Gastric Sleeve Cookbook is a cookbook for the sleeve: the operation that removes most of the stomach and leaves a narrow tube in its place. Because the sleeve limits how much you can eat, what you eat matters more than ever, so this book pairs a plain explanation of the surgery with an 8-week meal plan and recipes for every phase after it.
Above all, this is the book for anyone about to have the sleeve, or newly home from it, who wants to get the food right from the first week. In particular, you want to know what your new stomach can take at each stage and what to cook when a stage changes. Megan Rush lays the phases out in order and gives you the recipes for each.
What is inside
- The sleeve explained. What the surgery does, what changes in the weeks after it and how to make the most of those changes.
- Your relationship with food. How to handle cravings and build eating habits that hold once the weight is off.
- An 8-week meal plan. Menus for before and after the operation, phase by phase, so the transitions are planned instead of improvised.
- The 5-day pouch reset. A short technique for the setbacks, when weight stalls or old habits creep back.
- Recipes for every phase. From single servings to family dishes, each one adjusted to what the sleeve can take at that stage.
- Three bonuses. A QR code inside the book unlocks Bariatric Success Stories, Bariatric Shopping Lists and a Mindful Eating Guide.
Between them, these parts follow one thread: the sleeve does the restricting, and the book does the choosing. As a result, you spend your small portions on food that helps.
How the recipes are presented
First of all, the recipes are grouped by phase, so you never have to work out for yourself whether a dish is safe yet. Each one gives the ingredients, the steps and the portion, adjusted to what the sleeve can take at that stage.
Moreover, the recipes stay useful long after recovery. Once the weight is off, the same low-calorie dishes become the everyday cooking that keeps it off, as one reader below says. Finally, the medical chapters stay short and come first, so the book opens with the why and moves quickly to the how.
What readers say
Three verified purchasers in the United States, all five stars:
I had surgery 10 years ago and searched for a cookbook that I could enjoy. I FOUND IT! […] the recipes are delicious. I encourage anyone needing help with food after surgery to get this book.
Jozena Kelly, Amazon, February 2025
When you have done the hard work and got the weight off. Keep the bar at the top by using this cook book and making these delicious low calorie meals. It will take the up and down out of dieting!
Tonia Moyler, Amazon, June 2026
Absolutely love this cookbook. It helped me a lot with my bariatric sleeve surgery.
Christy Larson, Amazon, July 2025
In short: the sleeve explained, the phases planned and the recipes to match, from the first week to ten years on. Available on Amazon.
Also by Megan Rush
Megan’s other cookbooks cover the bypass, the air fryer and two other medical diets, with the same plain approach: Diverticulitis Cookbook, Diabetic Air Fryer Cookbook, Bariatric Cookbook, Bariatric Air Fryer Cookbook and Gastric Bypass Cookbook.