Enough Full Liquid Diet

I had my surgery on June 25 and was on liquids for a week before that. I just this week graduated to soft foods!!! I understand about missing chewing.

This has been a challenging stage for me. I'm not the type to prepare my meals the night before.

Breakfast is easy cream of rice cereal. I prepare a batch and spoon out my 1/2 cup serving. Lunch has been more challenging. I started with prepared cream of chicken soup, but wanted something different so I started taking chicken/mash potato puree to work for lunch. I found myself preparing this in the morning a few times. Running late for work, not good. I've tried rotisserie chicken with a little baby first stage squash for dinner. It went down ok but I had a little discomfort so I'll hold off on that until next week. We had shepard pie for dinner tonight so I tried a little of that and it went down much better. Next Friday I start stage 4 diet. More protein from lean meat and less protein drink. Can't wait. Still miss bread, steak, rice and pasta. I just have to be patient. :-)