Question:
Has anyone ate baby food instead of pureed food?
Do you have any tips for using baby food? — Marla B. (posted on March 15, 2002)
March 15, 2002
Marla, I tried the baby food-chicken with squash-and it was horrid! Very
bland. Skip it..I think its better to puree your own food, or do what I
did. Just eat soft foods during the puree stage, and chew thoroughly.
— Cindy R.
March 15, 2002
The baby food chicken and turkey stuff is YUCK! The smell literally gagged
me. I was given baby food fruit and that I could tolerate but nooooo to the
meat products.
— S W.
March 15, 2002
I use babyfood! I make mashed potatoes and mix the babyfood in and its not
so bad :)
— lilmskitty
March 15, 2002
Depends on which ones. I am pre-op but will plan on the baby food for a
while. I have been taste testing while feeding my daughter! Here is a
tip....stay away from the meats!!!! But, the fruits and veges are yummy.
I just add a little salt or pepper some times!
— emilyfink
March 15, 2002
Hi, Maybe I'm the weirdo here, but I ate baby foods, instead of pureed and
I liked them ,haha!! I liked the peas, and carrots, and other veggies
pretty well, and i thought the chicken and turkey were pretty good. Of
course I did add some seasoning to them. I don't know but the thought of
pureeing my foods just turned me off. I think that baby food is cheap
enough to try, and if you do wind up buying ones that you don't like you
can take the unopened ones to a food bank.
— Carey N.
March 15, 2002
I never pureed anything. Just cut into pencil eraser sized bits or smaller
and chew to death. OR put in food processor. My surgeon suggested this and
it works.
— bob-haller
March 15, 2002
My surgeon told me "No Baby Food". The sugar, fat and sodium
counts were too high for most WLS patients. I never bothered to check the
actual counts 'cause he was so against using them. I also never pureed
anything. I just cut everything into very small bites and chewed it really
well. Good luck!
— Pam S.
March 15, 2002
i spoke with my nutritionist about this when i went for my eval---she
doesnt recomend it but said if i decided to use baby food to not go past
stage 1 because the other stages have alot more sugars--hope this helps
— TRULUV2329
March 18, 2002
Marla,
Although in pre-op days we knew that the pureed stage would come along the
way we DID purchase some
but that's about as far as it got. HA! They still sit stored away even now.
As like other posters I used my foodprocesser more during this stge of the
program than I probably have in the last 10
years! If you chop well and chew chew chew until it becomes a pureed
consistency in your mouth before swallowing it should be alright.
Good Luck, Marla
— laurie W.
March 18, 2002
Marla,
Still makes me nauses to think of it! No we did not eat any
but we did purchas about 6-8 jars! They are still unused even
now! At that time when wewereonn that phase I brought out my food
processer
and then when we got whatever we wanted pureed it was then chew-chew-chew!
We figured that if in your mouth you got the contents to the pureed stage
before swallowing you were all right
Good Luck, it does get better! Look us up
— laurie W.
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