Back On Real Food

This week I started back on a full range of foods following my final dietitian appointment.

It has been quite an adjustment and I have discovered there are some foods that just do not sit well in my stomach.

Things that are really starchy and soft like soft bread and cake like texture go in to my stomach and seem to set like a big lump making me feel really uncomfortable.  Then there are things like protein that make me feel full really fast.

Everyday is a new food experience and I am just taking things one day at a time trying to work out what works and what does not.

I am struggling to eat enough and remembering to eat my snacks if proving to be a bit of challenge.

Hopefully things will get easier over time.

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Crunchy Crunchy Mmmmmm

Today I was allowed cruskits and oh how nice it was to bite into something.

It seems really strange that one of the things I missed the most was texture.  But what I have missed the most is variety of flavour.  Having to eat or in my case drink the same thing day after day at every meal really made me think about how lucky we are to have the ability to eat a huge range of food to choose from every day.  It made me really think about people in those countries where eating the same thing day after day is a way of life.
Everything tastes so good right now but I am still over estimating how much I can eat.  I only managed 1 and a bit of the cruskits above.  Hubby is loving all the bits I don't eat.

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Real Food Oh How I Missed You

Oh My Goodness.  I never knew baby food could be so good.

After what seems like an eternity on sweet shakes it was so good to be eating savoury foods again.

It took me ages to drink my 1/2 cup of soup but this is what my dietitian had told me to expect.  It took me over half an hour to get it down and I had to reheat it a couple of times.  Tomorrow I am going to heat it up an then put it in a thermos flask to keep it warm.

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Puree Preparation

So I went shopping and cooked up a whole lot  of food for my 2 weeks on pureed food.

I cooked up some savoury meals and I also stewed some fruit to have with yogurt.

I know that I will be having mushed up wheatbix with milk for breakfast and fruit and yogurt for morning and afternoon tea and supper and then I just need to have 2 other meals which will be made up of meat and vegetables.

I cooked up some apples and some peaches and pureed them.  Then when the mix had cooled I measured it in a 1/4 cup measure and then put each 1/4 cup of puree in a freezer bag and tied the top.  These all went in the freezer and I know they will not take long to defrost since they are such small bags

Then I cooked up a leek, potato and bacon soup which again was pureed, cooled and bagged this time in 1/2 cup amounts.

And finally I cooked some beef in red wine sauce in the slow cooker and repeated the process for the soup.

I really wanted to have these meals cooked ahead of time as it is much easier to cook a larger amount and puree it that try and cook 1/2 cup portions.  Plus I did not want to have the hassle of cooing every day when I was possibly a bit tired due to being back at work and on low nutrition.

I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to eating savoury food after all these sweet shakes and when the day rolls around I can have cruskits as well that will be so good.  Texture in my food has been something I have really missed and it was not something I had thought about missing.


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4 Days Into Pre Op Diet

So here we are 4 days in and so far so good.

I have not been as hungry as I thought I would be but I have been filling up on jelly and cucumbers.  I have found that I am having a cup of tea when I get up and my breakfast shake at about 9.30.  This means I am not starving when it gets to lunchtime.  I think the Metamucil helps fill you up too.
One of the other things that my dietitian told me is that you cannot drink anything within 30 minutes before eating or up to 45 minutes after eating.  Apparently this flushes your food through more quickly and leaves you feeling hungry sooner.  In all my years no one has ever told me that but I can see how it makes sense.
This drinking habit is something I will be stuck with for the rest of my life as after my op there will not be enough room in my stomach for both food and drink.

So for dinner so far I have had stir fry twice and salad twice in addition to my shake which I had 30 minutes before.

At this stage I can say that I am missing meat and cheese, but I'll get over it.

Anyway I have some ideas for a dip for veggies and I might try a veggie juice too in the mornings which will help give me extra energy but not count towards my 2 cups since all the pulp is taken out.

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