Nice progress, Dreamscometrue. It’s it great when it all starts coming together and making sense.

To all January starters, and all BSDers, have a good weekend wherever you are. Angela

Lynne – it is horrible when you are unfairly criticised for something completely untrue but really great that you are getting support from colleagues and folk in your village.

It has been really cold here also in East Anglia – although we haven’t had as much snow as in other parts of the country.

It will be very interesting to find out whether your local health educator’s new training has included some of the BSD guidelines – or not. If it hasn’t you might find it difficult to keep your mouth firmly shut.

Yesterday I did an interesting experiment as I have been a bit concerned that my blood sugars may not be very good if I have a very inactive day. Yesterday – because of the treacherous conditions underfoot and the huge pile of admin that I had to do – I didn’t go for any walks at all and only walked around my classes in the evening. As they were in a very small hall the walking was very limited.

I wondered if my blood sugars would be higher than normal so I did lots of blood tests and was pleased to see that they were not much higher than on a very active day. No higher than 6.8 after meals and 5.4 before bedtime and 4.8 this morning. So a really good result for such an inactive day and at least I don’t have to worry now about my blood sugars if I can’t exercise because of icy conditions underfoot.

It would be useful to have the recipes available, Emmbee, but and I know a lot of chefs do but surely people wouldn’t buy the books if the recipes were freely available… I know I wouldn’t have. I would think MM and Mrs MM would expect some financial reward for their efforts…

Hello BSDers wherever you are!

Bissell, I hope the .25cm of snow didn’t cause too much travel disruption in your area and that you were able to go about your daily life as usual. We had a snow flurry which turned to sleet within a minute.

When I got up this morning I was amused to remember that I used to love getting up so I could get to my kitchen and eat something, NOW I love getting out of bed so I can weigh myself! I wait a minimum of an hour before eating, usually longer preferring to drink water and then black coffee to start my day.

Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful BSD Saturday.

Hi David, I know very little about diabetes so may be talking out of the back of my head but there is an interesting series of lectures by Jason Fung on Youtube. The ones on the causes of obesity wouldn’t be relevant but there is a series on intermittent fasting which talks about controlling diabetes.

Have a good weekend…

Hello everyone and happy weekend!

I’ve been following my own version of the diet (see below) for 10 days now and have lost 6lb already, which I’m delighted with! I’m not diabetic but wanted to lose weight and radically reform my eating and drinking, which were spiralling out of control and the weight has been piling on. I want to lose another 2 stone and am giving myself till my birthday at the end of April to do it. So far so good!

As well as the weight loss the main benefit has been a feeling of control. I now feel in charge of my own destiny again in terms of being confident that I can actually lose weight – whereas before the weight was escalating and part of me just accepted that and didn’t think there was anything I could actually do about it. But I now feel so much more positive and willing to really reform the way I eat. So if you’re just starting out on this be excited because it will work for you 🙂

I’ve found it relatively easy so far but as I said above have adapted it slightly to fit in with my lifestyle. I’m sticking to 800 calories during the week but relaxing it a bit at weekends so I can still have a bit of a social life 😉 So I guess I’m doing a 2:5 800! Having said that though, even at weekends I’m eating and drinking very moderately compared to what I used to, and very much along the Mediterranean diet lines. Still well within a healthy calorific and carb range.

The other thing I’m doing is building in a couple of snack times during weekdays – all within the 800 calories. I know my weak points! I’m a teacher and previously was skipping breakfast then gorging on cakes and biscuits at coffee break. So now I have one scrambled egg for breakfast then a snack of something like carrot batons and hummus before I get up to the staff room: and I can then laugh in the face of all that evil sugar 🙂 Also I have another small snack eg a few almonds before heading home because my other bad habit was coming in from work and pouring a big glass of wine straight away – partly as a psychological break between work and home, but also I think because I was feeling hungry and just needed a quick fix!

Anyway good luck to everyone! I love reading all your stories and tips on here though don’t get to post often. Here’s to a great weekend and keep on keeping on xx

Thanks, good tip with ‘search’. I gave it a go but couldn’t find the specific post you mentioned. I’ll keep looking.
Happy dozing.

