Five days post op in liquid diet and struggling for diversity. I am just having seeq protein water and miralax in plain water. Sick of clear broth and premier protein but would love to have ideas for something else. Any help please

Shakes, bone broths, broths, consommés, cream soups, protein water are really your only options. It’s essential to focus on your protein and to consume things that are thin enough not to irritate your poor swollen & healing tummy & digestive system.

Have you tried straining (really well so no little bits of herbs, vegetables, etc. in it) won ton soup or ramen noodles so you only have the broth? It might help by changing up the flavours you’re sipping. Try blending milk & a little yoghurt though it can be a little thick/dense & therefore difficult to tolerate at this stage & better in purée.

I varied between protein shakes and soups mainly. I made a lentil and carrot soup with a kick of chili that was delicious and got me through many meals. Reminds me that I must make it again

I also just had a low sodium liquid vegetable stock pot/cube a couple of times.

Your program might be different, but mine allowed sugar free pudding. Add a scoop of protein powder or peanut butter powder -- after it's set -- and/or make it with a milk like fairlife that has added protein.

During my stage, I went to my local fav Vietnamese restaurant and bought a couple servings of pho broth, which I added a little extra bone broth powder to.

I got tired of my protein shakes pretty quickly, but I'd use half of one to make a faux smoothie using either sugarfree drink mixes or sugarfree jello, watered down with extra milk or water so the sweetness wasn't overpowering.

(premier protein chocolate shake + nsa peanut butter powder (PB&Me) = peanut butter cup shake)

Tomato juice is awesome to awaken your taste buds after so much faux-sweet shakes. Campbells cream of tomato soup mixed really well with unflavoured protein powder for me, provided I added it after I finished heating the soup. (I used Boost unflavoured protein).

Thanks everyone

My program advised campbel cream based soups a- how did you make the lentil and carrot soup?

how does boost taste - isopure unflavored is too thick with an aftertaste

1 hour ago, Fars said:

Thanks everyone

My program advised campbel cream based Soups a- how did you make the lentil and carrot Soup?

how does boost taste - Isopure unflavored is too thick with an aftertaste

I used this recipe https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spiced-carrot-lentil-soup without the bread obviously and didn't bother holding half the spices back for toasting, I just bunged everything into the slow cooker for a few hours. Once cooked I blended it and added the yogurt. Then when I moved on to the soft stage (and going forward now), after the blending I add in a few extra pieces of carrot and leave it for about 30 minutes to soften them so it gave a bit of a bite before adding the yogurt.

I like spice so I used a tad more than a pinch of chili flakes, I probably have that in each portion Think I got 9 or 10 servings out of this

Edited June 11, 20242 yr by FifiLux

Wonderful suggestions thank you
Will try the Panera cream of chicken soup in a few days to see how it goes. Concerned about constipation since mainly on seeq protein water