That's pretty good, Lou - I love bones, too, and would find it hard to share (well, pre-op anyway!).
Chris

Want a laugh, I am just about at the end of my liquid stage. Hubby cooked himself a yummy "T bone steak" marinated in all my favourite things. The smell was so good I was making me stir crazy, so I asked him if I could suck the bone (his favourite part of the whole experience) and he did. Now that's true love.

What do you think?

Lou.

Ha ha ha - I told the same thing to my hubby, and asked him if he'd get sick of me asking for a little bit of this or that. He said he wouldn't, that he expected it, and he does have the patience of a saint, but I do it a lot - please honey, can I just have an edge of that? a taste of that? a lick of your spoon? ROFL And then last night he said to me "and before you ask, no, I'm not sick of it yet".
I hope your hubby gets used to it too.
Chris

LOL Bigbugger! Not mean, you are considering his health too!

I must be weird because I really like the Opti fast strawberry shake. :)

Yesterday I had a wildberry one from TF and didn't like that at all. Hubby called home for lunch and I sat and watched him eat his two big sandwhiches like he was so hungry he could eat a horse while I sipped the yucky shake, I told him to stop showing off hehe and said 'when I am sleeved you will be able to cut half a sandwhich off for me and it will do you good too'! He rolled his eyes and said "OMG you are going to be such a pain when you are sleeved I can just see it" LOL

Cinni

ROFL!!!
I totally get that, bigbugger! I had much the same experience!
Glad the bol sauce went down well.
Chris

Oh I had a bolognese sauce in the blender with some milk to thin it down...it was really nice. Mind you I watched my husband eat the bolognese with the huge plate of pasta and he said can i have cheese... I replied with NO! how mean am I?????

the male of the species has breakas just because he prefers the taste over upngoes. The son is so anti breakfast but will have an upngo so it works well in this house. Just these are a lot thiner to get down than optifast. The diet drinks are designed to try and fill you up hence how thick they are.
Personally I hate them all they just gross to me hehehehe so might be worth buying a few and taste testing before surgery :)

applesauce

Yes Up and Go is acceptable Captain Legless.

Did I read somewhere that "Up and Go" is acceptable? :scratch:

Hey Cinni,
My doc said Opti and Tony Ferg were part of the liquid stage but good to use in mushies as well one meal a day for the vitamins etc.

Hell that's a whole lotta sodium!! :shock:

I found that the Campbells Tomato soup (and other canned soups) are very high in sodium, less filling, and even worse on nutritional values; even their "Low Sodium" variety. Also, it was primarily carbs and very little protein. Don't know about the Heinz, but suspect it would be similar. I was told by the support teams that homemade soups, made from scratch, are the best; so I'm checking various recipes.

I did find a reasonable substitute for tomato soup. Try heating up the low-sodium V8 juice. It still has the same distinct tomato flavor (at least for me) and if a little (very little!) garlic powder and/or onion powder is added, gives it a nice "spice kick."

Here's the comparison (note the serving sizes /vs./ nutritional value):

	Low Sodium V8 Juice	Campbell's Low Sodium Tomato Soup
Serving Size	8 oz (1 cup or 224.0 g)	4 oz (1/2 cup or 124.0 g)
Calories	50	91
Sodium	140mg	529mg
Total Carbohydrates	10.0g	20.0g
Dietary Fiber	2.0g	1.0g
Sugars	8.0g	12.0g
Protein	2.0g	2.0g
Vitamin A*	40%	10%
Vitamin C*	120%	10%
Calcium*	2%	0%
Iron*	2%	2%

* = %'age based on a 2,000 calorie diet (2x mine, though ;) ).

Hope this helps.

ww mouse should go to nothing in your mouth and they are talking runny cusard here, so add milk if yours is the thick spoon it up stuff :)

applesauce

Hi Hayley would Tony F and Opti be included in the liquid stage or the mushie stage? Stupid question but they aren't on the list. I am also surprised to see custard and weight watchers mousse in the liquid phrase?

Cinni