Hello everyone! I have started the process of getting approved for surgery and I feel like I am not sure how I stay on a vegetarian diet after surgery. I am a horrible cook and I hate to cook also. I really like that I eliminated the inflammation in by body by going vegetarian and I really don’t want to go off but I’m nervous about after the surgery any suggestions because now I kinda just steam veggies or cook the morning star burgers eat. I have only been a vegetarian since September 2019. Still very new n learning. Help please I appreciate all you can offer. Thank you in advanced!

I am also a vegetarian, and once you get off the liquid diet it's not hard. I eat a lot of refried beans and lentils, tofu, ricotta and cottage cheese. Eggs, if you eat them, are a great protein source and I love them (never could eat them when I had my lap band!) I take the Amy's vegetarian frozen dinners, and after thawed I get four meals out of them. Once you can eat some rice, you can make a meal out of two or three pieces of vegetable roll "sushi". It may be a little harder to get enough protein in, but I use the Isopure zero carb protein water to help with that.

While you are on your mushies stage google "Eggface's Ricotta Bake" It's delish! I still eat it even though I have no restrictions now.

Edited January 11, 20206 yr by JRT Mom

I don't know a lot about vegetarian and vegan or the difference between the two, can you have eggs and cheese? Those are good sources of protein.

I'm vegetarian (have been for 49 years) - I did as JRT Mom says and at first had refried beans, eggs, cheese, etc. I also made the famous ricotta bake that's on this site somewhere. I eat Quorn for protein, beans, etc. Check out the thread, I think it's in General, called something like 'before and after'. There are tons of meals in there to take inspiration from.

Just wanted to add... curries are wonderful and really easy to make and you can make it for the whole family, just skip the rice at first. Use tofu, a few sliced almonds and a bit of protein powder to ramp the protein aspect up.