Anything that can be blended - like chunky soups, are good. I have a magic bullet and used it often. You can add milk or cream to the chunky soups to thin them in the blender. I used cream for the added calories. You will find it difficult to get more than 500 calories a day in the beginning.
Avoid anything that causes gas, like beans. Don't get soups that have that stuff in them. You can google gas causing foods to give you an idea what to avoid.
Eggs are good to have. You can swirl a beaten egg into chicken broth and it's drinkable (like egg drop soup). I was able to eat scrambled eggs (lightly cooked) by day 5.
Mashed potatoes (and gravy if you like) go down well. Just thin them as much as you need. I actually ate mashed potatoes in the hospital the day after surgery.
I had potatoes on hand so made baked potato soup in a bowl. I scooped out the insides of the baked (in the microwave) potatoes and mashed it with milk, butter, a little cheese and sour cream. I thinned it with more milk until it was the consistency I could swallow. By the 2nd week I was adding bacon bits to it.
Puddings are easy to swallow. There is a refrigerated brand called Kozy that is excellent. Yogurt goes down easily. Avoid the chunky fruit kind, or throw it in a blender to smooth it out. Cream of wheat cereal, made with milk and thinned out went down easy. Oatmeal was too sticky.
Cereals that get mushy in milk will work.
Make sure what you stock up on what tastes good to you. I bought a bunch of protein shakes and they tasted awful. I have to find someone to donate them to.
You may want to get some colace and senna. It's been 3 weeks and I am still not regular - still occasionally need that stuff to get things moving. Smooth Move Tea will help, if you are a tea drinker - as it's easier than swallowing pills the first week.
Good luck - let us know how it goes!
Post Edited (lajenner) : 10/6/2013 8:11:23 AM (GMT-6)