Wisdom Teeth Food Suggestions

Did they give you directions? They gave me some. Not sucking through a straw, eating certain things, but not others. I remember scrambled eggs were off the list for a day or two and chip-type things were off until I went back. That's all I remember. You should call. If you can, and ask.

When I got mine taken out, I just remember eating a lot of mashed potatoes and mac n cheese. That doesn't exactly help with your protein goal, but it's all I seemed to be able to eat lol

ETA - definitely stay away from straws! I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth cut out at the same time and ended up getting dry socket in 2 of them - it was not fun. They have to put gauze dipped in some disgusting-tasting liquid and pack it down into the socket. Ick.

Try greek yogurt and cottage cheese, decent amounts of protein in those, and hopefully easy to swallow.

I did ok with yogurt and soymilk with ovaltine.

pretty much this stuff non-stop. I don't know that it was the healthiest choice, but i was a younger, less experienced DuckReconMajor

Ice cream, mashed potatoes, pudding.

I pretty much lived on applesauce, yogurt, and healthy homemade bread pudding. I used sprouted cinnamon raisin bread, canned pumpkin, almond milk, and raw honey to try and lend a little nutrition into it. I also used green smoothies (no straw, please!) to get some veggies into my diet. Mashed bananas and instant oatmeal (it's mushier and finer than oatmeal made with rolled oats) are good, too. Just avoid anything small and granular that could get stuck in the pits, like rice and quinoa. And make sure to swish and soak your gums in warm salt water after every meal to dislodge any food that did get stuck in the pits and to prevent infection.

The first "real" food I ate were some pumpkin pancakes from ihop about two weeks after they came out. I don't typically like ihop, but I was so grateful to be able to eat something solid that those were the BEST pancakes that I've ever had.

Edit: if you need something liquid that would make a pretty good rounded out meal replacement, Garden of Life makes a product called Raw Meal that a sort of protein/greens/probiotic blend. You just mix it into milk using a shaker bottle. I typically use 1 scoop as an after-workout shake since it has 17 grams of protein per scoop (20 grams in the new formula, but I haven't gotten one that uses the new formula yet,) but the canister says to use 2 scoops for a meal replacement. Overall, the "meal size" mixture has about 310-340 calories 34-40 grams of protein, and about 8 grams of fiber, so it's not a terrible substitute if you can't eat anything solid.

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Lizzles1986 wrote: »

When I got mine taken out, I just remember eating a lot of mashed potatoes and mac n cheese. That doesn't exactly help with your protein goal, but it's all I seemed to be able to eat lol

ETA - definitely stay away from straws! I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth cut out at the same time and ended up getting dry socket in 2 of them - it was not fun. They have to put gauze dipped in some disgusting-tasting liquid and pack it down into the socket. Ick.

That sounds awful! What is dry socket?

Dry socket is a *kitten*! You will know it if you have it. Basically an infection. It was this time last year that I had an infection which had to be treated before the teeth came out and then another infection and dry socket. 5 extremely long weeks on hydrocodone and no activity not even yoga.

Mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, baked potatoes cut into tiny bits, yogurt (try trader joe's squishers that you can just pour into your mouth - nice flavors too), canned soup so the veggies were soft, dumplings. I have chocolate protein powder so you can mix that with greek yogurt some pb2 and a bit of milk for protein pudding. Baby food so everything is pureed for you. Hawaiian bread so it essentially dissolves in your mouth. Once you are feeling a bit better: meats that have been softened by being cooked in liquid like pulled chicken in bbq sauce but really small pieces.

I slept as much as I could and gave up eating at a deficit. I just wanted to maintain and that worked out. Good luck.

Pacific Organic Foods has containers of bone broth in several tasty flavors that have 9 grams of protein per 8 ounces for only 35 or 40 calories. I like everything but the plain chicken.

Bread with low fat cheese spread, baked potato cook it for long enough to make it really soft, weetabix. Everything i had for about 2 weeks after mine out x

Protein shakes, apple sauce and mashed potatoes...I survived on it for 2 weeks....had all 4 taken out at the same time.

Pancakes, ricotta, overnight oats, protein cheesecake, mashed potatoes/carrots/cauliflower, room temperature soups (not tomato), sausage, ground meat, eggs...

It took me 2 weeks to be able to even eat soft veggies. It sucked. But all the above was ok.

I was eating solid foods the same day I had my wisdom teeth extracted so I probably won't be much help……

But I would suggest foods like:

• oatmeal
• lentils
• legumes
• cream of wheat
• mashed potatoes
• mashed sweet potatoes
• soups
• ground chicken breast
• ground turkey breast
• ground beef
• eggs
• mashed carrots
• super mushy steamed veggies
• bananas
• protein pudding
• protein powder
• applesauce
• cottage cheese
• greek yogurt