# Best soft or liquid foods. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 27, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948 "2009-03-27T02:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/21 "2009-03-27T15:05:47Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I took a look at that after hearing about it on the Dope and one individual container has 27 grams of fat! How is that even possible? Maybe they’re not all like that?? Why did you think it tastes so good? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/22 "2009-03-27T17:05:25Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Why did you think it tastes so good? 😃 That’s what I figured, it’s like ice cream! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/23 "2009-03-27T17:28:51Z")
Nobody’s mentioned beer? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/24 "2009-03-27T17:41:10Z")
I’m just over the wisdom tooth horror. For the first few days I lived on soup left to cool until barely warm with plain store bought white bread broken up and put in the soup, ice cream left to go soft and lose a lot of it’s coldness and baked beans in tomato sauce. I just thought of it as fuel rather than enjoyment. Oh and yogurt with a lot of hash in it 😃 Horrible time, I feel for her. **Lynn Bodoni** is right though. She needs to follow any advice given to her about avoiding [dry socket](http://www.dentalgentlecare.com/dry_socket.htm) coz that is horrible. Spoil her rotten though and cut her a lot of slack. You really feel miserable for a good few days after. ---
**Author:** ![CallMeKate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@CallMeKate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CallMeKate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/25 "2009-03-27T17:56:24Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Nobody’s mentioned beer? Haha maybe if it mixed better with vicodin.. Thanks everyone for your input, its been super helpful, so far I have had watermelon sorbet, but overall, I’m not that hungry. I’m not a big fan of yogurt! I wish I was… But I’ll try it for the time being. Once again, thank you, and anything you can think of to make an easy transition to more solid foods would be wonderful too! Currently, I am puffy faced, sore, tired, and trying to get through day 2… its not my favorite. P.s. Thank you for making this thread \<34567. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/26 "2009-03-28T00:01:59Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > If she’s like me when I got mine out, all the suggestions of pasta & oatmeal, and anything that she has to chew _at all_ will not work until she’s at least two weeks out from surgery. This is definitely a case of varying mileage. I’ve always been able to eat hot cereal such as oatmeal and Cream of Wheat within a few hours of having an extraction. I do let it cool down quite a bit before I eat it, so that it’s merely warm instead of hot. I have really never chewed oatmeal at all. Being able to ingest fiber without having to crunch it is great. I will again say that Slimfast and similar products can be a lifesaver, as they are tasty (to me, at least) and very nutritious. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/27 "2009-03-28T00:08:00Z")
Tuna salad, chicken salad, etc. can be made up and put in a food processor to “soften” without losing too very much of its general ‘character’. I’ll second (third, fourth, whatever) cream soups, yogurt, mashed potatoes and puddings. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/28 "2009-03-28T00:34:35Z")
Cookie dough! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/29 "2009-03-28T00:53:55Z")
Here’s a couple of related threads for you. [Suggest easy, tasty foods I don’t have to chew](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=506702) [Please recommend Soft Foods that are palatable](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=191226) ---
**Author:** ![CallMeKate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@CallMeKate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CallMeKate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/30 "2009-03-28T03:28:51Z")
tonight i had stuffed shells that i made, it was easy to chew with my front teeth, and easy to swallow… nutritious and an actual meal… he promised to make me mac and cheese tomorrow… ahaha : ) ---
**Author:** ![CallMeKate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@CallMeKate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CallMeKate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/31 "2009-03-28T17:22:33Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Cookie dough! 🙂 we have some of this, i stumble over the chocolate chips, evidently a poor cookie dough choice. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/32 "2009-03-28T17:59:09Z")
I like Boost and Ensure (essentially the same stuff if you look at the ingredients, just different brands). They taste like milkshakes to me, and they are liquid meal replacements, i.e. they have lots of vitamins and good stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![FallingLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@FallingLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallingLeaves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948/33 "2009-03-29T03:52:48Z")
I just had all 4 wisdom teeth removed last month. The first couple of days I lived on yogurt, pudding, mashed potatoes and applesauce (actually those little cups of peach applesauce). Oh, and ice cream. By day 3 I was able to eat scrambled eggs, pancakes, french toast, cottage cheese and bananas. I was still a bit worried about pieces getting stuck in the holes in my mouth, but by day 4-5 I was able to pretty much eat any pasta, chicken cut up into tiny pieces, fish (white fish, salmon) really anything but really hard crunchy things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-soft-or-liquid-foods/490948.md?page=1)