Soup's On
I'm about 14 weeks PO now and doing pretty well with the food and vitamins and water. I have a question about soup, though. Since it's mostly liquid and I'm supposed to wait 30 minutes after eating solids to have liquids, how do you have soup as a part of a meal? Do you eat it first, and then have the solids? Put the solids into the soup?
The meal I have planned for the evening is butternut squash soup, wilted spinach, and a little pork loin. How should I approach this?
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The reason we don't eat and drink at the same time is so we don't wash food out of our pouch, because without a pyloric valve any more it will flow on through. Thus you will get hungry -- because you have washed all the food out of your stomach.
If you eat soup - or cereal, just be aware that you may not be full for long and you can probably eat more than you expect.
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It depends on the soup. If it has a broth and chunky stuff in it (like a stew), then I do the broth first (like a liquid), and then eat the chunky stuff. If it is a creamy soup, then I eat that and then eat the rest of the meal. In your meal example, I would eat the soup, then the pork and spinach. You might get more calories than you originally plan for or are used to, but for me, I struggle to remember to eat, so more calories is not a problem.
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Well, I figured I could control the calories by controlling the portion size. If I'm eating 3/4 C. soup, it's still just 3/4 C. If I then eat 2-3 oz. lean pork loin and 1/4 wilted spinach, it's still just those amounts. I agree, though, that it seems like it would be best to treat the soup like a "1st course" in this case. For lunch tomorrow, I'm planning on some tomato soup with protein powder in it and maybe an apple (they really fill me up) so I'll do the same thing tomorrow.
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I think you will be fine with that but you have to consider the tomato soup as a liquid. You might want to take some small snacks to supplement it later in the day.
I should add that I fix chunky soups quite often and I load them up with chicken, beef, or ham with cheese, veggies, mushrooms, and onions. My last labs were better than they have ever been.
