Hi guys! Moving on from a 2-3 day soft food diet to pureed tomorrow. The Dr wants me to be eating a lot of meat now. The book says I should ONLY worry about Protein right now, as I don't have room for fruit and veggies, yet.

Here's whats on my surgeon's specific list -

Leab animal and dairy protein

Mozarella cheese, Lean Pork (sirloins or roasts preferred), Fish, Shellfish, Tuna, Light or Dark Meat Poultry....(beef is on there but I left it out since I don't eat it).

Anyway, this list sounds GREAT. But Pureed?! I am so sorry if I sound like a baby, but isn't that a liquid almost? I just can't imagine getting some tuna or shrimp and blending it until it's liquid and drinking it without gagging.

Any tips guys? Did any of you have this problem? Is it not as liquidy as I am thinking? Do you get used to it?

I am so grateful for your guys, I am truly blessed to have this place to come and ask questions from other bandsters that are kind and fair and know what I've gone through!! Thank you

My surgeon's office said that thin shaved turkey was good. I could eat it just like that. I pureed chicken breast. No, it wasn't liquid but it was very very finely chopped. You can add broth to it if you need to.

Isn't it kind of the consistency of a pate or even peanut butter? It's not liquid but kind of a meat paste. Like liverwurst. I haven't been there yet, just guessing.

My chicken was very dry. More like very finely chopped. If I was allowed to eat shaved meat, then I figured this was fine. Some people add the low fat gravy to their meat.

Erk. I would definitely make a Soup of some description, with lean meat and lentils or Beans in it, AND vegetables, blend it all up. I'm sorry, yes Protein is the most important nutrient right now, your body will have enough stores of other things to miss out on veges for a few weeks but you're going to find it awful to eat, impossible to get down even, and you're going to get super duper duper constipated. And probably bloated and gassy too. ONLY meat or protein for weeks? That's really not very doable. Focus on it yes, but Water it down with veges and broth so that you can at least swallow it!

And a moist vegetable like pumpkin and gravy and blended roast meat like beef or lamb was very palatable too.