I am a few weeks away from having surgery but I want to be prepared. What creative ideas for food did you eat during puréed stage?

After drinking a million chocolate & vanilla protein shakes, I took 2 oz of refrigerated mashed potatoes, 2 tbsp of the Canned Hormel Chili w/beans and topped it with shredded cheese. I microwave it and its delicious!! It looks nasty stirred up but its so good!

I have been exploring this as I have about a week before I move to pureeds...I found a lot of "hope" at batriatricfoodie.com...you can click on the purred foods section and there are like 17 different ideas. It makes that portion of the journey seem a little more exciting and bearable.

I also stocked up on creamy soups. I just had Progressive Light Clam Chowder. I bought vegetable soups and lentl soups

Mexican fix:

Take a slice of grocery store polenta, (find this next to the eggs)

Top with a teaspoon of taco meat and a pinch of shredded cheese and nuke for 30 sec. Dab of plain Greek yo if you're so inclined on top

Italian fix:

Ricotta, mozarella, egg beaters or egg, garlic, salt and a bit of frozen spinach in the food processor.

Layer in a casserole dish with Pasta sauce and a bit more cheese if you like and bake

Whizzed chili with a dab of plain Greek yo

Freeze your leftovers in ice cube trays then dump the food cubes in a freezer bag for storage.

This sit has some good ideas. I was especially fond of the baked ricotta, because it was almost like having real food!

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/2007/08/pureed-foods.html

Ideas? I didn't much care about variety. I wasn't that hungry anyway and pretty much everything pureed looks like *%#@^. And I wasn't thrilled about the texture either.

I just threw Soup in the blender and endured it for a couple of weeks. It's behind you before you know it anyway and you can move on to real food.

Refried beans with shredded cheddar cheese on top, microwaved & stirred. So good!!