Searched a bit and didn't find many answers, anyone got any suggestions for getting in green veggies during pureed food phase? I never get in green veggies but I'll be damned I'm trying.

My plan was liquids for three full weeks then soft cooked veggies like green beans, broccoli tops, cauliflower, asparagus tops, cooked down spinach etc, and flakey fish. The next stage was chicken, pork and raw veggies at 42 days. My final addition will be beef. Seems to me you could puree broccoli or cooked baby spinach for puree. My nut said to be careful of the asparagus stalk and older spinach with too many fibers early on.

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I eat baby food..I am on pureed also and I will cook my own chicken in broth and whip it up as needed..I add a small amount of potato buds and use the "chicken " as a gravy and a table spoon of sweet peas baby food..its like Thanksgiving dinner...lol.. hope this helps

What about vegetable juice? I have a juicer I'm going to use to get some vegetable nutrition.

What about vegetable juice? I have a juicer I'm going to use to get some vegetable nutrition.

Not sure about juicing.. I think you must really cook the heck out of the veggies before pureeing them..so not sure how that would work..

If it helps, I made all my kids baby foods (I was determined to make them healthy in spite of me lol) and I used to buy the steam fresh bags of green veggies. I would cook them in the microwave as directed, then put them in my food processor (or blender) and purée them with a little veggie or chicken stock. The best textures were from peas, broccoli and spinach. Green beans stayed pretty grainy no matter how long I puréed them! Might be a good way to get some green veggies in!

Green food dye?

Frozen peas, beans etc are perfect. Just steam and purée. I used my baby food steamer/cooker/purée. Stay away from asparagus since its fairly difficult to digest this early in the stage. Also stay away from broccoli because it's disgusting, smelly and I hate it and no one in their right mind should like it

Not sure about juicing.. I think you must really cook the heck out of the veggies before pureeing them..so not sure how that would work..

My juicer isn't the kind that leaves the Fiber. It's straight up liquid. I try not to do fruit because of all the sugar and no fiber, but veggies are different

I'm planning to juice veggies in my liquid phase post-op. I already discussed it with my surgeon & he's ok with it. And I've got my ninja on standby for purees