G’day,
I noticed that you ‘transfer the list to Excel to generate shopping lists’ – is this something that you built yourself or a download? I’m keen to use a database in excel and create a weekly meal plan which will in turn generate a shopping list. I didn’t want to go through the learning process if it has already been done and available.
Thanks

Thanks again sunshine-girl

Some interesting info here; I need to follow-up when I have a little more time.

Right now it’s time for breakfast – 2 eggs, some Parma ham, some cheese, followed by some raspberries & blueberries, Greek yoghurt & thick double cream, glass of water & mug of freshly brewed coffee – & off to the gym. 1st class (& toughest) = hour-long Circuits (a mate made me a ‘we must do our Circuits……but WE HATES IT’ keyring with pictures of Gollum on it; quite appropriate as at times during the class you quite often wonder why you are trying to kill yourself but you do get a buzz if you get to the 60th minute & you’re still alive. Hmm, must look-up what Homo Sapiens means……

Once more unto the breach…….

Hope you & all on the forum are enjoying your Saturdays, whatever ‘floats your boat’

David

Hi everyone. Just a quick note from me before I head out the door for the day. (It’s the 10th anniversary of my moving to the United Arab Emirates and I’m going to drive down to Abu Dhabi to see some friends.)

My silence has been due to more crazy hours and a trip to Saudi Arabia. Back home now and life should be calmer from hereon. Last week proved a bit challenging BSD-wise with such irregular hours/ not being at home and I ended up relying on too much -grab-and-go carb-heavy food (sandwiches from Starbucks, that kind of thing). Back on the wagon this week and looking forward to it. Funny how I look forward now to such a restricted eating plan: I guess it’s because I know how much better I feel. Avoiding the crisp etc aisle in the supermarket has even become easy and I don’t even feel resentful about it: I never expected that when I started out!!

It’s cold and very, very windy here in Dubai. In the newspapers I see these pictures of celebrities here right now in their bikinis on the beach just a few minutes where I live and laugh – it’s jumper weather! I feel a ‘soup week’ and lots of warming flavours (chilli etc) coming on. Going to experiment with some new recipes too. Getting back on the wagon again and feeling good about it!

Hope everyone is well x

To.much.of.me
Great suggestions from Sunshine-girl. As I don’t eat enough fish I eat flaxseeds every day as they are a good source of omega 3 oil.

GetyourCarbon – can we swap places – it is freezing here in the UK.

Shanshu
It was lovely to read your post about the recommendation from your new doctor to go out and buy the BSD book. Good luck with your BSD journey. This forum is brilliant and you will find it a huge help – I couldn’t have achieved what I have without it.

I had a very similar experience when I had my last annual review with the hospital consultant where it was confirmed that diabetes was now in remission. The consultant was absolutely 100% for this way of eating and said that I must not keep quiet about how I had achieved remission by following it.

I have been diligently following that advice but may soon be in the same position as Sunshine-girl whose husband has banned her from talking about it on evenings out.😀

Is it me or as most people are 2 weeks in to the diet then we’re seeing a few more feisty posts lol
Most diets collapse within 12-18 days I reckon so we may lose a few and see some people hanging on
I could have binned it today for my own invention of a diet !!!
However I drank a litre of fuzzy water and lime, chewed some gum and sunbathed listening to Arcade Fire.
Thankfully at 5pm I have managed to avoid caving in and feel better about food
Weigh in tomorrow morning so let’s see

I’m sure everyone 2 weeks in will concur that this is a tough new regime and takes some strong will power

Maybe try the forums daily for motivation ?

Let’s try and keep it all positive and many of us will get where we need and want to be

I’m loving my cherry toms on fried mushrooms for dinner

Let’s all take a deep breath and focus on how good we are feeling with our individual decisions to embrace BSD and the Med way of eating. Such an awesome approach to getting so much healthier and the successes we are reading on here are truly astounding. This forum is great for encouragement and to be able to work our way through to reach our goals. Keep on keeping on… 🙂

Hi Bombalone,

Don’t give up! I was diagnosed with diabetes on the 24th October 2016. I started the blood sugar diet around about the 20th November I think. Because I am Type 1 diabetic I am not doing the 800 cal or the fasting days and I have still lost 7kgs. And its not just the weight, everyone tells me I look like I have lost more because its come off all the right places. As they say it will, I lost it particularly from my stomach. I have dieted most of my adult life and this is the only diet I have ever stuck to. After the first 2 weeks it has been so easy and is now my way of life. Not only have I lost weight but my BGLs are always in the normal range and my daily migraines and headaches have disappeared. I am so excited about feeling so good and so passionate about this way of eating. I would advise to try not to worry about the weight so much and look at the bigger picture, its about your health not just the weight. The weight will come off, it has to. I would advise you to have a look at the share your story section and find AMGSyd story and his spreadsheet of his diet. Fantastic tool for me. Good luck 🙂

People new to this BSD eating plan should not be concerned by JulesMaigret’s analogies of dangerous drug outcomes. This eating plan does not involve drugs, emphasises healthy natural food and is successful in halting or reversing dangerous T2 Diabetes.

