1st one done..

Hi,

Tesco do a box of porridge called super smooth.I have it every morning make up with milk,shove in microwave and then add cream and beat it.It's filling and is much smoother than run of the mill porridge.

Turi

cheers, I shall have a look..  

Beau Chapeau said:

can only manage liquid/ soft now.. no lumps

Ah....then Turi's suggestion is spot on. I used to eat Ready Brek which is similar. You could try semolina and I'm sure you can buy ground rice still

hhm, rice might be an option, also.. thanks

Yes just the same as ready brek,

Turi

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Hi, I ate a lot of Baxters Super Good Bone Broth - it has barley in it which made it feel a bit more substantial. Also I found pea soups good (fresh ones from M&S and Tesco) as they felt thick but still easy to swallow. Mashed potato worked for me with extra butter and milk/cream (though lost the taste after a while). I know it's pitiful but I also ate loads of super noodles (and still do)... was able to swallow them easily and felt like I was having proper food! I didn't do so well with porridge - not sure why. Adding rice to soup was also nice and again bulked it out a bit. I was lucky in that I managed roast dinner (well, beef absolutely shredded and veggies mashed up) most weeks throughout and post treatment. Weirdly, I couldn't eat gravy (taste was awful - it's still not great) but picked out fattier pieces of meat to shred which made for easy swallowing.

Another strange one but I was also able to eat haggis for a while! Easy to swallow and quite tasty. Sometimes had it with a soft boiled egg which was quite filling! It is a bit spicy though so had to drop it after a while. Macsween do a nice little pack  which I probably ate over 2 sittings as could only do small portions at a time… 

Liesle R said:

Hi, I ate a lot of Baxters Super Good Bone Broth - it has barley in it which made it feel a bit more substantial. Also I found pea soups good

some nice variety there.. already do the Idaho potato mash thing, with cheese and marg..  

Hi Loz

I know exactly what you mean about needing more bulk. I can only eat very soft food but mainly puree as a result of my ops. It is a long term issue so I have had to figure out what to eat that has bulk or as you say you are very hungry all the time. I have found buying a ready made frozen shepherds pie (or something similar) mixed with steamed veg and baked beans all put in the nutribullet and blitzed to the right consistency works a treat. You can blitz it so it is really smooth and add full fat milk to get it to the consistency you can manage. I have found this fills me up plus the benefit of it being quite healthy.

The other thing I have found is weet bix really softened with a bit of hot water and full fat milk or even moistened with Fortisip and then mixed with pureed fruit (find fruit that is not acidic, I often use tinned peaches, apricots to save messing about with having to cook the fruit) and then add in either yoghurt with no bits in it or custard or even icecream. It all adds to the bulk.

Another one I have found that has bulk is a slice of sponge cake cut into small pieces and moistened with milk or Fortisip mixed with pureed fruit and custard or yoghurt. It all mushes down into a pureed consistency quite nicely and is easy to eat.

Hope you find something that works for you. Keep in mind that the tastes will all diminish and even become quite horrible after a while so you just have to put your head down and eat what you can at that point.

Best wishes

Lyn