Hi I had my lap band surgery on Feb 14th 2013. The first few days were very hard because I always feel hungry and have a lot of gas. I drink of a lot of caffee free teas and decaf coffee to help ease the gas pains. Today I started my puree diet any suggestions on meals to have in order to stay motivated and still remain full. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Having worked with people on purée diets professionally my primary advice would be "don't purée your food" focus on foods that have a purée consistency naturally. Cream soups, mashed potatoes flavored/smoothed with broth instead of water or milk; cream of wheat, yogurt. Heck if you like spaghetti try a bowl of your favorite spaghettit sauce just eat it like soup.

Limit your mashed potatoes.......no nutritonal value. My fav meal was chicken in a blender, I threw in a bit of non fat gravey for moisture and some laughing cow cheese, came out the consistancy of peanut butter but it was tasty and great protein. Chicken salad, tuna salad, refried beans with a bit of pasta sauce or sour cream. Lots of choices. Add cottage cheese to your soups and put it in the blender, a nice taste and boost of protein. good luck.

I blended spinach then I layered it with spaghetti sauce and ricotta cheese and heated it in the microwave. It's like lasagne filling

I also substituted canned pumpkin for the spinach and added nutmeg salt and pepper. Tastes like pumpkin ravioli s.

And I added favor free Protein powder from powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury ( after it came out of the microwave though)