2 VSG friendly recipes---and more to come!

[My Sleeved Tummy 56]

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a couple recipes with you all. I posted a new recipe on my blog for Mexican spiced shrimp with black refried Beans.

There's also a link to my food blog which has a recipe for Indian Spiced Shrimp with Yogurt, garlic and cilantro dipping sauce--very VSG friendly!

You can check them out HERE.

I hope you like them! Just because we had weight loss surgery should not mean that we need to eat bland "diet" foods. I strongly feel that if we're happy with what we're eating, we're more likely to eat less, and continue losing our excess weight. I'm, personally, more likely to be satisfied with something I enjoy, rather than eating something I have to choke down...that still leaves me yearning for flavor.

I'm hoping to come up with all sorts of real food VSG friendly recipes in the near future.

[diekoi 43]

Awesome! This looks phenomenal! Gonna try it out once on solids

[Ljp 157]

Sounds great! I love shrimp.

[dltrautman1 27]

Cooked for the first time! Shrimp so awesome! Thanks.

[ArtSong 291]

You rock Ty

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[rdoactv 218]

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a couple recipes with you all. I posted a new recipe on my blog for Mexican spiced shrimp with black refried Beans.

There's also a link to my food blog which has a recipe for Indian Spiced Shrimp with Yogurt' date=' garlic and cilantro dipping sauce--very VSG friendly!

You can check them out HERE.

I hope you like them! Just because we had weight loss surgery should not mean that we need to eat bland "diet" foods. I strongly feel that if we're happy with what we're eating, we're more likely to eat less, and continue losing our excess weight. I'm, personally, more likely to be satisfied with something I enjoy, rather than eating something I have to choke down...that still leaves me yearning for flavor.

I'm hoping to come up with all sorts of real food VSG friendly recipes in the near future.

Now that I know, Ill have to chk out your blog sometimes. In your recipe you mention homemade taco seasoning. While I have ideas on spices, what do u use? Gotta try these shrimp! : )

[My Sleeved Tummy 56]

I use a spice mixture that I make ahead of time and store in a air-tight container. Every time I make it it's a little different, but usually it's something like this:

4 tablespoons chili powder

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (more or less depending on how spicy you like it)

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 tablespoon paprika

3 tablespoon ground cumin

1 tablespoon salt

1 tablespoon black pepper

If I'm making fajitas (this works wonderful for shrimp) I use something more like this:

• 1 lb fresh medium sized, wild caught shrimps (not previously cooked)
  
• 1 large shallot, finely diced
  
• 2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
  
• juice of half a lime
  
• zest of half a lime
  
• 1/2 tsp salt
  
• pepper
  
• 1 tsp. ground cumin powder
  
• 1 tsp. ground chipotle chile powder
  
• 2 tbsp. minced cilantro
  
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
  

You can see the fajita recipe on my blog (although, I haven't eaten the actual fajitas since surgery. Just the shrimp.)

http://myfancypantry.com/2012/03/13/shrimp-fajitas-without-the-funky-chemicals/