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Need some help with some meal ideas. I had my band done last nov and my weight loss has started to really slow down. I want to try some new meal ideas but find it hard because I live by myself and cooking such a small portion for one is very hard. I get sick of eating leftovers for the following few nights so if anyone has any ideas for quick easy n yummy meals I would love to know.

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Once I have lapbound, I am just assuming a lot of food will go to waste for me. That's one of my biggest problems now. I eat eerything on my plate because I paid for it. Gotta mentally get out of that.

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You could try an odd weight watchers frozen meal, those arent bad occasionally. I also keep things like a chicken breast in the freezer just take it out the day u eat it, butterfly cut it and bash it like an escalope, and dry fry for 2 to 3 mins , it is never dry then, individual fish portions like trout or sea bass or salmon, i tend to make some chilli in a batch and then freeze portions for days, i am cooking for 2 but during the summer i spend 1 day a week cooking then freeze the meals and take out each day, minced beef chillied with some mashed cauliflower , or peas or salad .. i will eat salad every day during the summer i love it u can make salad different by changing the dressing to ) fat different ones .. good luck i understand its a little uninspiring cooking for one but cook for the week and u may get some better inspiriation.

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Actually what I do is buy a packet of ground turkey and cook it up in 4 ounce burgers then put in freezer bags. I usually do this for the week for my planned lunches. If I buy chicken breast for the week so I also cook the batch up for the week and freeze in freezer lock baggies. I also get can tuna for my fish days. I buy veggies and put them in little containers and then I buy a bag of lettuce mix. For fruit smoothies you can freeze the fruit in freezer bags too. I also make my own Soup this way for an alternate for lunch. :)

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radarluv,

I take home my leftovers and eat them for meals the rest of the day. They are usually enough to feed you for the entire day and then some.

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I know exactly how you feel. I live on my own with my 6 year old who is practically malnourished she eats so little (not really, but I never once forced her to clean her plate and she stops eating when she's full) so I'm pretty much just cooking for myself. My butcher does "singles" packs. It's a couple of steaks, a couple of sausages, some diced meat, some ground meat and some chicken pieces. You can choose if you want lamb beef or pork and if you want him to trim all the fat off. It's good for some variety. I'll make a small casserol, marinade the steak to make it ultra tender, make spag Bol, and curried sausages or something like that. You only make a small meal and there is little waste and you're not eating the same frozen meal 5 nights in a row.

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i have been planning my meals and cooking them for the week on Sundays. usually i start by putting chicken or turkey in the crockpot with a half cup of Water the night before. then i use my steamed meats to make meals. this week i used chicken so i used different veggies and sauces on each serving to mix it up and put it in tupperware froze and they are ready to go:-)

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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