I am coming up fast on my surgery, 3 days and counting. So I am attempting to food prep for recovery since I have 4 children ramging in age from 11 months to 12 years old., my hubby will have his hands full trying to take over as Mr Mom while I recover for the first 2 weeks.

I am hoping to have easy recovery meals planned out for me so all he has to do is microwave them for me or I can just throw them together easily.

I am planning so far on mostly pureed soups but mostly because I cant think of other things that appeal to me. Blending eggs is just not something I am going to be able to do. I dont eat fish, canned chicken, eggs, greek yogurt, cottage cheese or tuna. In the nutrition class that was almost all the recommended things. ?‍♀️

I have tried since october to be get use to cottage cheese, greek yogurt and canned chicken. But I havent been able to stomach any of it.

Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

check the blog "the World According to Eggface". She's a long time vet and loves to cook - she has lots of recipes for all stages

I am right there with you. Mine is on the 24th. I have two boys but my husband doesn’t do kids well at all.... so my kids are spending the week with my parents while I recover.

Eggfaces ricotta bake looks super good but that’s for later.
I don’t like a lot of their options they gave me for when I am finally ready for real food, canned chicken ? Yuk. Tuna? Never going to happen. When I do finally get to real food the pulled rotisserie chicken package from Costco is really moist and I can freeze and pull as needed.

I haven’t prepped a bunch of food yet. I am prepping some sugar free jello protein “shots” for post surgery. I have broths ready to go. Unflavored protein powder. I have some powdered potato (mix with broth and protein powder).

My plan has me on liquids for at least two weeks post op. So I haven’t bought a ton of stuff yet. I figured I would buy as I need.

I made chicken In the insta pot at that stage and it was very moist. I think that is the point of using canned. Maybe your dietitian will allow that.

What about regular plain yogurt with a bit of splenda/stevia/vanilla/honey? Goat cheese? (Not sure what is allowed as I'm several month prior to surgery, but I like food). Refried beans with cheese? I hit a wall with protein drinks this morning and I'm not a fan of eggs so I'm trying to find ideas for protein heavy breakfasts now, and I get it that trying to get yourself to eat something YOU JUST DON'T LIKE is not going to work!

Edited March 25, 20215 yr by lizonaplane