Thread: Can tomatoes REALLY be counted as your fruit on P2?

Tomatoes can be used as a fruit or veggie. I used them both ways through 2 rounds without any problems. More insight, please......

Can someone else give insight to this? I would like the veterans to chime in on the tomatoes issue. . .this could be a meal lifesaver. . .

Well I'm not a veteran, I'm at the end of my first long round and I eat lots of tomatoes! In my salads and in recipes. They aren't a problem for me, even with ground bison or venison. I mix veggies all the time. The dr. I was seeing said I could. I didn't believe her at first and for a few days I didn't, but that got old FAST!

Oh, I treat them either like a veggie or a fruit. Especially like a fruit if I am having a stall or gained a tad.

Although tomatoes are actually a fruit and not a vegetable, the are counted under your veggie selection of the hCG diet. That is what my clinic instructed anyway. I had asked if I could mix my salad with tomatoes (used as a fruit for the day), and was told no. So I use tomatoes as my vegetable for the chili, over fish, sliced with pepper/salt, etc, and I top my salads with cucumber and celery......and Warden Farms dressings, which I couldn't live without.

Oh yes, Walden Farms dressings are pretty good! So is their BBQ sauce. FYI, they use Splenda as a sweetener.

I use tomatoes as my fruit and it works well for me.