Post Weight Loss Surgery Menus: A day in my pouch

A day in my pouch is a series of blog posts to show what a typical daily menu looks like in my post weight loss surgery world. Yesterday's healthy and delicious menu...

Breakfast: This weekend about the only thing I accomplished with a gnarly 2 day migraine and a sore finger (trapped it in a door) was baking a batch of these Mini Apple Breakfast Loaves. I've been having them for breakfast this week, I froze a few and will defrost them for an easy breakfast next week and I sent one over to my neighbor with a tin of Caramel Apple Tea as a Happy Fall treat.

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Shelly's Mini Apple Breakfast Loaf

1/2 cup Spelt Flour
1/2 cup Coconut Flour
1/2 cup Oatmeal, dry
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 1/2 teaspoons Apple Pie Spice
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 cup "Stuff" (Chopped Walnuts or Raisins or Cranberries or a Combo)
2 cups Apple, peeled and chopped (I used 2 Honeycrisps)
1/2 cup Sugar Free Caramel Torani Syrup
2 Eggs, beaten
1/2 cup Greek Yogurt (2% plain or flavored, whatever)

Preheat oven to 350. Mix all wet ingredients together and combine with dry ingredients.

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Divide equally among 8 mini loaf pans that have been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.

Sugar Free Weight Loss Surgery Gastric Bypass VSG Sleeve RNY WLS Recipes

Bake for 25 minutes or till knife inserted comes out clean. The house smells amazing as they are baking... very Fall. These are dense loaves so 1/2 is plenty for breakfast with a smear of almond butter or sugar free jam or my favorite with a dollop of ricotta cheese smeared on top and a drizzle of SF maple syrup.

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Lunch: I had to run some errands and I took my Mum to lunch at a local burger joint called Burger Lounge. It's the organic, grass fed yummy kind of burger place. I had mine wrapped in lettuce (no bun) with cheese, grilled onions and wild mushrooms. Yum...

Healthier Fast Food Options

FYI: Most burger places will wrap your burger in lettuce on request... all the fast food places, 5 Guys (sort of puts it on a pile of lettuce), In & Out (calls it protein-style.) I don't eat them often probably every 2 months or so but it's nice they will accommodate. Grab a knife and fork or prepare to get messy.

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Dinner: Costco sells this Basil Tilapia I love: Highliner Sea Cuisine Basil & Pesto Tilapia. You just toss it frozen on a foil lined baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes or so.

Seafood Fish Convenient Healthy Frozen Food

I chopped up some squash I bought at the Farmer's Market, drizzled it with a little olive oil, dash of Kosher salt and pepper and roasted it at the same time & 425 temp the fish cooked. When it was done I sprinkled it with a little Parmesan. Delicious, quick and easy.

Farmers Market

Snacks: Coffee and when I came home from errands I made a protein shake.

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Shelly's Cherry Cookie Protein Shake

1 cup Milk (I used a combo of Almond and Soy)
1 scoop Double Stuffed Cookie Protein Powder
1/4 cup Frozen Cherries
1 Tablespoon Sugar Free Black Cherry (or Raspberry) Torani Syrup
a few cubes of Ice

Whiz on high in blender. I topped it with No Sugar Added Homemade Whipped Cream and a few nonpareils.

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