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Posted 2/3/2011 3:04 PM (GMT 0)
For my diet after resection/hysterectomy (another 1.5 weeks), I was planning on having lots of low roughage soup, well cooked rice pasta with butter & parmesan, GF waffles, and chicken breast. That's pretty much all that's on my menu.

Any other ideas for food after resection?
Posted 2/3/2011 3:34 PM (GMT 0)

I'm big on top raman, because you can add stuff to the soup, like chicken evan rice, I get oriental flavor, you're supposed to add water, I use chicken broth instead of water, boxed broth, add's a little fats to the soup, if you need alittle extra. I add barbequed chicken or pork, last nite I made risotto and added that with the chicken and scallions, delish. easy to digest as well. cheap and soft.

AG

Posted 2/3/2011 4:13 PM (GMT 0)
After any of my surgeries I have always followed a low residue diet. Its just easy to chew and easy to digest. I stayed on things like baked chicken, rice, baked potato's (no peel), cream of rice, and things like that. Good luck with your surgery. Hugs!
Posted 2/3/2011 10:11 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks.

Since I won't be eating out for a long time, I figured I'd enjoy some naughty food... lol. So today I decided to treat me and my son out to an early dinner. I had perogies loaded with onions and bacon, cheeseburger sliders, and salad. It was delicious, and so far, just the usual "d" issues.
Posted 2/3/2011 11:59 PM (GMT 0)
After surgery, I still just ate SCD. Scrambled eggs were my first food. Then I ate homemade jello, yogurt (and frozen yogurt), chicken soup, fish, pureed squash, pureed carrots, cooked zucchini (peeled, of course), and SCD cheescake. I think I waited a couple of weeks before adding in almond butter.

Good luck Roni!
Posted 2/4/2011 12:11 AM (GMT 0)
Roni, after my surgery I ate lots of mased potatoes, pasta noddles, chicken soup, cream of everthing soup. It was 2 months before a i had red meat. i just had no desire for it

Finally, I think i had at least 5 milkshakes per week.

good luck!
Posted 2/4/2011 9:47 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Spookyh did you have someone prepare your food for you while you recovering or were you able to do it yourself? I know after my first resection my sister would come over for the first week or two and fix stuff for me. I had open surgery with some complications. Hugs!
Posted 2/4/2011 10:56 PM (GMT 0)
The 3 weeks before surgery, I cooked like a maniac and filled up the freezer with my staples. But, I also live with my parents, so my mom did some cooking for me as well. Moms totally rock! Glad you had your sister, because it certainly helps to have help :-).
Posted 2/4/2011 10:59 PM (GMT 0)
My surgeon encouraged me to eat lean meats and fresh veggies - all high in nutritional content - to aid the healing process. He promised I'd have no issues digesting things like before and, while I was super nervous to try it at first, he was right!

While in the hospital, of course, I ate nothing solid until the last day or two. Even then I was scared to try.

Once home, I ate anything I wanted. I started off slowly with the previous no-no foods, like fresh veggies and red meat, but quickly learned I was okay eating them.

Such a nice change!

We had a lot of people bring food over for about a month afterwards - such a blessing. I didn't stay up straight for a good 3-4 weeks so cooking/going out to a restaurant was not happening.
Posted 2/5/2011 1:55 AM (GMT 0)
I hope and pray I'll have help for cooking after my surgery, but I'll live off the BRAT diet, peanut butter & jam, and organic canned soup, if I have to. I should be able to boil rice pasta, shouldn't I?

I hate to admit this, my family is supportive, but sometimes it seems begrudgingly. I know it's hard on them, but it can be very hurtful. It's not like I want to be sick.

I keep coming back to this forum year after year because it seems like you guys are the only ones who truly get it.
Posted 2/5/2011 2:29 AM (GMT 0)
Roni, can you do some cooking beforehand and freeze? Then all you have to do is thaw and reheat.
Posted 2/5/2011 2:44 PM (GMT 0)
When I had my resections, I was able to cook ahead and freeze meals. Of course most of those meals were gone by the time I got home from the hospital because that was what my family lived off of. My husband is NOT a cook. My mom would come and stay with me most days and she would leave something to put in the oven for supper. I could handle breakfast and lunch, but a dinner for 4 people was out of the question. And my mom was coming to stay with me because my kids were really little and I couldn't take care of them by myself, not because I couldn't take care of ME.

I'm like a broken record but "Cooking Well for the Unwell" is a great resource cook book. You can get used copies from Amazon for about $4 and there are a lot of recipes that are quick and easy, as well as, snacks and ways to get extra nutrition into food you are already eating.

Also most grocery stores have really good pre-made ready to go sections. When you have used up those meals you have in the freezer, and all the other stuff, I'm sure you can get someone in your family to get you some ready to go meals. A lot of those are pretty healthy and tasty. We have a Whole Foods near us and they have 5 or 6 different soups everyday. A huge hot meal ready to go section, and then the cold sections where you take it home to heat up. They usually have several types of fish and chicken, lean beef, lots of rice and pastas salads, heavy on the pasta/rice light on the veggie. They always have mashed potato or mac and cheese, at least one "comfort food". You just need to think creatively on where to get your food from. It might cost a bit more, but its only for a short time.
Posted 2/6/2011 1:54 PM (GMT 0)
When chicken is on sale, I buy lots of chicken breasts. I will bake up four or five at a time. Sprinkle skin with chicken seasoning and spray butter flavor cooking spray on the top. Bake at 350 for an hour or until done. Then, I pull off the skin but all that flavoring has gone into the meat.

It gets cubed up with everything: I make chicken with rice pilaf, chicken alfredo, chicken alfredo pizza, chicken fried (rice with scrambled egg, diced carrots, onion powder, cubed chicken,) chicken lasagna, chicken soup, chicken and dumplings, etc. etc. You can freeze the cubed chicken and take it out as needed. Oh, also chicken quiche, chicken cheese souffle, chicken and stuffing, shepherd's pie with chicken and carrots instead of hamburger and corn. I alternate other things in between, but I always come back to the chicken.
Posted 2/6/2011 2:07 PM (GMT 0)
OlderThanDirt, Can I come for dinner? Sounds like you have a great repertoire. I will be stealing some of those ideas. I just stocked up on chicken, but I freeze it before its cooked. I will be rethinking this now.
Posted 2/6/2011 3:04 PM (GMT 0)
@ zanne Thanks for the kind words. You are the one who steered me on to the Cooking Well for the Unwell Cookbook. I used that book and then my ideas took off from there. Since then, I have adapted many of my own recipes for a low fiber diet. I am saving all my recipes. Of course, I hope I go into remission one of these days and my recipes can collect dust for a while. LOL Currently I am working on a set of recipes for summer weather, too. The way things are going snowwise up here in New Hampshire, that may be a lot farther away than I hoped.
Posted 2/6/2011 3:23 PM (GMT 0)
Best of luck Roni with everything and I hope you find a variety of things you can eat so you don't get bored of things! And I hope you have a pleasant recovery!

OlderThanDirt: Do you mind me asking where in NH you are? I live by Portsmouth, (I'm in ME actually haha) and was just wanted to compare! hehe

Sorry I don't wish to make this go OT.
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