I'm on Amazon looking for things to stock my pantry with & saw Progresso canned soups and wondered if I can take their Split Pea Soup or Italian Wedding Soup and whizz the crap out of it in my Vitamix and it be acceptable for pureed stage?

I'm looking on this site for recipes and am having a hard time finding any without reading/scrolling five pages in....I know we're all well intended but the posts sometimes get off topic or bulked up with other things....thank you!

39 minutes ago, MissT_SR said:

can take their Split Pea Soup or Italian Wedding Soup and whizz the crap out of it in my Vitamix and it be acceptable for pureed stage?

Mr dietitian said that if I can get a generally acceptable food through the blender and it can pass through a fine strainer (or cheesecloth) then it's okay.

Check with your practice dietitian or your surgeon.

Purees still need to meet your nutritional goals, so no you can't just blend anything. Protein first.

I was thinking mainly for the pureed stage to supplement protein shakes but, yes, I did forget about our credo: Protein First. Thank you!!

After my RNY (I am 4 years out) my PA told me that anything that I could puree was ok. But I really think he meant with added protein. I had a severe reaction to watermelon because of what he said. LOL I figured that watermelon was safe enough without pureeing it. Man, I was so wrong!!! I had the back door trots so bad and it had so much acid!! You can just imagine how bad it was!! So yes I think you can puree anything buy like was said get your protein in also. Good Luck

Check with your surgeons office but I was allowed to eat well mashed tuna with a bit of light mayo during pureed stage.

I also pureed scrambled eggs with some chunky salsa for a "huevos rancheros" puree meal, it was pretty good. And I was able to have lentil soup that I made myself because the lentils are tiny and get so soft. That was my go to yum food for a long time, it was very flavorful. I was able to freeze small containers to save for later.

Check with your Dr. seems they each have very specific idea's regarding what is right and what is not. While I cannot have any citric fruit (oranges, grapefruit, lemons, etc); tomatoes, V8 Juice, or anything along this line for almost 6 months I have noticed that some from this site have had some of these items as early as day 2. I would hesitate to have puree a soup with tomatoes if your Dr does not want you having them for several more months. We have to be careful with the slightest item, food - movement - medication - whatever in these early months as the sack inside continues to heal

I find that unless one is a strict vegan/vegetarian, almost anything can be obliterated to tiny particles in an excellent blender then mixed with 25mL, 50mL, 75mL, 100mL or 125mL of pourable raw egg whites.

These amounts of egg whites offer an extra 15g, 29g, 44g, 58g or 73g of extra dietary protein respectively.

Egg whites blended into anything else are near to neutral. Makes swallowing anything else easy for most people.

My dietitian and surgeon applauded this idea for protein building.

Each 55g (2oz) egg only adds 7g protein plus a whack of fat and may kick your cholesterol count way out. Egg whites are negligible to zero cholesterol depending on brand or processing.