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Weight Loss Surgery Recipes
For Use with Gastric Band
and Gastric Sleeve Diets

If you're looking for healthy and delicious and easy weight loss surgery recipes, you've come to the right spot!

These post lap band diet recipes are appropriate for use with the gastric band diet and the gastric sleeve diet (and even with the gastric bypass diet unless otherwise noted).

this page so you can come back weekly to enjoy the recipe of the week.

See past weight loss surgery recipes.

Recipe of the Week 3/9/10

Pumpkin Hommus

This weeks recipe requires you to keep an OPEN MIND!

In case you don't know...

...hommus (also spelled hummous, hummus, humus, houmous, hommos, or hummos) is a middle eastern bean spread made from mashed chick peas (garbanzo beans).

Hummous is usually used as a dip for pita bread but it's also great for dipping raw veggies. Hommus can be used in place of other, usual condiments like catsup and mustard too.

Canned pumpkin (which is different than canned pumpkin pie filling) is super low in calories, is loaded with fiber, and is a great way to seemlessly add vegetables to your diet.

And I'm all about sneaking healthy foods into your diet (and the diet of your family) if necessary:

Sneaky Chef Recipes

Stealth Health

So why not combine 2 great foods for this pumpkin hummous recipe?!

It's a great recipe to use in the soft/mushy diet stage.

And...In the regular/solid diet stage:

Dip raw carrots, jicama, cherry tomatoes, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. in hummus.
Spread on turkey slices and roll up...yummy!
Spread on whole wheat crackers and top with sliced turkey, lean ham, or roast beef.
Spread on Doctor Kracker's Pumpkin Seed Cheddar Flatbread and top with sliced lowfat cheese.

Pumpkin Hommus Recipe

Ingredients:

1 15oz can pumpkin
1 15 oz can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
2 tbsp tahini
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 garlic clove

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth.

Makes 16 servings.

Per serving: 50 calories, 7 grams carbohydrate, 2 grams protein, 1.5 grams fat, 2 grams fiber

Shortcut: Quick Hummus Purchase a tub of prepared lowfat hummus and add 1 can pumpkin. Process in a food processor until ingredients are thoroughly mixed.

More Lap Band Weight Loss Surgery Recipes

HOW TO USE THESE WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY RECIPES

Meal Planning Tip # 1

Make a commitment to try one new recipe per week until you build up a repertoire of 9-10 meals that you LOVE and look forward to eating.

List all the recipes you love on a single sheet of paper, and title it your "Master List." Hang the Master List on your refrigerator so when you're stumped for menu ideas you can look at it to jar your memory.

Meal Planning Tip # 2

Continue to add to your Master List. Eventually you'll get bored of eating the same 9-10 recipes all the time (that's usually when comfort foods and/or old, bad habits start creeping back in).

Make a commitment to continue experimenting with new recipes on a regular, planned interval. This might mean trying a new recipe every other week or even once a month. It doesn't really matter...just keep trying new weight loss surgery recipes regularly and adding the ones you like to your Master List.

The larger your Master List becomes, the easier it will be to stick to your gastric lap band diet. That's because you'll have lots of gastric band recipes to choose from when you wonder, "What should I eat?!"

Past Weight Loss Surgery Recipes
(Some of these recipes will open in a new window at my other website Your Personal Nutrition Guide)

FISH/SEAFOOD

Cheesy Salmon Patties

Salmon with Mustard Dill Sauce