Yesterday was a drizzly, gloomy day here in Colorado so the boys and I headed to the library. I decided to see if there were any books out there about Lap-Band surgery and I stumbled upon a recipe book called Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery by Margaret M. Furtado and Lynette Shultz.
What I like about this book is that its full of easy, practical recipes that are designed for WLS patients. At the top of each recipe, there is a timeline as to when they recommend you eat this food post-op. They also include the full nutritional content of each recipe with an emphasis on calories, protein, and fat.
Last night I made one of their dinner recipes and it was a huge hit with the whole family! It was Lemon Barbecue Meatloaf and it was SO easy! I made asparagus to go with it and some baked sweet potato fries for the boys. I only ate about 3 oz. of the meatloaf, a few pieces of asparagus (my favorite veggies) and a couple of fries and I was totally satisfied! And I got almost 30g of protein!
Today I'm going to the grocery store to get stuff for some of the breakfast/lunch recipes from the book. I'm going to try their Turkey Tomato Spinach Wrap, Mushroom and Swiss Omlette, Turkey and Herbed Cream Cheese Wrap, Carrot Dill Muffins, and more!
My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
Have any of you stumbled upon an amazing resource for practical and yummy recipes for WLS patients? I'd love to get your input!
Nice!! I'm going to add this to my wishlist. I have a weakness for cookbooks, and almost all my healthy-recipe ones are in a box somewhere in my garage. I miss them, but I'm not unpacking a bazillion book boxes to try to find them yet!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an excellent book! Dinner last night sounds delish and packed with protein. Thanks for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool! Margaret Furtado is my nutritionist at Johns Hopkins. She is a rally nice woman and I've wondered how her book is, thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteI bought that book shortly after surgery and have made a lot of the recipes in it. None of the things I tried let me down!
ReplyDeleteI'm addicted to cookbooks. Is that possible? Thanks for this suggestion. I'm going to check it out.
ReplyDeleteRecently, I have made a few recipes from a book called "Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery" by Pat Levine (a writer for Gourmet Magazine). Here is a little blurb about the book...
ReplyDeleteIn April 2003 Patt Levine underwent “Lap-Band” gastric surgery....As a lifelong foodie, she was expecting the worst when her surgeon’s nutritionist handed her dietary guidelines to follow post-surgery, and she was right. With her decades of cooking skills, she immediately set out to devise low-fat dishes that would be just as delicious pureed and chopped as they would be served whole. As an added problem, she wanted to cook for her husband at the same time....
Thanks for the reccomendation. I will definitely have to look that one up!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. Not a great cook so need easy recipes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestion, Lynda! I saw that book on Amazon but my library doesn't have it. I'll have to check it out, for sure!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I had the Avocado Bacon Cream Cheese sandwich for dinner and it was DIVINE!! I can't wait to try one of the omlettes for breakfast!
Sounds great! I love cookbooks! I can't cook worth a hoot but I love cookbooks.
ReplyDeleteThat book has me puzzled!!! After WLS, I can't eat bread to save my soul. Perhaps the book is geared towards gastric bypass patients?
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