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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 7/19/10

Fish in Parchment Paper

Fish in parchment paper is absolutely one of my favorite ways to cook fish. It's simple, quick, and clean up is a breeze.

The parchment paper (or foil) forms a barrier around the fish and traps the heat inside the packet, which gently steams the fish.

This is a VERY healthy way to cook fish because it requires little fat, and you get perfectly cooked fish every time with minimal effort on your part.

Fish in parchment is a perfect weight loss surgery recipe as well as one your friends and family will love too.

You can always use aluminum foil in place of parchment paper.

While this recipe calls for salmon, feel free to use any fish of your choice.

Fish in Parchment Paper

Ingredients:

4 (4 ounce) wild salmon fillets
3 teaspoons olive oil
4 (12 inch) squares of parchment paper
1 blood orange, sliced into rounds
1 lemon, sliced into rounds
1 lime, sliced into rounds
1 bunch fresh dill weed
1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Brush each piece of salmon on both sides with a light coating of olive oil. Fold each sheet of parchment in half and use scissors to round out the corners so that it is almost a circle. Open the sheets back up.
Place the salmon fillets skin side down onto the center of each piece of parchment. Sprinkle with lemon pepper, then place a sprig of dill onto each fillet. Cover with one slice of orange, one slice of lemon and one slice of lime per serving. You may add more to taste. Lay another sprig or two of dill over the citrus slices.
Fold each piece of parchment up and over the fillets. Holding both edges of the parchment together, roll the edge down making several folds as you go until the fish fillets are tightly sealed in their packets. Place packets on a baking sheet.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until fish is able to be flaked with a fork. You may need to open one of the packets to check. To serve, place packets onto serving plates and use scissors to cut an X in the center, being careful not to cut the food.

Makes 4 servings. Per serving:
273 calories, 24 grams protein, 10 grams carbohydrate, 3 grams fiber, 16 grams healthy fat, 130 mg sodium

Variation: Top salmon with vegetables such as asparagus tips or sliced zucchini and carrots before sealing the parchment "pouch."

Recipe from allrecipes.com

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