Heh, so I've noticed I have a habit of making posts where the title is literally just one food item and I just know this will garner a discussion on several foods that are related, but yeah, there's my little introspection for the moment.

Anywho, my guidelines say at week three I can add in crackers, but it specifies non-seeded crackers and non-grains. It suggests saltines and melba toast as examples. What exactly constitutes a "grain" cracker? Would wheat thins fall into that? I'm not a huge fan of saltines but I would like to find some good crackers to have some guac and hummus with. I like wheat thins but I know they run rather salty and I'm not entirely sure if wheat is what they mean by grains. In my mind, I was imagining things like shredded wheat and really fibrous type crackers, but I'm not sure.

Any thoughts? It also suggests corn/flour tortillas and baked tortilla chips so I might try those as well.

I figured I could beat a dead horse with this; I found it in an article I was reading on Reader's Digest about food manufacturing. It made me sad:

“People think crackers are healthy, but in many ways, they’re as bad for you as chips. Your typical cracker is made with refined grains and flavoring built around fat, salt, and sugar. Then preservatives are often added so the crackers can sit on the shelf for a year. Also, whole-grain crackers are rare. Ninety-nine percent of crackers out there are a treat.” Bruce Bradley, former marketing executive for General Mills
and author of Fat Profits

Crackers, beer, steak, bacon and popcorn for everyone!!

You're welcome, friends!!

Crackers, beer, steak, bacon and popcorn for everyone!!

You're welcome, friends!!

Woah what's wrong with steak in the first place?! Love me a good rare ribeye! I love it to be mooing!

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Crackers, beer, steak, bacon and popcorn for everyone!!

You're welcome, friends!!

Woah what's wrong with steak in the first place?! Love me a good rare ribeye! I love it to be mooing!

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Nothing! I love steak. The redder the better!

@LipstickLady

Look, maybe instead of asking about crackers, just start asking about hotdogs, pizza, tacos, ice cream, burgers and milkshakes!!!! Maybe they're healthier?? Haha....wow, this forum gets so tense.

Try looking at WLS Instagrams - some girls are totally banging with these amazinggggggg bodies, and they're eating cheese platters, sipping red wine, tucking into pizza, ordering cocktails....and they were doing it not long after surgery too *cos I stalk pages for inspo hehe!

Look, maybe instead of asking about crackers, just start asking about hotdogs, pizza, tacos, ice cream, burgers and milkshakes!!!! Maybe they're healthier?? Haha....wow, this forum gets so tense.

Try looking at WLS Instagrams - some girls are totally banging with these amazinggggggg bodies, and they're eating cheese platters, sipping red wine, tucking into pizza, ordering cocktails....and they were doing it not long after surgery too *cos I stalk pages for inspo hehe!

Look at them again in a year - I would bet $ they aren't successful in keeping the weight off (or being healthy)!

Look, maybe instead of asking about crackers, just start asking about hotdogs, pizza, tacos, ice cream, burgers and milkshakes!!!! Maybe they're healthier?? Haha....wow, this forum gets so tense.

Try looking at WLS Instagrams - some girls are totally banging with these amazinggggggg bodies, and they're eating cheese platters, sipping red wine, tucking into pizza, ordering cocktails....and they were doing it not long after surgery too *cos I stalk pages for inspo hehe!

Stalk them next year - I would bet they won't have long term success and be healthy!

I'm not condoning it or glorifying it - I was having a laugh and just trying to bring some light heartedness...

@@Kaze

On my plan at 6 weeks I could have raw veggies and I had very firm cucumber slices as crackers/mini sandwiches for eating ham and cheese.

That sounds good! I'd personally prefer pickles with ham and cheese though. I want to learn how to make my own pickles eventually. Then again, pickles aren't too firm, haha.

pickles are pretty easy to make - have you done any canning?

@LipstickLady

I'm pretty hot for an old lady!

@@Kaze

On my plan at 6 weeks I could have raw veggies and I had very firm cucumber slices as crackers/mini sandwiches for eating ham and cheese.

That sounds good! I'd personally prefer pickles with ham and cheese though. I want to learn how to make my own pickles eventually. Then again, pickles aren't too firm, haha.

pickles are pretty easy to make - have you done any canning?

I have not! Any suggestions?

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@@Kaze
I would think a fibrous, grainy cracker would be something like Triscuits, which kind of shatter when you bite them and are hard to chew up really well, or any cracker loaded with seeds/nuts/other firm bits.

My program (and mine is definitely a large, successful program with very few complications or failures among it's patients) allows moving to more 'normal' foods earlier than I see many of the others here talking about. I saw my doctor for my 2 week checkup and he removed almost all food restrictions, within guidelines like 'chewchewchew everything to a paste' and 'low carb, low sugar', and expecting me to maintain appropriate portions, which my sleeve greatly aids me with Maybe as time has gone by and bariatric surgeries have become more common, they've loosened the reins a bit. I also didn't have to do a pre-op diet, as my surgeon feels those mostly make his patients miserable and do little to affect the size of the liver. Anyway, enjoy your crackers. I can have them, but don't feel quite ready yet. Good luck!

For referenceImageUploadedByBariatricPal1468203206.615957.jpg. It does say whole grains, obviously operative word I missed, I apologize. Don't most crackers of sorts specify if they are whole grain or not?

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7-8 T of food per meal! I'm not sure I could get that much in right now, except for liquids. I'm about to complete week 3 and tonight was the first time I had 4T of food...I made that yummy ricotta bake and it was AMAZING.

I had Bacon fot dinner last night. Yum yum

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