Im 11 days out and i feel hungry. My wifes swears its in my head but my stomach physically feels hungry. Makes me think the dr did it wrong and also makes me want to eat real food. I even dreamed about food. Im also tired of protein shakes. I can never make them taste good enough and becauae im christmas shopping im too broke to buy new flavors or anything else to mix in it to make it taste better. Sorry to complain to everyone its just extra sucking today.

In the pureed stage, you're looking for the consistency of runny custard. So, make the mash a bit watery with extra milk and perhaps cheese (I struggled with cheese early on) and make sure the chicken is so well cooked, it disintegrates in the gravy like you would see it in canned Soup.

I am not sure about canned 'salad' consistency, because I don't use canned foods.

As for Tuna, I think you might find that a bit fibrous. I'd go with the chicken mash and gravy option first and work your way up to the others.

and don't panic, Jim. We've all been there. Just holla whenever you need to ask anything.

Thank u everyone i appreciate all of your advice. I was just also told that egg salad goes down well. Its soft and yummy

Yep Jim put it in a blender to purée it. It will look funny yes but warmed up, it will be savory and satisfying

Yes egg salad is good. Some people have troubles with eggs in the beginning but I never did

Edited December 24, 201312 yr by laura-ven

eggs, to me, sank in my stomach like a brick. Could only eat half an egg - at best.

Roasted meats and veggies and gravy made me feel like a normal human being.

It was the best feeling ever

Thanks for this thread... I am 4 days out and I am hungry as well... not sue if real or imagined as a truckload of food just walked into my kitchen for Christmas... but I just stopped and took an acid reducer... hope that helps.

I'm 8 days out and am so glad to be reading this. I need ideas. I just told my family I was going to eat cottage cheese and yogurt. I know that will get old really quickly. I'll check back next week when I hit the mushie phase.

You can blend spaghetti meat sauce with a few cooked noodles too. Or canned beef stew.

Get a rotisserie chicken and some cans of chicken vegetable Soup. Add two cups of the chicken to one can of soup and purée that. You can do the same with other Soups such as takeaway hot and sour or tom yum soup.

You can also have Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, banana mashed with smooth Peanut Butter (I was told I didn't need to purée the banana but just mash it).

Remember you don't need to worry as much about calories or carbs in the purée phase. You won't eat enough to matter.

That banana and pnut butter sounds heavenly.

That banana and pnut butter sounds heavenly.

It is but you will manage at most half a banana and 1 tsp peanut butter and be full!

After liquids it does not take much to taste really good.

I'm glad someone mentioned trouble with eggs. I thought that would be s go to soft food but I don't tolerate them well at all. I've tried three times, once egg salad pureed and twice omlet cut up. No bueno.