Help..need Suggestions & recipes for soft food diet

OregonShell

I go in for major oral surgery on the 19th of February, knowing that I will not be able to eat "solid foods for a few weeks or so I am trying to plan ahead. Going to get meal replacement shake powder to make smoothies (with frozen fruit and bananas), the one I have found at GNC has a lot of daily nutrients added. I think I'll be able to eat scrambled eggs, oatmeal and greek yogurt, might even be able to do something with mashed potatoes.. Any ideas or suggestions for soft foods that do not require chewing or smoothies that include veggies that will taste good...

One plus is I figure this should be good for my weight loss.. LOL

Thanks for the help

F00LofaT00K

I mix some peanut butter and honey into my greek yogurt and have been eating it almost daily. It's SOO good. I'm trying it with some Nutella tonight. I usually do about 200g of full fat greek yogurt, 10g honey, and about 15g peanut butter. It varies a bit based on how it fits into my macros for the day.

Also try mixing a Tbs of cocoa powder and some PB into your oatmeal.

Make a VERY liquid smoothie with a banana, tsp of vanilla and 1 cup of milk. Add some cinnamon and sugar if you'd like.

If you like cottage cheese, try mixing some jelly or fresh fruit into it.

knra_grl

Smoothies will be good - find a good protein powder to add to them and spinach and kale blend very well in fruit smoothies (you wont even taste it). How about some homemade soups (if you make a veg soup you can blend it). Sweet potatoes are pretty soft when cooked and so are most squash (those could be mashed or added to your soups). I don't eat a lot of beans but if you cooked them to very soft you could mash them or blend them to get some protein. Not sure but hopefully this helps a bit.

1two3four

I don't eat a lot of beans but if you cooked them to very soft you could mash them or blend them to get some protein.

If you go the bean route cook them on the stove for 15-30 minutes at a full boil and transfer into the slow cooker. I know it's work and it sounds silly but it makes them so much softer and they kind of just melt. You can start with canned beans, too (I just don't for sodium content and cost).

Just make sure you're boiling dry beans after you change the soak water before you try to slow cook them because some beans contain a toxin at high levels that will cause gastric distress if you don't properly cook them at high temperatures. I can't remember which ones it's recommended with so I just do it to all of them.

Oh and the morning after Thanksgiving I was standing in front of the fridge trying to decide what to eat and I made the random choice to put cold left over mashed sweet potatoes (butter, cinnamon and potatoes) in my Greek yogurt, it was AMAZINGLY good. Just thought I would throw that out there.

HealthyMakeover

I had a jaw surgery that took away my ability to eat solid food for two months.
I ate many smoothies, ice cream, yogurts, applesauce, puddings, mashed potatoes, many soups, blended Chili, beans...

You'd be surprised on what you can blend when you are desperate

echoslug

SOUP. I lived on soup when I had my wisdom teeth out.

Couple favorites - lentil, split pea made with ham broth, clam chowder and Italian wedding soup minus the meatballs. Nice thing about bean based soups is you'll get plenty of protein.

OregonShell

I do have a ham bone in the freezer from Thanksgiving and Christmas might give me an excuse to make a really big batch of Split pea Soup I can throw it in the blender to make it more of a creamy soup.. Didn't think of that... Thanks

And I totally forgot about the cottage cheese.. that will be a good idea especially when I go back to work...

csmccord

I had bypass surgery 1.5 years ago, and went through 6 weeks of a soft food diet. You can make anything a soft food by pureeing it. I wouldn't recommend doing that with meat, but you can get all your veggies all that way.

ItsCasey

I had to have surgery on my jaw about 5 years ago, and what they told me was to keep the quality of my diet the same and to change only the texture. A blender and food processor will be very helpful. I recall shredding a lot of grilled chicken breasts and mixing them up in mashed potatoes.

It was two weeks after my surgery before I could chew anything at all, even scrambled eggs, and I remember having this nearly uncontrollable desire to chew something. I vowed to never again take for granted my ability to eat steak.

jonnythan

I go in for major oral surgery on the 19th of February, knowing that I will not be able to eat "solid foods for a few weeks or so I am trying to plan ahead. Going to get meal replacement shake powder to make smoothies (with frozen fruit and bananas), the one I have found at GNC has a lot of daily nutrients added. I think I'll be able to eat scrambled eggs, oatmeal and greek yogurt, might even be able to do something with mashed potatoes.. Any ideas or suggestions for soft foods that do not require chewing or smoothies that include veggies that will taste good...

One plus is I figure this should be good for my weight loss.. LOL

Thanks for the help

Buy yourself a Nutribullet. They're $100 and will effectively liquefy anything you put in them. My SO has been using one to great effect to eat more veggies and fruits.

Also: milk, nut butters.

iceeleven

How about soup? I made baked potato soup recently - potatoes and cauliflower all blended together - and it was delicious. You could blend the cheese in instead of adding it on top, skip the bacon, etc. Here's the recipe: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/02/baked-potato-soup.html -- and there's some other blended soups on the website that you might want to check out, too.

deksgrl

Shakes made of milk, ice cream & carnation instant breakfast (or protein powder). Used chocolate ice cream with the chocolate powder, and used vanilla ice cream with the vanilla powder and added fruit.

Initially you may not be able to do scrambled eggs and things with bigger particles, they may get stuck. So for the first few days you probably will need to stay with very smooth soft foods until the healing is under way.