Food Ideas

One of the main challenges of recovery from jaw surgery is knowing was to eat.

You're sore and swollen, and may have restricted opening in your mouth.

In the first three weeks after my surgery I was on a liquid diet. From week four, I moved onto sloppy consistency foods.

The liquid meals I drank through my sippy cup, and the sloppy ones I ate with a babies weaning spoon. It was the perfect shape to get the food into my mouth as both my lips were numb.

Breakfast:

Super smooth ready brek / porridge
Smoothies
Flavoured Milk

Lunch & Dinner:

Homemade soups:
Tomato & Red Onion
Carrot & Parsnip
Cauliflower, broccoli and blacksticks blue cheese Soup
Pea & Ham Soup
Sweet potato & Butternut squash
Chicken and sweetcorn
Chicken Soup

(All the soups I had were put through the blender so I could drink them through my ever trusty sippy cup)

Mashed potato with milk & butter
Mashed potato with boiled cabbage
Mashed potato with Cheddar cheese
Mashed potato with roasted cherry tomatoes and red onion gravy
Mashed potato with whole grain mustard
Mashed potato with mashed beans and melted cheese

Roasted sweet potato Mash with butter
Roasted sweet potato mash with Parmesan cheese
Roasted sweet potato mash with tiny pieces of bacon, crushed petite pois peas and roasted cherry tomatoes

Blended macaroni cheese loosened with warm milk

Blended Chilli con carne with sour cream and Cheddar cheese

Blended Spaghetti Bolognese

Blended Shepherds pie

(I would suggest using extra lean minced steak, take time to loosen it before cooking, you can do this with your hands and add some olive oil to assist)

Mashed up cod in butter sauce.   

Mushy Peas mashed with butter

Scrambled Egg (Made loose)

Creamed spinach

Mashed Broccoli

Mashed Cauliflower

Cauliflower and Parsnip Puree

Potato and carrot purée

Salmon fillet with cream cheese spread on the top mashed up

Desserts:

Ice cream            
Jelly
Trifle
Cheesecake (minus the base)
Custard
Creme Brulee (minus the hardened sugar topping)
Panna Cotta

I also had a mince pie soup, made by warming a mince pie in a pan, pouring some orange juice over it to soften it, while softening add some Cinnamon and the mash down with a fork. Remove from the heat and put some double cream over it and continue to mash with a fork

I got a craving for a shortbread biscuit, I had one and poured some tea over it and mashed it some, I ate that with the weaning spoon.