Hi! I was just banded on the 23 but am starting to wonder about the soft food stage. I heard mashed potatoes were good for this stage. Does any one have a low fat recipe for mashed potatoes? I'd appreciate it!!

Some one last week quoted their Dr as saying mashed potatoes are known as banders Crack . Yup when ever I don't know what to eat I order mashed potatoes. which by the way are not a Protein food.

My advice you can eat them at mushies but don't learn to love them, hence no recipes needed..

Banders crack? That's funny. I guess I don't really need a recipie more than I am wondering if people use instant or make their own?

i agree with the bandsters crack comment. i totally revert to the them after a fill or when i'm tight! i use the instant ones that come in a small container.

For many of us, eating carbs, especially white ones, leads to craving more carbs. Craving more carbs leads to possibly eating unhealthy sized portions, which then may lead to less weight loss...

For post op, I was given detailed instructions about which foods I could have, and which I needed to avoid. Mashed potatoes, even yams, were on the "avoid list".

Post op is a time for healing, and we still need to focus on having adequate Protein as a priority. For carbs during the mushies stage, I was advised to have choices like (all vegetables were well cooked and everything was pureed) cauliflower, spinach, carrots, strawberries, blueberries, and my all time favorite pureed cantaloupe.

Best wishes...

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I'm day 5 post op and Sooooooooo looking forward to my mushie stage. I can see how mashed potatoes can be very addictive which, as Sojourner said, can lead to not so healthy choices. I have heard about Mashed Cauliflower. Here is a recipe that I found after doing a quick Google search. Worth a try!!

1 head of cauliflower

3 tablespoons milk

1 tablespoon butter

2 tablespoons light sour cream

1/4 teaspoon garlic salt

freshly ground black pepper

snipped chives

Directions:

1. Separate the cauliflower into florets and chop the core finely.

2. Bring about 1 cup of Water to a simmer in a pot, then add the cauliflower. Cover and turn the heat to medium. Cook the cauliflower for 12-15 minutes or until very tender.

3. Drain and discard all of the water (the drier the cauliflower is, the better) and add the milk, butter, sour cream, salt and pepper and mash with a masher until it looks like "mashed potatoes." Top with chives.

Hi Bikini! Thanks for the idea! Sounds interesting. I'm not one for cauliflower but I might have I try it.

So if the white potatoes are not that good for us what about making red or purple mashed potatoes??? Or even using the yukon gold potatoes?

Sorry Alli - it's the simple carbs in the potato that isn't good for us. All of the potatoes you listed would be 'bad' but you can do sweet potatoes... I know, not the same

Sorry Alli - it's the simple carbs in the potato that isn't good for us. All of the potatoes you listed would be 'bad' but you can do sweet potatoes... I know' date=' not the same [/quote']

Oh man lol! I guess every now and then potatoes would be ok...

Potatoes are the equivalent of bread. Nobody eats just bread. I cut it up and spread cream cheese on it. This is a recipe for disaster, so I try to stay away. I am not a potato guy.

My wife loves potatoes though. Similarly, she bakes or fries them, and adds fat (oil, butter, sour cream) and salt. So a potato usually isn't just a potato...

I think what a lot of folks are getting at is that we all have our trigger foods (bread for me), so be super careful. If you can eat just a potato every now and then, more power to you. But beware!

So if the white potatoes are not that good for us what about making red or purple mashed potatoes??? Or even using the yukon gold potatoes?

Sweet potatoes, along with peas, lima Beans, and I'm certain at least a few other veggies fall into the category of "complex carbs". Though it does take the body a bit longer to break down these nutrients, they still basically are converted to sugars, and raise the levels of sugar in the blood.

Many people also use the over processed instant mashed potatoes. You may as well go and get a sugar bowl and start spooning in your carbs as sugar. No need for the body to process it, as they are already sugar.

I was not allowed to have any complex carbs for the first 6 weeks post op, and now am limited to only 1 complex carb choice per day.

The band diet has to be about making healthy choices for the foods we do eat...and complex carbs, along with all carbs need to take a back seat to Protein. That's why most of us have been advised to eat the protein first at meals...if you're not full after eating the protein, then have the carbs.