Has anyone any good ideas for pureed food? V's son is recuperating here after jaw surgery and can only drink. I'm four days in making 2 meals per day and am running out of ideas. The fruit smoothie things are easy (tho Italy is finished with apricots and strawberries already) enough.
It must be liquid and hopefully tasty (and filling and full of calories). Poor boy is losing a pound a day since the surgery. Tomorrow is potato and cheese soup and then a tahini soup. Help! Oh, it has to be good cool also. And herbs are out; the blender just doesn't grind them enough. Thanks!
My brother-in-law went through that and lost way too much weight. There are websites that have lots of ideas, but I don't know how to do links on this site. You can just search for "pureed diet recipes". Or try ebinfo.homestead.com/recipespasta.html. That takes you to the pureed pasta page, but from there you can get to lots of other ideas.
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Make him a good minestrone with lots of fresh vegetables, check what's in sesason and add potatoes for carbs and calories. After cooking, purée and add a bit of pesto, or also a little oil and a "suggestion" of freshly ground pepper: this will add both flavor and nourishment. You can thicken the minestrone boiling in it a tablespoon of polenta flour too, but in this case it must be drank while absolutely HOT or it will thicken and solidify. Also, make a vegetable stock of your choice, cook in really tiny pasta. in itlay we have special apsta shapes both egg and dried, that are prepared for this purpose and require no chewing. As an alternative, make him some stracciatella: whisk an egg with a tablespoon of freshly grated parmigiano reggiano and one of grated dried bread (do NOT use stere-bought breadcrumbs!) and a pich of freshly ground pepper or nutmeg; when the stock is boiling, pour the mixture, and stir with a fork until the egg curdles in realy tiny bits. If you have semolina you can also prepare this, it can be made in a sweet version with milk and in a savory one with meat or vegetable stock. The savory version requires semolina (I think one tablespoon per person) to be cooked in the stock until tickened, then flavored with Parmigiano Reggiano or Pecorino and a bit of spices. The sweet one requires the same amount of semolina to be boiled in lightly sweetened milk, if you like it you can add a bit of cocoa, of instant coffee or of sweet spices.
One fo the problems with liquid food is that it fills you up faster but nourishes you less: essentialy, the liquid fraction is water that fills up your stomach and makes you feel "full", but gives you next to no nourishment. Make sure he has more meals that he ought normally. Stick in a couple snacks of yogurt of fruit smoothies, or gelato (YUM!) or soup between each meal.
I'm thinking, to keep the weight on, forget the smoothies, go get some gelato and make some milk shakes, using whole milk.
I've got a cold cucumber soup recipe that you can probably puree (just peel the cuke and scrape the seeds), if you make it with whole fat yogurt and milk (or cream) that will work too. Let me know if you're interested.
What about seafood bisques? I haven't made one but I bet you could find a recipe for that - just leave the actual pieces of meat out of the soup.
wow, Thanks to you all so much I am on it. After 16+ meals and no duplicates, I need still am in need of some ideas. Tomorrow he is going for a check up (I have the take-away-for-the-day ready) and we are hoping the elastics will be released enough that he can get a spoon in and push his tongue up to further crush the food (oh, you know what I mean). 2 good meals a day are trying; tonight was a carrot, apricot (found some) ginger soup - I could write a book already. Today I bought mangoes coming from.... are you ready....? Puerto Rico!!!!
I have found and used avocados, zucchini can masquerade as squash, and indeed he is filled up easily: as easily as it is boring!
For some strange reason he is not into gelato so it is whole milk and full-fat yogurt. For NO strange reason he is sick of everything liquid. Me? I am drinking a frozen margarita (hey, I have to use the blender as well, right?) as I write! Thanks again --
Karen, if there is a health food store where you can get protein powder, that would be a good thing to add to some of his pureed meals for additional nutrition.
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Speaking form a personal stand point, I have been on a liquid diet for over a month. I like the vanilla protein powder as a base for other things, as well as Greek yogurt is great with lots of protein. I make mine with a spoonful of maple syrup on top!
2 more weeks to go...well 11 from days now!!! Thanks again so much.
This thread is my outlet as well as a place for good info/ideas. He won't try the protein powder, something about chemicals which my research says is not a problem (like Kim, choosing battles with this 27 yr old). There are no battles in actual fact - he appreciates everything. V wants pasta, fish or something else one of these days, but it is good food I'm making; why prepare 2 things, I say!
Last night I felt so bad using canned chick pea soup, I made a wonderful layered marscapone with balsamic strawberry thing (so rich it lasted 3 meals). I have quite the repertoire now and indeed have named the cookbook -- Puree the weight away!
Deb F of F, if you want some recipes, mail me. You can substitute low fat stuff for the creams, yogurts, etc.
GGMS (God give me strength). Hey he did, the Olympics start tomorrow. There are a lot more cans in my future.
I have burned the blender. Tomorrow I shall have some sort of ritual burial. I can sacrifice the margaritas -- no problem
Luigi is going for his final follow-up and, presumably can eat real different food afterwards. We are not expecting he'll be chomping on torrone, but risotto'd be a good first step. ahhhh. His weight loss stopped and really, he was eating good dam food - lots of raw veggies, fruits and beans; where is the problem? Oh that little thing of enjoying to chew! He is staying a further few days to do just that -- chew!
