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oxymoron02 in naturalliving

Liquid diet

Feb 22, 2011 01:04

My husband is scheduled to have his hernia fixed in April. Per doctor's orders he will be on a liquid diet for 4-6 weeks. I've been pricing meal replacement drinks and powders, but honestly I don't want to feed him just those for a month and a half. Aside from the boredom of functionally drinking vitamin laced chocolate milk, they can't be all ( Read more... )

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noveldevice February 22 2011, 08:30:43 UTC

I got braces in December and lived on mostly liquids for the first two months (and still eat mostly soft foods), and I ate soup. A lot of soup. If soup is okay per his doctor, I'd do that rather than meal replacement drinks. Tomato soup, pumpkin soup, lobster bisque, black bean soup, various cream soups, etc. I have a Cuisinart immersion blender and it's great.

Also, yogurt and fresh fruit and juice makes a nice drink, if you blend it.

ninabrujaha February 22 2011, 08:49:09 UTC

Green smoothies are a great way to get nutrition in liquid form. Yogurt smoothies for protein, and like the above poster said, soups! Blended bean or lentil soups will be filling.

hardcore_pixee February 22 2011, 09:56:38 UTC

As the above posters said, lots of soup, and also smoothies. Soup is even better if made with homemade bone stock as it's full of nutrients.

blueyz72 February 22 2011, 15:13:39 UTC

This was going to be my suggestion as well, you can get tons of nutrients from a good homemade broth(and bones are often not much $$$$).

keep_up February 22 2011, 12:11:05 UTC

http://www.choosingraw.com/recipes/ has one of the largest collections of amazingly looking well balanced blended meals, smoothies and soups I have seen.
And if that matters to you, it's vegan too.

oxymoron02 February 22 2011, 22:36:14 UTC

Vegan friendly recipes are welcome in my house. We're a mixed family, my son thinks no meal is complete without bacon, my daugher .... not so much. My husband will eat damned near anything I put in front of him. He actually ends up eating more of the vegan food I prepare for my daughter than she does, then complains when I don't make it more often.

I'm all over recipes that allow me to cook ONE meal for everybody.

rocza February 22 2011, 14:27:49 UTC

I'm a big fan of the GNC Total Lean meal replacement powder in vanilla (haven't tried the new flavours, the chocolate was blegh). My nutritionist recommended them when health issues kept me from eating. They've a low glycemic index, and are high in protein. (Something you have to watch out for is that most of the so-called liquid meals on the market are really just sugar-laden, thinned out milkshakes.)

I would definitely make sure that he has at least one or two meal replacements of some kind a day, just because they're going to be formulated with vitamins and proteins and such that he'll need to heal faster!

oxymoron02 February 22 2011, 22:39:01 UTC

You know, a lot of the meal replacers I've been looking at specifically say high in protein. He's been concerned that I'd give him too much protein. You are very right though, he will need it to heal.

I'll check out GNC.

rocza February 22 2011, 22:50:46 UTC

Yeah, it's gonna be very hard to get "too much protein" immediately after surgery. His body is going to be in overdrive trying to rebuild itself.

Ultimately, what you want is high protein, low GI. Anything you find that he likes the taste of within that narrow spectrum will work - and taste becomes an issue fast, unfortunately. :)