Oh and I think Jules has every right to be here, he is following the diet and says he believes in it, he just doesn’t think there is enough evidence YET for the government to change guidelines for the whole country.

I totally agree that government guidelines shouldn’t be revised and enforced without some kind of process including extensive trials…. but the problem is that current guidelines were based on very little science and are clearly wrong and endangering health and lives. So where does that leave us? Do we stick with the old rules for now, or give no advice at all, or does each doctor, nurse and diabetes “expert” pick whichever diet they think sounds best and promote that?

Hi you new veggies, best of luck. Be inspired by orchid and mixnmatch, and if you need any further ideas there is some-one on diet doctor who lost 130 pounds on low carb vegetarian. I think there are recipes as well, not had time to look yet.
Ruth(::

Can I ask Jules Maigret why you are on thus site?

I’m a week in now and beginning to feel so much better.

I don’t weigh myself at all. Feeling lighter and brighter does it for me. If I stood on the scale and hadn’t lost anything I’d want to eat.
At the moment it’s working for me. I feel good 🙂

How is everyone else getting on?

Hi
Try nuts and seeds as mix n match suggests.

I’m vegan and have a variety of seeds with my almond yogurt in the morning

I include whole nuts and almond butter at lunch then tofu/and or pulses in the eve.

Some great advice on this thread. Interesting and informative read. Thanks.

I’m a week in now. Holding on by the skin of my teeth!

Hang in there Bombalone.
I’m feeling so much better a week in.
I don’t weigh myself at all. Feeling lighter and brighter does it for me. If I stood on the scale and hadn’t lost anything I’d want to eat.

At the moment it’s working for me. I feel good 🙂

Good luck

Chrysalis – wow that’s great. I really hope I get good results too.

Yes, first weigh in today and lost 4 1/2 lbs, which is great. Feeling much better now tho felt ropey for first few days, which apparently isn’t uncommon.

Roxanna – good luck. I’ll look out for your posts.

All I can say is…..
Friday the 13th.
Now I know why there is a horror movie with this name.
1. The weather
2. My boss went all T. rex on me
3. Felt poorly, that tummy bug
4. Got soaked
5. Went brain dead with a spreadsheet I do every month for years
6. Smelt chocolate then I went all david bannister.
7. My satsuma had pips
8. My lobster tail was really a big prawn.
9. Laundry just looking at me
10 hubby had the daftest movie on, all zombies. Why oh why oh why, do they shoot zombies, they will always get back up.
And why do the good guys have no sleeves on their tops yet they are overdressed with head bands, sun glasses, walkie talkies , cargo pants, boots, utility belts, jackets, scarves,…. but no sleeves.
11. Why oh why do they run out of bullets on the last zombie?

How’s your day going?
Xxxx

Love Lucia

Thanks – another good idea. I’m glad I came on and posted.

I’m also glad I’ve got a couple of weeks to get my head around what I need to do and properly plan it all.

I’m fortunate that I don’t have anyone else to cater for except my bf 3 times a week and generally he likes to cook anyway. He’s already nosed through the book so I know he will be happy to eat with me. And then on Sunday I eat dinner with my housemates but again they are being supportive and saying they’ll have stuff from the book and just have other stuff with it to bulk out their portion.

It’s great that ur going to cut down on carbs before u go into the 800 calories kit will help u get the hang of things. The first few days you will feel hunger but after that it isn’t too bad it seems to get easier. The reason I feel off it was that I had a plateau and I lost motivation. But I’m hoping it will be better this time. And I’m here for you and anyone who needs support. So just shout I’ll try my best to help u.

