OOOps!  Missy, I guess I REALLY didn't understand what "soft diet" meant!  I've been eating pasta, well toasted bread, ground turkey, etc. (it's soft! :) !)  About the only things I haven't eaten are hard fruit/veggies, steak and of course sugar and junk food.  I figure as long as my tummy says OK, it's OK! :)

I started on puree and now am on mechanical soft foods. so breakfast is egg with cheese mini banana.   lunch is tuna and light miracle whip.  dinner is fish with a small side of veg or yogurt etc.
I had infection so with antibiotic I am trying to add yogurt but found shrimp good too. When my father was in the hospital my choices were limited so I had more cottage cheese and yogurt, string cheese and hard boiled eggs.  I can manage about 1/2 cup per meal. just tried On-Cor turkey in gravy... gross.... yuk... but will find a back up. Water volume is the hardest to keep up.. I have two fortified milks each day so 24 protein there helps. doc increased my protein requirement to 75 g per day but the 64 oz of water was hard enough. now he wants 80..

I walked into my office this morning to find that someone that put a giant banana nut muffin on my desk! Yikes. I promptly gave it away to a co-worker!

Sip my water...prentending I am eating a banana nut muffin :)

Mini- I just started soft foods. She told me the best way to describe it is the foods I can't have.  I can't have pasta, rice, bread, hard vegetables, meats (chicken, pork, steak mostly), and salads. So I have been exploring my new foods! I am loving it!!!  I had Wendy's chili over the weekend.  A small cup (only .99) last me four or five meals! It was so good! Lets see I had lunch meat yesterday for lunch, and then made tunia salad (maynoses, mustard, tunia, and pickle ralish) for dinner and lunch today. I bought so new soups to try too. Oh, I also have had crap chucks that was really good too (good protein and vitamins). So far my pouch has been really good. I have had a couple times when I have not chewed my food all the way and it gets stuck, that is a little uncomfertable, and I don't like it, but it passes with in a couple of minutes.

The water for me is the hardest to get down. I was never a big water drinker before, so it is even harder now. I get about 20-30 oz in a day. The is the part I am working on the most but at least I know that. I will work on it more. Have you guys started your vitamins yet? The nurse just gave me mine on Monday to start. It is not to bad.

This sounds awesome count me in!