another ounce of chicken and three more olives.
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Black beans, kidney beans, hummus and chickpeas also weigh in at ¼ cup equaling a block.
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A great three-bean salad could be made from ¼ cup each of chickpeas, kidney beans and black beans.
And don’t forget lentils. About ¼ cup cooked equals one block. (Check the label.) They make a good addition to soups and stews.
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You can also add 1 cup of berries to complete your meal.
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Use the Food Block Guide here at zonediet.com and check out the hundreds of recipes.
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