Foods (main dishes) post oral surgery

Cooking Discussions Specific Diets
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Does anyone have ideas for mains after oral surgery?
Pureed leek potato soup, colcannon, frittata, scrambled eggs, souffle, mac and cheese, what else?

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How about apple sauce?? Or a quick bread with apple sauce in it - cut the edges off (as a treat)??

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Quiche - with whatever ingredients chopped very small, or just cheese

Smoothies or smoothie bowls?

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all the ice cream. “Well, yes but what flav-” “ALL. OF. IT.”

Refried beans

risotto

fluffy (not crispy edged) pancakes

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Gazpacho, cold soups, milk shake, yogurt instantly after surgery.

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Jello, bouillon, and ginger ale.

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I only had my wisdom teeth removed, so hopefully your procedure isn’t more restrictive. I ate a lot of congee, and soups with small, soft pasta shapes (stars, alphabet$, etc), or noodle soups. Just no chunky proteins or veggies in it. Mashed tubers are good options - potatoes, yams, sunchokes, as are a variety of egg dishes. I also found fish (steamed or roasted whole) texture to be tolerable, just not breaded or fish that is too meaty like tuna or swordfish.

Since I eat a lot of rice, I pretty much subbed rice with plain congee and paired it with softer dishes. Mapo tofu without the meat, and a lot of tofu dishes, worked well.

Good luck with your procedure!

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For breakfast:

  • Oatmeal with pumpkin puree and peanut butter
  • Greek yogurt or scrambled eggs
  • Black tea

For Lunch:

  • Pitted avocado filled with tuna salad
  • Mashed sweet potato
  • Iced black tea

For dinner

  • Risotto with poached salmon
  • Steamed chopped spinach
  • Ice cream
  • Decaf black tea
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Mashed potatoes / sweet potatoes / yucca

Shepherds pie with ground meat

Polenta with or without toppings (bolognese for eg)

Soft rice - risotto / khichdi / congee / soupy rice

Crustless quiche (puree the mix-ins into the custard) / chawanmushi / egg custard

Vegetable purée soups — butternut squash, carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, parsnip

Fish cakes, soft fish like salmon (steamed or en papillote)

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One of the many versions of this:

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I need to try this.

Thanks for all the recs, everyone!

I made mashed potatoes, zucchini cooked soft, tomato pie without the crust and a tomato zucchini frittata.

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This is obviously not all that helpful, but this old Chowhound thread was legend.

I might have saved some of it somewhere,vor maybe someone knows how to do that “way back” thing with it.