My Band Day (Aug 9 *yeah*) is fast approaching and I'm still on the road and far from home. My DH and I live in a hotel room with a tiny fridge and a contraband microwave. I've been researching post-op diets and the liquid phases look do-able, but the mushies are giving me pause.

We eat out...a lot...and while I can see buying a blender for the room, I can't see that working in a restaurant (insert mental pic here! LOL). Any ideas for 'mushies in public'?:hungry:

Ask the restaurant to blend your food for you. I've never once had them refuse.

Order mushy items. Most restaurants have several "mushy" choices to choose from.

Hit buffets. As much as we should try and avoid them, they saved my life during mushies because there's *always* some kind of cottage cheese, Soup, mashed something, creamed something, etc. available.

Great ideas Wheetsin! I had no idea you could ask for that in a restaurant, but I guess it makes sense. Thanks. Since I'm in the South buffets are do-able...they're everwhere!

So what kinds of food are best for blenders?

I never could stomach "real foods blended up". Logic says they'd taste the same, but nope. I tried to blend up my Chipotle once and it was not very good at all. One time I had my rotisserie chicken blended. I've had Mexican blended. I got a weird look, but who cares, I get weird looks being fat & just generally weird anyway.

I usually go with Soups, and will sometimes have those blended too. During mushies I'd get Uno's clam chowder, and have them blend it so that there were no chunks o' clam I'd have to worry about. I've had chili blended.

I usually just told them, "I just had surgery and can only eat soft foods. Can you ask the chef to whiz this up in the blender for me?" Or "I need this blended or you're going to be mopping it off the floor."

mexican restaurants can give you refried beans, salad bars can give you cottage cheese, jello, yogurt, and buffets can give you soup and salad bar stuff and mashed potatoes. most restaurants have soup, and if you tell them that you need mainly the liquid part, and as few chunks as possible in the soup, you will do fine.