It's only 3 days....and your mouth will hurt and likely you won't want to eat much.
Pureed bananas, rice overcooked until mush in chicken broth.
Pea soup, baked fish....but leave off any lemon because your mouth will hurt.
Go and look in the baby food department....youw ill find enough there to keep body and soul together...I mean it's only 3 days....you could just drink sugar water for 3 days and be fine.
Linda C

Potato soup, buzz to a puree, add a little half and half cream.

Faux Tatoes - very well cooked cauliflower, drain, mash very smooth, add butter/sour cream/cream cheese, salt and pepper.

Banana milk shake with ice cream or frozen yogurt.

Good quality tomato soup with a little cream.

Mashed sweet potato or butternut squash with maple syrup or brown sugar and cinnamon.

Fruit smoothies are great, and you can only feel so bad about their caloric content when you're prohibited from eating pretty much anything. Toss any fruit with a banana in the blender, and you've got a yummy fruit smoothie. Commercial "cream of" soups kinda gross me out, but I made a really delicious cream of mushroom soup at Thanksgiving when I made a gluten-free green bean casserole. I had to make my own cream of mushroom soup from scratch, and it was really delicious. I could eat a homemade "cream of" soup, if I was stuck eating soft foods because of dental work.

Thanks. I know I can't get by without protein- blood sugar issue. And I don't usually eat much starch. I think that its going to have to be soups. On the special diet forum someone made a meat and bean soup that they pureed.

I think that adding some cream to the soups will help to feel full. Maybe some chopped liver for that urge to have meat. The fear is being up all night- happens when I don't feel I get the right mix of food, or frequent small meals.

A white bean soup, pureed, would fit the bill. You could have some pieces of ham in the soup that get pureed, too.

Also, I recently made a tomato soup with some sauteed onions and garlic, add a little flour, then slowly add chicken broth and then diced tomatoes. Season however you like - I used allspice and basil. Puree the soup. At the end, add some heavy cream. One recipe said to add a T. of sugar. I used a whole box of chicken broth (32 oz.) and two 28-oz cans of tomatoes. One time I added mashed butternut squash.

When DH had gum surgery, I gave him slushies made of ice and sprite pureed in the blender the first day. He had a lot of mashed potatoes and puddings. After a few days, he wanted beef pureed in the blender. I probably mixed it with mashed potatoes and some broth. If I recall, I probably overcooked egg noodles and served them with butter and parmesan cheese.

I don't want to add to your worries, but he did not want to eat regular food for over a week. He was working and everything was normal except he still wanted to eat soup and mashed potatoes and other soft foods. We probably had scrambled eggs, overcooked pasta, and soups. He made a lot of milkshakes and smoothies.

After he had beef pureed, I figured anything he had a taste for could be put in the blender and his appetite could be sated. Maybe if you think of the things you crave, you could adapt them to a pureed version.

Kari

Thanks Kari. The soup sounds really good. Truth be, I shouldn't really have the dairy due to allergies, but I don't see anyway out of it for those three days. But maybe I can puree beef or chicken and add to the soups. Tomatoe and garlic-yum. I should order those tomatoes everyone here is talking about.

Its not gum surgery- its this thing called LANAP (a lazer treatment). Its apparently not very painful at all, but you are not supposed to damage the gum that was just done as it actually re-adheres to the tooth. Its pretty interesting stuff.

chinchette, I am another who must have protein...and for some reason, it must be meat protein. I can get by on fish or eggs, but not for too long before I start feeling icky.

A very good, long cooked beef broth made from very meaty bones will help.

When a friend had jaw surgery, and couldn't eat anything that couldn't be sucked up through a straw, my mother made a big batch of chicken soup, with lots of chicken, carrots, celery, potatoes and green beans and put the whole batch into the blender to puree. The friend had to fight her family for it!

Miso soup, if you like it is also a very good soup for folks who have stomach problems or chewing problems. Protein rich, and even more so with chunks of tofu in it.

Another good, hearty soup is beef barley. If you chop the beef very fine, the slippery texture of the barley will help you swallow it without chewing.

Good luck with your surgery!

Fish soups made with coconut milk instead of dairy. (Full-fat coconut milk -- it's the fat that makes them satisfying.) That's what I'm going to be eating after they take out my wisdom teeth.

Thanks again. I didn't check the thread again until just now. I'm back from the procedure. It was pretty easy. I had my first meal. I made a chicken soup all day while I was out. I did puree the chicken and celery, carrots and some black beans. A lot of garlic. I added a can of stewed tomatoes. It was so good, I think I'll be making this again even when I can eat solid food.

I like the coconut milk idea, in fact, was reading a book all about coconut oil while waiting for the dentist. I agree- have to have enough fat to feel satisfied. Where's my vanilla icecream?

Its good to know I'm not the only nut out there with a meat addiction.