It occurs to me that not all of us are foodies, born with an innate desire to cook and try new recipes! Many of us got to the morbidly obese ball by eating fast food from drive thrus, or delivery meals. Still others shop in the frozen pre-made food isle and love Stouffer's Mac n Cheese and Stouffer's Lasagna, and Banquet Fried Chicken entrees! Many of us, have very limited ability (especially in the early days of weight loss) to stand up while preparing food. And, then too--many of us are on either fixed incomes or have very limited money for food--even though we might have been guilty pre-surgery of buying tons of craptastic food from the grocery store.

So shew! Long-winded! Let's use this thread to link to and discuss different options in our stores where we can get healthy pre-cooked meals or meals that are prepared and only need to go into the oven for 20 or so minutes! The cool thing about it is, even in the early days, many of us will get 2-3 servings from a single meal! So we will still be saving $$$$ over the drive through and copious volumes of quick fix crap food!

PLEASE for God's sake!!! Read the previous entries!! We don't want a billion posts about rotisserie chicken! One will suffice! Let's try NOT to duplicate! When possible, link to specific items from your favorite grocery, so people can see what it is your linking to!!!

OK go!!!

You have saved me with all the meal choices thank you for posting

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This makes a great microwave casserole. I mix it up in a big bowl, then spoon into 4oz ramekins and seal them for dinners.

Here are 2 really easy dinner ideas. I currently have the jalapeño sausage out of the freezer, I normally use the same brand Italian sausage.

Cut up the sausage add peppers and onions or whatever veggies you like and sauté them a few minutes. I put the low carb tortilla in the oven to dry out a bit then put a tablespoon of pizza sauce on it. Top with sausage and veggies then sprinkle 1/4 cup of part skim mozzarella on it and bake it at 400 for 8 minutes or so.

Second one, repeat just about everything but instead of the tortilla nuke the cauliflower gnocchi and toss with the tomato sauce sausage and veggies.

Edited August 11, 20197 yr by Cheeseburgh

Yum!!!! Love the idea of pizza sauce in a bottle and the chicken sausage!!! *drool*

Ok, so I'm on a soft foods mission from God these days. LOL! I'm having a bit of an affair with Healthy Request Condensed Cream Soups. Today I tried and made cream of mushroom and crab soup. It was totes awesome and ridiculously easy. Just open some cans and pour into a pot--basically.

Cream of Mushroom Crab Soup (or use your favorite healthy canned cream soup flavor):

You basically just whisk everything but the protein powder together in a small saucepan and let it simmer for about 5 minutes. You can add whatever spices you want. I also nuked 2 oz of broccoli until very tender and chopped it up pretty small. Then to every serving, I just add 1/4 of the whey protein powder and a spoon or two of soup and stir it into a paste, then add the rest of the soup and the protein powder dissolves like magic. Then I added the broccoli to the bowl. It makes about 4-5 (1/2c) servings and is fabulous. If you don't like broccoli you can add cauliflower, chopped spinach, more mushrooms. But I am focusing on frozen soft veggies right now.

So so so good. I may have it for dinner tonight!!!

Here's the nutrition totals with 4 servings per recipe (makes about 1 cup of soup with the broccoli added):

Edited August 14, 20196 yr by FluffyChix

On 08/14/2019 at 13:31, FluffyChix said:

Ok, so I'm on a soft foods mission from God these days. LOL! I'm having a bit of an affair with Healthy Request Condensed Cream Soups. Today I tried and made cream of mushroom and crab Soup. It was totes awesome and ridiculously easy. Just open some cans and pour into a pot--basically.

Cream of Mushroom Crab Soup (or use your favorite healthy canned cream soup flavor):

You basically just whisk everything but the Protein powder together in a small saucepan and let it simmer for about 5 minutes. You can add whatever spices you want. I also nuked 2 oz of broccoli until very tender and chopped it up pretty small. Then to every serving, I just add 1/4 of the whey protein powder and a spoon or two of soup and stir it into a paste, then add the rest of the soup and the protein powder dissolves like magic. Then I added the broccoli to the bowl. It makes about 4-5 (1/2c) servings and is fabulous. If you don't like broccoli you can add cauliflower, chopped spinach, more mushrooms. But I am focusing on frozen soft veggies right now.

So so so good. I may have it for dinner tonight!!!

Here's the nutrition totals with 4 servings per recipe (makes about 1 cup of soup with the broccoli added):

Yummo!!!! That sounds great! Love crab ? & every shellfish

55 minutes ago, Chiptress said:

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Ok, so I'm on a soft foods mission from God these days. LOL! I'm having a bit of an affair with Healthy Request Condensed Cream Soups. Today I tried and made cream of mushroom and crab Soup. It was totes awesome and ridiculously easy. Just open some cans and pour into a pot--basically.

Cream of Mushroom Crab Soup (or use your favorite healthy canned cream soup flavor):

You basically just whisk everything but the Protein powder together in a small saucepan and let it simmer for about 5 minutes. You can add whatever spices you want. I also nuked 2 oz of broccoli until very tender and chopped it up pretty small. Then to every serving, I just add 1/4 of the whey Protein Powder and a spoon or two of soup and stir it into a paste, then add the rest of the soup and the Protein powder dissolves like magic. Then I added the broccoli to the bowl. It makes about 4-5 (1/2c) servings and is fabulous. If you don't like broccoli you can add cauliflower, chopped spinach, more mushrooms. But I am focusing on frozen soft veggies right now.

So so so good. I may have it for dinner tonight!!!

Here's the nutrition totals with 4 servings per recipe (makes about 1 cup of soup with the broccoli added):

Yummo!!!! That sounds great! Love crab ? & every shellfish

You can even puree it up so it's creamy texture.

BUMP - Any low to no cooking ideas? keep posting your goto easy meals.

Rotisserie chicken from Costco or grocery store. Easy way to make fajitas, soup, salad, stir-fry, sandwiches etc.. if I don’t stop I’m going to sound like the man from Forrest Gump.

Which reminds me of another one I like to have around, Fresh or frozen shrimp. Cooks crazy fast and is easy.

I was using bariatric pal food packets until they hosed me on the return policy. Some items were great but being charged 30% return/stocking fee as a part of their taste test guarantee made me decide to look elsewhere for ideas.

34 minutes ago, chaztexs said:

I was using bariatric pal food packets until they hosed me on the return policy. Some items were great but being charged 30% return/stocking fee as a part of their taste test guarantee made me decide to look elsewhere for ideas.

You are new and have only posted several times about being hosed. If you are real, fill out your profile. What type of surgery and when?

Avoid any site that sells bariatric processed crap food. I would suggest eating real whole foods. Hope you get your money back.

I thought that I would chime in with something that I have used in the past. Rather than use the flatbread or tortilla wraps, try Joseph’s Lavash Bread. The wraps are large and we only need about 1:4 of one which equates to 30 calories. They are made from flax, whole wheat and oat bran. Super yummy!

Don’t see an option to edit on mobile app. My post should read 1/4 of a wrap.