Hello fellow travellers, my husband is at the “soft and bite-sized foods” stage, and will be another couple of weeks until trying more foods.
He is really craving some bread, so I was wondering about your experiences - how many weeks after the operation you went for it, how did it go, which type of bread is a safer first step?
Hi, I first tried buttered bread literally soaked in tomato soup, I tried this a few days after the operation, as it was soaked it wasn’t like eating a slice of bread, more about eating a very soft diet. It was probably another couple of weeks after this that I tried bread and butter without the crusts and this was fine, first sandwich was cheese spread which I took my time eating and had small sips of water with it. Hope this helps, good luck x
I have stuck to plain white bread, I have avoided anything seeded, you do find that your taste buds change, I haven’t been able to drink coffee since the operation and other foods don’t taste the same, I snack on food that is dissolvable on the tongue such as quavers and wotsits, hopefully through trial and error you will find alternatives that go down well x
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