I meant boiled eggs unpeeled until needed. Lol

Shanshu, im planning to start in a couple of days I just want to be fully prepared. I’ll be doing my weekly shop to make sure I have plenty of veggies and protein. A go to snack or light meal that I enjoy is biiled eggs. They keep well if u leave the skin on until ur ready to eat them then just peel and enjoy with a tea or coffee low calorie high protein keeps u going till u get ur hands on a proper meal

Hi Chrysalis – that sounds a good idea. How are you finding it so far? You must be on Day 5 I’m guessing?

I detest all types of fish and seafood and don’t even think in terms of substituting. If I see a recipe or recommendation for a fish meal I just turn the page and eat something else. You can eat pretty much any protein on this diet so there is chicken, most lean meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, avocados, some of which will give you the good oils that fish do (google what to eat to get omega3 and 6) as well as spinach and lots of other things.

Chuck the fish back in the sea and enjoy your food.

I think the scales that measure fat only measure total overall body fat and are massively inaccurate, to measure visceral fat you need to have a scan. Not really possible but there is a body type called TOFI, thin on the outside fat inside (also toffee because you are shaped like a toffee rather than an apple or a pear) so even though you are tall and slim you could still be carrying a lot of visceral fat.

As for the diabetes diagnosis, you don’t give any figures (i.e. your HbA1c or even finger prick reading) do you know what they are. As for there being different types of diabetes, there are 3 types. Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational Diabetes. Type 1 you would probably have known about as it manifests from a young age or teens/twenties, Gestational Diabetes is developed during pregnancy so I doubt you have that, then there is Type 2 which you have been diagnosed as. If you numbers are quite low you could be pre-diabetic but without numbers I don’t know. When you see the nurse you might be given a glucose tolerance test at some time where you fast, then drink a sugary drink and have your BG tested at various intervals to see how quickly, or slowly, BG returns within a normal range. I personally had a HbA1c of 11.5 (very high) and my doctor just sent me for a second test with full instructions to fast although I had for the first as I was actually being checked for cholesterol but having a full blood works. My second test came back the same so I was put straight onto medication. Nearly 12 years ago diet could be tried but not at my level, it had to be brought down quickly, that was my downfall. Oh if only I knew what I know now.

Let’s assume that you do have diabetes (and I was slim when diagnosed 58kg but only 5 foot tall) and it is quite likely, although lets hope it is in the pre-diabetes range. Anyway saying that, here are 2 pieces of advice as you seem to want to know about it. 1. buy a book from The Dummies range called Diabetes for Dummies, it is excellent and simple and clear and easy to understand and goes through everything. Second, right now there is a course being run by http://www.FutureLearn.com called The Diabetes Epidemic. ust 2 weeks of a few minutes a day studying but you can take it at your own pace. It is free and open to anyone and should be useful to you.

If you have any more questions, I am not qualified but I used to be a registered nurse so know something, done the Diabetes course with FL and currently doing The Science of Nutrition with FL just because it interests me. So I dont usually talk out of my bum and if I don’t know the answer there are plenty on here who do.

Good luck.

Thank you to everyone who posted, you’ve mentioned things that I hadn’t connected with the BSD (so far I’ve lost 20lbs since November, well chuffed!) Sense of smell: mine seemed very poor and I always woke up with a ‘stuffy’ nose which seems to have cleared. I can smell the scented candles that I’ve been using since Christmas. I thought that they were just strong but now I’m going to take more notice. Looking forward to summer when I’ll be able to smell flowers in the garden again!
An irritating cough which used to start as soon as I lay down seems to have disappeared, maybe it was all of that weight on my throat and stomach!
Making beds is so much easier and quicker now that I can stretch further without my stomach getting in the way! as is using a dustpan and brush on the floor.
Wearing clothes that are so much more comfortable although some of them are just not wearable any more. Has anyone else noticed that tops are hanging strangely around their neck? I must have lost fat from my shoulders..! One of my motivations is to wear nice bras again, I’ve hated wearing horrible, broad strapped, digging in contraptions, and am looking forward to the day when I’ll be proud to hang them out on the washing line for anyone to see! I’m sure that my shoes are looser too. It’s a journey of discovery isn’t it? I’ll be forever grateful to Dr M 🙂

Hi Shanshu, I have started this week and would be happy to keep you company on the journey. Like you I often dont get a lunch break so taking protein smoothie for lunch on busy days, with spinach in for good measure (you don’t taste it but it is full of goodness) is fine as it is nutritionally balanced and is much better than snacking because you are hungry

Hi Roxanna – your story has given me a lot of hope. My starting weight is a fraction above yours and it’s been a few years since I was at your current weight and I’m very excited about the prospect of possibly being that weight again (and hopefully eventually much less).

