Can you guys share with me some of the first pureed or soft foods you had eaten once you had come off of the full liquid diet. There seems to be some discrepancies between what the nutritionist, my surgeon, and the list of foods they gave me they gave me to try. Thanks!!

Anything you can mash with a fork and as long as you can tolerate it. Check with your doctor first.

Lash

My Dr gave me this food list today for this phase of the diet:

pureed moist Protein - any meat (excluding red meat)

- chicken, fish, shrimp,crab,other seafood, pork, ham, turkey(no ground turkey)

Tofu and soy products such as Morning Star Farms and Bocca Burgers (pureed & moist)

Scrambled eggs (make sure eggs are moist)

Refried Beans and dried beans (pinto, garbanzo, white, northern, etc)

Small curd cottage cheese

Low carb yogurt: choose a brand with less than 12 g of carbs

Creamy Peanut Butter

serving size 1 1/2 oz three times a day. Eat 3 meals per day, no snacking. Protein shakes count as a liquid, not a snack. They can be liquid between meals.

Cottage cheese, refried Beans, soft cheese, baked potatoes with sour cream, mashed potatoes, ricotta cheese, eggs--they KILLED my stomach though, yogurt, Peanut Butter, cream of wheat Cereal, grits, oatmeal and any pureed Soups, pudding, popscicles.

You can add dried nonfat milk to the soft foods to boost the Protein and it doesn't have the weird taste and smell that 'unflavored" (yeah right) protein has......

I pureed my chicken then sprinkled cheese over it and baked it. Wasn;t too bad! If you puree chicken, be sure to add chicken broth.

I lived on cheese, especially cottage, egg whites sometimes with cheese, and beans especially refried... I also found out early on I was able to tolerate slow cooked chicken with a sauce pretty well as long as I chewed it up good.