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Love Jerky, eat allot of it now. After hunting season i will have elk and buffalo Jerky to munch on.

HW 358 SW 344 CW 292 RNY 4/11/13<br />

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Have your tried making your own Jerkies? It's quite easy and you can cut a lot of the salts out and make any flavor you like. I've been making my own trail mixes with mixed nuts, raisins, and tons of different dried fruits.

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I am so with you on this one!!! I have been eating the Jack Link's Jerky Chew. I eat a can a day. I always have a few cans in my backpack and at my desk at work. My dietician thought it was a great idea, and gave me her blessing at my 6 week post op visit.

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OMG! So love beef jerky! It satisfies so many cravings...chewy, salty, sweet!! I just bought every package at the store!!

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I am not post-op but I buy turkey Jerky at Trader Joe's. It is generally a little softer than beef jerky.

Just to let folks know turkey jerk is out there. I like the turkey jerky better than the beef jerkies I have tried but I think what I like better is how the meat is processed. The turkey jerky at Trader Joe's is not real hard, like most beef jerkies I have tried.

I love beef jerky, too. Just saying. . . .

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I like the Krave brand of jerkies. They are moist and good. I do limit how much I consume, though, because they are processed with a lot of salt and sugar.

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I am three months out and love beef jerky! Great source of protein! YUM!

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I am totally into Jerkey now thanks to this thread! Thanks to everyone who posted here. I was getting totally burned out on eating Greek yogurt as a snack.< /p>

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I eat Jerky often. Watch the sodium and fat levels for any Jerky products, they really vary. The best tasting, moistest, zero nitrates and no preservative Jerky IMHO is Perky Jerky. It's addictive, be carful!

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Alex - thanks for the feedback I appreciate it!

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I make my own with turkey love it. I make my husband's with red pepper flakes he calls it crack he can't leave it alone. Were both sleeved so it makes a GREAT way to get Protein.< /p>

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I make my own with turkey love it. I make my husband's with red pepper flakes he calls it crack he can't leave it alone. Were both sleeved so it makes a GREAT way to get Protein.< /p>

Would love a recipe for the marinade!

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I buy liquid smoke then marinate in different sauces.. I've even been know to marinate in tequila for 2 days before dehydrating and the last 2 hrs of dehydration squeeze lime juice on each piece or nugget. Marinating/making your own Jerky at home lets you have slightly more control over the sodium levels! (:

Pre-op still....

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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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