Graduated to solids

I had my diet advancement class today and I am officially off of the blended diet!  Finally!!!  Wooo Hooo.  So glad.

Off the blended diet is definitely happy dance time.  How are you doing with the transition to solid food?

No problems what so ever so far...knock on wood. Kendra

So, prepare me...what are you eating?  I envy you!

My docs suggest three or four (I'm not looking at the paperwork right now, I actually forgot it at the dr's office and I'm waiting for it to come in the mail) phases of solids.  Softer solids to begin with and sticking with it for a week to see how you tolerate it, then move on th the next phase.  I believe breads are the last phase. Besides the basics for breakfast (yogart, cottage cheese, carnation instant breakfast, sliim fast), I can now have a regular poached egg.  For lunch I had chili and dinner I had a slice of roast beef (deli meat).  All of which you have to chew to a puree in your mouth first.  I got some dry roasted lightly salted peanuts.  They're high in fat, but it's the "good" fats and they have only 1g of sugar and they're high in protein.  I chew them till they're almost like peanut butter before I swallow. I made a turkey burger (97%lean) with cheese, NO BUN and ate that.  That's all I could eat though.  I couldn't fit anything else. So far that's all...we're going away camping this weekend I made a HUGE batch of chili (found some sugar free beans) to take with me.  Then I also found some Fat free hot dogs that I'll try, but with NO bun.   Well I got to run.  Hope this helps.   Take Care, Kendra