Ick on sweet potatoes for me. Not no how, not no way lolYou absolutely can puree anything. My program gave a recipe book and it had pureed grilled cheese
The suggestion, as Diane mentioned, is add gravy. Just go slowly, since it can be hard to figure out fullness early on. Also, some foods sit heavier than others.
I personally loved mashed sweet potato with a little maple syrup and cinnamon.
I’m so curious— how do you purée a grilled cheese?! I start purée Monday.You absolutely can puree anything. My program gave a recipe book and it had pureed grilled cheese
The suggestion, as Diane mentioned, is add gravy. Just go slowly, since it can be hard to figure out fullness early on. Also, some foods sit heavier than others.
I personally loved mashed sweet potato with a little maple syrup and cinnamon.
Thank you! I’m going to try for lunch todayI could not share the pic I took as its too big. But here's a PDF lol
omg this is so helpful! thank you very much. i told most of my family, just for support but i like the idea of smashing the food together! my surgery is next Thursday and im getting so nervous/ excited.That's exactly what I had, though not at Thanksgiving. I found that white meat turkey has the largest percentage of protein of any meat. So I used a blender and heated up some Magic Milk and measured my turkey and mashed and gravy and smooshed it all together, then ate it with a spoon. After putting it in a bowl, I topped it with whole-berry cranberry sauce and it was delicious. I could have included sweet potatoes, but didn't have any in the house. I'd eaten with relatives a year or so before, and I just used a fork to smash what little portion I ate, while smearing the rest around my plate and announcing I was stuffed. No one knew how little I'd eaten because I vowed not to tell people. I knew they'd just dismiss my weight loss or say I was cheating. To this day, only my son and best friend know I had the surgery. I stick to that story because even with surgery, it's not exactly a cakewalk to recover and design your daily diet around health and restraint.
for the holidays, just use a fork. Get rid of that spoon and knife and smash your food a lot before you chew it slowly and swallow wee bits. It's really easy to appear like a person with restraint, who doesn't gorge herself over the holidays, and if, like me, you want to keep your life choices private, no one will ever know the difference. you can even have a sliver of pie and leave most of the crust on your plate. if you look around the table, you'll notice big piles of food on many plates, where they overserved themselves and couldn't eat it all.
Eat slowly, talk a lot, put your fork down between tiny bites, and halfway through, declare that you're stuffed like a turkey! At home, use a blender. It's actually really tasty.
I'm actually worried about puree phase. I'm a picky eater and have issues with texture. I feel like there is alot of yogurt and eggs in soft/puree phase.
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I was NOT eating pureed meat .. Talk about texture issues Yuck!
I basically ate only dinner as puree, which was refried beans with a little cheese and salsa (SO good after no food for so long) and mashed sweet potatoes with maple syrup and cinnamon. For soft food I added slow cooked salsa chicken to my refried beans
The thought of any type of meat in a blender - just ewww. So not my deal but others love it! You could eat mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, egg salad - mash up a couple of deviled eggs - this was my go to food in the puréed stage. As long as I could mash it with my tongue my surgical team was ok with me eating it.
My sister in law had bypass 10 days before thanksgiving last year. She ate mashed potatoes, deviled eggs, stuffing with gravy. She ate more food than I did - I was almost 2 yrs post-op then.
Just be mindful of what you eat. Most have had issues with certain foods after gastric surgery. Mine is bread. I still have issues with bread.