Food on a GLP-1

You are not going to eat a lot. So all of it has to count.

The problem is not discipline, it is volume. Appetite suppression means every plate is smaller, which means the protein density of what is on it decides whether you keep your muscle. These are built backwards from that constraint.

Recipes

Small plates. Serious protein.

Built for a suppressed appetite: high protein per bite, leucine-rich sources, and gentle on a stomach that's emptying slowly. Tap any card for the full ingredients and method. Anything you flagged as an allergy is filtered out automatically.

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For the days when nothing will go down.

Nausea, food aversion, the smell of cooking turning your stomach — these are the days that do the real damage, because a skipped protein feeding is the actual mechanism of muscle loss. Not the drug. The missed meal.

Everything here is built on the same three principles: cold beats hot (cold food releases far less aroma, and aroma is what triggers the gag), bland beats flavourful, and liquid or soft beats anything you have to chew. Sip slowly. Getting 25g down over half an hour still counts.

When to call your prescriber, not a recipe site: if you cannot keep fluids down, if this lasts more than a couple of days, if you are vomiting repeatedly, or if you have severe abdominal pain. Persistent nausea often means your dose needs adjusting — that is a conversation with a clinician, and it is a normal one to have. Do not white-knuckle it.

Meal builder

Not a recipe. A formula.

Most protein meals are the same two decisions: pick a protein, pick what you pair it with. Do it here and we'll flag what the recipe books don't — when a plant protein needs a leucine chaser to actually work, and when a fiber will sit in a stomach a GLP-1 has already slowed to a crawl.

The trap in most "cheap bulking" advice. It optimises for cheap calories, not cheap protein — and those point in opposite directions. 73/27 ground beef is celebrated as a budget staple, but 3 oz gives you about 17g of protein for 230 calories. Canned tuna gives you 26g for 110. On a GLP-1 you have a hard ceiling on how much you can physically eat, so every calorie spent on cheap fat is a calorie not spent on protein you actually need. Budget mode sorts by cost per 30g of protein — the only number that matters when money and appetite are both tight.

1 · Protein base

Sorted by what fits this meal. Your allergies and diet already filter this list.

2 · Pairing

This is the half that does the physiological work.