Method to prepare low calorie meal sets

• US 20050118302A1
• Filed: 08/08/2003
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jacek Dlugolecki
• Original Assignee: Jacek Dlugolecki
• Inventors: Dlugolecki, Jacek
• Application Number:
  US10/504,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20050118302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/72
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/30 Dietetic or nutritional methods, e.g. for losing weight A23L33/10 takes precedence

Abstract

This is a method of preparing low-calorie meal sets for people who are loosing weight, which relies on the creation of daily sets of low-calorie food in containers, which are made up of several types of food placed in small containers, trays or hermetically sealed boxes each having a specific calorie-level for each set. Through a system of progressive calorie-levels of the sets of food, which are formulated in so-called calorie groups, a series of daily sets is produced with calorie-levels at 700 cal, 800 cal, 900 cal and so on up to 2000 cal and 2100 cal. This allows, during the process of weight loss, for the person to move from the consumption of sets with 800 cal per day to sets with 1000 cal per day and the other way around depending on the particular energy needs at the time (for instance during seasonal sports) of the person loosing weight. Buy purchasing a set with a specified calorie-level, the person loosing weight may also receive an additional psychological motivation, encouraging them to stick to their obligations—eating only that amount of food which is in the set.

Claims

1. A method of preparing low-calorie meal sets for consumption by people going to loose weight characterized in that individual meals are made almost entirely of low-calorie ingredients, packed in individual containers and grouped into a daily set for daily consumption wherein the daily set contains a list of food contained, and amount of calories in the daily set equals from 700 to 2100 cal and is arranged calorie groups in linear order every 100 calories.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the daily set is arranged in at least 7 different sets of food for each calorie group differing in at least 50% food of low-calorie ingredients.

3. The method according to according to claim 1 wherein only few of the calorie groups are produced.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein supplementary substances are added to the daily set to provide vitamins microelements and pharmaceutical substances which are advantageous to health and digestion of a human organism.

6. The method of claim 1 in which the composition of low-calorie meals/foods comprises at least 7 different meal compositions with such a rule that each of these 24-hour compositions shall have in its collective container at least 50%, by volume, of different of meals, i.e. such that shall not repeat in other low-calorie compositions within the same Calorific Value Group.

7. The method of claim 2, in which certain energy-containing compositions, marked with the main calorific value number for a given composition, arranged in accordance with their Calorific Value Groups enumerated within a mathematical numeric sequence according to claim 1, shall not be manufactured.

8. The method of claim 2, in which such compositions shall contain additive substances as vitamins, microelements, and pharmacological substances that are useful for human health and for the process of food assimilation by human body.

5. A method of preparing the composition of low-calorie meals/foods for consumption by patients who wish to lose weight, sold in retail shops and catering outlets, in which said particular meals/foods packed into separate containers are grouped into compositions for consumption by one patient over the period of 24 hours;

and that each such 24-hour composition of meals/foods, placed into a collective container, designed for consumption by a consumer within 24 hours, equipped with a list of foods specifying energy value for the whole composition, is arranged in such a way that any given 24-hour composition includes a definite total energy amount contained within the range between 700 and 2,100 calories, which allows one patient to carry out one patient'"'"'s nutritional process with the weight-loss effect, and that the particular compositions containing various total energy amounts, referred to as the so-called Calorific Value Groups, are arranged along a mathematical numeric sequence for such Calorific Value Groups, every 100 calories, i.e.;

700 cal, 800 cal, 900 cal, 1,000 cal, 1,100 cal, 1,200 cal, 1,300 cal, 1,400 cal, 1,500 cal, 1,600 cal, 1,700 cal, 1,800 cal, 1,900 cal, 2,000 cal, 2,100 cal, and that the calorific content of each nutritional composition coming from each Calorific Value Group varies within the limits from plus 50 cal to minus 50 cal in relation towards the basic calorific value which defines a given Group, and that the prepared foodstuff to be found within the nutritional composition to be consumed within 24 hours is placed in the form of ready-made foods in a series of containers for consumption by a consumer after their defrosting and/or after their pre-heating, whereas the very course of weight-losing is based upon the principle of flexible and free choice made by a patient wishing to lose weight, at a given slimming therapy day and at all subsequent slimming therapy days, of an appropriate nutritional composition with energy content corresponding to the so-called Calorific Value Group, as is appropriate to a slower or faster slimming process designed by a consumer, depending upon the consumer'"'"'s resistance degree towards his/her feeling of hunger.