Looking for the Bariatric Foodie Grand Prize post? Click here! So I didn’t invent Taco Soup. I just want to put that out there. I try my very best only to claim what I truly believe to be my own inventions (like I think Taco Casserole is all me…I had never heard of it before I made it…but I invite …

I know. Ok? I KNOW. I do. I know. Some of you live alone. Some of you have families who hear healthy and say “[BLEEP] no!” And so with many of my recipes you make them and you have a WHOLE lotta food left. What can I say? I blog my truth and my truth is that I’ve always had …

True fact: What you see above? I made in 20 minutes this morning while the kids were feeding the dog. And it will be my lunch probably for the entire week. This is the story of how a simple bag of frozen cauliflower became so much more… (By the way to all my Facebook Foodies, this is the take-out swap …

But first…have you checked the Bariatric Foodie Pledge Halftime Report? If you THINK you are in the running for the grand prize, you want to check it to make sure you’re on MY list. Go do it! This drink does not have protein. But then, all our drinks don’t have to! In the cold weather especially, a good low-cal drink …

Continuing my eternal love for eggs, I have two offerings this week. The above photo was the first I made, for breakfast on Saturday. It was so delicious that I felt COMPELLED to share it with my Facebook Foodies right then and there! So…you know how sometimes you end up with a really random amount of leftover taco meat? Like …

Now that we’re all settled with week two of the Bariatric Foodie Pledge, I thought we might talk about some…oh I dunno…food? Protein baked oatmeal! I like it. You guys seem to like it. But I LOVE it when a Foodie sends me their recipe! Here’s what India sent me. And bonus points for shouting out BF in her pictures! …

Play with your food. #PWYF This has been my mission since day one of this blog. To play with MY food. To encourage you to play with YOUR food. To build up a Foodie Nation of post-ops who are unafraid to embrace their love of food and translate their old favorites into new hits! I think this philosophy might be …

I seem to be the Queen of the overhead shot these days! If there is a list out there of these food commemoration days, can someone please point me to it??? Thankfully, if you use the handy search box to your right, you search any ingredient, dish, keyword your heart desires and if it’s on BF, the search box will …

Cheez-Its. They are my kryptonite. Can anyone relate? Baked cheese is not my invention but I appreciate it, as I do snacks like “Just the Cheese.” But…I’m a single mom with two kids, a dog and a cat to feed all on one meager salary so…sometimes a Foodie’s gotta do what a Foodie’s gotta do. So here’s how I get …

Do you have a default food? It seems to me that most weight loss surgery post-ops do. A default food is that food you’re almost always in the mood to eat, if all else fails. I have several. One of my default foods is eggs. But eggs aren’t the most portable food in the world, especially for our rearranged digestive …