Melissa S.
09/26/09
Sep 26, 2009
Well I figured I would post something about food today. Before the surgery I was not really into cooking much. Sure I had some staple type meals that I always cooked like spaghetti, lasagna, chili, hamburger helper, grilling stuff etc. But I was about 75% likely to bring something home for dinner or order pizza, or let the kids get what they want, like hotpockets or mini pizzas etc ya know, frozen microwaveable food.
Since the surgery I have actually been cooking more. I have been looking for things that my hubby and kids will eat too, along with things I like that I can freeze leftovers in my little tubs (LOVE the 4oz gladware tubs) so I can bring them for lunch to work and stuff. Now I actually cook more like 5 nights a week. I have found that since I have to chew things so much it has got to be something I really like the flavor of.
Before I would take chicken and grill it tossing a little BBQ sauce on it, now I found Kroger's 30 minute marinades and haved tried carribean jerk chicken, and sesame ginger chicken, and bourbon peppercorn steak. I am LOVING it, its so easy and who knew! Hahah, I am sure most people think of me as a dork for not marinating before but well I also never planned meals in advance before either.
I bought that after WLS cookbook on Amazon, I have tried several things in it, the Asian turkey cabbage wraps are my fav! They taste just like the chinese restaurant, but are healthy! I also tried the tuna steaks with tarragon, and some other recipes that were good too.
I ordered Carbquik and love it, I made their chicken broccoli bake tonight and it was amazing, the whole family loved it! I have tried several things from eggface's site too, I love the bacon cheeseburger bites! I also love the pizzas made with tortilla shells. I am going to try making brownies or some pumpkin muffins or something sweet tomorrow.
For protein drinks I have mainly been drinking Pam's vanilla chai tea, I LOVE IT, I drink it at least twice a day, and really look forward to it (I also upped the protein in it by adding unflavored Unjury to it as well). I also like Cleopatra Nik's shakes, but the shakes seem to be harder for me to get down, the tea just is all around easier on me. If I get a sweet tooth in the evenings I try different shakes by Nik, I like the dreamsicle one a lot, and the peanut brittle one is pretty good too. I need to get more chocolate protein powder. I have switched to the Walmart brand instead of Unjury mainly for cost sake, but the vanila body fortress is MUCH better than vanilla Unjury taste wise.
As a side note I have still been having black stools, yeah I know gross poo and food in same blog post YUCK. But my hemoglobin is good and next week I have an upper GI with small bowel follow through, and an EGD scope to make sure I don't have ulcers, hernias, etc that may cause internal bleeding that would cause my stools to be black still. I have my fingers crossed that it is just the iron pills and diet changes.
