Need some help with my food options???

I had my surgery on the 30th of October and all is well. When I went in for the class and post op 1 week I found out that I had lost 17 pds already. That was great and I was so excited to be able to move on to some real food. But as I found all of those things (eggs, cottage cheese and refried beans) I loved b4 but not now. I would always love the eggs w/cheese and ketchup or salsa and the beans with the same and cottage cheese w/tomatoes or a little bit of ranch. I am finding none of these things to be appetizing whatsoever. I at least really like the Unjury protien powder, just like I heard on here, hot like coco. Does anyone have any suggestions to help me to be able to get these things down?? Or this is going to be a long 10 days for these foods. Any additional suggestions for the following 10 days when meat and string cheese are added would be great tooo!!! Thanks

Holly good to see you posting! I hope everything went very well, from the sounds of your loss, you are doing things right. I remember not having a lot of options at that stage. I had to eat my eggs poached, that was the only way I get them to stay down. I had to sprinkle my cottage cheese with splenda, which satisfied my sweet tooth, and the beans, well I still eat a lot of those. I add in some salsa. Just keep drinking and get all your protein in. And lots of exercise!

The new pouch is a funny animal. Foods you use to love, now you hate. Foods you hated now become your favorite. And it varies from day to day. Try refried beans with cheese and sour cream. How about making chili and running it thru the blender? I still eat a lot of chili, even in the summer. It always tastes good to me and always goes down. For scrambled eggs, make sure they are very soft. Mix in cheese and cook just until set. Yogurt, made with splenda. For cottage cheese, put a couple spoonfuls of spaghetti sauce on it and nuke it. Tastes like lasagna. Don't be too quick on the meat. Be smart and stay away from red meat unless it's hamburger. Make sure any meat is very moist and really chew it to mush. Soon you will be able to eat anything. This stage won't last forever! Thank goodness!

Holly, I am glad you are doing well. I was wondering about you. I just can't wait to eat any food. The water is tough but I am trying to work through it. I had to go in for fluids through an IV today. They told me if I couldn't get enough in tomorrow I would need a G-tube (Yikes!) So I am going to bed early so I can get up at a good time to try and squeeze it in.

Holly, like the others have said, the dang pouch is a fiesty creature. Some days it's nice some days it's pissy. I call mine 'Oscar the Pouch' for a reason. You might want to try some ricotta with a few spoons of speghetti sauce and mottzi cheese sprinkled on top. Heated, it's like a noodle free lasagna and I ate quite a bit of it in the early days. SF jello and pudding are good fall backs as well. I was also able to eat tuna mixed with low fat/FF mayo. Fresh Shrimp coctail was also a staple and still is. Lots of protein too!! Hope that helps. Zen

holly like the other said the pouch is a frustrating thing some days im great others i smell food and gregurl reccota is a great base for a lot of stuff it mixes well and tast good if your in to sweat stuff a dab of a extract in it is verry neat i like almond and a touch of cinnonmon the spagety sauce is asoume try yougert with pro pouder in it and ive even been abule to put a little (very little gronula in it to for a nice crunch it sofents up and it chews ok and when you get too meats remember wet is best for me hamberger hurts even if it mush but chille is ok if blended youll have to gust live a find out what works for you i love string cheese and all cheese in fact but i cant do hard stuff like chedder it just upset my pouch good luck and if you need any thing im hear for you steve 498/400 surgery date 27 sep