Kitchen Crazy

I am cooking, baking, thinking of new things to do or try all of the time. If I see a recipe I am interested in I start processing right away how/if I could make it WLS friendly.

But, what is making me most crazy, is the desire to try things I may have thought I didn't like pre-op, or have never tried.

Example -- I used to say I didn't like Zucchini, but honestly, until yesterday, I couldn't tell you what it tasted like. I made oven baked Zucchini chips, and ranch dip using greek yogurt...pretty tasty. I have a pepper in my fridge, I don't even know what to do with it, I do not care for green peppers, this one is yellow....I bought ingredients to make stuffed mushrooms, WLS friendly style, and the ONLY time I would have eaten a mushroom is on a Pizza before this.

I know one of the points of having surgery was to learn new eating habits...what I didn't know is I would gain new tastes, and preferences all together.

Try Eggface's recipes; she's got a lot of good ones online.

I find myself doing the same thing. Trying new things I never would of before surgery. I guess my mind is trying to branch out to widen my food choices to make up for the foods I normally would have that contained carbs. Its amazing how many dishes I made preop that were full of carbs. If you run into any good recipes you should share with the rest of us. Lol If you want, that is. Good luck.

I love to cook and mix it up with recipes all the time.  I was a happy Home Economics geek in high school.  I don't care for mushrooms but made pizzas recently using portebello mushrooms as the crust.  I'm going to try the lasagna recipe Nik posted using zucchini when my company leaves.  They are bodybuilders and eat a lot of meat so it is meat, meat and more meat this week.  My husband is happy with whatever I put on the table so I have a lot of fun in my kitchen.  Keep having FUN with food!

I am just the opposite and I can't really figure out why.  I have the same thing for breakfast every day and a variation of the same thing for lunch every day.  Dinner is usually chicken with salad, some kind of fish or shrimp with a vegie, or a soup.  I have no desire to try new things and I am very comfortable eating what is easy and what I'm familiar with.  I think I will have more of a desire to cook different dinners when my husband ends his crazy summer, work-till-nearly-dark, hours and we can eat dinner together.

Which is not to say I don't get all my protein, vitamins, etc.  I do.  I think i'm just in a "boring" stage where I don't really care all that much what I eat and eat because I have to.

How'd you make the zucchini chips? I'm making homemade hummus to take to a picnic on Sunday, those would go so well with it!

I sliced them thin, put them on parchment paper on a cookie sheet in the oven @ 180 for 2 hours or so. Dried them nicely with a little seasoning of garlic, italian seasoning and parmesean cheese. Yum!
 

Thanks!  I can't wait to try them!!!

Check out bariatric foodie aka Nik, I made her sausage and peppers recipe tonight. I have never been a fan of peppers and onions. I now love peppers and onions and this is one of my favorite recipes to make.