Happy Friday!

i can't decide what to do for lunch. I could run for something mushie but i also have an emergency tuna pack. I just dont know if tuna is mushie or if i shoudlnt try yet to eat it yet....

hmmmm.....

I ate a fair bit of it but it was the little cans of flavoured sandwich tunu - I find flaked tuna (like you buy in the bigger cans, in springwater) rather a "sticky" food. Just the texture of it, I dont know, so I ate the little cans - they were niced mixed with chick peas and chopped tomato and cucumber (skinned at that stage) and the flavour/oil from the tuna made a dressing.

I did fine on that during mushies, easy to eat, nutritious. For me, my doc said mushies didnt actually have to be mushed as long as they were soft foods, like I could eat well steamed vegetables for instance.

I ate it as a mushy and gosh did it taste goooooooood!!! Just go slow and take very small amounts in, chew chew chew until it melts in your mouth.

Slow is the key to not hurting yourself and chew well.

I couldn't tolerate it during my mushie stage. But live on it since.

yes I ate it with a little bit of ranch dressing mixed in with it. YUMMY!

I ate tuna as a mushy, with a bit of ff mayo. I'm a tuna addict - love the stuff, could eat it everyday. I also occasionally had those frozen fish fillets as a mushy - the ones that come in a pack w/ like lemon and pepper or what not that you just toss in a pot, still in the packet and steam. It mushed up nicely and was full of protein.

I'm on the mushie stage also... Does anyone know if i can eat salad?

Like green garden salad? I wouldn't consider that a mushie. But pasta salad really well cooked I would consider mushie.

When can we start eating garden salad?

Check with your doc to be sure but I started eating it when I was able to move onto regular solid food.

I probably can eat salad but I don't. I may have a little spinach salad. In general, salad, especially lettuce, has few nutrients. When you are eating the proper amount, you need to get in your calories and nutrients. Lettuce will do nothing in either category.

Watch that spinach Road

I love salad and found that I could eat it about 6 weeks out, but check with your doc and keep it at the solid food stage... go slow. Salad is one of the solid food stage foods that I can eat very easily for some reason LOL.

Hi,

I tolerate green salads very well but there's not much nutrtional value really. I'm a little over 6 weeks out and just had my first fill on Tuesday. I was afraid too at first because I thought I might now chew thoroughly enough and it might get stuck but that's not the case at all. I usually have just a tiny, tiny salad bfore I move on to my proteins/meats when we eat out. I don't even bother with it at home since I eat so little of it and my family doesn't care for salads. But it is good to taste something besides our foods which are so full of proteins. Variety is good.

I always get a grilled chicken/tuna/salmon salad so that I have protein as well as the veggies. I would die without my salad!

I too, love my salads. But umm, I tend to fill them with horrible for me stuff lol. A typical salad for me is mixed baby asian greens (huge serve, cause it mushes up good in the end lol), 4 or 5 green/black olives, a slice of onion chopped, a few baby carrots diced, alfalfa sprouts, bean shoots, chopped lowfat leg ham or tuna or chicken, a bit of shredded cheese, diced celery if I have some, as well as diced capsicum .. but then I smother the lot in ranch dressing with hot sauce lol. So while it has plenty of nutrients in it, its loaded with fat from the olives, cheese and dressing.

It is without a doubt though, my favorite food. Most nights (when I'm not on this freakin liquid diet lol), I'll have a salad, even if I fix something else for the family. Luckily its one of those things I've not had any trouble getting down. Earlier this year, I actually went for 2 whole months, having a bowl of salad for dinner every night, without even realizing til a friend started making fun of me.