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Creamy dip topped with nuts, scallions, and crispy onions, surrounded by sliced peppers and cucumbers.

Blue Cheese Dressing/Dip

Once you make this, you won't be able to eat the grocery store stuff from a shelf-stable bottle ever again. This is the ultimate Blue Cheese Dressing/Dip and it's actually GOOD for you. Greek yogurt is the key!

Strawberry spinach salad with feta, nuts, and dressing served on a light blue plate.

Roasted Strawberry Balsamic Dressing

The best salad you have ever tasted! Perfect Bariatric Eating when you add sliced rotisserie chicken.

Dill Pickle Ranch

Dill Pickle Ranch

Dill Pickle Ranch This can be a salad dressing, dip for veggies and Inspire Crisps or a spread for Inspire Flatbreads and deli meat wrapped in lettuce depending on how...
Glazed chicken drumsticks grilling over open flames on a barbecue.

BBQ Chicken - Homemade 5 Ingredient BBQ Sauce

Don't shoot yourself with super high sugar bottled bbq sauce! Here is one you can make on your own in minutes. Yummmmmm.
"Big Mac" in a Bowl

"Big Mac" in a Bowl

This recipe may remind you a lot of a certain burger you ate back in the days before your Bariatric surgery.
Fresh spinach and mixed greens salad topped with sliced strawberries on a decorative plate.

Strawberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

A few years ago we held a recipe contest and Carol Pinto created this recipe for salad dressing is so easy and so tasty that you won't be buying the bottled stuff again. This is one of the most popular recipes on our website.
Parmesan Chicken Salad with Creamy Italian Dressing

Parmesan Chicken Salad with Creamy Italian Dressing

I love salads but loathe bottled dressing. I think people use them because they do not realize just how easy it is to make your own Creamy Italian dressing to keep in the fridge.
Plate of chicken lettuce wraps with carrots, scallions, and dipping sauce arranged neatly on a light table.

Thai Peanut Sauce with Chicken Lettuce Cups

A perfect no cook, sweet and hot and snappy sauce to drizzle over grilled chicken filled lettuce cups.
A wedge of lettuce topped with creamy dressing, crispy bacon, sliced tomatoes, red onions, and chives sits on a white plate against a wooden background.

Buttermilk Wedge Salad

This salad makes any meal fancy. Perfect for a holiday meal alongside a slab of Prime Rib. Crisp and cool iceberg lettuce shines with the creamy rich dressing and a...
Bowl of tomato sauce with meatballs and a large scoop of ricotta cheese on the side.

Ricotta with Red Sauce

Ricotta is a creamy, slightly sweet, fresh cheese that is the smooth Italian cousin of cottage cheese. It can be a new post op's very best friend.

Glazed chicken drumsticks grilling over open flames.

Bariatric BBQ Tips: How to Navigate the Sauce and Slaw!

Getting an invite to a family or friends barbecue is always exciting, but when you have had bariatric surgery, the second thought is often about not being able to eat. There is hidden sugar in many summer dishes.

Thick red pasta sauce simmering in a pot with a wooden spoon coated in the rich, chunky mixture.

Tomato Basil Pasta Sauce

My Italian family has cooked this fresh tomato basil sauce for a hundred years. It's my favorite recipe and it has five ingredients! You'll never buy a jar of Prego again!
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