DS foods you can't live without

[catecholamine]

I'm just curious, what do you eat the most? What is your favorite or most often eaten DS-friendly food.

I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking deep fried chicken wings (no breading) will be on my list. You can do a lot with them, they're moist, and you can have small portions. If your tummy can handle it, wings with a margarine+Frank's Red Hot Sauce mixture has zero carbs, just like the wing itself. You can make all kinds of wings...there are tons of recipes online, the possibilities are endless. You can use a low-sugar bbq or teriyaki sauce, lemon parmesan, so on and so on.

 

[southernlady]

Now remember, dh and I are 3 years out...
Pork chops, pork roast, pulled pork, BACON, sausage

 

[MsVee]

Cheese. All types. I love cheese.

MsVee

 

[Joanne]

I use MyFitnessPal, and chuckle to myself when I read my most common foods. Here are my top ten it shows.

-Half and Half
-Butter
-Brie Cheese
-Almonds
-Cheddar cheese
-Fage
-Ham
-Eggs
-Olive Oil
-Steel cut oatmeal*

*not if you watch carbs

 

[shann]

butter, cheese, eggs, rotisserie chicken (the only kind I can eat because of moistness), STEAK

I eat LOTS of soups & crockpot meals because gravies are good for me.

 

[Jo777]

Ok, I'm the oddball VSGer.. I love chicken wings!

My favs in order of volume eaten:
eggs
avocados
Chicken/steak/meat of any critter/shrimp/etc, venison.. I am a carnivore at heart
cheese
full fat greek yogurt
cream cheese
veggies
butter
coffee

I have yet to meet anything I will not try to eat once.. nothing disagrees with me, but real ice cream. I can share a good scoop with Todd, but I DO dump on too much sugar and fat combined.. Fuck those that claim VSGers don't dump. I dumped on rare occasion as a pre-op, same symptoms, less often now, but still.. too much too rich=hell for 30-60mins.

 

[Happy DSr]

shrimp! In a BIG way

 

[Happy DSr]

and sashimi. Pure protein. Of course a little nigiri and maki on the side, with soy, wasabi and ginger. Yum

 

[Tabitha]

Meat. Recently ham, with the fat fried up with an egg on top. Divine.

 

[Cello]

- Cheese in all it's amazing varieties. There is in fact a cheese for every occasion.
- Microwave pizzaish - really thick slices of mozzarella - filling a dessert or salad size plate, tablespoonish of trader joe's pizza sauce, parmesan cheese, pepperoni or crisp bacon.. nuke til bubbling. yum.
- Fage yogurt (2% cuz it's what I can get) mixed with heavy cream and Torani SF Strawberry Syrup. -- it's strawberries and cream yogurt. (add some home made granola for a treat... double yum)
- Shrimp
- Egg salad
- Tuna salad
- Torani Sugar Free Syrups . I have about 20 flavors. Oh how I love them!
- Hard Salami & Scrambled Eggs.
- Lump crab meat - dipped in melted butter and Old Bay Seasoning

 

[Tabitha]

Cello, where do you get the Torani SF syrups? I can only find the vanilla and caramel locally. I want to try more, but where I saw them online, they can be pricey.

 

[ProteinSnob]

I know that World Market has a pretty good selection of the Torani SF syrups. At least the ones close to me do.

I have been enjoying reading through this thread and look forward to joining you guys at some point. I love most cheeses, except I just can't seem to bring myself to like Blue Cheese. Maybe I haven't found the right recipe yet.

I LOVE to cook. Love it. Especially anything from Ina Garten/Barefoot Contessa or Julia Child. I will probably be posting some favorite recipes soon, especially because browsing recipes seems to be a good way to make myself try to eat these days. Plus, everything has changed with the conversion of the RNY to a DS.

RNY meant that I spent over a decade eating a very low calorie, low sugar, low carb, low fat diet. I ate very "healthy" for such a fat person, in that I followed those guidelines. It was difficult, however, to eat "clean" & real foods. I also couldn't handle most meat proteins. I really missed being able to eat with my family, to whom I do not like to serve a lot of "fake" food (Laughing Cow cheese, Cool Whip, Splenda, etc.)

One of my favorite snacks was fresh strawberries with Splenda, balsamic vinegar, and Cool Whip. Now I will get to make that with real whipped cream and can't wait! Sorry for the book. Can you tell I miss eating!?

 

[Cello]

Cello, where do you get the Torani SF syrups? I can only find the vanilla and caramel locally. I want to try more, but where I saw them online, they can be pricey.

Two places:
1) Locally at Cost Plus World Market. They had a sale in December $5.99 each for the full size ones.
2) Online at netrition.com (look for coupon codes, free shipping if you do all your shopping at once, another discount for joining their email list, etc.). Worked out to $7-$8 each.

OK, so I went a little (a lot) crazy buying more flavors than anybody needs but they just work so well for me, I wanted to experiment (a trip to Cost Plus plus a big box of Torani syrups from netrition was my Xmas present to me.. and I was sooo excited when it came -- pumps and everything -- I know, some girls like jewelry...).

You could always do this in a less extreme, a flavor or two (or three) from Cost Plus sorta way, right? Wasn't it juuuust your birthday? Just sayin...

 

[Cello]

One of my favorite snacks was fresh strawberries with Splenda, balsamic vinegar, and Cool Whip. Now I will get to make that with real whipped cream and can't wait! Sorry for the book. Can you tell I miss eating!?

Boy do I know THAT feeling. After my revision in March of 2012, it took until the last few months to be able to actually compile a list of things I like to eat and can tolerate. I was pretty excited to participate in this thread and it was an odd sort of NSV to even have a list of things that work now. All that to say, until very recently, I really missed eating too. I still feel like my brain is sorting through massive stores of deprivation to reconnect synapses and hover in the neighborhood of the new normal.

The whole time I couldn't eat much successfully, I was o-b-s-e-s-s-e-d with Food Network offerings. They call it food porn for a reason.

 

[shann]

Things absolutely change too. If they don't work at first, just keep them in your mind and try them again in a few months. I couldn't eat shrimp at all for months, but eventually it became something easy for me to eat.