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Culinary Classics: Essentials of Cooking for the Gastric Bypass Patient

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This cook book is just what my doctor ordered! Low carb high protein dishes that actually taste amazing. Finally, a real cookbook for gastric bypass patients. I received my cookbook about a month ago and the recipes where not only great tasting but ingredient where easy to find (not like another book I just purchased). Chef David when is the next book coming out!!! You are the World's First Bariatric chef and this Cookbook is proof why!!!!!

David Fouts is an extraordinarily talented chef, and he proves it with these delicious, easy-to-make recipes. Because these recipes are so wonderful, bariatric patients will find themselves thanking the day they had gastric-bypass surgery. Who knew the best food came after gastric-bypass surgery? The Bariatric Chef knew, that's who. And now you do too!

David Fouts is an imaginative, inventive chef and it's a blessing to have many of his recipes compiled in one book. I have attended many of his cooking demonstrations and everything has been delicious and tender. As a former bariatric patient, it's important to find tasty, easy recipes that keep protein moist and tender, and David manages to do that with each recipe. This book would be great for those on the Adkins program as well. I highly recommend it.

When you open the book, it looks like a gastric bypass persons dream. Yummy. But after i bought this book to my nutronist she said that i should not use this book because i would be doing nothing but dumping. All the ingredients use a lot of fat ingredients. Ex: oil, butter.

Honestly if my nutronist did not tell me not to use this book i probably would have.

I didn't know exactly what to expect when I ordered this cookbook, but I have been elated with each recipe. I had no variety in my food for so long, that I was just eating to get it over with - which also led to some bad food choices. I started cooking again and, oh my, what wonderful flavors. I have had no problems digesting any of the foods and the recipes I've made have had the protein my physician wanted me to have (without the carbs) have been extremely easy to make. It's wonderful to have someone who has had this surgery create such a gift for those of us who never really learned how to cook!

This book is fantastic! I ordered it for myself as a post-op gastric bypass patient. However, the whole family has reaped the benefits. The recipes are perfect for my parents who are following a low carb high protein diet and for my son who has Type 1 Diabetes. I am hoping one day he will do a dessert cookbook for those of us who are at goal weight!!

I loved this cookbook - I got another WLS cookbook (I won't mention any names) but, this one is SO much better. It's full of recipes that I will use rather than having the cookbook sit on the shelf collecting dust because the recipes are far to complicated. This is THE WLS cookbook!

Although I am not a bariatric patient I found that this book is geared towards everyone. I had been on the Adkin's diet but the recipes in this book have actually helped me more. They are written out well and easily understood. The recipes are also very tasty and not just the same old thing. There's also a good variety of recipes. And Chef Fout's story is amazing. I would recommend this cook book not just for bariatric patients but for anyone interested in cooking nutritious, interesting and fun food. Bon Apetite!

For a Gastric By-pass Patient~ It's all about taste! I have cooked alot of David's Culinary Classics for my whole family and everyone just LOVES them. The book is Great and a MUST have for anyone and everyone~But especially a Gastric By-pass patient! Thanks to David's research and knowledge we can cook and not have to think or worry about what we are eating! When I bought this book I bought 2, 1 for me and 1 for a friend!

My wife is a gastric by pass surgery patient but I have attended David's cooking classes with her and we find all of his recipes to be fantastic. His book is great and has been a great asset to her cook book library. We are very pleased and honored to know David and recommend his book to anyone comtemplating by-pass surgery or those who have already undergone the surgery, or if you are just trying to watch carbs. We have bought the book for gifts for a few friends and they are also pleased with it.