Hi guys, im almost 5wks out of surgery and can progress from puree to a soft food diet. Just wanting n needing some advice on portion sizing and perhaps some idea on the types of soft foods you guys are eating.... thanks.

On soft foods I was eating, mashed potatoes, refried beans with cheese, tuna fish, eggs, egg salad, hummus...I was told not to eat more then 4 oz...Hope this helps..

Yeah thanks... just unsure about the oz equivelent lol roughly what size is that?

Get a scale and you'll be set! 4 oz (generally think of a tuna fish can)...

tuna, canned chicken, canned ham, hummas (lived on hummas). As you can cooked veggies...

4oz is about half a cup

I was told 1 to 2 oz a meal to start and about 3 oz after one month. Some of the foods I ate were: eggs fixed any way I wanted, steamed or poached seafood, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, tofu, unsweetened applesauce, mashed ripe banana and refried beans with cheese.

I'm a little confused because my pureed stage includes the foods mentioned above: tuna, fish, cottage cheese, cheeses, eggs. I was told I could eat these without having to puree them. Any meat or chicken, of course, had to be pureed. My soft food stage includes almost any food as long as it can be easily chewed and swallowed. Of course, protein first.

My surgeon's soft foods plan calls for 3 meals a day, no snacks. The 3 meals can be a maximum of 3 ounces each. We are supposed to eat at each meal:

1. 3 ounces of high protein food (meat, fish, soy, beans, dairy, eggs) OR

2. 2 ounces of high protein food plus 1 ounce of soft, non-starchy veggies or soft fruit.

No starchy veggies, grain-based foods, non-nutritive foods (sugar free pudding for example), or sweets are allowed. No soup is allowed.

All foods are supposed to be weighed with a digital scale to make sure we are getting the right amount of food.