Please share what foods you ate during the pureed and soft food stages. Post surgery, I will be full liquids for 2 weeks, then pureed for 2 weeks, followed by soft foods for 2 weeks. After that, I will be on regular foods. I'm sure I will have to rely on Protein powder as so many meats are hard to puree without adding liquid, sauces or gravies. Does anybody know of a good place to find recipes? Thank you for your thoughts and recommendations.

I never puréed anything for my husband and I. We continued shakes, mashed up soft scrambled or boiled eggs, soft refried beans, and chili which had no large clumps of anything. Add in yogurts, small curd cottage cheese, and mashed avocado, and I am very good at making bisques and quiche with no crust. Small bites, chewed very well.

@@Armygalbonnie Hummus, cottage cheese, ricotta bake, refried Beans (melted cheese, sour cream), greek yogurt, blended chicken and make a buffalo dip. Some more soft foods - egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, add avocado to any of those to change it up), baked white fish.

For the first 6 weeks - my plan says to supplement with Protein shakes or powder because the amount we will be eating will not be enough to meet protein goals.

Check out the blog "the world according to eggface". SHe has a post devoted to the pureed phase. And when pureeing meat - you can add some low sodium stock to get it to puree. Although I mostly pureed either tuna or chicken with a little plain nonfat greek yogurt - think pureed tuna salad. Her ricotta bake recipe also makes for a nice warm savory change.

During soft foods, I also did the tuna/chicken with greek yogurt - just not pureed. And baked tilapia - it's a fairly soft fish so as long as I chewed it well, it worked. When I baked it, I had it wrapped in parchment paper to keep it from drying out in the oven and just be careful not to overbake. Low sodium deli meat was also on my plan at this phase - again, chew very well.

Thank you for the resource, "the world according to eggface". What an awesome site. I really appreciate everyone's suggestions. I like the motto: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. I'm planning so I don't fail.

I applaud you for doing some research and setting yourself up for success!