I'm almost 3 weeks out of banding and am in the pureed diet phase. I was looking over my list of things that I can eat but have a question for you all. In the pureed diet phase can I eat anything as long as it is pureed? for example, my sister made a great pasta sauce/chili full of beans, tomatoes and garlic. I took maybe 1/4 a cup of pasta (just to firm up the pureed sauce) and half a cup of the chili/sauce and put it in my magic bullet, pureed it and ate it. I was thinking about it later and I got worried that maybe I somehow cheated. My list of pureed foods says oatmeal, scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, pureed soft fruit and some other soft things like that. Do you guys think that pureed diet means anything (healthy) that is pureed?

Yes, in fact a lot of us did exactly what you're doing.

Think of puree as the constancy food needs to be. So, if you can puree it, you can eat it.

One of my favorites at that phase was taking some chili and pureeing it with a bit of cream cheese. I also took chicken and puree'd it with chicken broth.

...I called it the "baby food" stage lol.

Yes, in fact a lot of us did exactly what you're doing.

Think of puree as the constancy food needs to be. So, if you can puree it, you can eat it.

One of my favorites at that phase was taking some chili and pureeing it with a bit of cream cheese. I also took chicken and puree'd it with chicken broth.

...I called it the "baby food" stage lol.

Thanks Missy! I actually went and bought some baby food for an easy to go meal. I was just worried since it wasn't explicitly laid out in my directions that I was doing something wrong

My Doc also stated this afternoon that anything can be eaten, just make good choices, no junk food, do not over eat.

Tonights supper was chicken tenderloins in tomato sauce w/ onions,celery,green peppers, mushrooms. Pureed! Of course the wife was able to have a mini baguette with her non pureed meal. I chose not to puree that.