So I am 2 weeks post op and my doctor has approved me to move onto soft foods/pureed foods. He suggested yogurt, pureed tuna, but didn't give me much more than that. He told me to just refer to my handbook.... What is everyone else eating for soft foods/pureed foods?

Edited March 24, 201511 yr by Spicy06

I ate refried Beans on my soft food days. I would drink mainly Protein shakes and just the 1-2 oz of refried beans each day. I waited until after the puree foods stage to eat the more actual chewing required foods. My puree stage was only about a week or two. My center suggested yogurt as well, but I didn't like it too much since most of it has a bunch of carbs.

Here's a list my doc/nut give to patients.

Strained Soups broth and lowfat cream based soups (try stirring jar baby food meats into your Soup to increase protein)

Lite-low fat strained yogurt of plain greek yogurt

protein fortified strained hot cerials like cream of wheat or cream of rice

low fat 1% cottage cheese or ricotta cheese

protein fortified cooked and mashed or pureed potatoes and non gas-forming veggies like carrots, squash, green beans, or peas.

mashed black, pinto or navy beans

lowfat, fat free or vegetarian refried beans or hummus

protein fortified sugar free and low fat or fat free pudding

**They say to fortify these foods with protein try adding unflavored Protein powder OR add 2 tbsp of non-fat dry milk (the milk adds about 5 g of protein)

Here's a site with some good ideas and recipes:

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

I practically LIVED on the baked ricotta. I also just did a lot of cottage cheese, string cheese, yogurt, pulled chicken, and scrambled eggs.

Colby Jack cheese sticks is where it is at!

I would also say, if you still enjoy some of the liquidy soups you were having you don't have to stop. Just try and get that Protein in.

@@Spicy06 - What's in your handbook? I simply followed that.

This was my puree stage: http://www.360bariatrics.com/360tools/360BariatricDiets_PhaseIII.pdf

I was able to make all kinds of variations simply by changing spices.

This was my puree stage: http://www.360bariatrics.com/360tools/360BariatricDiets_PhaseIII.pdf

I was able to make all kinds of variations simply by changing spices.

. Can I get Phase 1and 2 on this web site it's really more informative than wht I got from my surgeon. I'm having surgery tomorrow so I would love to get this. Thank you and continued good luck to you!!

3rd day post op when do u recommend going back to work?

@@js1234567890 - When you feel up to it.

BTW - Here are the pages for pureed foods from my handbook. If anyone needs it I can get the soft foods list as well. However I would strongly encourage anyone with questions to contact their nutritionist for clarification.

Edited March 25, 201511 yr by BLERDgirl

3rd day post op when do u recommend going back to work?

I went back a week after surgery.

A few things from my list are eggs (moist), cottage cheese, mashed banana (only fresh fruit I can have), canned no sugar peaches, pears, fruit cocktail, cooked veggies mashed (green beans), mashed potatoes, thin slices turkey or chicken deli meat, canned chicken, tuna, egg salad, ham salad, chicken salad, refried Beans, fish(Blah), boiled lean meat chopped with broth, crockpot chicken (as long as it's moist). There is more on my list. I tried taking a pic of my list but couldn't get it to work.

I'm currently eating my first solid food (softly scrambled eggs) in 4 weeks. So good!

Edited March 26, 201511 yr by Riz2006