Cookbook: Eating Well After Bariatric Surgery

One of the things that's kind of nerve wracking when you're considering bariatric surgery is the idea that you can't eat whatever you wanna any more. I've read or skimmed five different books by or about people who've had WLS, and I really like this one. It has "over 140" different recipes in all the usual categeories, including dessert, and all the ones I've read so far look really promising.

At the bottom of each recipe, there are serving portion suggestions listed for each type of surgery, based on where you are in the "process". Since I'm in the middle of the first two weeks, I'm still on liquids, so I started with the first soup recipe in the book (page 37 in the paperback edition): Bengali Chicken and Vegetable Soup.

I won't reprint the recipe here, since I'm not up for being sued for copyright infringement, but the soup calls for onion, garlic, ginger, cinnamon, herbs, chicken, chicken stock, cauliflower, broccoli and coconut milk. The recipe says for weeks 1-4 on the band, to puree half a cup. So, I added a little more water and zapped away with my hand blender. (If you don't have one of those, you've GOT to get one; it rocks!) Can you say YUM!? :) Really good, even pureed. I changed the recipe just a smidge, using chicken thigh meat instead of breast, and cilantro instead of parsley. Between the cilantro and the broccoli, the puree was NOT a particularly happy shade of green, but it WAS good. Yum!