Creekimp13 5,840 Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/mason-jar-salads?utm_term=.iu9MzP7pQO#.fjMqE6XOap Bariatric patients look at these and think....would be nice, but WAY too much bulk there to eat.. And it's true...it's a lot of food for a bariatric patient. But if you're eating six small meals a day, it can be nice to have leftovers handy for the next little meal:) Also...you can make these geared a little more to the bariatric diet. Consider the following layers: Hummus Turkey bacon tuna salad Tofu Shrimp chicken breast Black Beans Chick peas Lowfat hard cheeses Cottage cheese Fetta cheese olives banana peppers Avacado chunks Sweet potato chunks Hard boiled eggs Yogurt Pickles Reduced fat reduced sodium salami (great in greek salad!) Protein Pasta (made of chick peas, lentils, and whole wheat) Think of all of your favorites. Include some fruits. A few raspberries, peach slices, fresh apple chunks, pineapple, blueberries Some nice finely diced veggies like peppers, cukes, tomatoes, mushrooms, brocolli bits, onion, fresh herbs Make homemade dressings with low sugar and fat Oh! and if the idea of carrying glass jars around scares you....consider stopping at Gordon's food service and picking up tall plastic deli containers. You can get 50 containers and lids for under ten bucks. The more variety you're including in your diet....the more diverse your gut microbiota will be. Diverse gut bugs are correlated with better weight loss during diet attempts. Switch it up. Get lots of Fiber in addition to meeting your protein goals. Get you some wonderful phytonutrients:) And enjoy flavor! Edited February 4, 2018 by Creekimp13 2 FluffyChix and sleeved2win reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sleeved2win 79 Posted February 4, 2018 https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/mason-jar-salads?utm_term=.iu9MzP7pQO#.fjMqE6XOap Bariatric patients look at these and think....would be nice, but WAY too much bulk there to eat.. And it's true...it's a lot of food for a bariatric patient. But if you're eating six small meals a day, it can be nice to have leftovers handy for the next little meal:) Also...you can make these geared a little more to the bariatric diet. Consider the following layers: Hummus Turkey bacon tuna salad Tofu Shrimp chicken breast Black Beans Chick peas Lowfat hard cheeses Cottage cheese Fetta cheese Olives banana peppers Avacado chunks Sweet potato chunks Hard boiled eggs Yogurt Pickles Reduced fat reduced sodium salami (great in greek salad!) Protein Pasta (made of chick peas, lentils, and whole wheat) Think of all of your favorites. Include some fruits. A few raspberries, peach slices, fresh apple chunks, pineapple, blueberries Some nice finely diced veggies like peppers, cukes, tomatoes, mushrooms, brocolli bits, onion, fresh herbs Make homemade dressings with low sugar and fat Oh! and if the idea of carrying glass jars around scares you....consider stopping at Gordon's food service and picking up tall plastic deli containers. You can get 50 containers and lids for under ten bucks. The more variety you're including in your diet....the more diverse your gut microbiota will be. Diverse gut bugs are correlated with better weight loss during diet attempts. Switch it up. Get lots of Fiber in addition to meeting your Protein goals. Get you some wonderful phytonutrients:) And enjoy flavor!Smaller jars would work too. I love this idea. I'm a month out from my surgery and I can't wait to eat salad again. 2 cindi lafayette and Creekimp13 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creekimp13 5,840 Posted February 4, 2018 I am in salad heaven. I missed them so much. Like you, sleeved2win, I craved them terribly...and I wasn't disappointed when we reunited:) Best wishes on continued success. 1 sleeved2win reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Healthy_life2 8,324 Posted February 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Creekimp13 said: https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/mason-jar-salads?utm_term=.iu9MzP7pQO#.fjMqE6XOap Bariatric patients look at these and think....would be nice, but WAY too much bulk there to eat.. And it's true...it's a lot of food for a bariatric patient. But if you're eating six small meals a day, it can be nice to have leftovers handy for the next little meal:) Also...you can make these geared a little more to the bariatric diet. Consider the following layers: Hummus Turkey bacon tuna salad Tofu Shrimp chicken breast Black Beans Chick peas Lowfat hard cheeses Cottage cheese Fetta cheese olives banana peppers Avacado chunks Sweet potato chunks Hard boiled eggs Yogurt Pickles Reduced fat reduced sodium salami (great in greek salad!) Protein Pasta (made of chick peas, lentils, and whole wheat) Think of all of your favorites. Include some fruits. A few raspberries, peach slices, fresh apple chunks, pineapple, blueberries Some nice finely diced veggies like peppers, cukes, tomatoes, mushrooms, brocolli bits, onion, fresh herbs Make homemade dressings with low sugar and fat Oh! and if the idea of carrying glass jars around scares you....consider stopping at Gordon's food service and picking up tall plastic deli containers. You can get 50 containers and lids for under ten bucks. The more variety you're including in your diet....the more diverse your gut microbiota will be. Diverse gut bugs are correlated with better weight loss during diet attempts. Switch it up. Get lots of Fiber in addition to meeting your Protein goals. Get you some wonderful phytonutrients:) And enjoy flavor! Warm heat up meals would be nice. 1 sleeved2win reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creekimp13 5,840 Posted February 4, 2018 You could easily do warm stuff, too:) Think of the different kinds of chili alone! Ground turkey, lean beef, white chicken, tofu, sweet cactus...you could put up batches of chili in little to go containers in the freezer and zap them anywhere you can find a microwave. You could do stir fry with brown rice... You could do a half a cup of protien Pasta with a couple of nice meat balls and sauce. You could do lean meats with sweet potato and green Beans. So many kinds of Soup would travel well like this. You could do all sorts of take along hot meals. Brilliant, Jenn:) 1 sleeved2win reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Healthy_life2 8,324 Posted February 4, 2018 36 minutes ago, Creekimp13 said: You could easily do warm stuff, too:) Think of the different kinds of chili alone! Ground turkey, lean beef, white chicken, tofu, sweet cactus...you could put up batches of chili in little to go containers in the freezer and zap them anywhere you can find a microwave. You could do stir fry with brown rice... You could do a half a cup of protien Pasta with a couple of nice meat balls and sauce. You could do lean meats with sweet potato and green Beans. So many kinds of Soup would travel well like this. You could do all sorts of take along hot meals. Brilliant, Jenn:) Ok...Stop your making me hungry! 1 Creekimp13 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sleeved2win 79 Posted February 5, 2018 I am in salad heaven. I missed them so much. Like you, sleeved2win, I craved them terribly...and I wasn't disappointed when we reunited:) Best wishes on continued success.Thanks girl! We'll have to swap some salad jar recipes in a month!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
