BariatricEating.com Health & Nutrition
The Well Stocked Post-Op Pantry
The following is a list of staples that ideally should be kept on hand for clean bariatric eating that your family will love. If these were the only things in your kitchen, you’d be able to make many excellent dishes.
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live without!
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Soups and Canned Goods
Beans (kidney, pinto, black, refried, etc)
Black Olives
Progresso Lentil, Minestrone, Black Bean, French Onion soups (varieties
that don’t feature pasta or rice)
Libby’s Pure Pumpkin
Lite Coconut Milk
Evaporated Skim Milk
Chef's Cut or Diced Tomatoes
Packaged Foods and Cookies
Jell-O Sugar-free Instant Pudding Mix
Jell-O Sugar Free Gelatin
Jell-O Sugar Free Pudding Snacks (the new Rice Pudding is tasty!)
Kozy Shack No Sugar Added Rice Pudding & Tapioca Pudding
Murray Sugar Free Cookies
Pepperidge Farms Sugar Free Milano Cookies
Voortmann Sugar Free Cookies
Progresso Italian flavored Panko Breadcrumbs
Beverages
Aquafina & Dasani flavored water,
FUSE, Sugar Free
Glaceau Fruit Water
SoBe, Sugar Free
Splenda Sweetened Ocean Spray Cranberry
Crystal Light, Wyler’s, Lipton, Arizona - sugar-free powdered drink
mixes -
Swiss Miss Sugar Free Hot Cocoa Mix
Sauces, Dressings ,Condiments, and Spreads
Balsamic Vinegar
BellyCheer BBQ Sauce
Bottled salad dressings (Maries Creamy Garlic, Newman’s Own Raspberry
Walnut Vinaigrette or Caesar)
Soy sauce
Chicken & Beef broth (in closable juice box-type containers)
DaVinci sugar-free syrups (German Chocolate Cake, Caramel, Malibu Rum,
Raspberry)
Frank’s Wing Sauce
Mayonnaise (Hellman’s Light)
Olive Oil
Pasta sauce (Gia Russa Spicy Sicilian or Classico Marinara)
Peanut Butter
Pickles (Mount Olive Splenda Sweetened, and/or Dill)
Salsa (*Frontera, Newman’s Own)
Sesame Seed Oil
Rice Wine Vinegar
Nature's Hollow sugar-free jam/jelly
Tabasco sauce
Mustards – spicy brown, whole seed, NOT honey mustard
Cereals
Special K protein cereal
Quaker Weight Control Oatmeal packets
Kay’s Naturals Protein Cereal
Meat & Seafood
Canned tuna in water
Pouch tuna and salmon
Boar’s Head Deli sliced turkey
Boar’s Head Deli sliced ham
Pre-cooked Rotisserie Chicken
Bacon (regular or turkey)
Chicken breast, skinless, boneless - Perdue Fit & Easy Chicken Breasts
are individually wrapped
Chicken thighs, skinless boneless
Ground chicken breast - fresh
Turkey Tenderloins
Turkey Burger Patties - fresh
Turkey Breast, ground - fresh
Turkey Pepperoni
Salmon filets – fresh or frozen
Scallops
Shrimp – fresh or frozen
Tilapia filets – fresh or frozen
Flounder filets – fresh or frozen
Crab – lump crab (Costco has superb real crabmeat - imitation crab
has carbs and often sugar)
Meatballs (Celantano, prepared frozen Italian style)
Vegetables
Baby salad greens
Butternut squash (winter squash)
Carrots
Frozen Stouffer’s Creamed Spinach
Frozen steam-in-bag vegetables – Birds Eye Garlic Cauliflower, Broccoli,
Mixed Vegetables
Garlic
Lemons
Onions
Romaine lettuce
Scallions
Tomatoes – Roma, grape, and cherry tomatoes
Zucchini and Yellow squash (summer squash)
Fruits
Applesauce, homemade no-sugar-added - Mott's Healthy Harvest
Blackberries
Frozen fruit with no added sugar - strawberries, mixed berries, blueberries,
blackberries, raspberries
Honeydew Melon
Libby’s Splenda sweetened canned pineapple
Libby’s Splenda sweetened canned mandarin oranges
Libby’s Splenda sweetened canned tropical fruit salad
Strawberries
Watermelon
Dairy and Eggs
Butter
Cheese, Low Fat (cheddar, mozzarella, Muenster, Swiss)
Coffee-Mate Sugar Free French Vanilla or Hazelnut (powdered creamer)
Cool Whip, Sugar Free (in the freezer aisle)
Cottage cheese, low fat
Cream cheese, reduced fat
Dannon Light & Fit Smoothies
Half & Half (fat-free)
Laughing Cow Cheese Wedges
Eggs
Egg Beaters
Mozzarella string cheese
Parmesan cheese (usually found in the pasta aisle or buy a wedge and grate
your own!)
Reddi-Wipp, light whipped cream
Ricotta, part-skim
Skim Milk
Sour cream, reduced fat
Yogurt - Yoplait Light, Dannon Light & Fit, Weight Watchers, Fage
Total 0% Greek Yogurt
Soy Slender – Splenda sweetened soy milk, Vanilla, Chocolate, and
Cappuccino flavors (located with the non-refrigerated soymilks)
Almond Breeze non-dairy beverage, Unsweetened Vanilla and Unsweetened
Chocolate (located with the non-refrigerated soymilks)
Baking Items and Spices
Black pepper
Chili powder
Cinnamon
Kosher salt
Nutmeg, whole
Sesame Seeds
Oregano
Taco seasoning
Vanilla extract
Almond flour
Baking powder
Baking soda
Cornstarch
Nature Sweet Crystals, Powdered
Susan Maria’s Cancun Chili Blend
Quaker Oats, Old Fashioned
Splenda Granular
All-Purpose flour
Unsweetened cocoa
