For me I just do one thing when collect the vegetables from grocery shop. I just clean them well before preparing for cooking. So that I can get protein from it.

I found thousands of bariatric recipes on Pinterest. It took me to bariatric blogs I never saw mentioned here or elsewhere, gave me ideas of an entire day's menu or week long menus, as well as planning menus that would work for the rest of my family (husband and daughters 14 and 17 who are not bariatric patients) but still be edible by me and not make me feel left out.

I don't post recipes or meal ideas here. I pin them to my post-surgery board in Pinterest.

It was a tool which was very useful for me in my early days.

I appreciate your efforts here. But I think you should do it slowly and take your time. This will be the best for you. Good luck!

I'd recommend asking. Some programs think tomatoes are too acidic. (I did tomato soup on liquids with no problem.)

So I'm on my last day of my 2 week preop diet. Do you think it is okay to have a homemade broth with watered down tomato juice and beef broth? It was cooked with veggies and beef, but I strained those out. My instructions say chicken, beef and vegetable broth, but didn't know if it was okay with the watered down tomato juice.