Ok so I am doing very well and entering week 2. During weeks 2, 3, and 4, I am supposed to to puree all of my foods. So is that basically just throwing the food in a blender and griding up as much as possible? Kind of like "pre-chewing" your food? LOL

I decided to go vegetarian so it should be pretty easy to puree all my foods. It will mostly be legumes and the such.

I remember being so excited when I got to move to this stage. I made the mistake of pureeing tuna, chicken and eggs (separately of course). I now cannot eat eggs at all! The taste and smell make my stomach turn, it makes me very sad because i used to love eggs.

I am good with chicken and tuna however I never want to eat them pureed again. One time was enough for me and I was done.

I really ended up living on Protein shakes, yogurt (i ate a lot of yogurt), Cream of mushroom Soup, chicken broth and cottage cheese. I love cottage cheese however I could not eat it pureed, I ate small curd and basically pureed it by chewing the heck out of it. I also made fresh cooked carrots and mashed them with a fork. That worked very well and I love carrots even more now.

Good luck on the next phase of your diet. The time goes quickly and then you will be on soft foods.

Yes, just throw it in and blend it all up.

Just reading the title of your post made me sick to my stomach though! LOL! I had to be on pureed stage for SO long! I wasn't tolerating meat pureed, so even had to go back to mushies for a while.

I am so thankful to be past that stage, but I do remember how exciting it was to get to the pureed stage! So enjoy!!

Reading all the threads and posts about eating during the puree stage makes me so happy that my surgeon's post-op diet plan did not include a pureed stage! I went from clear liquids week 1 to eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, shredded cheese and refried beans in week 2. Week 3, I started chicken, turkey and fish, taking small bites and chewing thoroughly.

Just wanted to say good luck on your journey. I have checked out the blog The World according to eggface, and there was a lot of good ideas there for all stages.