Is This RNY Friendly?

I made a Butternut Squash and Pear Soup for my family tonight and it was absolutely delicious.  Is this soup friendly post RNY like during the puree stage or are the pears likely to do me in?

Here's the recipe....

• 4 tablespoons butter
• 2 medium onions, diced
• 1 medium butternut squash peeled, seeded and cut into 1-inch pieces
• 4 pears, peeled and chopped into roughly 1-inch pieces
• 1-quart low sodium chicken stock, or enough to cover
• 1 sprig rosemary
• Heavy cream (we just used a bit of milk)
• Ground black pepper

This recipe made a huge pot of soup, like humungous!

I guess it depends on what you consider RNY-friendly. The recipe you cited has about 180 carbs in it (give or take depending on whether you use heavy cream or milk - heavy cream actually has fewer carbs). So it depends on how many servings you can get out of it and whether you're planning to try to maintain your ketosis post-op for a while. If you can make it into 20 tiny little meals and eat it only once a day and avoid other carbs for the day than the carbs don't seem outrageous. What strikes me though, is that this isn't a 'protein first' sort of food, there is almost no protein in it at all. I guess you could experiment with the Unjury Chicken Stock protein or add unflavoured protein to it...

I'm still trying to learn to understand how carbs work - it's something I've tried to figure out for years and for some reason I just can't make it make sense!! 

Pat, just curious, what are you using to figure out the carb count? Is there a site that you can input what you are putting in a recipe and it will give you the nutrient count?

Yeah, I usually use http://nutritiondata.self.com/ and just put in the different ingredients and then just add it up. I haven't gotten my smart phone yet (keep meaning to get an iPhone!) so I'm not into myfitnesspal or anything like that yet.

I LOVE my fitnesspal I have been using it for almost a month now...GREAT app.

Answered my own question, found a recipe calculator. When I put in the this recipe, guess of course at some of the ingredients and measures it comes up at 34grams of carbs for 6 servings (this is without adding in any cream or milk). Protein is just 2.7 grams, fat is 8.6 grams and calories are 204. So I guess it depends on what you mean by RNY friendly. The protein is too low I think.

sounds like  dud!!!  lol

 I think that it's probably a healthy small side dish (and it sounds good!).  Protein first and a couple of spoonfuls of soup instead of a veggie would probably be good occasionally.  I really try not to eliminate things from my diet that are healthy and tasty like this, I just keep them in small quanitities so that I don't miss out on it.  What part of counting carbs are you confused with, maybe we can help?

I agree that it would be a good side dish. I put it in as 6 servings, considering it is a quart of liquid and all the pears and squash and onion it would probably be more like 8 or 10.