Looking for knee-jerk recipies and/or solutions from those that have been there, preferably in the savory category. Pudding and ice cream ain’t my thing.
Anyone?
Thanks!
My suggestions:
tofu.
yogurt.
smoothies. When I got mine pulled I made smoothies with milk, fruit, ice cream, juice, and Carnation Instant Breakfast powder, and also some powdered multivitamin. To make sure I got the nutrients and carbs I needed, even in liquid form. Bananas, also, are very good for you.
Jello.
Flan.
Quiche. Only a very simple cheese quiche would serve, and only a couple days after the actual surgery. But the crust can be gummed quite nicely.
Good luck! And make sure to get loads of sympathy out of friends and family.
…can’t believe that QUICHE came to mind… I’m using my day (s) off to make two… one for me and one for my neighbor that allows me to use her pool. I’ve been promising her one for a trade on the fact that she’s given me full reign on her swimming pool. Thanks White!
I lived on soup, mashed potatoes, milk shakes, macaroni and cheese…basically anything soft. Just whatever you do, DO NOT suck anything through a straw for at least a day or two. The sucking is such a strong force that it could literally suck the blood clots out from where your wisdom teeth just were and cause a whole mess of bleeding and such.
Anyways… Good luck in your quest to find good (soft) food.
Chicken soup (of course)
Applesauce.
Cottage cheese.
Breakfast cereal after it has turned soggy from sitting in milk for five to ten minutes.
Breakfast cereal after it has been put in a blender on puree for a minute. (Really, I was desperate for something to eat after a week of applesauce and cottage cheese!)
Here’s a good recipie…
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup of minute rice
1 1/2 cups water
Mix the soup and the water in a pan; make sure it’s boiling before you add the rice. It’s easy to make and it’s very filling.
A nice milkshake. 
But like Star Light Star Bright said, don’t use a straw
Huh. I just got mine out a little over a week ago. I was able to start eating real, grown-up food within 3 or 4 days, but here’s some of what I ate in the meantime:
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes
squash
scrambled eggs
applesauce
oatmeal
pudding
soup
mac & cheese
yogurt
ice cream
any food that I could eat by mashing it against the roof of my mouth with my tongue as opposed to actually chewing it
Good luck & feel better soon.
Lunatic13
When I had my wisdom teeth taken out, I ate baked potatoes (no crunchy toppings though), jello, and soup.
Whatever you eat, eat something!
My one-time-is-enough-for-me fainting spell the day after I had mine removed was enough to convince me that lack of food plus blood loss is a Very Bad Thing.
Take 3 individual size serving cans od Hormel Scalloped Potatoes w/Ham.
Zap 'em in the microwave (according to instructions)
Pour into Blender, add milk. Puree.
Season to taste
Instant potato soup w/ ham.
(I had all four wisdom teeth pulled out, followed about a month later by major mandibular reconstructive surgery. Not much fun, that summer.)
First, my deepest sympathies.
I had mine out (all four, plus an additional tooth that had cracked) when I was in the Navy, and my food choices were limited to what the mess hall was serving that day. I ate grits for breakfast all week (diluted to a semi-soupy consistency with milk) and yogurt and mashed potatoes the rest of the time.
Word of advice is that when you’re finished eating, flush out your sockets GENTLY with lukewarm salt water (just salty enough to taste) to loosen and flush out excess food particles so your sockets don’t get infected.
Robin
Too bad you don’t like ice cream. I ate an entire half gallon of Breyer’s Vanilla the day they took mine out. It tastes great (even through the blood), and the coolness releived my suffering.
Pasta might work. Alfredo with the linguine cut up small. Rice pudding. Squash or zucchini cooked 'til mushy. Canned peas? Spaghettios come to mind, but I don’t know if you can stand Chef Boyardee!? Egg salad or super creamy tuna salad. Good luck! It only lasts a few days, and be careful of those sockets!
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Boil two hot dogs. You may not like them boiled, but they have to be soft. I’m saying hot dogs because when you’re losing blood, you need protein.
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Zap the buns in the micro. They also have to be soft.
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Do not put anything on the dogs. Well, maybe a packet of mild off-brand ketchup, but no mustard or anything else.
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Take the gauze out at the last possible moment.
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Scarf the hot dogs as fast as you can without choking.
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Rinse your mouth with water. Do not let food particles settle in the gaps where the wisdom teeth used to be.
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Jam the gauze back in.
A big endorsement for smoothies: toss a bannana, some milk and flavourings of your choice in a blender (fresh berries, lemon, vanilla, etc.)–oh, heck, glop in some plain yogurt or wheat germ. You need genuine food while you’re healing.
Quickie, knock-off Avelogmomo soup (Greek chicken, rice and lemon soup):
Open a can of chicken broth (or veggie works fine)
Dump it in a pan with 2 Tbsp. rice
(Squeeze in little garlic; helps the taste and healing.)
Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes.
In your soup bowl, whip up an egg yolk with a fork. (Some folks use the white, too–it’s your soup; go for it.)
Spoon some hot broth into the yolk, stir a second then dump the whole shootin’ match back into the hot broth.
(It’s called “tempering”, snuggling the yolk into the soup without ending up with clumps of scrambled egg.)
Squeeze in one half fresh lemon.
Dump back in bowl and eat.
Gazpacho
a few seeded, peeled fresh tomatoes or just open a can of good quality tomatoes
Dump 'em into blender with:
bits of onion
bits of green/red pepper, chopped zucchini–whatever
a spritz of lemon juice
a jolt of Tabasco if ya like it
oh, you know–whatever herbish tastes you like–bobbit in some basil and lose the hot sauce; improvise!
just at the end–a dollop of plain (unflavored) yogurt–or leave it out if you don’t like it.
Pour into a bowl or sippin’ mug.
Eat it at room temp or just barely chilled. Done to taste it can be a soup or a slurpable, tangy salad.
Hang in there and wishing you fast recovery, Pessor.
Veb
I had four fully impacted teeth removed about a year ago. The surgeon had to break every one of them in my jaw to get them out. Needless to say, I was eating moosh for two weeks, and was unable to leave my parents’ house for five days.
The first week was especially hard because between the blood and the pain killers, I was throwing everything up. So sugary things really didn’t appeal to me. I ate a lot of mashed potatos and apple sauce, but my favorite was tofu mooshed up with a little seasame oil, soy sauce and tabasco sauce.
If you’re able to sit up long enough to use the computer, you’re oddles better than I was. Pay attention to your sockets, mine got infected, which tore a stich. (nightmare, anyone?)
All hail the doctor who removed my wisdom teeth. They were impacted (i.e. hadn’t come through the skin yet) and he did it under local anestesia (i.e. he put me out completely) at the hospital as an outpatient thing. I don’t remember much between getting wheeled into the room and waking up at home 8 or 10 hours later except for a few minutes in the recovery room where the nurse was shaking my wisdom teeth in a plastic specimen cup (I had asked to have them). I don’t remember the trip home or climbing the stairs to get into bed or anything else.
That night for dinner I had… Steak. Yes, that’s right, steak. Didn’t tear any stitches. No bleeding. My doctor gave me a prescription for percoset or percodan and I think I took them the night of the surgery and the next day and that was it.
Sorry, but my anal retentive nature won’t let this go. LOCAL anesthesia is with a shot locally, GENERAL anesthesia is when they put you completely under.