I’m going to do my best to cut out carbs by the time I start the 800 diet starting tomorrow. I have several nights in hotels coming up a few night’s business, and the rest pleasure) so being low carb will be hard but I’ll give it a good go.

When are you planning on starting back on the 800 diet?

I tried a ready meal from Boots. It was made with konjac noodles and should have been an ideal low cal, high fibre meal. However, it was absolutely disgusting! Evidenced by the fact that when I took the others back and the girl on the till said food was non returnable she was overruled by the supervisor who agreed it was too disgusting for words. I must say I find a pack of konjac noodles stirred into a stir fry helps to fill me up.

The other thing I read about is XO sauce, for Chinese food. I used it instead of oyster sauce, which is quite high carb, and it was really good. There are cheap versions which are quite carby, but I bought the low/no carb version which was much more expensive. You can get it on Amazon but I went to a Chinese supermarket.

Actually I’m not such a dummy with computers, I just searched excel spreadsheet and found a post by hashimoto who claims to have created one, search hashimoto. Maybe I’ll just doze off again.

Have you searched in the search box, I know someone on here was looking to do the same some time ago. Dont know if they succeeded as I doze off at the words app or computer, I can only just about manage to type on the site.

A day of not eating much sugar (in the form of starchy carbs) can leave you feeling really down and grouchy. If I’d only had veg and spiralized courgette ‘spaghetti’ I’d be feeling both healthier for the veg, but very irritable at the same time.

However, having read the book Wheat Belly, by Dr William Davis, I would now not think it a good thing to have eaten a good portion of even freshly ground farmhouse wheat grain bread, or wholesome granola. The wheat would have provided the participants on Sugar Free Farm with plenty of sugar in the form of Amylose-A, which apparently has a higher glycaemic index than sucrose (sugar)!!

I found the recipe book really good, and during my 8 week diet tried a lot of the recipes and never got bored. The risotto using bulgar wheat was a favourite, and I still cook it regularly since I’ve completed the 800 calorie diet, and now on the 5:2 one.

The diet certainly worked for me, I lost about 2.5 Stone in 3 months and I just got my blood test back from the GP and my blood sugar level is back to normal – it was 7.1 after fasting before I started the diet.

Hi shanshu I’m also British, female and 36 years old. So almost a perfect match lol. I got diagnosed with type 2 about a year and half ago. Sadly my docs where not so supportive of low carb diets but I still went ahead and researched on ways to reverse diabetes when I found this site. I completed 8 weeks about 6 months ago and I lost a lot of weight. I started weighing 107kg and I know weigh about 85.5 kg. I still have quite a bit to lose but as I’ve fell off the 809 Cals I’ve not been losing any weight. I want to start back and I would love to share support and get some too. At the moment I’m eating low carb high fat. I’m trying to warn myself off of the carbs just as mixnmatch suggested. I’ve had my blood test done last week. Hoping to get some good news. Can’t wait to start the 800.

I don’t think I could have got through the diet without coffee, I drink about 5 espressos a day! I stopped having sugar and milk in coffee about 30 years ago, and the My Fitness app said there was only a few calories in each coffee, so figured it was safe.

If you’re looking for something a bit different, one of my Indian colleagues recommended Tulse Tea from Pukka, which is meant to reduce blood sugar. You drink it without sugar or milk and has a slight citrus flavour.

I wonder whether the NHS guidelines recommend starchy carbohydrates as a way to maintain blood sugar levels in patients who might suddenly experience real low blood sugar and who might even keel over as a result? Wholegrain carbs such as rice and quinoa and other carbs, can help people feel fuller for longer even if the amounts eaten are relatively modest (say, 25g – 40g per meal). A low-carb meal without any starchier carbs such as those mentioned above might leave a diabetic person at risk of lower blood sugars than perhaps a healthier person might experience.

