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THANK YOU! Always looking for easy crock pot meals! They are a life saver in the winter especially :)
All great idea's! I haven't yet tried to make parmesean crackers, kale chips or roasted cauliflower so I will have to look them up and find out how. I do snack on chick peas some times and enjoy them.
As far as pistachios go, while I will once in a great while enjoy them, they are so VERY expensive that I can seldom get myself to purchase them instead of something more reasonably priced! I do try not to worry about things like that since all in all I am eating SO much less food that is more than justifies buying higher price healthy alternatives.
Evening tv time is a hard time for both my husband and I, we work hard and long hours so we try to tell ourselves we are "due" a snack by the tv. But for the past month I have been trying to replace snacking with surfing the web for healthy meal idea's and coming to this site looking for motivation! I find it is a good way to start my day and end it :)
Best of luck to us all and thank you to everyone for all the support!
I don't know what stage you are in.... have you tried pistachios? They have some protein, are good for you and will slow down your eating/shaving bc they take a while top get it of the shell. I prefer this bc it take a little longer to eat when snacking. And I only buy snack size so I don't go over board.
You can make parmesean crackers .....like 30 secs in the micro and they last several days in a ziploc
Roasted chick peas with any kind of flavoring. You can make spicy or sweet.
Roasted cauliflower. .. i eat it like popcorn
Kale chips
As someone who is two years out. ..TV is a total trigger fir me. It's one of my goals this year to cut way down bc I associate it with the bad habits of eating too much at night. It becomes ritualistic.
Good luck!
Hi,
I'm so glad to see you are still here. I was quite active 2yrs ago and then life happened. You don't know me, but I used to follow your posts along with some of the other regs. Great to see some of the same ppl. Thanks for setting the example.
My WLS has me cooking, and cooking, and cooking more. I find that I now lust for certain items to help me in preparation of all the wonderful recipes and other food...and storage of the spices/additives. My list is:
- Spiralizer...got it!
- Family size George Foreman w/removable grill plates...got it! I even went a bit farther, got the Evolve.
- Food dehydrator
- Foodsaver. I think I have a Seal-a-Meal stored somewhere, I just don't know where or if I can still buy bags for the 40 year old dinasaur.
- Door mounted spice/food rack. I found one that will also accommodate my Torani syrups. I have acquired so many more spices and herbs since my surgery, that my cabinet is full...got it!
- Small size chest deep freezer...got it!
67 yrs old, 4'10", BMI 31.8 (51.8 at start), HW 256.4 (8/4/15), SW 217.4, CW 152.8 (4/30/18), GW 125.0, RNY 12/4/15 Dr. RoseMarie Jones, Breast Cancer DX 2/16, Bi-lateral mastectomy 8/9/16.
Thank you for your input.
67 yrs old, 4'10", BMI 31.8 (51.8 at start), HW 256.4 (8/4/15), SW 217.4, CW 152.8 (4/30/18), GW 125.0, RNY 12/4/15 Dr. RoseMarie Jones, Breast Cancer DX 2/16, Bi-lateral mastectomy 8/9/16.
If you haven't purchased, you may want to spring for this.
http://inspiralized.com/the-inspiralizer/
I have the Paderno one that someone posted above and it's great, but this one seems much better. The blades are all integrated and apparently it sticks way better. The blogger who has the Inspiralized cookbook/blog created it. I'm waiting for mine to break so I can justify purchasing this!
Does anyone make their own jerky? if so what machine/spices/marinade/types of meats/cuts of meats do you use?
Once I get to that stage I'd like to try to make my own
Hey Y'ALL!
I am 11 months post op and I have definitely feeling a difference in restriction and hunger for the past 2 months. I often feel hungry and I don't stay full feeling for as long as I used to.
In the past, I did not eat meat, other than fish and shellfish, but because I have been stuck at a stall and have caught myself slipping here and there,I started eating meat again in hopes of protein-dense meat = staying full longer. I don't think it has helped and now I am looking for new things to eat.
Any good ideas? I like fish and shrimp. I am so afraid that I am on a slippery slope and it's too soon to be having these thoughts
Life is what happens to you while you?re busy making other plans. ?John Lennon
For those who make their own, would you mind telling how you do it? Would love to make my own! Thanks so much!
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