Question:
I am 6 days postop and on a purred diet.....can I have meat loaf?

In the manual that my dietician gave me she listed recipes that I can have....just pureed. I have a recipe for meatloaf which uses 93% fat free hamburger, bread crumbs, an egg, onion soup mix, water, ketchup. In my recipe book from the dietician she has hamburger listed and a recipe with ketchup. If I puree this meatloaf do you think I am safe? Please help soon    — hawk4life (posted on January 20, 2002)

January 20, 2002
My doc didn't want his patients to eat anything that could not put through a tea strainer for 3 weeks post-op. You should hear some of the items people tried to puree. Some even just licked the taste off BBQ chips, etc. but didn't "eat" them.
   — [Anonymous]

January 21, 2002
Not all doctors require that you be on liquids for weeks. I was on soft/pureed food when I was discharged. I could definitely eat pureed meatloaf at day six. I got a bunch of tiny bathroom cups and I would puree a food, or make a batch of oatmeal, or potatoes or whatever (I loved pureed black bean soup immediately post-op, and cottage cheese) and fill the little cups about half full. Then at meal times I could pick a cup or two to heat and eat. I was supposed to take about 45 minutes to do so and this system worked great for me.
   — blank first name B.

January 22, 2002
My Dr. told me I could have anything I could put puree in a blender. But, I'm not sure if I would have tried to do that to a meatloaf. LOL
   — Melissa S.