Is a popsicle considered food or a liquid? Silly question

I like to eat an occasional sugar-free popsicle.  Should it be eaten with my meal as a food or can I have it any time and consider it a liquid because it melts down?

This sounds like a silly question but my doctor is just at week three having me limit my liquids to 30 minutes before and one hour after meals. 

Thanks for your replies!

Julie

I think they should be treated as a liquid, that's how I treat them.  I even count them as part of my fluid intake.  Learned that here on this board!!!  Thanks everyone!

Not silly at all! It is a liquid.

And I don't know why some doctors have you stop drinking 30 mins before a meal-liquids pass right through the pouch....

It is definitely harder to get my liquids in with doing it this way but I will follow his rules.  Off to eat my liquid popsicle now.

Thanks for your responses.

Julie :)

Yes! Always follow the rules your doctor gives you-smart cookie!

Liquid.  According to my surgeon (and some apparently disagree), anything you could suck through a straw or that melts into liquid is a liquid.  That includes protein shakes (that is the part some surgeons disagree with for some reason).

Lora

Thank you Lora! Shakes ARE liquid and run right through the pouch.

i agree! i was told on here from someone if at room temp it is a liquid and if you can drink it through a straw its a liquid. and i say you can drink right up to eating but wait a while after. think of your pouch as a funnel. it doesnt have the muscle a normal stomach does called a sphincter(yes, same as your rear which holds the food so the acids can start the digestion process.

I was taught early out that the popsicles were to be treated as liquids.  Also my NUT said that even though the protein shakes were technically liquids, they were to be treated as solids since they were most often used as a meal replacement or snack (so as not to drink for 30 minutes after they are consumed). Ask 10 different doctors that question and you will probably receive the same number of responses.