For full information and detailed program information on the Atkins Nutritional Aproach (ANA) visit: http://www.atkins.com/Home.aspx For your convenience, below you will find direct links to the lists of foods that you are allowed to eat during each of the four phases of the Atkins program. I try to indicate in all my recipe narratives whether a dish is or is not acceptable for the initial 2-week Induction phase (forgive me if I missed a few). These handy links will help you make meal planning decisions as you read my recipes 
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PHASE 1 (Induction):
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase1/WhatYouCanEatinthisPhase.aspx
PHASE 2 (Ongoing Weight Loss, OWL): *
http://www.atkins.com/program/phase2/WhatYouCanEatinthisPhase.aspx
PHASE 3 (Pre-Maintenance):
http://www.atkins.com/program/phase3/WhatYouCanEatinthisPhase.aspx
PHASE 4 (Maintenance):
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase4/WhatYouCanEatinthisPhase.aspx
* Please note that the Phase 2 OWL foods list states you can have up to 3/4 c. cream during this phase, as it will indeed fit into the “add 5 gram carb” rule that drives this phase. But you are not encouraged to consume 3/4 cream each and every day. Doing so can stalls many people, as lactose is a form of sugar.
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No, other than yard work and housework.
Actually I don’t like cream at all and so for me, it is not a problem whether I could have 3/4 of a cup or 4 T. Just interested due to some questions on the Forum.
Thanks again.
Thank you very much. I am on another Forum and would like to relay this to them. BTW, I am so enjoying your recipes and kudos on all the work you have put into posting them for everyone to enjoy! That is just AWESOME! A lot of work but very much appreciated by this old gal. I will be 70 in June, lose weight like a snail moves and I am following Atkins. I am healthy and have energy but still want 15 pounds gone. SLOW progress indeed,
Thanks again.
Sure thing, Joanne. I did try a search on the Atkins forums to find Colette’s cream discussions, but alas the search engine brought up too many posts to find that one. I peeked in the NANY (latest) Atkins book and could find no restrictions on cream, so if you can handle it, I see no rerason why you couldn’t use cream for you 5+ carbs in OWL. She implied just tread lightly there lest you be one of the folks that DON’T manage that much dairy without stalling/gaining. But she’ll be happy to be more specific if you pose any cream concerns to her. Joining their forums (so you can post) is free. And I must say, Colette has been a stabilizing influence for me on the way I go about the plan. She knows the science behind how/why Atkins low-carb works inside out.
I would really like to read what Colette said.
thanks for your response.
Well you’d do better to go to the Atkins Community forums and pose a question directly to her, as the search engine on that site will pull up every single thread with the word cream in it. Grrrr They have the lousiest search engine there. I know the discussion was before July 2011 when I left the forums for a 2-year hiatus. Just recently started posting there again. If you put her name in the topic title, she WILL see it and will respond as soon as she can. She’ll be happy to relay her feelings on daily consumption of cream.
Well, technically you are right, Joanne, but Colette Heimowitz, Atkins nutritionist who worked alongside Dr. Atkins for years, doesn’t encourage people to add 3/4 c. cream a day, even under the 5g rule umbrella, when this topic came up on the forums 2 years ago. Instead, she encouraged even in OWL to stick to a 4 T. daily limit with the option to occasionally up that to the higher 5g carb amount in preparing recipes. The lactose in dairy can majorly stall some people if they always use cream for that 5g+ very often. I should perhaps be clearer in my cautionary note. Thanks for the trigger to clarify my note.
Actually… that information is correct. There’s about 6.6 g of carb in one cup of heavy cream. 3/4 cup has 4.95 g carb. That’s within the 5g rule for “The Power of Five”. From that document: “During OWL, you add higher carb foods back into your diet – 5 daily Net Carbs per week. You can move beyond vegetables to other foods, such as nuts, seeds and berries. Although you will be eating primarily natural, unprocessed foods, you will find an increasing number of convenience foods – choices that help even busy people stay on track during weight loss.” In OWL you are allowed 3/4 cup if that’s what you want to add… it’s up to you. In Induction you don’t usually have that many “extra” grams for that much heavy cream once you get all that you’re supposed to get from your veggies. The recommendation is 2-3 TBS heavy cream per day while in Induction. A TBS of cream has a little less than 1/2 g.