Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook

Chapter 22

Ten Easy-to-Prepare Meals

Your Family Will Love

In This Chapter

▶ Making well-balanced meals to please the whole family

▶ Adjusting portion sizes for kids, adults, and weight loss surgery patients

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n this chapter you find some quick and easy meal ideas that are pleasing

to adults and kids alike. Each meal utilizes at least one recipe from this

book, and we provide guidelines for serving sizes for everyone.

If meal planning and eating together as a family is something new for you,

check out Part I.

Warming Up with Chili Pie

Chili is perfect on a cool fall night. Chili Pie is an easy dish to make for the family,

and the assembly makes it perfect for your family to take their own serving size.

To assemble Chili Pie, start by preparing Chef Dave’s Easy Savory Chili recipe

from Chapter 16. Take a small handful of baked tortilla chips and place them

in the bottom of a bowl. Add chili over the top, and top with low-fat cheddar

cheese and fat-free sour cream.

Menu:

✓ Chili Pie (Chef Dave’s Easy Savory Chili, Chapter 16)

✓ Green beans

✓ Mandarin oranges

See the following table for serving sizes: