This is what I have spent 1/2 day trying to post. Scrapped the app & am using the web based access instead.....Hardly profound but I am so sick of IT today, I am going to post it, hours late!!!
Hi thatswot - MM prefers the use of full-fat products, I can't bear full-fat milk though so have to admit to using skimmed in my occasional cup of tea - I have switched to light almond milk for porridge but can't face it in hot drinks, it seems to form a sort of custard but is fine in porridge and to loosen up the youghurt & seed mix.
Cheese is allowed but it's a matchbox sized piece of cheddar, or the equivalent. I do really recommend you read the book, it will honestly help with getting your head around the diet & the rationales. I use grated Parmesan on appropriate dishes, because you get 'more bang for your buck' taste-wise, you get that really cheesy intensity but use much less actual cheese. I also grate the match-box size piece of cheddar over certain dishes when I crave cheese as it goes a lot further. Full fat cottage cheese is on-diet & is heaps better than the diet variety.
Well done elvish - a great result, you must be very pleased!!
The whole think with flax-seed (& chia for that matter) is that they absorb fluid, so when they are processing through your gut, they expand & help move things along.... This is why milled is best or they come out as they go in.... Sorry (tmi), am pretty sure this is why they are in the diet to be honest, less nutrient as opposed to a bulking agent with any nutrient value as a positive benefit.