Hi Alex,

I have been hosting the food and Nutrition section for Sleevers and have been thinking it might be good to reorganize the sections a bit. In particular, it's really hard to find recipes unless you already know they are there. I think we have a powerful resource with all of the recipes people have shared. I also wonder if we could consider combining the Sleeve and RNY ones since the needs are so similar. Too soon? Anyway here is a first draft of what might work.

Food and Nutrition - contains posts and sub forums like currently

Pre-op Diets and Questions

Post-op Diets and Questions

Protein, Vitamins, and supplements

Recipe Sharing - contains only sub forums

By Post-surgery Phase - contains only sub-forums

liquids (stage 1)

Purée (stage 2)

Soft (stage 3)

Regular foods (stage 4)

Special Needs - posts and sub-forums

Non-dairy

Vegetarian, vegan, raw foods

Gluten-free

Other special needs

I wonder if we could use tags or something to mark things as mains, sides, Breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc. maybe in the future there is some recipe database app we could integrate with. What do you think? I'd be happy to slowly tackle organizing the current catch-all recipe sharing area if so.

Thank you for taking the initiative. Fantastic idea! I've been dreaming about adding a special sortable/searchable recipes section to the site for years. It doesn't look like it's going to happen in the very near future. Organizing the way you suggested makes a lot of sense.

I can only combine the Sleeve and Bypass food and Nutrition forums, if I move them under the General Forums and create just one Food and Nutrition forum for all procedures. Think that's a good idea ? (thinking out loud...) I could keep the current Food and Nutrition forums as a redirect to these new forums so members wouldn't need to go searching for them. I could also technically leave the Lap band and DS Food and Nutrition forums as is and wouldn't need to combine them. This could work.

Can you please create descriptions for each forum/sub-forum ?

I can add a list of available Tags or possibly even topic pre-fixes for members to select from within each forum. Please provide the list per forum and I'll get them added as well.

I would be so appreciative of a vegetarian section as most of the recipes I see for post op are based around a meat for protein! What's about us plant based eaters! I'd love to share some great protein rich legume recipes! This website is so wonderful and continues to improve! The recipe idea would be a wonderful integration! I appreciate your hard work and tentativeness to incorporating new ideas! This is so great!

I like the idea. I personally think adding the 2 sections might provide more data and that makes me excited!

I'm in too...I think the similarities far outweigh the differences between the procedures....of course, it'll piss off some that want everything segregated but I think the value of combining outweighs the negative.

Mistysj,

Great idea.

Great idea. Anything that can be done to make it easier for folks to locate the information they're looking for with less navigation is a great idea!

Alex, I will get you descriptions as soon as I can. It may be a few days as I am still overseas. Is a spreadsheet best or some other way? I truly do think the recipes are one of the most valuable potential resources on this board if they are organized right.

Alex, I will get you descriptions as soon as I can. It may be a few days as I am still overseas. Is a spreadsheet best or some other way? I truly do think the recipes are one of the most valuable potential resources on this board if they are organized right.

Take your time please. I don't mind writing the descriptions if it's a hassle or if you're busy.

Spreadsheet or word doc is fine.

Take your time please. I don't mind writing the descriptions if it's a hassle or if you're busy. Spreadsheet or word doc is fine.

Nope I will do it. I have a long plane trip ahead of me and I now have room to use the damn tray table and I have a lap for the laptop!