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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.

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.

Don't ask the Internet!!!!

Talk to your oral surgeon. This is part of what they're there for.

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.

What about yellow lentil soup? You can put roasted bread in it if you can handle light chewing, but it's not necessary. Do note however that it's best (or rather only) eaten hot.

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!

Soup?

There’s a world of soup, so many flavours and ingredients.

What about soft noodles, oatmeal, Chinese porridge, miso soup.

I broke my jaw as a kid and had my teeth wired shut for a couple of weeks. Half-and-half was the best way I found to get calories. Mix it with chocolate syrup to change things up. Protein shakes are also good.

Central American style beans are black pureed beans. Go to your local mercado to find some.

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.

So... have you been told to eat only soft food? Can you still use your mouth to process food a bit? If you're all stitched up you want to keep it to soups and purees and drinks that you don't have to process at all. I know someone who misunderstood "soft food" for "stuff that isn't too tough" and had to seek medical attention when a bunch of stuff got loose in there. Talk to your doctor if in doubt, that wasn't pleasant.

But hey, from that experience, there are a few things I learned you can do if/when you can process your food in your mouth a bit.

• Starchy snacks will melt easily and not taste like cardboard. Chips, bread sticks, that type of thing are all doable.

• Yogurt and dairy desserts, unsurprisingly. Lots of flavours and textures in that supermarket aisle. Try mixing jams and other spreads into sharper stuff like kefir instead of having just the industrially flavored boring stuff.

• Surprisingly, some cold cuts of meat. If you buy it cut at the shop and ask them to go as thin as possible you will be able to shred it with your hands or a knife as you eat it and essentially still make it through a deconstructed sandwich if you pair it with untoasted soft bread.

• Ditto for fruit salad. Banana, finely chopped strawberries and other stuff that is soft or can be cut small and swallowed whole.

• Soups, creams and stews. Overcook veg and potatoes, and chop any meat quite small (and be ready to cut it smaller when eating) but it'll be fine. I'm not a fan, but it's a thing.

• Smoothies, milkshakes and chocolate milk. Get some of the nutrients without having to make it taste the same each time.

• Eggs. Omelettes, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, whathaveyou.

• Pasta. Get over the instinct to keep it al dente and overcook a thicker shape a bit. Just keep the sauce less chunky. Also rice and couscous if you're bored of pasta.

• Flaky fish. Experiment, but there are plenty of kinds that will flake small and be very soft when cooked. Get some garlic and parsley on there, grill it a bit, it'll taste great.

The idea is to keep it to things that will melt in your mouth with little coaxing or things cut so fine that all the work has been made and can be swallowed whole. It can be a sustainable diet that isn't unpleasant with a bit of adjustment.

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).

Look up bariatric recipes! Lots of recipes that don't involve much chewing at all. Lots of pretty gourmet options

Huel

It is possible that many soft foods could still cause issues, like small seeds in a smoothie or the skin of a bean getting stuck somewhere and causing issues. I'd follow the common advice in this thread and take some ideas of very soft foods to your doctor and ask about them specifically. Might as well make sure, but if they double down on only those 3 foods being safe, I'd trust em at that point.

Smoothies and beans are top options if you have any flexibility though, so many ways you can make/flavor both.

Hardtack... very slowly.

Now I want mashed potatoes.

My cousin had his jaw elongated, which required his mouth to be anchored shut. He would take his favorite foods, including tacos and burritos, throw them in a blender with a tiny bit of water, and turn them inro.smoothies.

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.

Get a food chopper or processor (Ninja Express Chop for $25 at Target* is ok). Then just add some water to your regular meals and puree them with the chopper. Be super careful cleaning the thing since any food residue left will attract germs quickly. Source: I do this for my mom, who is getting up there in years and doesn't always like her dentures.

• https://www.target.com/p/ninja-express-chop-gray-nj100gr/-/A-46766107

Tomato soup, yogurt, jello, and any other food that has a very soft consistency that doesn'r require chewing should all be fine after a week or so.

But if if your dentist/oral surgeon said to limit yourself to the three things you mentioned it is better to stick with their guidance. I haven't had that many pulled at the same time, but was able to eat the ones I mentioned after a day or two of broth and tomato soup.

Protein shake

Scrambled egg, porridge, banana, steamed veg, jelly, cottage cheese...

Realistically you will find that after a few days you will be able to chew in areas where the teeth haven't been removed - it just takes a little bit of time to get used to it.

Not a dentist by the way, just based on personal experience of tooth extraction.

Smoothies, if you have blender. Get some frozen fruit, some yogurt (or milk or cream,) maybe some water to help it blend, mix in chunks of ice if you want that, too.

Any frozen fruit will do, but I particularly like strawberry or mango with a not-frozen banana tossed in. another more dessert-y smoothie was raspberries with chocolate sauce.

you can also add things like kale or whatever greens, if you want the fiber and stuff.