I need something crunchy to eat with tuna or even just like a bread texture I'm in the soft foods stage though so I know I shouldn't be having crunchy any suggestions?

Saltines is what I was told today..

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I can have these during the soft food stage?

On 4/28/2017 at 6:41 PM, lexicolleenvsg said:

I need something crunchy to eat with tuna or even just like a bread texture I'm in the soft foods stage though so I know I shouldn't be having crunchy any suggestions?

Not sure if this is considered soft but I like celery & onions yellow or red chopped. You can also toast your bread. Toasted tuna is good.

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Crackers are a pretty terrible option. If you feel like you need crunch to eat tuna, don't eat tuna.

If you are trying to lose weight adding carbs back into your diet early on isn't a good idea.

You are craving crunch because you can't have it. Kind of the Forbidden Fruit syndrome. If you are only on the soft food stage, just be strong and hold on. It passes soon enough. Me personally, I wouldn't add saltine crackers back into my diet. Period. Even two years out.

Once you have been cleared for normal foods and you are in need of a crunch, celery is always the first thing people reach for because, you know... it's a vegetable. It's good for you. BUT it is also very fibrous and extremely difficult for many in the beginning. My recommendation is pork rinds. I know, you just made a face thinking about tuna and pork rinds. But plain pork rinds really only taste kind of smoky. If you add tuna salad on it, the taste is almost nil.

One last thing, try making your tuna salad with fage plain yogurt. It's a little different, but once you acclimate to it, it's almost impossible to go back to mayo based salads. Ugh, I shudder just thinking of the fatty/slimy texture of someone elses tuna, egg, or chicken salad.

Oh, I didn't know it was bad to have a couple. I was just at the last visit at the office nurse practitioner/Nutrition 2 hr group and they said that if we needed something with tuna saltines would be fine since we can only eat a couple. I haven't had my surgery yet so I am not sure if I would want them after, but I was just trying to give an idea. I didn't know you were early on.

I wouldn't go so far as to say a couple are bad, just worthless. There is no nutritional value other than the simplest of carbs. But they do turn soft and mushy quick, which is why they are given to hospital patients and people with upset tummys. They are bland.

If later when a bariatric patient is maintaining they want a cracker, the better choice would be a wheat thin or a triscuit (sp?). Basically a savory shredded wheat cracker thing that is at least high in fiber.

It was hard for me too but i was so excited to have tuna i didn't even CARE if i had anything crunchy with it lol. I just had to think about it like "yay i can have tuna now!" Not, "damn i can't have bread with it." Now if i have tuna i MIGHT have crackers or something but mostly i will have pickles or lettuce to wrap it in or just eat it by itself. I DO have carbs note and then but i make sure if or when i do it fits within my macros for that day and I've had my protein.

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