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Glass baking dish filled with cheesy tomato and vegetable casserole topped with herbs.

Baked Eggplant Parm

The slices of eggplant are roasted to layer with cheese and marinara sauce for a bake while the meat is on the grill.
Grilled vegetables including peppers, eggplant, zucchini and onions served with arugula on a wooden board.

Grilled Vegetable Platter

This one is Bariatric Friendly and Super Easy!

Stack of zucchini fritters on a plate with sliced red and yellow tomatoes and fresh herbs.

Zucchini Pancakes with Ranch Dressing

I am Italian and love love love zucchini! You are going to love it too when you taste this recipe.

A bowl of creamy spinach with a smooth, rich sauce, served in a white dish on a light wooden surface.

Parmesan Creamed Spinach

Even those who say they don't like Spinach - this stuff is lick the plate good. If you are going to eat carbs, make them the vegetable kind. Use bites of this delicious dish to moisten your bites of turkey: a trick of bariatric eating.

Bowl of creamy mashed potatoes topped with chopped chives on a rustic cloth.

Faux Mashed 'Potatoes' - Cauliflower Mash

We are not going to really fool anyone, but this is a delicious dish in its own right! Our Cauliflower Mash is buttery and has the perfect texture. Yum.

A baked dish topped with golden, melted cheese in a blue-rimmed ceramic bowl.

Baked Cauliflower 'Mac & Cheese'

What we LOVE about Mac & Cheese is the creamy cheesy sauce!
Baked sweet potato with its skin split open to reveal the soft orange flesh inside.

Roasted Sweet Potato

When you simply roast a sweet potato until softened, the outside skin separates from the bright orange inside that turns soft and sweet with a caramelized flavor. It is superb for Holiday Dinners. Plain. Jane. Sweet. Potato.

Small dish of savory baked batter topped with sour cream, bacon bits, and chopped green onions on a white plate.

Loaded Twice Baked 'Potatoes', perfect with Prime Rib

Fully loaded with all the right flavors of 'sour cream', bacon, cheddar and scallions, this simple dish will be the first to disappear at your family table. THIS is what bariatric eating is all about - making a delicious dish that is easy for you to eat that the family will also LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Baked cornbread stuffing with sausage, apples, onions, and herbs in a red casserole dish.

Aunt Gail's Italian Sausage & Apple Lower Carb Stuffing

The best stuffing you will ever eat. Excellent combination of flavors and textures that is lower in carbs as well. If I am going to choose ONE carb to eat at a holiday meal this is the one that is pouch worthy.

A baked dish with a golden, cheesy top is garnished with fresh herbs, surrounded by fresh vegetables on a wooden table.

Summer Squash Casserole, Cheesy Baked Perfection!

Your family will love a big scoop of this on their plate next to the roasted chicken thigh or pork chop. Avoid blurting out that its a vegetable casserole, or they may stop eating it!
Sugar Free Bread and Butter Pickles

Sugar Free Bread and Butter Pickles

I bought a few Italian glass jars from Amazon, added a bag of organic salad cucumbers, vinegar and pickling spices to my Walmart Grocery Pick Up order and I was suddenly in the Pickle Business.
Bowl of baked beans in rich sauce topped with chopped chives.

Boston Style Baked Beans

Rich with tomato and molasses - good old fashioned New England style baked beans. Delicious with a backyard burger!

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