Hi! I'm one week out and have the okay to start puréed diet. I am having a really hard time figuring out what to eat/drink, how much and when! Can y'all share any websites or ideas for meal plans? Thanks!

On Facebook there a many groups with recipes. One I follow is Bariatric Recipe Exchange.

I was and still am a huge fan of Soup. I look for ones with 7 grams or more of Protein. Just be careful of the ones with rice, they can hurt early on.

I remember a hugely popular recipe when I was starting was Baked Ricotta. Just take a bowl and spread ricotta on the bottom, nuke it. Then add a layer of spaghetti sauce and then a bit of shaker cheese. Nuke it again and enjoy.

Which surgery did you have?

I pretty much took anything I made for my family and tried to purée it.

Sloppy joes, Salisbury steak, ground chicken with a little fat free gravy,

I would have my Protein and then a healthy carb puréed like carrots, sweet potato, applesauce.

I also had cream of wheat.

What failed for me was egg, egg salad, pretty much anything to do with eggs which I loved before surgery I simply cannot tolerate now.

I'm curious on recipes as well, just about to hit pureed

During the pureed stage you should be having soft foods, be careful of ground meats or any meats even though you can puree them they can be hard to digest. Stick with canned meats, soft fishes, tuna, cottage cheese, scrambled eggs(love eggs eat one very day!). yogurt and of course your protein drink. What I have been having now everyday for lunch is 1/2 cup yogurt with a scoop of protein powder, delicious! Careful trying to consume veggies at this point as you probably are still trying to fit in all of your protien which at this stage is the most important. FYI: ricotta is not very high in protein per serving size I would substitute cottage cheese.

I baked fish to add some diversity to the puréed.

@@Djmohr What happened when you tried eggs? Did it make you throw up? I love the idea of eating what everyone else is eating, just puree it. What about sugar content in spaghetti sauce, etc?

eggs actually sit very heavy, make me nauseous and yes I have thrown up from them. Sugar for me is ok unless I eat a lot of it at once. Fat for me is fine as well as long as I don't eat a lot at once.

I can have a few spoonfuls of a dessert but if I do much more than that I will get sick. The good news is I don't like anything overly sweet and most recipes I make I cut the sugar in half or even more.

I had problems with eggs early on, now at 5 months I have no problem with them. I just can not eat more than about one egg. It does sit on my tummy heavy that is why less fills me up faster and I have found that if I eat more than that I am very uncomfortable.