Post-Op Pureed Diet

Surgery is tomorrow morning! What are some of your favorite pureed items. (We have to make it nutritional AND enjoyable right?!!) I know everyone has different schedules, but I have to have pureed foods for 4 weeks post-op so I thought I'd see what others made.

Thanks!

Puree Day was the happiest day of my post-op life! I started cooking for my family again and we ate together! Woo!

I pureed a lot of foods that are "wet" already. So I'd do meatballs with a little marinara sauce, chicken curry that was mostly chicken with a little bit of curry sauce. Super meaty spaghetti sauce. Stuff like that. It worked out super well - I'd cook for my family and then puree up a cup for myself and get a good rotation going :)

OMG meatballs are a great idea! I love them.

Hummus was high on my list. Where I live there is a place called Zoe's Kitchen... I would get their pesto hummus and several other flavors... I ate it with a spoon.

Cottage cheese was, and still remains one of my favorites as well... pintos and cheese from Taco Bell is surprisingly awesome after surgery, and gives you an option that you can just pick up.

I also LOVED eggface's baked ricotta... she has several other ideas for pureed foods.

I never once pureed what my family ate. I just couldn't stand the idea of pureed meats... but I've heard some people liked it.

I pureed a variety of meats - chicken, turkey, salmon, tilapia - and did well. I also ate alot of cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, SF Jello and SF popsicles.

I made roasted butternut squash soup & brocolli and cheddar soup. I would let them cool a bit and then stir in a scoop of unflavored protein powder. The squash soup was my favorite, so comforting and full of veggies and protein. I never puréed meat, only recipes that were already intended to be puréed. (More of head thing than a taste thing I'm sure)

Congratulations - you're probably in the recovery room right now. Hopefully everything is going 100% ok!

So for puree ideas. Eggface is awesome. Bariatric Foodie used to have some recipes but I'm not sure she still has the site up. The ladies who started these websites are both OH members. Michelle (Shelly) does the Eggface one and Nikki Massie (Cleopatra_Nik) does Bariatric Foodie.

Also there may be some helpful ideas if you look the OH Recipes Forum over. So many ideas and of course nothing is for everybody. I used to buy Campbell's Chunky soup and either puree it or strain out any bits that didn't get mashed up. It added a LOT of flavor and about 10,000 different choices of soups.

You can also probably google this, and lastly there may be someone on one of the Daily Menu Threads who is on puree's. Sometimes seeing how other's are doing the various diet advancement phases gives us new ideas and the encouragement to realize that we aren't doing this alone.

Good luck. I know you'll get it figured out. The amount of stuff out there is mind-boggling. Enjoy!