Organise and plan ahead as much as you can, even if it is not in your nature. Keeping a Foods Diary for the week ahead is a help for shopping and catering, especially if you have more than one household member on a special diet.

Do not go shopping for food when you are really hungry or withdrawing from a food. You are much more likely to buy forbidden things, break your diet or eat naughty snacks. Go shopping just after a big meal.

For running a rotation, if you tolerate frozen food well and you have a freezer, you can cook casseroles, sauces, purees or bakery in batches and freeze the surplus, labelled for each day of the rotation. This will help avoid food wastage, and save buying and cooking small amounts every few days. Use colour code labels for each day of the rotation. Frozen vegetables, although expensive, can save a lot of waste. Divide up fruit juice cartons and freeze them in portions for one day of the rotation.

Do not forget when working out a rotation diet to include things which can be eaten as snacks or fillers. These are particularly useful for babies and children. Use nuts, dried fruits, fresh fruit, seeds, rice-cakes, rice puffs, rye crispbread, oatcakes.

If running a rotation diet for people taking packed lunches to work or school, try to work out lunch menus which look as normal as possible. It helps psychologically to cope with a special diet if you are not too conspicuous in public.

Put herb teas or strange juices in thermoses. Mixed salads are useful, as are oatcakes, rye crispbread, ricecakes, and wholefood crisps.

Use colour codes if you are running a rotation diet. Use red jars and labels for Day One, and so on. Alternatively, keep separate shelves or cupboards for each day of the rotation and colour code them. Then you know that on a given day you can reach into that jar or that cupboard and eat anything in it. Particularly useful for hungry children just home from school.

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