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Hi everyone so today is marking my 2 week PREOP mark and I'm trying today to preassemble some puréed foods for after when I'm at the puréed stage.

So today I used my vitamix and made puréed butternut squash Soup with SF maple Syrup, cinnamon and unsweetened vanilla almond milk.

I also made up some puréed cauliflower with rf parm cheese and laughing cow Swiss cheese wedges.

Anyone have some great recipes they really like?! I don't know how I'm going to feel about puréed meats when the time comes but then again I may not care for the stuff I'm making now either- but just trying to get a heads start! Let me know thoughts!!

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I was on full liquids for four weeks after surgery (and true liquids, not this "yogurt is a liquid, pudding is a liquid" stuff). So after four weeks of that, pureed meat tasted great to me! The trick for me was to puree it with a flavorful sauce, NOT broth, stock, or Water -- then heat it up in the microwave with some cheese melted on top. It tasted just like a casserole type dish. I mostly used canned meats, or the meat you can buy in the little single serving pouches. The flavored ones were especially good. Some of my favorites:

thai spicy tuna pureed with Sriracha sauce and pepper jack cheese melted on top

chicken pureed with BBQ Sauce with cheddar cheese melted on top

lemon dill salmon pureed with tartar sauce

shrimp pureed with remoulade and pecorino cheese melted on top

turkey pureed with peanut satay sauce and jack cheese melted on top

chicken pureed with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese melted on top

turkey pureed with light chipotle mayo and sugar free pickle relish and Laughing Cow chipotle fresco cheese wedge melted on top

teriyaki salmon pureed with teriyaki sauce (I don't recommend cheese with this but if I had to, I might try some blue cheese)

Good luck!

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There's a recipe on here somewhere for a ricotta bake that sounds delicious. Try the search bar.

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you really need to focus on lean or fat free Protein. Here are some of my favs:

(some are not for puree)

http://ormcbariatric.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/thank-you-to-de/

http://ormcbariatric.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/high-protein-yummy-great-recipes/

also good:

egg beaters (cooked or raw in an eggnog shake, they are pasteurized)

ricotta with Italian seasonings and low carb sauce

FF plain Greek yogurt with extracts or cocoa and Splenda, I've even heard of people using some Crystal light powder

egg salad, mashed well

ff cream Soups with some ff cheese added to up the Protein

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I was on full liquids for four weeks after surgery (and true liquids, not this "yogurt is a liquid, pudding is a liquid" stuff). So after four weeks of that, pureed meat tasted great to me! The trick for me was to puree it with a flavorful sauce, NOT broth, stock, or Water -- then heat it up in the microwave with some cheese melted on top. It tasted just like a casserole type dish. I mostly used canned meats, or the meat you can buy in the little single serving pouches. The flavored ones were especially good. Some of my favorites:

thai spicy tuna pureed with Sriracha sauce and pepper jack cheese melted on top

chicken pureed with BBQ Sauce with cheddar cheese melted on top

lemon dill salmon pureed with tartar sauce

shrimp pureed with remoulade and pecorino cheese melted on top

turkey pureed with peanut satay sauce and jack cheese melted on top

chicken pureed with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese melted on top

turkey pureed with light chipotle mayo and sugar free pickle relish and Laughing Cow chipotle fresco cheese wedge melted on top

teriyaki salmon pureed with teriyaki sauce (I don't recommend cheese with this but if I had to, I might try some blue cheese)

Good luck!

Awesome suggestions!!! they all sound delish!

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      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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