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Hello to all, I am 7 days away from surgery and trying to collect my things and prepare my shelves for after the surgery. Someone said I should use baby food for the pureed weeks. What stage do I use? Also is there a protein powder out there that is not chalky or gritty. Is this the norm. Would trader joes or vitamin shoppe have something good. Also any ideas for the first month are also welcomed. Thanks to all *****ply. Cynthia

Hi Cynthia - The Vitamin Shoppe, GNC and I understand Trader Joe's have great products. The worst problem is, many people's taste buds change after surgery and what you liked prior to the bypass, you may not care for after. Visit some sites and order samples of products or get with some members and see if they are willing to share samples (I would do that for you). Unjury (plain), has no taste or odor. I use it everyday in my Crystal Light lemonade. It has 20 grams of protein per scoop and I put a scoop in about 20 oz of C/L & sip it on & off all day. Unjury can be found at www.unjury.com I also had decent success w/Isopure (powder) strawberries & cream. Everyone is different (BELIEVE ME!) and we all enjoy different products. As far as the baby food? I skipped it. I did a lot of cottage & ricotta cheese, blended soups (cream of potato - add some unjury & cheese), bean w/bacon (NEVER would have eaten it before surgery!), I add cheese and unjury to this too (can't get the soup too hot, it'll break down the protein powder). If you can, use the fortified milk (32 oz skim or NF milk w/a pkg of NF dry milk), I add a teaspoon of light chocolate syrup and drink 6 oz - this is 12 oz of protein and it tastes good. Or there is Hood Carb Countdown milk & yogurt out there. You can do a lot with puddings - the favs I've heard are the instant sugar free chocolate & pistachio. One of the best recipes (I had to wing this w/o know how much to use & it came out fine). One pkg of pudding, 1/2 cup ricotta cheese, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup of light whipped cream. Whip this with a blender or mixer, put into 4-6 oz serving cups. It makes a mousse type dessert...you could/should also mix some Unjury in this. Anyway, I've given you a lot of info to absorb. Let me know if I can help out in any other way! You can email me directly if you would like - [email protected]. Valerie

Hey Cynthia, Also, you can ck my profile.....I've put some suggestions in there as well. Good Luck and God Bless