Cplus wrote in alt.support.diet on Sat, 21 Aug 2004:

It isn't natural peanut butter (although I'm looking into that option since
we're running on the ends of the processed stuff). It's also
non-hydrogenated margarine (doesn't everything seem to be now a days?). I
could skip the step that's true, but I find toast dry without margarine
regardless of what I put on it afterwards. Quirky I suppose. Perhaps when
I'm looking into the nitty gritties of my meals I'll attempt that step. Who
knows, I may like it. For now my focus is on eating better, regularly.

I dropped spreading anything on my toast other than the top layer, if
that makes sense, about 10 years ago; the odd time a daughter or husband
has forgotten and spread butter or olive oil spread as well as marmalade
or whatever, I've found I've not liked it! It's amazing what you get
used to - I used to slather butter on 1/4" thick.... I wish I still
did, then I could give it up again....

We have done the hamburger swap as well as done a hamburger/soy mixture.
We've tried just the soy mixture but it doesn't taste right. Most often the
hamburger is used to flavour the tomato soup that we add as sauce. I don't
plan to have this often, or at the very least have it only as a side dish to
a huge salad. It's not very nutritious and I always seem to be hungry an
hour or two later.

What works, if you are cooking mince rather than burgers, is to dry-fry
it and then pour off the excess fat. If it is burgers, cook them under
the grill rather than frying them, to allow excess fat to drain. This
works for sausages, too.

As for the milk. I've tried soy and I just can't get used to the taste. It
tastes almost sour to me. I do LOVE skim though. We had it in the house
for awhile but for the sake of the people who don't like skim and are used
to 2% we comprimised and bought 1%. I'm still gunning to go back to skim
though.

Husband won't allow skimmed milk, and as he's the one who drinks it, we
buy semi-skimmed. I think that is the same as your 1 or 2%.
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88/80kg