I progress to a "regular" diet on Thursday, and I'm eager to be able to start eating crunchy things again (and fibrous, though I know I'll probably have try those gradually - I miss broccoli)! The thing is, I don't know WHAT crunchy things I want to eat. Obviously chips are a no-go (though I do have a bag of Quest protein chips to try). Baby carrots will probably be on the list, but I don't know what else!

(I see my surgeon on Thursday afternoon, so I will find out then if I have any specific restrictions or things I need to wait to try -- I'm expecting salad to be one, though I reallllllly have been wanting a good spinach salad lately.)

Even when you finally get back to regular food (and it is a wonderful thing!), you will mostly want to start with soft foods--things like chicken salad or hash or applesauce. I suppose as long as you chew it well enough until it's really soft, even the chips and so on would be fine, though. As always, check with your doctor and nutritionist. Enjoy the food!

1 hour ago, XYZXYZXYZ1955 said:

Even when you finally get back to regular food (and it is a wonderful thing!), you will mostly want to start with soft foods--things like chicken salad or hash or applesauce. I suppose as long as you chew it well enough until it's really soft, even the chips and so on would be fine, though. As always, check with your doctor and nutritionist. Enjoy the food!

I've already passed the puree stage (read: sick of applesauce), and I'll be finishing the soft stage tomorrow and advancing to regular diet on Thursday. I'm already eating poultry, cheese, soft veggies/fruit, etc.

Sorry: I misinterpreted. Well . . . nuts! that's the first crunchy thing I can think of, given that I just finished some walnuts. Salad is good. Probably any of the non-starchy vegetables would be fine. If you're not doing low-fat, get some pork rinds? If you are not doing low-carb/no carb, some whole-grain bread for toast? I eat rice cakes for snacks--there are a ton of flavors available now (had some tomato basil recently) and you can put peanut butter or cheese on them for the protein . . .

This is a great question. I'm almost to that stage. Interested in seeing what the first food stuffs people started eating! Anything backfire? LOL I am so ready to crunch too!

I started with raw veggies like carrots, skinned cucumbers, broccoli, ect. I would stay away from uncooked celery for now. But almonds might be a good thing to try. I am not a nut person, but I could see that being satisfying . I also ate skinned apple slices and that was GREAT. I loved feeling like I was chewing something. But for me, I have to skin everything. Otherwise the skin ends up in a wad left over after I've chewed everything else to liquid. I can no longer eat grapes for this reason. As far as crunch goes, I thought I'd want something more but turns out I couldn't find much that was healthy.