Re: Digest Number 2343

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In a message dated 10/21/00 7:34:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

MiniGastricBypass (AT) egroups (DOT) com writes:

<< Will I be able to eat beans and tofu when I am a post-op? I am a

vegetarian. I don't eat chicken, fish, or drink cow's milk (lactose

intolerant)...Just curious. >>

Absolutely. I'm not vegetarian, but I do include beans and tofu in my diet.

The beans you'd probably want to puree and thin out until you're on solid

food - and the tofu you'd want to eat in little bites until then, too - but I

think both foods are excellent.

I also use soy milk and rice milk to make my protein smoothies, and no longer

drink cow's milk at all. But I had given it up before surgery anyway.

I think a vegetarian diet is in some ways the preferred one for postops - but

you need to plan to get in enough protein.

Good luck to you!

Blair

8/9/00