I Am now at the purée stage of eating. I have been dreading this stage as the thought of puréed chicken, tuna or meats turns my stomach. I tried pureeing chicken and couldn't stomach it! I looked for recipes but no luck. anyone have any suggestions? I would like to stay on the liquid stage and then go into soft foods when it's time, but I know I need to introduce these foods back into my diet. The only thing I can eat is the scramble eggs. please give me suggestions!! thank you!

I completely understand what you are going through! I was unable to stomach the pureed stage as well. I did pretty much stay on full liquids and scrambled eggs until the soft stage which was about 4 weeks post-op. I had no problems introducing soft foods into my diet when the time came. Good luck!

Do you like hummus? I'm going to be sleeved tomorrow and will be on liquids for 2 weeks, but I've planned to have some of it when I'm allowed to eat purees.

For me the key was pureeing with strong flavored sauces, and then heating up and melting a little cheese on top. It made it like a little casserole. Some things I did:

thai spice tuna with sriracha sauce and pepper jack cheese

chicken with low carb bbq sauce and cheddar cheese

turkey with peanut sauce and jack cheese

chicken with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese

shrimp with remoulade

salmon with lemon dill sauce and gouda cheese

Good luck!

Refried beans

Guacamole

Hummus

Soft cheeses

Ricotta bake

When I was on puree foods I was able to have like a cracker with it so I had melba toast on hand to stomach it. I loved refried Beans with some low fat sour cream and chicken. The chicken was from the can so it was already most and easy to puree. I love avocados with a passion and would mash them with the chicken with taco seasoning and eat it. But I was so happy when I moved on from puree, it was so gross.

I haven't pureed anything.. I was given a list of soft foods I could have besides puree.. stuff like tuna, flakey fish, etc. I'm just about sick of it by now, but at least I didn't have to blend anything up

Thanks everyone! I thought I was the only one disliking this stage! I like some of the ideas and going to the grocery store to make some of these foods! I did cheat and ate tuna w/o pureeing it. I just chewed and chewed it so well. It went down okay!

Hopefully ending the purée stage In 2 days, been very boring. I've lived on puréed soups, I would kill to chew on something.

I Am now at the purée stage of eating. I have been dreading this stage as the thought of puréed chicken, tuna or meats turns my stomach. I tried pureeing chicken and couldn't stomach it! I looked for recipes but no luck. anyone have any suggestions? I would like to stay on the liquid stage and then go into soft foods when it's time, but I know I need to introduce these foods back into my diet. The only thing I can eat is the scramble eggs. please give me suggestions!! thank you!

You can try blending your meats with some sort of root vegetable like squash, sweet potatoes, regular mashed potatoes or any other boiled root vegetable, you can do what Cubans call A mojito, basically get some garlic n sautéed it n put it on your purée after you blend it, sort of like a dressing, you're going to love it!

Other things you can eat: guacamole, ricotta cheese, hummus, grits, eggs, just to name my favorites