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How The Heck Do You Find Creative Things To Eat?

OK - I'm just over 3 months out and happy with my 48 pound weight loss. I work a lot and am getting tired of yogurt for breakfast, fruit for snacks, mostly soup for lunch and eating a tiny portion of what I cook for my husband at night. Is eating 1/2 cup of canned soup a criminal act? How about mac and cheese?

 

I can only buy so many vegies before they go bad as my hubby eats very few. I make a regular meal about once a week and then have left-overs but usually end up throwing part of it away.

 

Lean Cuisines and similar items seem to be too much of a serving - seems wasteful to me as well.

 

I love the people who make their bento boxes and tiny little egg treats and freeze them but I just don't have the time.

 

Is there anybody else out there like me?

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ShapeShifter

LAP-BAND Patients

Hi there! Have you been referred to theworldaccordingtoeggface.com? A great resource / blog by a post-op foodie. Lots of ideas for every stage.

ALIGAYLE

Gastric Sleeve Patients

yep, what she said! ^^^^^^^^^

VACookey

Gastric Sleeve Patients

I grill a lot. I love my Foreman grill! So I buy packs of chicken, beef, and fish, then freeze them in small servings. We use a food saver (best purchase EVER). When I want chicken for dinner, I'll grab a pack out of the freezer and thaw it out during the day so I can grill it at night. I do the same thing with veggies. I buy a bag of green beans or asparagus, take a few pieces, wrap them in wax paper, then put them in the freezer. I just take out the little bit for each meal so I'm not wasting any food.

Randi

Gastric Sleeve Patients

Thanks for the great ideas!!!

MoreganK

Gastric Sleeve Patients

Freezer. Spend a free weekend afternoon cooking and freeze things so you have grab and go for the week or a couple of weeks at a time. Hard boil some eggs, they keep for a while and make great grab and go additions to lunch bags. I've found lots of great bento sites that do talk about being too busy, and they have short cuts and tips like that to help. I figure if I invested in this surgery for me, investing the time to make sure I'm happy and well feed after is just as important. I hope you find some helpful tips! If you're interested in any of those websites, let me know and I'll pass them along.

Lauranbob Mc

Gastric Sleeve Patients

I have been doing my major cooking once a week. freezing in individual portions and I have lots of options. also have been buying a whole cooked chicken from sams club, taking it off the bone and throwing it in a tupperware conatiner. so many options with chicken breast. I also have been planning my meals and packaging them up twice a week for the next few days. I never have to think what I am going to have and I also wont grab the unhealthy stuff because I am too tired to think or cook

Robyn Owens-Miille

Gastric Sleeve Patients

I cook up stuff on the weekend- turkey meatballs, boil eggs, cook meats in the crock pot, make egg face's protein bites, granola, etc,

You can always buy many healthy items pre-made. They are just going to cost you a bit more.

PEvette

Gastric Sleeve Patients

Pinterest has helped me alot!!

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