I just started mushy today, and I was wondering if I can have meatloaf? I had some tuna salad for lunch, and I felt a bit nauceous for a while, and then it passed. Am I pushing it? What's considered mushy?

I would say yes if it's moist and you maybe added gravy to it.

Not unless you put it in the blender with some gravy and mixed it up a bit.

Kelly

Make ground turkey meatloaf and it's great!

I just started mushy today, and I was wondering if I can have meatloaf? I had some tuna salad for lunch, and I felt a bit nauceous for a while, and then it passed. Am I pushing it? What's considered mushy?

Today I came across this wonderful website ( http://vsgfaq.wordpress.com/ ) that has links to a number of different nutritional guides from different programs. I've read through a couple of them and have learned a LOT about what foods should be eaten when. The Cornell Weightloss guide clearly states that meatloaf is considered a SOFT food and also states that for their soft food stage - any food that can be put into a blender to give a final consistency of a puree would work. None of them that I have looked at so far have mentioned the word mushies - they instead will used pureed or soft.

I don't know if that helps or not.

Ha! Great minds think alike! Today I bought a package of Jennie-O Turkey Meatloaf, http://www.jennieo.com/products/SoEasyEntrees/turkeymeatloaf.aspx. It looks like it's pretty much heat and eat. I hope to be tearing into two ounces of it tomorrow after I return from my first post-op appt, at which I expect to be advanced to mushies. And I bought a peach and some canned in fruit juice peaches too.

Lynda

Just for the record - in the UK and Australia - SOFT foods would be the equivalent of mushy.

Follow your doc's advice. Mine says no raw veg, no beef, no shellfish until 5 months. I am going to verify with him about ground beef though, but I'm told beef is one of the hardest foods to digest so that's probably why. He's really ultra conservative though.