I am 3.5 weeks out and can eat soft foods like canned or dark chicken, fish, apples, mushrooms, deli meat. I don't remember seeing anything about hamburger meat? I read where steak is much later- but what about a ground hamburger patty?

Well I'll go based on my own experience. I could eat it but it had to be the lean ground meat. The fatter kind mad me sick and felt like my stomach was swimming in oil even though I drained it well. I did the lean and just chewed and chewed my nut said as long as I could tolerate it well and it was soft it was fine.

Ground turkey works too.

So log as it is moist. You know the drill about small bites and ridiculous chewing.

Lean hamburg. Chew well.

Do we have to chew ridiculously forever. Seems i struggle with this

Thanks!!! I'm flying allll day tomorrow and just worried about my options! I brought peanut butter incase I can't eat anything! ????

Do we have to chew ridiculously forever. Seems i struggle with this

I no longer need to chew a lot in order to comfortably eat solids, but it's still kind of a mindful eating thing. Chewing a lot forces you to eat more slowly.

At 13 months out I can relax about it a little, but if I gobble-gorp something, Miss Tummy will punish me for about four hours.

I was told not to eat red meat for 6 months