Having surgery June 26th, and as a vegetarian, I'm concerned by the first month of liquid or soft food. Has anyone tried some of the "Greens+" or similar products in powder form to add to your daily protein drinks?

I am a vegetarian 5 days post op. This first week has been very hard. There is no protein in vegetable broth, so I add a little none flavored protein to it before warming it up. But now I can't stand to even look at veggie broth. I'm not getting almost any calories right now. There has to be something I can eat while in the liquid stage. Once I am in the mushy stage, I will be doing a thousand times better. There is so much more I can eat in the mushy stage. Until then, it's horrible. I'm sorry. Research it better if you can. There has to be more that we can drink the first week.

I am allergic to whey so I use vegan protein powders. The two I like is Vega-Sport and Sun Warrior-Warrior Blend. My favorite is the last one btw. Sun Warrior also makes a sproated barley powder that gives awesome extended carbs. I mix everything with the sugar free almond milk and I am doing good getting between 600 and 800 calories a day. I am 10 days postop.

I also am eating good soups, soy pudding and soy and coconut yogurt.

Btw, I am full liquids the first 4 weeks, then move to softs for next 4 weeks.

I am vegetarian and have been gathering ideas of things to eat in the first 2 atages:

Full Liquid stage:

unjury chicken Flavor Protein powder (vegetarian)

Strained Amy's soups (zap the Soup fillings in processor and freeze)

Hot decaf tea with lemon and unflavored protein pwder

Protein pops (crystal light, unflavored pp)

chocolate milk (choc Protein Powder with a bit dutch cocoa and SF almond milk)

Soft food stage (can add unflavored pp to any if not getting all in):

Soup solids zapped in food processor (will have some frozen from liq stage)

Ricotta bakes (searched this forum and got a TON of ideas)

Soft Tofu blended with flavor inhancers (sauteed onion, garlic, etc)

Quinoa

FF Refried Beans blended with a bit of salsa and greek yogurt (my fav!)

Greek yogurt

Cottage cheese

Tempeh bleded with cilantro and soft tofu

These are just a few I can think of right now, but if you find things that work well for please send me a message! I love new ideas.

The one thing we Indian vegetarians drink a lot is lentil Water.boil half cup of green or yellow pigeon pea with 5 times water and salt.and drink the liquid during clear liquid phase and when on mushy phase have the mushy lentil too much Protein in that.the other thing I did was blend water n salt with little bit yogurt and drink that.hope it helps.you can write to me incase you want vegetarian Indian recipes.