What is your favorite comfort food? It doesn't have to be healthy or bandter-friendly, but simply the food you think of as the ultimate comfort food.

I have a few. French onion soup, homemade mashed potatoes, brocolli casserole.

Mashed potatoes and gravy, yum! And yes, we can eat most of those foods. Now, whether or not we should is a whole nother story!

Off the subject, but I have a question about cilantro. I love it, too. I threw some seeds in my garden and now I have tons of cilantro growing!! But, my question is......it is getting so big that it looks like a bush....should I cut it way down? or what? I'm sure that big stalk isn't tasty!!!

White cheddar cheese puffs, ya know the ones that dissolve in your mouth....stay away from the cheese puffs!

Im going to reveal something about myself i havent revealed to most people.

i have a thing about those little birthday cakes they make for one person over in the bakery section of the grocery store.

we dont have real bakeries here in northern maine. Just a bakery section in the grocery store. My troubles started here. I quit smoking a few years ago. I was at three packs a day when i quit. as a weekly reward, every THURSDAY i would buy one of those little birthday cakes. They are beautiful, really perfect little works of art and the only reason they are made is to make people happy. specificlly...one person...alone on their birthday...and i couldnt let that go...

so i did that for a year or so...and gained a hundred lbs or so....

i havent had one since about six months before being banded.

so there it is...

im a birthday cake addict.

oh n i love coriandar too. i use it in tomatoes with butter, honey and crumbled up cornbread. Yum!

Pizza. I have figured out how to make a lower cal pizza with a very thin crust though I do pile on the cheese. That's protein. I have pizza at least once a week though I find that I can't eat much of it. I figure I'd be challenged to eat a whole slice of New York pizza. I absolutely loathe cilantro but love tarragon. But I also love French food.

I have cilantro growing year 'round but have never tried the sprouts! I will do that tomorrow if I have any in that stage. Mmmmmm

I LOVE CILANTRO!!!

thanks millions for the suggestion, BB

Hmmmm....I love cilantro, too!

Mac and cheese. It's the ultimate comfort food for me. I just read about an eatery in NY that specializes in mac and cheese. It's called S'MAC. You can have your mac and cheese 10 different ways. Yum.:hungry:

OMG!

You are sooo evil! I don't even know if I can eat this once healed but I saved the Mozzarella Mac recipe because I have to taste it!

Aaarghhh......(and yet part of me thanks you! :clap2:)

ENCHILADAS....ALL THE WAY---since I'm on a liquid pre-op diet I can not stay here any longer--must move on!!!!to next thread........

Mexican food----one day enchiladas would be my favorite, the next day it might be chimichangas, the next day rellanos----heck I could comfort myself all week long!!!!

If it isn't available---I would have chose potatoes....they too can make me happy in multiple ways....mashed, fried, scalloped, baked................

Kat

Mexican food----one day enchiladas would be my favorite, the next day it might be chimichangas, the next day rellanos----heck I could comfort myself all week long!!!!

If it isn't available---I would have chose potatoes....they too can make me happy in multiple ways....mashed, fried, scalloped, baked................

Kat

Potatoes!!!!!!! LOL!!! When I go to Mexicali for "issues" Lucerna hotel is where I stay. Familiar with it? They have THE BEST French Onion Soup and Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Since this is the best of the best type of restaurant, they look at me funny when I order soup before a meal and Mashed potatoes for a meal.

Who cares, I live in the US. They won't see me again until the next time I am there.

Go'en there tomorrow, btw. LOL

Bitteroldhag,

Would you mind posting your recipe for the thin crust pizza you make? I would love to try it!

Chinese food - yummy

Yvonne

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What type of chinese food can you tolerate? I love the appetizers, will I be able to eat them after I can start on "real food"?

I can eat any Chinese food just now - no fill.

You'll be able to eat - just smaller amounts - have heard others say that rice is a no no though.

Yvonne

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Can you guys really eat all the comfort food after being banded?

In a word....no.

For me, bread is out. So is fried chicken (with the skin on), Pasta, and most red meat.