Question:
Any good recipes for the pureed food stage?

My fiance had the surgery 3 1/2 weeks ago and is just now starting the pureed stage. He is going crazy with what he is eating. I am trying to think of things i could puree but nothing sounds good. Any ideas??    — Kathlynn D. (posted on October 6, 2004)

October 6, 2004
HI I AM 10 DAYS POST-OP AND STARTED THE PUREED STAGE 2 DAYS AGO IBLENDED POTATOES WITH SWEET POTATOES TOGETHER WITH ONE TABLE SPOON OF OLIVE OIL AND DIVIDED IT ALREADY INTO PORTIONS (1 CUP-2PORTIONS)AND PUT IT IN THE FREESER. DID THE SAME WITH THE PUREED CHICKEN ORTURKEY +VEGETABLES SOUP.GOOD LUCK AND KEEP IN TOUCH. JULIANA FROM ISRAEL
   — JULIANA NAHMIAS

October 6, 2004
The person below... to much food. You should not be eating 1/2 cup of food. 1/2 cup of food is the max a bypass person should be eating at one meal after the person has been post-op for well over 6 to 8 months. Stay away from CARBS! Potato, Sweet Potato. PROTEIN! PROTEIN! PROTEIN! is what you should be eating only. That meal below has no protein at all. Your first concern is protein. Make sure you continue to protein drinks. You may not like them but this is what you need to heal and maximize you protein intake. At 10 days out you should only have 1 to 2 ozs of food per meal, 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. Buy yourself a food processer or food chopper. At this stage don't worry about it sounding good or tasting good. You need to get your proteins in. I would recommand talking to a dietitian and join a support group. GNC has a protein drink (Grape, orange, etc call ISOPURE. The bottle has a total of 40 grams of protein. Great to have between meals. Place any fish in the chopper and it will make it into a soft or paste food. MAKE SURE YOU USING POWdER MILK with all your meals. You need the extra protein. Healthy Valley makes a great no salt added soups. Make the soup and add powder milk. Campbell has Healthy Receipe Soups but watch the salt contents. There is Devils Ham Spread in a can he can have (not to much). Eggs scrambled. Baby Food. Puddings with powder milk added. Only introduce one food at a time. Continue to stick with protein drinks as you main protein intake. Again, stay away from carbs! Do not drink with a straw (BIG NO.. NO.) At this stage what you are trying to do is heal. Protein is the your main concern. Also have him keep this in mind. We are only eating to live, not living to eat. We have to change our mindset when it comes to food. Make sure he eats on little plates, eats with small forks (cocktail fork, small dessert spoon), eating at the table, placing his fork down with every bite. Should not eat any longer than 20 mins.(Any longer and he is grazing, and will eat more then he should). If he is not finished by then stop eating. Do not drink 1/2 hour before meals, during meals and at least 1 hour after. I'm 18 months post-op, have lost 191 lbs (currently 138 lbs). Most of my foods that I eat are liquids. The reason being is I can't stand waiting 1 hour to drink water after a meal. I find that drink soups, protein drinks I not dieing to drink something after I eat and I don't have to wait a full hour before I can start drinking again. I wait 1/2 hour. At the liquid stage - soft food stage you should be developing good eating habits. Remember, this surgery is a DIET TOOL. Yes Diet Tool. If you misuse the tool it will break. Good Luck and much success.
   — Linda R.

