I am trying to better with planning my meala. I have between doing well with getting all my Protein in by having a premier shake every morning. I am looking for ideas to get in 80grams which I have been doing without the shake and staying at about 700 calories and 40grams of carbs. I also need easy stuff I can take to work. Thanks

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Me too Aviva! Some ideas: tuna, soup, cheese and lunch meat, avocado, cottage cheese, chic salad, muscle milk.

Search the forum for "egg face" to find a link to the blog "World according to egg face" Lots of recipes and ideas on there. Also, I have the book Before and After by Susan Maria Leach. She was a bypass patient, but same nutrition rules apply. The book has over 150 recipes including for the early stages. She also has a website called bariatriceating.com with lots of ideas and recipes. Unjury.com has a bunch of variations on protein shakes to make them more fun. Also if you do a search on this site, you will find recipes and ideas for protein shakes that can rival any fancy coffe house latte or frappe some without having to even break out the protein powder! I like to have a shake for breakfast because I am not a big breakfast protein fan (ie eggs). For dinner, I pretty much cook a variety of protein based dinners for my family with a veggie and a starch. I just eat the protein and a couple bites of veggie if I still have room. I struggle with lunch, so I try to make extra of the protein at dinner (like grilled chicken or salmon) and reheat a little for lunch. I also bought frozen cooked shrimp on sale at the grocery store tonight. I am going to work on finding a low sugar way to make coctail sauce, defrost a few shrimp and have shrimp coctail for lunch. For work, you could make up chicken, shrimp or tuna salad and bring it on a bed of lettuce. A couple pieces of string cheese for snacks. You could bring leftovers from dinner. If you are at your solid food phase, you can roll some cold cuts with a little lowfat cheese. Greek yogurt is also a good protein source and easy to pack (unfortunately I hate all yogurt, no matter how many different ways I have tried it) I hope that helps just a little.