Alternative food for FRIES

YUM!! I am going to try this!!  My son loves french fries (he's 9).  As I am going through my lifestyle change, I am teaching him how to make healthier eating choices too!  I am also going to be trying the mashed cauliflower... :)  Thanks for posting this recipe!

OMG- this sounds amazing!  Thank you for taking the time to post this recipe!!

This sounds great, can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.

That sounds delicious!!!  Updating my grocery list...

Woo Hoo!  I just purchased zucchini tonight. I'm all in. Thanks for the recipe. 

I'm not sure which type of surgery you had, but I would tend to guess that fries won't be all that appetizing to you in the future.  I had my RNY seven years ago and I think I may have tried to eat a few fries maybe two times in the intervening years.  Yes, I used to love them.  Now they just make me sick.  The taste is great until I swallow them and them and nearly instantly sorry.  I guess I forgot that this happened a few years ago and tried to eat a few a couple of months ago.  The memory came flooding back along with the nausea!

Tastes do change after surgery.  Give yourself a chance to develop some healthy habits and try to get your family to come along for the ride.

I haven't tried this but have heard turnip fries are a good substitute.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/crispy-turnip-fries/

I avoided all potatoes (except for two small bites of mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving and Christmas that first year****il I was about a year out.  I avoided all fried foods until I was done losing.

What I found was that when I finally did have a french fry, all I could taste was the grease and it was completely disgusting!  Even now (7 years out), I am pretty sensitive to the taste of the grease in fried foods. Every now and then I steal a French fry from someone else's plate, and I occasionally have fried shrimp (and remove most of the breeding), but I can even taste the grease that doughnuts are fried in so I really don't enjoy those things anymore.

There is a place here that has baked sweet potato fries that have a bit of sugar and cinnamon on them, but that is as close as I get.

Lora

Zucchini fries baked in the oven with an almond flour batter. Also you can use a similar technique with an avacado.  

not sure if youre looking for the crispyness or crunch but I like kale chips, google kale chips recipe. or you can try baked chick peas.