I was thinking about the first thing I would like to eat after the band and after the liquid and mushie stage - and I'm thinking it's going to be jelly lol only because it's soft and tastes good and I figure it won't hurt going down that or I might try some potato bake or something along those lines - something soft that I only need to have 2 mouthfulls and I can feel the effect. So what was the first thing you ate?

Nacho Supreme at Taco Bell. Mac n Cheese & mashed potatoes at KFC. Great choices right?

Chili. We were in Laughlin, Nevada for a mini anniversary trip, and i ate less than half of the cup of chili I ordered.

CHILI!?! Didn't that hurt going down? I'm not banded yet so I obviously have no first-hand experience!

I plan on having 'Portebello Pizza',,a recipe that is on my Doc's website,,,Involves cooked spinach, basic soft pizza toppings atop a portebello mushroom as crust. I would have had this pre~band!!!

I was thinking about the first thing I would like to eat after the band and after the liquid and mushie stage - and I'm thinking it's going to be jelly lol only because it's soft and tastes good and I figure it won't hurt going down that or I might try some potato bake or something along those lines - something soft that I only need to have 2 mouthfulls and I can feel the effect. So what was the first thing you ate?

Hmmm... jelly (and yogurt) was on my list for the full liquids stage and potato bakes were on my mushie list - as given by the doctor. What do you see as "after the liquid and mushie stage"?

My first "real" food, i.e. not Soups, not pureed, just "normal" food was grilled chicken, boiled potato (a tiny baby one) and steamed veges. I kind of phased my "mushies" slowly into "soft foods", without much of a distinction though. I ate quite a few slow-cooked casseroles that would have been "normal" food and counted them as mushies in the later stages of that phase.

Edited June 8, 200818 yr by Fanny Adams

Mexican Lasagna :tt1:from Little Rose's Cantina.. It is a very busy place and the 3 times I went there before LB I could'nt wait 45min - 1 hr. I tried going at off times and that is bad when you can't get in at 30 min. in off times. I told my kids that when I can eat again that I was treating them all as long as someone orders the lasagna so I can have a couple of bites!

Today will be my first day of solids (albeit SOFT solids). I plan to have some egg salad for lunch and fish for dinner....yum!

I had loaded potato soup when I started my full liquids phase. It was heavenly:drool:. I just ate the creamy part, none of the potato chunks or bacon. I couldn't finish the bowl, so I took the leftover home and had it for 2 more meals.

I picked up some stuffed flounder from the grocery and baked it at home with a side of green beans. It was wonderful. The flounder was stuffed with crab and tiny shrimp. The 1 piece actually made 2 meals for me.