couple of good meals if eating out....

Found a couple of good meals for eating out : Lunch - French onion soup at Panera : broth is very good, you may not want to eat the onions or croutons (although I eat the onions and a couple croutons). Dinner - Tilapia baked in bag at Red Lobster -- I ate it with the small fork they give you with the lemon so I wouldn't eat too fast or take too big bites. It was delicious -- I left the al dente vegetables and didn't eat them, they weren't soft enough.

Black bean soup at Panera is also very good, but stay away froom the chicken noodle!

Great ideas -- thanks!! Debbie Look

Broc & Cheese also my favorite there - Jo

My surgeon instructed me not to eat Broccoli or Cauliflower yet.

I am not familiar with Panera, but when a group I was with stopped at a fast food restraunt for lunch on the way to a meeting. I thought there couldn't possibly be anything I could eat. I packed some tunafish and crackers just in case (frozen bottle of water to keep it cold) in a insulated lunch bag. But there was a salad with grilled chicken that I ordered (first time to eat a salad since before my surgery). I tolerated it OK. I focused on eating the grilled chicken, but ate some of the salad too. Lisa

my surg was 12/9 lap rny. I can not eat salad until 4 months, and my daughter lives in another state and had her surgery Nov 7, and her Dr. told her no salad until 6 months. I have only been off purees since week 6. I eat canned chicken and light miracle whip and refried beans alot. My stomach just cannot tolerate eggs anymore. I have found that very lean ham chews easily and seems to work well for me. I carry a little cooler everywhere then I have my liquids and food I can have. I do like skim milk motzerella with 3 reduced fat wheat thin crackers..

Just shows that all Drs. are different-I was told by mine that it was time to start salads and fruit. I tried it on my way home from the Dr., stopping at a steakhouse and having the salad bar-YUM. It has helped with the constipation, YEA. I am taking my grandkids out to lunch today-and depending upon where they want to go, I'm just wondering what I can order. Hopefully, they won't want chinese-which was my favorite-but now, I don't know what to eat there.

How 'bout some shrimp eggs foo young? Lunchlady