Posted on 03/19/2007 3:37:22 PM PDT by Miztiki
I'm having surgery on my vocal cords next week and need ideas on what foods are easy to swallow. Can you help?
Since I'm preparing it for our dinner tonight, may I suggest polenta. Very slowly cooked (about an hour) in a double boiler with chicken broth and cream, it will be filling, nutritious, and tasty. Most of the suggestions you've received have been sweet. This might satisfy your urge for salty. Let me know if you want a recipe.
I'm also cooking a beef, peppers, shallots, and tomatoes "thingy" to top the polenta. You wouldn't want that 'till your throat heals.
Good luck. Prayers for a successful surgery.
For vanilla yogurt - Strauss European Style non-fat vanilla - It pours like a thick cream. Superb on cereal with fresh fruit - blueberries of course.
But, IMO....the prudent, professional and safe advice is what I posted. Nothing more...nothing less.
Buffalo wing sauce? Habanero salsa?
Everybody has a normal dinner. Except for the swallowing impaired . His goes in the blender with a little liquid.... bzzschloop..,. steak, peas, and potato, down the hatch.
From my culinary experience I can suggest the following:
1. Stay away from all acidic foods. This would include but not be limited to citrus anything(this goes farther than you might think), coffee, tea, colas, anything containing vinegar.
2. Avoid alcohol and not just because because it might interact with some drugs. It also tends to aggravate healing tissue.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
1. Those little microwave instant potato cups. Use only water and just a little more than the directions call for so it's smooth and semi-liquid. Let it cool a little - no, a lot - first.
2. Yogurt. I never really liked the stuff before.
3. Chicken and stars soup. You don't chew the little stars, they just slide right down and they're egg noodles. Yum!
4. Beef and chicken broth. Not the little cubes, the stuff in the can.
5. Gatorade, and lots of water if you can bear it.
Just said a little prayer for your surgery. We'll be pulling for you!
I had my tonsils out as an adult and the only thing I found that went down well was chicken broth and cooked carrots (cooked really well). Anything else I tried stuck in my throat. Mashed potatoes tickled, applesauce (any fruit) burned, eggs were too crumbly and also tickled and made me cough and pieces got caught in my throat. Milk increases the mucous unless you can find a source for goat milk. My heart goes out to you.
I'll second that about not watching TV. After the second day without much food, you're so ravenously hungry that you notice every bit of food shown on TV. You have no idea how much they actually sneak in on television shows and the commercials? Forget it.
Back in the 70s, we used a Happy Baby Food Grinder, and lo & behold, they still have them, now called KidCo Food Mill:
http://www.happybabyproducts.com/kidcofoodmill.html
This link shows it to cost $15.99 and it's excellent.
Blessings my dear,
jm
My housemate has a heavy duty juicer such as you recommend.
We now also have a VITAMIX.
The Vitamix is much preferred. Far easier and quicker to use and especially to clean.
Vitamix purees anything--including a hamburger, if desired. Extremely powerful motor
HTTP://WWW.VITAMIX.COM
; very fast RPM's; VERY straightforward simple design.
If one wanted to filter out the pulp, though, one would need to strain through something else like cheese cloth etc.
Anyway-FWIW
keilbasa.
The carbonation is gonna go down like sandpaper on that raw throat.
Speaking of filtering out the pulp, if that's needed, the latest rage is to use paint sprayer filters instead of cheesecloth. They have them at Lowe's Home Improvement right next to the fancy paint sprayers, they cost $1.98 each (one fifth of what you'd pay at a gourmet food gadget shop).
MizTiki, if you are seriously looking into buying a juicer, one of the high dollar ones, I suggest you visit this website & see what they have to say:
http://www.bestjuicers.com/
God bless you, dear.
jm
What are some symptoms of gallbladder trouble?
STEAK!!
Your diet will probably start with a clear diet (soups, jello, ice cream, etc and then progress to a mechanical soft diet. The progression should be similiar to those diets followed after GI surgery. Take a look at the link to get an idea of the mechanical soft diet. http://www.gicare.com/pated/edtgs35.htm
My first attack about 4 weeks ago, I actually thought that I had pulled a muscle in my side. The pain subsided after a couple of hours.
The second attack that sent me to the hospital lasted about 10 hours, and only stopped after they had pumped me with all kinds of meds.
I was on antibiotics for about 24 hours before the surgery.
I got home within 24 hours after the surgery, and there are some that are actually out patients.
For the most part the recovery isn't that bad. The doc gave me perk. to take but I have been able to go just with Tylenol nighttime.
I am gradually introducing foods back into my diet. I am keeping away from fatty foods.
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