Non dairy, high protein, cheeze sauce.

1/2 a cup is a lot of real estate to give up for just 5-6 grams of low quality protein.

Sadly I can only choke down so much tuna. The following are all out at this time- cottage cheese, cheese, all high concentration whey protein. The protein shakes that I can take have very few flavor options, and the scoop is 33gms for 24 gm protein. It takes 12-15 oz of liquid and hours to get that non-appetizing stuff down. I am open to suggestions. My nutritionist and the gals at my doc's office all seem baffled by what to do with me.

Oh, and to add to the fun, I was enjoying scrambled eggs until Monday when THEY started making my stomach rebel!

My doctor wants me up to 170 gm protein eventually, but I am struggling to get up to 80 at this point and that includes forcing down 2 protein shakes per day.

You're not quite a month out---things will get better. And honestly, you don't have to cram in all that much protein right now. Back when I had surgery, the rule of thumb was 30-60-90---30 grams by 30 days, 60 grams by 60 days, etc. Your body does have some stored protein it can use while you're getting up to speed.

Have you been allergy tested recently? I had lots of food intolerances, thinking I was allergic to milk. My allergy test revealed not milk, but eggs, tuna, shrimp, lobster, white fish, hazelnuts, pecans( no mixed nuts). Eliminating these, and having 1/2 C heavy whipping cream in a 16oz  shake helps me get 200g + protein a day. I use Dymatize Elite- 6 flavors, and protein fruit drink mix- Bari Wise brand. At one month I used liver pate on rice crackers for protein, and protein broths, protein hot chocolate, and tea. Warm drinks felt better in my new tummy. It takes 6 weeks for internal healing. Nothing tastes right for a few months post surgery. Its the anesthesia, and all the meds. I tasted a metallic  flavor in everything, even water.

Jay Robb has egg protein shake mixes, and there are soy protein shake mixes. I didn't care for the soy. check out The Vitamin Shoppe for Jay Robb, and health food stores for soy shake mixes. I also had tummy troubles with splenda/sucralose. My mouth was chemically burned by the iron/C tabs refluxing while I slept, ending up in my trachea affecting my voice. Elimination diets are the best way to isolate problem foods and products. I know how frustrating it all can be, and it takes months to figure it all out.

I've eaten vegan and vegetarian in the past, and I've made a cheese sauce (as fondue dip) using those same ingredients, although they may have had slightly different amounts. I choked it down because it was lower fat than real cheese, and I wouldn't eat high fat foods pre-ds.

It was not very good. I never found a vegan cheese that I actually liked, and am so grateful now that I can eat cheese with abandon with no worries about the fat.

Also, nutritional yeast in large doses tastes like butt. A little can be ok, like sprinkled on buttery popcorn, but too much in a recipe, at least to me, is really unpleasant.

You are early out, and getting the full amount of protein this soon is not mandatory with most of our surgeons. Not much tasted good to me for months, so when I drank protein or ate eggs or some meats, I thought of it as medicine, and just choked it down. Things will taste good again, and you will actually crave foods again, but for now, you just have to eat the proteins you can, and things like lactose intolerance usually lessen for many of us, making it easier as time goes on.

If you are getting 80g of protein a day you are doing amazing for 3+ weeks post-op.  That is much more than most of us did at that stage.  Take it easy on yourself.  You will have the DS for the rest of your life - you will have time to get the protein levels up.  In the mean time,  you might want to research is the QUALITY of different sources of protein.  Not all proteins are created equal.  For instance, both peanuts and rib eye steaks have protein; the protein in one of those two food items is very high quality protein and the other one is not.