Re: Is this good or bad?

August 15, 2006

I eat Hormel Turkey Chili mixed with FF refried beans and a litle

cheddar cheese.It is great!!!

Kim

RNY 6/23/06

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>

> Hi H.,

>

> I eat Hormel Turkey chili because it is a good source of protein

and easy to make when I don't have other food in the house. It

actually was on my suggested list of foods during the pureed stage.

>

> in Virginia

> 299/239/150

> Lap RNY: 5/3/06

> Is this good or bad?

>

> I am still having trouble getting ALL my proteins in, but my

doctor

> says to increase it just a little at a time and it will come.

> My husband and I usually eat at home, but we do socialize a lot

with

> our church group and other family gatherings, so I have to really

> think of things that I can have when out on the gatherings. The

last

> two which one was Wednesday of last week and this Sunday, the

main

> thing offered was .....hot dogs which I have never been a real

fan of

> anyway, so I go on a search to see what in the pot I can have.

The

> only think I come up with is a spoon of the chilli and of the

baked

> beans. I know that baked beans have brown sugar in them, but that

> sugar content is not the same as regular sugar and I was able to

> handle that really well, and it was only a spoon full. I am just

> wondering if the chilli and beans are an off limits thing? They

seem

> to do well with me, or should I say I did well with them, which

lately

> anything that I can keep down is a good thing. I am just

wondering if

> those are an ok thing?

>

> H.

>

August 16, 2006

,

I don't really buy in bulk. My ex-wife has done me right in a few

MINOR areas. She's included me in her company's Costco and Sam's club

cards. Hmm, she's changing jobs now so I wonder if that gravy train

is gone. Anyway, most of my shopping is Dutch rather than bulk.

What's that?

I check all the ad circulars (online usually) and sometimes some

coupon sites and stuff. Then I just buy a LOT at a time. This helps

with stores like Meijer that issue rain checks. I live about 20

minutes from about a dozen Meijer stores now so if I feel like

investing a day in shopping and Meijer is doing a poor job of

stocking I can still get quite a lot of a particular sale item, a lot

of rain checks and still come out ahead even with $3/gal gas.

I don't know any bulk/wholesale stores that sell Hormel Chili but

you've got me thinking. I'm going to send some emails off today

and/or make some phone calls. Meijer did have a sale on Hormel a

month ago. It was buy 10 for $10 get the 11th can free. I stupidly

did not exploit this very well. Let's see them try that again though.

I've found different Meijer stores have it at different prices.

Anywhere from $1.34-$1.57. Strange.

I sometimes put a little grated low-fat parmesan cheese on it, which

I'm sure adds to the sodium. I love onions but for some weird reason

haven't added any yet. I suppose maybe I'm trying to be some can,

bowl, and microwave, and then eat purist or something. Hey I'm a

bachelor, sue me. My kids don't like onions anyway. I think the next

time I make some I'm going to do some onions and some hot sauce too.

I do buy Costco beef jerky in bulk. http://www.oberto.com is the

brand. They have it for about half the price of Meijer. I tend to eat

quite a lot of it. Does it ever go bad? It travels well (doesn't

really make a mess, gets past security at events, etc.). Even in bulk

it's sort of expensive but it is filling and I like it as do my kids.

I at least THINK I save a lot of money. Rain checks are great as I

use them often. For some reason I'm able to keep them straight in my

head too (as to what I have). I need to start keeping them in a small

folder in my car though so I have them when I'm shopping as I've

forgotten to bring them with sometimes even when I put them on my

list. Always shop with a list.

http://www.hormel.com/brands/brandview3.asp?id=710 I love how they

have instructions on how to make it.

> >

> > Hi H.,

> >

> > I eat Hormel Turkey chili because it is a good source of

protein

> and easy to make when I don't have other food in the house. It

> actually was on my suggested list of foods during the pureed

stage.

> >

> > in Virginia

> > 299/239/150

> > Lap RNY: 5/3/06

> >

> .

>

August 16, 2006

I love Hormel chili but I didn't think it would be allowed. I couldn't

have it when I was on a low carb diet because of the carbs so I

thought it would be a no-no for WLS as well.

I'm happy to hear I can still have chili and refried beans. I love

mexican food, so I'll have to give up chips, rice and tortillas

(except for tiny bites), but not everything!

I know where Mike is coming from on shopping at Meijer. I have about 8

bags each of frozen chicken breasts and fish filets from their Buy 1

get 1 free sales. I have the female gene that says if it is on sale, I

must buy it. I had to fight off the urge to buy more chicken and fish

today because it was on sale even though I don't need it. It'll really

be hard to get used to shopping when I'm eating only a fraction of

what I eat now.

in Howell

> > >

> > > Hi H.,

> > >

> > > I eat Hormel Turkey chili because it is a good source of

> protein

> > and easy to make when I don't have other food in the house. It

> > actually was on my suggested list of foods during the pureed

> stage.

> > >

> > > in Virginia

> > > 299/239/150

> > > Lap RNY: 5/3/06

> > >

> > .

> >

August 16, 2006

Amen to the chicken breasts! I've got something like 5 bags in my

chest freezer. Here's a dilema, this past Saturday they had shrimp on

sale buy one bag get two bags free. That's a savings of $20 or

something. I can't go buying those though because one bag of shrimp

lasts me a whole week and that's dinner every night to get it gone

before it spoils.

