I am trying to prepare for my solid stage, and there are tons of coupons on lean meats (lunch meats).

Without using bread, can ya'll give me some ideas on how you eat lunch meat? How you can prepare it? Maybe roll it in a tortilla? That still seems a little harsh though. I am new too cooking, and of course new to banding, so I wanted to see what YOU guys use lunch meat with!

Thanks

I like to roll it around a low-fat string cheese stick.

A torilla is a bread though. :biggrin:

I'm not at that stage yet but I am not a big consumer of bread. What I do sometimes is put the lunch meat between two pieces of cheese and have a sandwich without bread. Touching the cheese doesn't get me all messy like the lunch meat does.

You can also wrap it around a piece of asparagus like the fancy caterers do... once you are cleared for raw veggies anyway.

You could put it between two crackers too, but put lots of meat and hardly any crackers.

Make a wrap sandwich using a romaine lettuce leaf. They even do that at Jimmy John's!

I dip all of mine in light ranch dressing. It makes it great. I also may eat some cube cheese with it if I want a variety of flavors.

I rarely eat it to be honest, I'm a bit lunch meat phobic.

To me its a prime example of unhealthy processed food. Nitrates preservatives and such, ick. Some ham gives me asthma from the sulfates. Much of it is high fat and made from lips and assholes (what was that movie?), lol. And it so commonly makes people sick, I think the lysteria hysteria from pregnancy has stuck with me.

I really only eat it if its cooked, as a condiment - ie. some salami in a Pasta dish.

I take a slice and spread a little reduced fat cream cheese in it and roll it up.

I can't eat lunchmeat turkey or chicken. It gets stuck everytime. Ham however is fine. I just eat a slice of ham and pair it with something else like applesauce or veggies.

Lunchmeat gets stuck for me too. It was the first thing that I ever got stuck on. And a couple times since, while making DH's lunch, I have tasted a tiny piece and it never goes down right.

you can't have bread, but you can have crackers.(at 4 weeks post op)

I buy the "Thin and Trim" lunch meat, turkey and roast beef or ham. Not other kinds.

I love pita bread and now I have a small pita, Josephs with whole wheat and flax seed, it's low carb and no fat.

I use lettuce and small think tomato slice. I use a few squirts of the

salad dressing with only 10 calories a squirt. Balsamic is very good.

Sometimes I just slice it into thin strips and top a small salad.

I don't eat much because it's processed.

I wrap it in lettuce with a slice of avocado. I stick to the buffalo flavored chicken, cajun turkey and cajun roast beef. I stay away from ham and salami due to the higher fat. I like my lunch meat spicey. It's so bland otherwise. I don't have a big problem with 100% whole wheat bread, so I occasionally will even make half a sandwhich, but I have to put avocado and lettuce to help get it down.

I just use a leaf of leafy green lettuce (Not iceburg) put a tiny bit of spinach dip or mayo lay 1 piece of lunchmeat in there with a tbsp or 2 of shredded cheese ....... roll and eat. Yummy

Hormel has a all natural lunch meat with no preservatives or nitrates. They don't keep as well as other lunch meats but at least they're preservative free.

I don't know about lunchmeat but I do buy the deli meat from the deli counter. I also buy whole grain pita bread and I also purchase whole grain tortillas. I have not tried the lettuce wrap...but I think I will since I will be going to the deli counter at Wal-mart this evening. I love the fact that I can grab a couple slices of deli turkey or ham, some cheese, pita bread, and my bottle of mustard for lunch and head out the door.

Being banded has become somewhat convenient.:regular_smile:

As a rule choose a deli meat that looks like it came from an animal. There is no turkey that is 3 feet long and perfectly cylindrical.

Buy some Laughing Cow low fat garlic and herb cheese, spread a bit on a piece of meat and roll it up. Good stuff.