Recipes

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The Delicious & Simple Food you need for Life!

BE recipes are written to professional standards - many published in 'Before and After', the best selling bariatric book by founder Susan Maria Leach, nominated for 3 IACP culinary awards.

Susan Maria's Small & Happy Thanksgiving for Two. Stay Home! Be Thankful!

I have built a wonderful small meal for just Ty and I that doesn’t produce days of leftovers by choosing dishes that are easy to make in small amou...

Our Pandemic Thanksgiving. Dealing with the Disappointment.

Like so many others, I find disappointment in pulling the plug on the big Thanksgiving with our family and friends that we have been looking forwar...

3 Foolproof Tips for the Perfect WLS Thanksgiving!

That behavior now embarrasses me. Almost twenty years after bariatric surgery, we eat much cleaner and prefer simple fresh foods - like NORMAL people.

A 'Soft Food' Holiday Meal for your New Bariatric Life!

We know that many of our support group members schedule surgery at end of the year to use up health savings accounts and take advantage of insuranc...

Pumpkin Apple Butter- No Sugar Added

Smooth dark flavors of late Fall!

Pumpkin Cheesecake. Sugar Free.

Nothing says Thanksgiving like Pumpkin Cheesecake and this one just happens to be sugar free.

Pumpkin Whip - Sugar Free, No Bake, No Cook, Fluffy Spiced Holiday Goodness!

The BEST no cook recipe on the planet. A big bowl of fluffy pumpkin spiced mousse that tastes like it took substantial effort... super delish, supe...

Pumpkin Roll with Vanilla Cream Filling. Sugar Free.

Proudly add this Pumpkin Roll to the holiday dessert table but do not let anyone know it's sugar free and low in calories. Of course it's also Bari...

Pumpkin Custard. Sugar Free.

The Thanksgiving dish for a new Post Op or old Post Op or ANYONE for that matter. Just wonderful soft creamy pumpkin pie filling. Guild the lily wi...

Pumpkin Spice Bread- No Sugar Added

Bobby Flay provided the base recipe but I have reduced and swapped out the sugar and part of the flour. A super moist and really flavorful pumpkin ...

Our Famous Sugar Free Pumpkin Pie. To Crust, or not to Crust.

The recipes our grandma's used. No need to reinvent the wheel here folks. This is simple goodness at its best - Sugar Free Pumpkin Pie!

Old Fashioned No Sugar Apple Pie. Insanely Good.

The BEST No Sugar Apple on the Planet. Old Fashioned Apple Pie to serve to everyone who comes to Thanksgiving dinner at your home, or take to your ...