Is there any kind of cereal he will/can eat? I love bananas on my dry cereal. Lots of

healthy, fortified cereals out there, if you like them.

How about fruit salad? Oranges, strawberries, blueberries, coconut....

I put peanut butter on my bananas. You could chocolate coat them and freeze them?

I love bananas too. Here is a simple flourless pancake recipe without flour that you might try.

1 banana, peeled, chopped roughly2 eggs

Coconut oil or butter for frying.

1. Whisk egg in a bowl, add the banana and mash together to form a batter.
2. Heat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil or butter in a frying pan and pour in the batter to create a thin pancake. Let the pancake cook through before flipping it. After flipping it, let the other side cook through.

Optional: Serve with fresh strawberries and yogurt, cinnamon butter, maple syrup or sweetener of choice, nut butter and seeds (sesame, chia, hemp seed) sprinkle with a drizzle of raw honey.

I love them in smoothies! I like them with cereal, even hot like oatmeal and grits. Pancakes yes! Mashed together with peanut butter and spread on a toasted bagel. With cream cheese on toast. On top of granola. I like the Greek yogurt with fruit cut up in it and a sprinkle of granola.

I like to mash a banana and then mix it into several heaping spoonfuls of whole milk plain yogurt, one that's very tangy. It's quite good.

Another vote for PB and banana sandwiches.

Mash with oatmeal and chopped pecans, bake like cookies. Sliced in milk.

LOL, I've been eating banana and PB sandwiches all my life too! The biggest question is - crunchy or smooth?

I like bananas in smoothies. We have one we like that is just bananas, pineapple juice and ice. If you want different flavor, you can add strawberries. You can also add honey.

I also love them in smoothies. My favorite is to peel a banana and freeze it. Once it's frozen, put it in a blender with a cup of low fat milk, maybe a touch of honey or sugar, and maybe some vanilla extract. Blend to a yummy milkshake like consistency :)

If you prepare other fruits -- peel, segment, slice, whatever -- will he eat them? There's no point adding non-heart-healthy stuff to bananas just to get him to "eat fruit". How about cups of chilled blueberries?

DH and I like the pink grapefruit segments in cups that are sold at Costco. (Too sweet?)

BTW, if case his doctor didn't mention it, a lot of people suffer from depression after a major surgery like this. Men especially.

ohhh...never thought of crunchy PB with banana pb&j....we usually only have creamy pb on hand.

A favorite of mine is sliced banana, topped with vanilla yogurt, sprinkled with cinnamon and chopped nuts (or sunflower/pumpkin seeds).

Don't even need to make a sandwich. Just a banana split in half and spread with P.B. and topped with second half of banana.

When my siblings and I were kids, we loved a sliced banana in a bowl (sometimes with a touch of sugar sprinkled over it) and some milk poured over it.

The Chiquita Banana website has a page with lots of banana smoothie recipes. If you use coconut milk or almond milk in any of the recipes that call for milk, they'll be healthier, too.

You can make soft serve "ice cream" by blending frozen bananas with a little low-fat milk or milk substitute and adding vanilla extract, or hazelnut or almond extract to taste. You can turn it into chocolate ice cream by adding unsweetened high flavonoid cocoa powder, which is pretty good for the heart. Or melt a little really good dark chocolate and add it. You can make strawberry or raspberry or mixed berry ice cream the same way. Adding a super ripe banana would sweeten things up without using sugar or honey.

I like Rice Krispies with milk & sliced bananas. Wishing your husband a speedy recovery.

Creamsicle Smoothie is delicious - frozen banana, Greek yogurt, orange juice, vanilla.

For the banana and PB sandwich fans, try adding dark brown sugar and toasting the whole concoction in a toaster oven. Pure bliss!!!! Probably not heart healthy...

I have a Yonanas device and we love to use it. Every fruit I have prepared has been terrific. I have done kiwi and bananas, strawberries and bananas, mango etc. The end result is like a sorbet or fruit ice. My husband doesn't even ask for additional sugar. My favorites are mango and/or peach!

I love sliced bananas and raisins sprinkled over cottage cheese. Sliced bananas taste good over cereal and my DD and DGS love ripe sliced bananas on peanut butter sandwiches.

• I'd go with what the dietician recommends. There are other foods that are heart healthy, and that can add variety. Nuts that are high in omega-3 is a choice. However, at this critical stage of healing, those may be restricted to only a few. Again, the nutrician staff is your guide for this. The other food is vegetables. Thee supply a balance of other nutrients and the needed fiber (roughage) to keep the intestines moving.

• One thing I have found from experience of full sedation is that it can put your intestines asleep and it may take a couple of days to get things moving again. Mine seemed slow to start up again. Drink plenty of fluids and give them roughage. Leafy salads. green beans, and Asian Stir Fry, are good.

• If the blood glucose (sugar) is low and you feel dragged out, fruit juice provides a quick jolt to up the glucose - Don't over do it.

• Ask about grapefruit. It may be banned if it interferes with any of his meds. For example, I am diabetic type 2 and grapefruit messes up the release schedule of one of my meds. Its the timed release med. Not only does it interfere with the timed release, it also reacts with the medicine.

• If he likes apples, I recommend Fuji as a raw eating apple. It has a bit of crunch and is tasty.

• If the Doc recommends that he attend a heart rehab lab for 6 weeks or so after surgery, do it. It may seem a bit flaky at first, but that is by design. The usual routine is to start slowly and the first exercises may be mainly stretching and low level muscular loading. This the prep phase. The heart will be monitored via a radio link using 3 electrodes put on by adhesive. Things will get more interesting when he advances to the treadmill. Effort level will be increased as his strength builds. Most insurances covers a major part of this cost. You should inquire about cost before beginning the program. We do not want a surprise.

Grapefruit can make statin medications toxic, so be very aware.

Since his second severe stroke and many mini ones, my husband has a very difficult time swallowing. I add a sliced up banana, an egg to his double serving of oatmeal and cook it in the microwave for at least 3 min. I use whole milk for him. Sometimes vanilla, cinnamon, butter and some sugar goes on that too. For me, I like it mixed with strawberries, on cereal, plain or with peanut butter. Of course like it in cake or bread or something.

Sue