BunneyGirl

Well, I figure I need to cook us dinner right now anyway...so I make enough that we can have one meal and then the extra I put in vacuum packs and in the freezer they go! She is grateful and appreciative that I care enough to do it in advance...I like to cook anyway, but I'm not stepping foot in the kitchen in the weeks after my surgery.

Oh my goodness, hang in there! I forgot to look to see if you had the sleeve or another surgery. I cant imagine cooking for someone and feeling so ill yet starving also. Luckily, my family is used to me not cooking like I used before I had a full time + job. We only have two kids that live at home now. My older son came home on the deployment last time with home cooked food on his mind and he said, "Man, I am glad I was with the generation that got dinner every night" bless his heart! I still make an effort to cook for him when he is home on leave. I still get some long faces if they realize I am not cooking dinner some nights. The two seventeen year olds and my hubby know the drill now. They had to be re-trained, though. I still cook on the weekends and enjoy cooking for my family but I just dont have the time like I used to. Plus I can't really eat in the evnings ever since I had my gallbladder out because I get so miserable bloated (I know that is odd, you would think I would have lost weight but NOPE - I just eat my heavy meal in the mornings and taper off onto lighter foods during the day. Once in awhile I can watch them eat or go out to dinner and watch everyone else eat and that became easier over time after I forced myself to do it. Sometimes I have to mentally prepare myself and say "Ok, you can't eat this because you will regret it later." However, the difference is that you really are hungry and hardly able to get much down so I just cant imagine feeling nauseated and hungry but not hungry at the same time and cooking for someone else. It is funny how we figure out how so much love and socialization goes into food until we are caught at a point when we can't do it anymore.

I hope you feel better soon and I bet you will get to the point that you can still cook for your love, give yourself some time.

I see we are both short girls.

Before surgery earlier this week Monday 8/28, I made a roast with potatoes amd veggies in the crockpot so that the family would have leftovers for at least two days while I was in the hospital. Then I make chicken breast with cream of chicken soup in the crock pot. I strained the soup and put some away for myself. I left it up to them to decide what veggies they wanted. That lasted the rest of the week. They family is on their own today. Tomorrow i will make something that will last another few days, again probably in the crockpot like lasagna. It's going to be like this until I feel strong enough to cook without picking. Or when I am able to introduce solids.