Ideas Please: Clear Liquid Diet

Hi All,

I have to be on clear liquids for two days prior to surgery.  I'm on Day 1, and already harping for variety ideas for my clears.  I'm using the "better than broth", popsicles, and SF Jello...but those are boring..

My question is:  What is your favorite clear liquid?  (If it is something you made, how did you "spice it up to make it more interesting?)

Thanks for your suggestions!

:-D

I just went from broth, to jello, to tea, to crystal light, to dilluted apple juice. It's boring, you just gotta do it. Isopure makes a clear protein drink, but I found it way too sweet.

The best thing I had was my husbands suggestion. He took chilled watermelon cubes, pureed them in the mini food processor, then strained. It was delicious!

Clear = you can see through them. So not alot of variety out there :)

Water, flavoured water, tea, coffee, apple juice, Crystal Light (101 flavours there)

Wishing you all the best ~ it's worh it and you can do it.

I would go to a Chinese restaurant and find a good soup and just ask for the broth...delicious!!!

when I have to do liquids (on the day of my fill) I like to stop at my favorite Mexican restaurant and get a bowl of Chicken Tortillia Soup -- I strain out the solids and sip the broth.

It is much tastier than anything I can get out of a can.

As far as clear liquid proteins, I can tolerate the Isopure clear stuff.
I don't really 'like' it, but I can get it down.
I mix the Grape flavor with some Crystal Light grape and it is not bad.

Instead of broth, I mix the flavor pack out of  ramen noodles with ho****er and sip on that. Yum.

Vitamin Shoppe carries Protein Blitz drinks that are tropical punch and grape flavored .  I think they taste good and are loaded with protein (30g) and only 1 carb and no fat ... got me through 3 weeks of liquids ...  

I ate a lot of won ton soup- minus the won ton's. You can pick it at about any Asian restaurant for really cheap. I also had hot and sour soup strained.  Tom Yum soup strained- Thai restaurant or if you want a recipe, PM me.

I loved the fruit punch crystal light.

When I got desperate, I strained the salsa. I went through probably 4 bottles during my preop phase.

Lots of Orange Jello. I wasn't allowed red food dye or else I would have went with Cherry.

That should get you started.

I buy Progresso soup (broth based, not cream based), heat it and then strain out the veggies and noodles.  You get lots of flavor and it still qualifies as 'clear'.