For those who aren’t diabetic, a very low carb diet might be a tolerable way to reduce weight and fat quickly, giving them an achievable head-start to address weight and diet issues and to avoid developing diabetes. Not everyone can cope with the very low-carb diet though, and hunger pangs or cravings can crop up easily and so sabotage their efforts by leading them to easily available carbs such as bread, biscuits, sweets, crisps, and fries.

I would think that people with type 2 diabetes would be better off being supported in their efforts to reduce carbs and weight, as it can be quite difficult for many relatively well people to do this consistently without turning to easy to get carbs, especially as alternatives to bread often involve some preparation and cooking. It is just as well, that this programme recommends that diabetic people involve their GPs.

That said, general dietary advice to eat starchy carbs seems different from programmes such as the Blood Sugar Diet, and different from the advice in books such as Wheat Belly by Dr William Davis, and Eat Fat Get Thin by Dr Mark Hyman. The latter two suggest that it is fat and the condition of being overweight that actually make it very difficult to get slim. One points to the role of modern wheat in helping create obese people, while the other emphasizes the need to eat good fats and to reduce the use of starchy carbs and sugar which drive fat production in the liver.

Julesmaigret..if you’re heading to my neck of the woods next week bring warm clothes; it’s freezing just now.

I’m definitely envious of the shopping mall, Janet. My husband used to travel to Seattle on business and he’d bring back wonderful stuff. I’m still using some fabulous Ralph Lauren sheets he picked up in a sale. Super quality..Clothes sizes are just plain weird though. In France the sizes tend to be small because french ladies like to say they wear small sizes and they’re tiny anyway but I’ve never really worked out italian sizes. It will be nice to be mainstream is what I think.

Hopefully I’ll visit my brother one day. Up till recently he went back to visit our mother in the UK and we’d get together there. Now mum has passed away, we’ll have to organise things differently. He has less holiday than we do in Europe.

So pleased you enjoyed the South of France..I’m about 30 mins inland from Cannes. Did you come on an organised tour or do it yourself? We’re on the cruise ship itinerary too and the coast does get crowded in Summer.

Bad luck about the tracker. It’s astonishing how motivating it is though I’ve worked like a demon today but barely any steps to show for it…I will give it hell tomorrow!

Fasting: I built up to the 16 hours really, started by pushing breakfast later when I wasn’t hungry and after a few days found I work better on 3 meals closer together so I eat around 12.30, have a hefty (by BSD standards) snack round 4.30 then dinner about 7.30. Mid afternoon I could eat anything so I find actually acknowledging it with a meal rather than nibble at stuff works better for me. Your timetable is quite different to mine so it may not work.

My peak scales are continuing to inch down, more slowly than some but then I’ve never been hardcore!

My lowest point, forgetting to put my tracker on so all those leaves I swept up counted for nothing 😉

I wish you all a pleasant enjoyable weekend…Angela

I know this works – I lost 12 kgs in Aug/Sept. crept back since to being 10kg down from start. (10% of body weight). And off blood pressure meds. I need to loose more for healthy BMI but every time I try and get refocused I blow it.

Today I was perfectly on route to 800 cal and then the supermarket cookies fell into my hands and from there to my mouth. That is the story of January – almost but then…

I just can’t seem to get the starting oomph I did in the summer, despite having having more belief in this way of eating than I did then. Humans – we are a weird lot!

Some foods I cannot imagine eating again if put in front of me (mashed potato, pasta swirls), some I don’t care about (rice, white sliced) and the stuff that calls to me – fancy bakery bread, salt and vinegar posh crisps and cookies….

Do others have a mix of reactions to the banned items – some scary triggers while others are just a ‘shrug’?

Now if only I could apply all I know and actually get going properly… sigh.

I’m just going to add that I eat ‘real’ food all the time. I just eat too much of it and sometimes resort to carb meals because of convenience and unfortunately that plus a sedentary lifestyle has led to steady weight gain and eventual diabetes diagnosis.

I’m hoping that the shock of that will spur me to both do this diet and exercise more and, of course, reduce my blood sugar.

I’m loving the diet especially the fresh tastes and the health benefits for my family.
As the one that shops and cooks, I have been looking for an electronic meal planner where I can plan and select meals for the week ahead, see the calorie cost and generate a shopping list. So far I have found a pretty good excel pivot table and in the process of populating the recipes, ingredients etc.I wondered if anyone has already done this or are aware of a good site or program that would do this?
I’m happy to share the finished results.