Jewish Life Digital Edition March 2015 | Page 88

YOUR 8-DAY PESACH eating plan 1 Plan your Shabbos in advance: Decide in advance which are likely to be your most difficult meals over Shabbos. You may decide that Friday night, the shul brocha on Shabbos morning and Shabbos lunch are likely to be your biggest challenges. Decide which of these three meals is going to be your ‘cheat’ meal, which is going to be perfectly on-track and healthy, and which is going to be in between the two (ie, not terrible, but not particularly good either). Keep Shabbos eating to only one day (not the whole weekend) Many people find it hard to get back into a normal eating routine after Shabbos, but it is very important that any less-than-ideal eating habits end as Shabbos ends, so that from Saturday night you can go back to eating healthily rather than letting bad eating habits creep into Sunday and even the rest of the week too! Get rid of leftovers Leftovers are a temptation. So make 2 3 PHOTOGRAPHS: BIGSTOCKPHOTO.COM Sticking to your healthy eating goals can be hard with larger meals over Shabbos and yom tov, but there are many ways to stay on track while having your teigel and eating it too! I BY LILA BRUK, REGISTERED DIETICIAN SHABBOS 84 JEWISH LIFE ISSUE 82