Banded and loving it?

Tell us what your favorite meals are.

What do you like to eat for Breakfast, lunch and dinner?

Breakfast: Atkin's chocolate shake (band feels too tight for food) and coffee of course.

Lunch: chicken wings with blue cheese or a grilled chicken salad. If I am not full on chicken, then I love my homemade egg salad.

Dinner: Fish with tarter sauce, avacado with lemon juice.

Snack: Pork rinds or string cheese.

Breakfast -

Usually a Protein drink b/c I'm still not able to eat enough solids to get my requirements in. I don't mind, I like the ones I make.

lunch -

I often eat cooked turkey pepperoni (cook until crisp, cooks almost all the fat out -- leftover from my Atkins days but someone mentioned it at our support group meeting so I know others eat it too), or maybe half of a small lunchable (3 wheat crackers, turkey, and cheddar pieces), maybe something leftover from lastnight's dinner. If we go out for lunch I'll get the Soup, or a band-friendly appetizer (chicken wings, potato wedgies...whatever)

Dinner - (you can tell this is the meal where I really have time to think/prepare)

I love to get a Chipotle bol with black Beans, chicken, tiny bit of sour cream, little bit of cheese, maybe guac if I'm feeling frisky. I make my own sort of "spicy thai chicken" with a carmelized peanut sauce -- I will eat just the chicken and be very sparing with the sauce, but will make some brown rice for DH to have with his. I also have a recipe for breadless pizza that is YUMMY - I throw all DH's favorite toppings on it except for my little 3x3 square where I just use cheese and turkey pepperoni. DH & all my co-workers who have tasted this like it more than regular pizza. I also make a chicken dish - you make a spread for the chicken before you bake it that's GOOD (and fattening, so I use just a tiny bit on my piece of fish) when it browns up. If I'm not doing the Thai chicken I will make a lime/chipotle/honey marinade and grill some boneless tenferloins, or make a stirfry with a garlic/terriyaki concotion I make up.

If we eat out I'll get some kind of chicken and a sauce to dip it in, just in case - or some kind of grilled fish. My favorite restaurant chicken right now (and pre-banding too!) is LongHorn's portabella chicken. I give the asparagus & mushrooms to DH, and get the sauce on the side. The chicken is really moist. Occasionally I'll get soup & half sandwich and just eat the innards of the sandwich, or an egg & soup.

breakfast - i usualy have either oatmeal or yogurt w/cottage cheese.(i know it sounds gross but try it, its yummy. especially if you can mix a little granola with it)

lunch - lunch meat and cheese wraps, scrambled egg

dinner - fish with tarter sauce or crock pot chicken. (i put chicken breasts in the crock pot and either put in 2 cups of chicken broth and cook all day then shred, or a jar of salsa and cook all day and schred. top with a little sour cream and cheese.) i also have either cottage cheese or maybe a little bit of mashed potatoes.

I enjoy a chef salad just about every day and so far it is my favorite and i have not grown tired of it yet.

breakfast : coffee, shake

Lunch: usually soup or tuna salad with salad greens

Dinner: Fish and tarter sauce or if really busy refried Beans with fat free cheese and reduced fat sourcream. YUM

I haven't had the surgery yet, (scheduled for next week, 4/19!:clap2: ) but noticed that a lot of responses list protien shakes as a meal replacement. What are some of the best shakes and where do you get them????

Also, it is good to see that a lot of you eat really normal foods, just not a lot!!

Thanks,

Jen V.

breakfast: egg salad or hot soy & flaxseed Cereal

Lunch: chili with guacamole or soup or cottage cheese & wheat thins

Dinner: scallops with pesto is a current fav or meatloaf &

mashed potatoes.

These are my favorites, but of course I don't eat just these

I am only in week two, but I started drinking Carnation Instant Breakfasts adn they are great. They do have a low cal/carb one, but when I have tried the low cal/carb stuff before it really sucks, so I think I will stick with the CIB regular. It is definately workable into a 800 calorie diet! I look forward to eating salads for lunch and chicken for dinner.

I use the chocolate or vanilla Atkins shakes. They only have 1 carb, are high in protein, and I think they taste really good. I feel like it is a good start to the day and gives me the energy I need.