October 7, 2004
follow your doctors orders but mine says the following. there are 2 ways to puree. in a blender, or cut into no bigger than pencil eraser sized bits and chew to death. I did the pencil eraser sized bit ate off a saucer and had nice rare porterhouse steak at a month out.
   — bob-haller

October 7, 2004
Dear Kathlynn, I think the last poster made alot of sense, and obviously she has been very successful. However, everyone's body responds differently to the surgery and what they can and cannot eat. At my pre-op nutrition class, they said that we were allowed hot cereal and mashed potatoes at 3 weeks. I tried it and got sick. You do want to focus on protein if you can, instead of carbs. But I found that it can get old fast, if you do not like what you are eating. True, the main concern is nutrition, but it won't work if it becomes a drudgery. Here's what I did at 3 weeks: I made a turkey meatloaf, and I added all my favorite things to the blender: olives, roasted bell pepper, soft cheese, soft cooked squash, garlic, onion, celery, eggs, and a packet of Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing mix. I pureed all that untill it was mush, mixed it with the ground turkey, and baked it at 350 for about an hour. Then I cut it into tiny squares, put it in the blender with cooked spinach and cottage cheese, and I would have a tasty pureed meal. True, not everybody can eat these things at 3 weeks out, but if what you're doing is not working, experiment a little, but within reason. Here's another idea that worked great for me: I made chicken soup. I threw in chicken pieces and all my favorite veggies, and cooked everything untill it was soft. Then I ladled it into the blender and pureed it. I had a wonderful creamy soup. One more suggestion: try and have at least one high-protein shake each day. I find them hard go get down but I added a few drops of sugar free vanilla or coconut extract, ice, and maybe half a banana or some blueberries to it, and then run it in the blender and it is really yummy and satisfying, and hydrating, too. Well, happy eating and happy losing!!!
   — [Deactivated Member]

October 7, 2004
Hello. I know that when I was in the puree stage, I just stuck to soup. I didn't want to blend chicken, or vegetables. Soup, soup, soup is what i ate for two weeks.
   — Michelle M.

October 7, 2004
Here is what I would have on a typical day when I was on the pureed diet: Breakfast would be 1/2 cup instant plain oatmeal made with Lactaid milk . Later on, 4 oz of Choice DM. Lunch - 2-3 oz of turkey puree.(Cooked turkey breast in the crock pot, made gravy and pureed them together. Family had sliced turkey and gravy.) 2 oz mashed potatos. Later on 4 oz of V-8 juice. Supper might be a couple of ounces of beef roast puree (roast done in a crock pot, made gravy and pureed together). Sometimes I would get cooked chicken breast and puree that with Campbell's Soup at Hand Cream of Chicken soup. I didn't care for pureed veges, so I drank a lot of V-8 juice. I might also have 4 oz of Dannon lite and fit yogurt later on. My diet was more focused on variety than on protein in the first weeks, and I used sample menus for my diet classes to go by. I didn't even try protein shakes until about 2 months out. My way of thinking was that it was my job to eat properly those first weeks after surgery. I had plenty of energy and felt great. Do tell him to take it easy - my DH got tired of the pureed stuff and ate something he probably should not have, wound up with an ulcer 4 weeks after surgery. (Healed up fast after he was scoped and had "debris" removed from the anastamosis and the bleeding stopped.)
   — koogy

October 7, 2004
Good Luck to you!!! I made a meat loaf for my family and pureed that with the envolope gravy that you can buy at any store.. then what I could not eat I put in ice cube trays to freeze then put in ziplock freezer bags for later use the meatloaf was very tasty.. just make sure that when you bake the meatloaf put it on a cooling tray so that the fat can run off and that you use ground chuck or imitation soy meat,, the imitation has alot more protein...
   — bonitadodds

October 8, 2004
I'm just 5 days post op but in one of my support meetings a lady who is over the care of all gastro pt says she use to take the low fat or no fat ravioli Pureed it and put a little water and low fat cheese popped in microwave and loved it.Also refried beans with lowfat cheese .
   — charlene W.

October 9, 2004
I'm a little concerned about the ravioli, particularly at 5 days post-op. My doctor and dietician are very firm about NO bread, pasta, or rise - especially in the healing stages. I too am 5 days out (had lap RNY on 10/4) and am sticking to protein shakes, sugar free popsicles, some pureed chicken, and egg salad (pureed of course) so far. I tried pureeing some tuna this afternoon and it was gross! The best advise is to follow your doctor and dietician's directions - always! Good Luck!!
   — jaaxo

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