I just had all my upper teeth pulled in prep for implants. I Don’t want to live on Cream of Wheat, Broth, and Mashed potatoes for the next 3 weeks while this heals. I get temp dentures in 3 weeks. I need some bone grafts still in preparation for the implants.
Serious answer: when my sister had jaw surgery, the simply threw stuff in the blender. Make pasta sauce, add pasta, throw in blender. You’ll feel like an old person for a few weeks, but you’ll be fed.
Even more serious answer: what do your medical peoples say about this?
For right now? Ice cream. No, seriously. Ice cream will help cool down the injured area and improve healing.
If you want flavor, you should be able to take most foods and puree them in a food processor or blender.
For myself, one of the keys was to have a variety of flavors at a variety of temperatures - nothing too hot at first, though! Cold things like ice cream, cool things like V8 or cottage cheese or tuna salad, room temperature stuff like bananas and spoonfuls of peanut butter and jelly, warm stuff like scrambled eggs and refried beans. Have mashed potatoes, sure, but you can pour gravy over it!
What about soft noodles, oatmeal, Chinese porridge, miso soup.
I see a lot of other suggestions, but how about applesauce?
Also, if you’re not good at making your own broth, you can always get a strainer and strain the solids out of say a can of soup.
Or throw the can of soup into a blender
Look up bariatric recipes! Lots of recipes that don’t involve much chewing at all. Lots of pretty gourmet options
Yoghurt with berries can be a good option if the berries are soft, so stewing strawberries and pears can work well.
Gnocchi can be slightly overcooked and can be dimply pressed against the roof of the mouth, no chewing needed.
Protein shakes are awesome, add a little heavy cream and they are filling and tasty.
Congee (essentially thick rice soup) is great, it has very soft meat with no chewing needed and lots of flavour and texture depending on what you add.
Lots of French desserts are good like Crème Brulé, along with things like custard, mousse, and even sticky date pudding. The chewing is optional, the tongue is more than strong enough for these, and adding something like cream can help them smooth out and soften a bit.
Egg in various forms including egg drop soup, boiled egg mashed in a cup with butter, and added raw to rice while the rice is very hot can make for some easy but delicious options.
If you don’t have one yet, take this as a cue to get a powerful (!) blender. You can literally chuck every meal ever in there, either individually (sides, main, salad) or as a whole.
Rock candy. /s
Jk, I kid, but I’m considering having the same procedure. My brother had it done and I asked him about it, but he doesn’t really remember details about how long it took to heal and other minutia. If you wouldn’t mind posting info that you think others would find beneficial to help decide whether or not to go through with the costly and painful procedure after you’re on the other side, I’d read with interest. And if not, good luck with everything (not sarcasm).
Sushi?
Ice cream, soup (add crackers and let them soften, if you want), possibly noodles.
One snack food you can eat without chewing, goldfish crackers. One or two at a time, just let them soak up saliva in your mouth and soften before swallowing.
Certain hard candy, as long as you don’t suck on them too hard. Think peppermints, something that’ll make you salivate (which will help it dissolve without having to suck on it too aggressively – you do not want dry socket). Also, any other soft candy that’ll dissolve, like York peppermint patties, might be okay.
Smoothies, just blend up whatever you can find and you got yourself a meal.
Track your macros, get some WPC and make peanut butter+banana+WPC milkshakes.
Savoury dishes will be limited to noodles – from experience.
Yeah for real track your stuff.
Its really easy to eat too much on a “liquid” diet because they arent as filling. But peanut butter, banana, vanilla powder and a slug of caramel syrup…Id drink that just because.
Cream of Rice, soup, and mashed sweet potatoes.
I had a ton of dental work (just got over dry socket, do NOT recommend) and for me it was soup 100%. Here in the US at Publix and some Krogers is a brand of soup called Imagine, and there’s a potato and Leek soup that is absolutely a puree and I have been living on it so much my pee smelled like leeks the other day.
It’s insanely overpriced though…
What I’m saying is, you’ve got a lot of options here, but I’m in camp soup. Remember to be careful with stuff like chicken, which can become little bits that get in your sockets. Maybe stick to broth with egg noodles boiled in.
…I’m gonna have that tomorrow.
Soylent, Huel, and other meal replacement drinks.
Modern meal replacements aren’t like slimfast or ensure. They are designed using more modern nutrition science.
It’s available and ready to drink bottles, or in powders you mix.
Baked beans might also work. If you cook them long enough they get super tender. But that might not be good if you’re not allowed to put any pressure at all on your gums.
