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Sarah, DH and I went on south beach almost 2 years ago. So we've been doing that for that long. It isn't easy to find whole grains (we have to literally drive 5 hours to get most of our whole grains). And when you do find whole grain products these days (with all the south beach licenses stuff) it is full of artificial sweeteners - splenda mainly. We believe that artificial sweeteners are not healthy, so that makes it even harder.

We've worked out a lot of shortcuts - cooking a lot of meat on the grill then slicing it up and freezing it so we can do fajitas and stirfrys. Making a large pot of Kashi pilaf and then portioning it up for later meals. Buying frozen stirfry veggies (but we still buy onions and green peppers to cut up for stirfry too). But we've still not gotten to where we can walk in and have a meal on the table in the 10-15 minutes we are starving for.