Thanks Shanna for posting this!

I've done the South Beach diet and it's similar.

I'm not a health eating person too much but I'm not keen on can veggies except if I'm in a hurry.  There is a lot of salt content and the water makes it lose it's nutrients.  The frozen kind are frozen so fast and they don't have salt.  I like buying (at Walmart) the Bird's Eye California blend.  It has broc, cauliflower, squash, zucchini and carrots.

During the pet food scare, I cooked my dogs their meals.  I cooked brown rice with chicken broth and added chicken breast with the Bird's Eye veggies.  I'm lucky that my dogs eat their veggies.  They (Rugby and Comet) would sit by me when I cut veggies up.  They especially loved cucumbers and squash.  But they'd eat lettuce, too!

Before Rocket, the dogs got a celery stalk and carrot as a treat.  Now we do only very small carrots since Rocket wouldn't eat celery.  

Have you tried celery?  I think it's the crunchy thing they like and it's zippo on calories.

Comet is getting a littly piggy right now - I need to lay off the peanut butter cookies.  It will torture her since she gets so excited when I make them!