Pureed Diet

Hi all! I had my surgery (open RNY) on 9/13 and am feeling pretty darn good! On Monday I get my staples out (Yea!) and my surgeon will advance my diet to pureed foods. Any suggestions? The dietician has said I can have scrambled egg and recommends baby food. I'd appreciate any tips! THanks! Judy

My suggestion would be to do whatever your surgeon tells ya!!! That being said.....baby food sucks!!! There are a lot better choices for ya. Good luck with the eggs, make sure you make them runny.....a lot of folks have major problems with eggs.....I am 9 months out and real eggs still make me I can handle egg beaters tho.....weird huh! Cottage cheese is another easy one to eat on pureed diet, plus it has protein......Mabye pudding with some protein powder mixed in it! Any soup pureed is pretty good.....Get like a Split pea na ham or bean and bacon and you are getting protein too!!! Goode luck Jesi

Judy, Congratulations and welcome to the losing side of this adventure!!! I'm so glad that things went well for you. I agree with Jesi, that you need to do what the surgeon suggests. Do you see a dietician with your program? If so, he or she would have some good ideas for the pureed diet. I never actually pureed anything or ate baby food. The mere thought sounds gross! I ate things like cottage cheese, refried beans with melted cheddar cheese, cream soups and pudding made with protein powder or dry milk powder. Fat free, sugar free white chocolate pudding made regularly with your 2 cups skim milk is great with some added dry milk powder. It taste like cheese cake! I also ate some tortellini cooked until well done in chicken broth. It was a mushy food. Often time, people also eat mashed potatoes. If you do, I would add cheese or tasteless protein powder or dry milk powder for added protein. (I don't eat tortellini or potatoes hardly at all now because I limit starches.) Hope that all continues to go well and that this list helps. God bless, Andrea P.\s. Sugar free popsicles are wonderful. I love blue bunny sugar free bomb pops!! They are "the bomb" and count as fluids!