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2 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

It is crazy! I wouldn't touch cottage cheese for 30 something years then all of a sudden (after surgery & after a hospitalization)I I'm buying it like it's ice cream, while ice cream is sitting in my freezer😂😂😂😂😥😥😥😥😎😎

Bahahahahaha! Well, I don't know, do you pimp out your ice cream with all the lovely healthy, beguiling stuff you put on your cottage cheese? ?? :) I want to rent your cottage cheese bowls by the hour they look so come-hither! :D But yeah, I totally get it! I'd rather have my cc/yog concoctions than a bowl of ice cream too. And it started the very day after surgery! It's not that I don't get cravings for behaving cravenly. It's just that for the most part, I truly desire clean food. Sounds and looks like you do too! Thanks for this thread girlie and for the inspirations!!

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Last night I tried cauliflower gnocchi and it so hit my gnocchi craving. It was the Trader Joe’s frozen gnocchi. I added cooked chicken breast some pesto, delicate squash and mushroom all topped with some fresh chèvre. I’m finally a convert to sheet tray cooking. Granted I now have enough food for like 6 meals but it was so tasty. I’ll take a pic for when I dive into the left overs...

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28 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Bahahahahaha! Well, I don't know, do you pimp out your ice cream with all the lovely healthy, beguiling stuff you put on your cottage cheese??? :) I want to rent your cottage cheese bowls by the hour they look so come-hither! :D But yeah, I totally get it! I'd rather have my cc/yog concoctions than a bowl of ice cream too. And it started the very day after surgery! It's not that I don't get cravings for behaving cravenly. It's just that for the most part, I truly desire clean food. Sounds and looks like you do too! Thanks for this thread girlie and for the inspirations!!

Hahaha, so funny @FluffyChix because Im so food lazy, I'm literally throwing things together before I fall out the door.

I truly never liked ice cream (cold aversion, to the point of hives) so that may have helped but I just want the best tasting foods and they seem to almost always be cleaner, purer ingredients IMHO ( @sillykittylike Gelato in italy... But I'm in no danger here lol) so once like kicked my sugar addiction for good , I found I could taste things better🎉

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16 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Just you wait until I move in!!!

You'll never have to worry about me stealing your green smoothies! The lamb leftovers would be in serious danger though! :lol:

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38 minutes ago, RHCD said:

Last night I tried cauliflower gnocchi and it so hit my gnocchi craving. It was the Trader Joe’s frozen gnocchi. I added cooked chicken breast some pesto, delicate squash and mushroom all topped with some fresh chèvre. I’m finally a convert to sheet tray cooking. Granted I now have enough food for like 6 meals but it was so tasty. I’ll take a pic for when I dive into the left overs...

Can't wait!

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52 minutes ago, RHCD said:

Last night I tried cauliflower gnocchi and it so hit my gnocchi craving. It was the Trader Joe’s frozen gnocchi. I added cooked chicken breast some pesto, delicate squash and mushroom all topped with some fresh chèvre. I’m finally a convert to sheet tray cooking. Granted I now have enough food for like 6 meals but it was so tasty. I’ll take a pic for when I dive into the left overs...

I have this in my freezer!

Honest though, how much like cauliflower does it taste like? I love Gnocchi, but hate cauliflower, so I'm wary!

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1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

So weird how we crave new stuff after the surgery. I ate rich food all weekend and felt truly AWFUL after every meal--like "I gotta lay down for a couple hours awful..." And now the only things that sound good today are things like lean white fish, shrimp, chicken broth, shrimp, white fish...lol...cauliflower rice. These are the only things I know I can eat that won't make me feel like I wanna hurl afterward!

This is not my experience, and I don't know if I'm grateful or resentful!

I can literally eat anything, nothing makes me feel ill, at all.

If I wasn't so embarrassed, I'd post my MFP log from last week when I was at a trade show. It was literal junk food for 3 days straight. I was 100% fine and loved every bite :unsure:

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On 10/17/2018 at 08:16, sillykitty said:





I have this in my freezer!




Honest though, how much like cauliflower does it taste like? I love Gnocchi, but hate cauliflower, so I'm wary!


Honestly not that much. Wayyy less than cauliflower Pizza Crust. The pesto helped too as it’s a strong flavor. I also made sure I ate a bite with something else (the squash, mushrooms, chèvre or chicken). And to be honest I had like maybe 5 of them in my entire meal as my focus was more chicken and veggies.

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2 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

This is not my experience, and I don't know if I'm grateful or resentful!

I can literally eat anything, nothing makes me feel ill, at all.

If I wasn't so embarrassed, I'd post my MFP log from last week when I was at a trade show. It was literal junk food for 3 days straight. I was 100% fine and loved every bite :unsure:

I need a "jealous" emoji!

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1 minute ago, RHCD said:

Honestly not that much. Wayyy less than cauliflower pizza crust. The pesto helped too as it’s a strong flavor. I also made sure I ate a bite with something else (the squash, mushrooms, chèvre or chicken). And to be honest I had like maybe 5 of them in my entire meal as my focus was more chicken and veggies.

Ok, good to know, thanks!

Maybe I'll actually be home at some point, and I won't be so scared of it. I'm still traumatized by the cauliflower rice I kept reading didn't taste like cauliflower. Lies!

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1 minute ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

I need a "jealous" emoji!

Definitely a double edge sword! In the middle of a self inflicted stall, not hard to understand why!

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Airplane food ....

Halibut on some spinach Pasta (Halibut was delicious! Totally shocking, lol!)

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I swear I know this is a Bariatric food forum, not Flyertalk :lol:. But when traveling, I rarely eat alone except at the airport or on the plane. Not like I can really take pics at a business dinner. And at home I only serve what I know I can eat, so I have no after pics.

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My Breakfast. It’s one egg and turkey sausage link mixed in. I’ve been really struggling with eating breakfast but my team is insisting I get better at it.

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8 minutes ago, Krista27 said:

My breakfast. It’s one egg and turkey sausage link mixed in. I’ve been really struggling with eating breakfast but my team is insisting I get better at it.

Looks delicious. Why is your team insistent on you eating breakfast though?

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