I am just over 12 weeks out from gastric bypass surgery and have only consumed creamed or blended/pureed soups. I have come across two great recipes one for white chicken chili and one for cheesy chicken and cauliflower soup. So I am just wondering how much to consume per meal? I don't have a caloric/protein per serving breakdown so just wondered what others do with soups, stews and chilis to ensure you are getting the proper nutrients per meal.

In the beginning the meal volume is so small, it almost doesn't count towards your Protein requirement. But as time goes on and your volume increases, the protein in meals will begin to significantly count towards reaching your daily protein requirement. In my case I would make a pot of chili or Soup and add up all the calories and protein of everything I put in the pot. Then I would divide by the volume in each meal. Since a pot of chili or soup would last almost a week and since I repeatedly used this as my meals, it made sense. I put a couple recipes on the internet at the end of the following article, if you are interested. http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Surgery.pdf

I found that early on with the bypass I was lucky if I could consume 1/4 to 1/2 cup. The thing with Soups and stews, unless they had a lot of dense Protein in them, they do not keep me full for long.

I found them to be more of a slider food. I started adding double the chicken or beef into my soups and that really helped.

The more protein in them, the less volume I could eat but the longer I stayed full.

I hope this makes sense?!

Ah responses from my two favorite posters! I hoped you would answer James as I have read your blog and new that you consumed a lot of soups and chilis.