So I started on "soft/mushie" last Sunday. After botching a couple of meals in my magic bullet, I'm finding it much easier to just cut up (if needbe) what Protein I'm going to eat. I just cut it teeny tiny and puree it in my mouth, chewing until its watery. I don't sit there and count, but I know when I've chewed enough.

Anyone else not really use their food processor?

And things like eggs, yogurt, refried Beans, hummus - there is nothing to puree. Again, just make it mushy in my mouth.

I'm really surprised how easily I am eating and drinking. I have wasted a lot of money of useless items.

The pureed stage was so relatively short, it probably doesn't really matter. But when you transition to solid foods (like steak and chicken), that is where the difficulty begins most times.

I definately did it because I simply had a puree meat aversion. It made me gag and throw up. So I started using my fork to mash things up and then chewed like a crazy person.

I really followed more of the full liquid diet through the puree stage.

What made me mad was my nut had me make all these little containers of pureed turkey and chicken and freeze them. I tried it several times ended up vomiting or dry heaving every time and threw all that food away.

I haven't thrown up yet. but I have toss a bit of food away already. I tried turkey sausage this morning and while I didn't get sick, I just didn't like it and felt like it might fill me up too fast, before I ate my egg. I never liked sausage before, I don't know why I thought I'd like it now. Maybe because I want real food. I also bought some nice fresh cooked chicken breasts at Whole Foods and knew that was not good mashed, nor pureed. My husband took the remainer and made a wonderful casserole for himself. I them picked out the tiny bits of chicken and ate about two ounces and it was delicious.

My NUT is totally opposed to Soups, ugh, and no vegetables until who knows when, I think 8 to 10 weeks.