I had the sleeve 12/21/22. I am about a week and a half into starting puréed foods and I am struggling big time. What I’ve tried, hurts, and I can’t think of what foods to try puréed. Anyone out there have suggestions of mush/puréed that worked for them? Right now I am doing three smoothies a day, yogurt, jello, and pudding in between and I’m just not feeling satiated.

I had ricotta bake a bunch. It's ricotta cheese and some marinara/spaghetti/or pizza sauce baked in the oven for a few minutes just to get it warm. I was also allowed to eat egg salad and chicken salad. I just put it in the blender with a tablespoon of low fat mayo and mustard and other seasonings. It hurt to eat too many bites of any of those for me though.

I'm still in the liquid phase, but I am looking forward to pureed turkey chili and pureed chicken salad without the bread/sandwhich in my future

if it's hurting, you might want to go back to liquids for a few days and then try again. Sometimes your stomach isn't quite ready to move on to the next stage. It's always fine to go back a stage if need be.

You could try baby food. I was told it was an option and it’s a lot cheaper than buying a blender or a food processor that I’ll never use. That’s what I’m gonna do, plus I can use the glass jars for crafts after.

I did baby food. turkey and sweet potato was my favorite. Cream of chicken soup made with dry powder milk to add protein.

You might want to take an extra few days of liquids to give yourself some extra healing time. Everyone heals at a different pace.

If it continues too long, contact your surgeon.

I made egg salad and chicken salad and pureed them both. I also had ground turkey taco meat pureed. I think for the most part that was about it because the texture of most stuff pureed is gross to me.

Really though, you can puree anything. You may need to add some liquid to thin it out a bit though. If what you are eating is dry, that may be causing some of your pain.

I really enjoyed refried beans with taco bell sauce although some people aren't allowed spicy things at 1st. I didn't consider the mild sauce to be spicy and it didn't hurt to eat for me but just a thought. I also ate prune baby food. I had a lot of constipation issues after surgery so it was nice to get the fiber and it was actually more yummy and sweet then I thought it would be. Good luck and take care!

Egg salad, refried beans, and cottage cheese were the things I ate the most often.

3 hours ago, Hope4NewMe said:

I really enjoyed refried Beans with taco bell sauce although some people aren't allowed spicy things at 1st. I didn't consider the mild sauce to be spicy and it didn't hurt to eat for me but just a thought. I also ate prune baby food. I had a lot of constipation issues after surgery so it was nice to get the Fiber and it was actually more yummy and sweet then I thought it would be. Good luck and take care!

Yeah I tried to add hot sauce to my diet again, worst idea ever.