Then I've got to down two more bags? I don't think so. The stuff ends

up going bad even in the freezer after a couple months. Actually if

you have some garlic or scampi receipes for shrimp I'd really

appreciate it. I suppose I could look it up online but maybe someone

has a good one?

Just make sure you don't get the chili with beans to avoid carbs.

Really bean carbs aren't all that bad though. My dietician and I sit

around and chat about how carbs aren't bad, only bad carbs are bad.

Fresh fruit, starchy vegies, whole grains, etc. all good in moderate

quantities. We laugh about a friend of mine five years ago who was

big into the Atkins diet. He actually tried to convince me that

lettuce had too many carbs in it and would keep you from acheiving

Ketosis. RIGGGHHHT....I should have gotten that in writing or on

tape. He cracked me up for a week with that one.

I like taking 3 chicken breasts, putting them in a crock pot with

some bbq sauce and letting that go for a few hours. Be careful that

you don't cook it too long and dry it out. Dried Chicken is the Devil

to the pouch.

I've heard from others and can attest myself that shopping is

probably just as hard to get used to changing as eating. With eating

you just throw up and learn the hard way to slow down. With shopping

you find yourself with food going bad all the time. I try to redirect

my shopping impulses to buying non perishables like canned food,

dried food, health and beauty (I've a got a drawer full of bar soap

and anti-perspirant from a sale).

It's hard...good luck!

Mike in GR

> > > >

> > > > Hi H.,

> > > >

> > > > I eat Hormel Turkey chili because it is a good source of

> > protein

> > > and easy to make when I don't have other food in the house.

It

> > > actually was on my suggested list of foods during the pureed

> > stage.

> > > >

> > > > in Virginia

> > > > 299/239/150

> > > > Lap RNY: 5/3/06

> > > >

> > > .

> > >

August 17, 2006

Can you eat an entire chicken breast after WLS, at least fairly early

on? I'm wondering if the tenders would be better from a portion

standpoint. I really know what you mean about the shrimp. I keep

throwing it away or trying to eat it freezer burned. I cook my chicken

and fish (I love the tilapia and it's on sale!!) on a Foreman grill.

Sometimes I overdo it and get chicken or fish jerky. I guess I'll have

to be better about that or I'll hurl!

I did the Atkins, but I wasn't that insane over it. I was about 20g or

less per day for about 6 months. I lost 80 pounds but gained 40 back

as soon as I went back to " normal " eating. At least I stabilized and

didn't keep gaining.

My PCP sent me to a regular nutritionist who chewed me out for doing

low carb. You'll love this.......she said my brain needed more glucose

than that provided and that I was going to pass out while driving and

kill someone....LOL! What a moron. I told her that I knew that the

body could make glucose from fat stores. She agreed but said it was

not as efficient. Well, isn't that how we burn fat, by not providing

our body what it needs so it has to go elsewhere. Just to show you

that all nutritionists are not created equal. Luckily the bariatric

nutritionist told me pretty much the same things I've been reading in

the forums.

> > > > >

> > > > > Hi H.,

> > > > >

> > > > > I eat Hormel Turkey chili because it is a good source of

> > > protein

> > > > and easy to make when I don't have other food in the house.

> It

> > > > actually was on my suggested list of foods during the pureed

> > > stage.

> > > > >

> > > > > in Virginia

> > > > > 299/239/150

> > > > > Lap RNY: 5/3/06

> > > > >

> > > > .

> > > >

August 17, 2006

,

I'm not sure exactly when I could eat a whole breast. Actually I

think I can pretty much do two now if they're not accompanied by

cheese. Even with some veggies. Basically a normal meal.

I would think a whole breast would be doable at 3 months. Before that

purchasing the tenders would be good and try for 1-2 of those. Heck

even now I still like the tenders. Yeah you don't want to get lazy

with the grill and burn your food. You have to watch that stuff in

the crock pot too because it can get desert dry.

I love the foreman grill for cooking that stuff on. I don't eat the

fish enough. My son will try it but doesn't really care for it. My

daughter repeatedly tells me she doesn't like things that live in the

water. Yeah, that'd better change.

I do think they might both at least tolerate salmon, which I love.

Granted that's a pretty pricey fish but it does sometimes go on sale.

It's one of the few proteins I've found that has a rational amount of

sodium in it too.

There are zealots in every field, even mine, IT. I tend to get a

little preachy on certain things too but I can let others do their

own thing and suffer the consequences as I laugh quietly out with

friends at dinner/bar.

Mike

> > > > > >

> > > > > > Hi H.,

> > > > > >

> > > > > > I eat Hormel Turkey chili because it is a good source

of

> > > > protein

> > > > > and easy to make when I don't have other food in the

house.

> > It

> > > > > actually was on my suggested list of foods during the

pureed

> > > > stage.

> > > > > >

> > > > > > in Virginia

> > > > > > 299/239/150

> > > > > > Lap RNY: 5/3/06

> > > > > >

> > > > > .

> > > > >

August 17, 2006

Not I. I can only eat about 1/4 if that.