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Pureed Diet

pudding-like. All foods on this diet should be smooth and not lumpy. Avoid rough or crunchy foods like nuts and raw fruits and vegetables. This diet will help provide foods that can be safely and easily swallowed. ‚  

General


How to Puree Homemade Foods ‚  
  • Use a blender or food processor to puree any foods that are not blended, whipped, or mashed.
  • Cook your foods so they are soft and moist before pureeing them.
  • Use gravy, sauces, vegetable or fruit juice, milk, nondairy milk, or half and half to soften your foods before pureeing them.
  • If a food is too thin, add potato flakes or thickeners to pureed foods to make them thicker.
  • Avoid foods with skins, seeds, nuts, gristle, or strings because they do not puree well.
  • Cook your favorite foods ahead of time and freeze into single servings.

Pureeing Meat, Fish, or Poultry ‚  
  • Start with hot or warm meat, fish, or poultry, like chicken. Take off any skin and cut into small pieces.
  • Puree meat. While blending, slowly add warm liquids like gravy, broth, tomato sauce, milk, or nondairy milk.

Soups ‚  
  • If your soup has meat, noodles, or vegetables, you will need to strain the soup. Set aside the liquid.
  • Puree solid foods.
  • Slowly add back some of the liquid until the soup is smooth and there are no lumps.
  • Cream soups may already be smooth or may have chunks of meat or vegetables in them. If so, puree the soup until smooth.

Canned Fruits or Vegetables ‚  
  • Drain off the liquids from your fruits or vegetables and set aside.
  • Puree the fruit or vegetables.
  • Slowly add back some of the liquid until the fruits or vegetables are smooth and there are no lumps.

Shopping Tips ‚  
  • Choose foods that you know and that can be easily blended, whipped, or mashed until they are "pudding-like."
  • Syrups and fruit purees can add color and taste to your foods.
  • Try eating stage 1 or stage 2 baby food. This is easy and gives you many choices of foods.

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Food GuideView LargeFood Guide

Food Group

Foods to Eat

Foods to Avoid

Menu Ideas

FRUIT

Pureed fruit without seeds

Ripe, well mashed bananas and applesauce

Whole fruits

Chunky applesauce

Fruit with added nuts or seeds

Dried fruits

Use pureed fruit on meats as a sauce to add flavor

VEGETABLES

Pureed vegetables without chunks, lumps, pulps, or seeds

Tomato paste or sauce without seeds

Tomato or vegetable juice

Whole vegetables that are fresh or raw

Any vegetables that have not been pureed

Tomato sauce with seeds

Add margarine to vegetables to add calories

POTATOES AND STARCHES

Mashed white or sweet potatoes with gravy or sauce

Pureed potato casseroles

Pureed pasta, noodles, and rice with gravy or sauce

Rice, potatoes, or noodles that have not been pureed

Baked white and sweet potatoes

Add gravies, butter, margarine, or sour cream to potatoes, rice, or noodles when pureeing to add calories and moisture

MEAT AND MEAT SUBSTITUTES

Pureed chicken, turkey, fish, meat

Strained baby food meats

Pureed casseroles, lentils, legumes, and hummus

Pureed eggs, potted/deviled meat

Any meat, fish, chicken, or turkey that is not pureed

Casseroles, beans, and eggs that have not been pureed

Lunch meat, unless pureed

Baby food meats can be used for quick, easy meals

OILS/FATS

Butter, margarine, sour cream, vegetable oils, cream cheese, whipped topping, mayonnaise, smooth salad dressing, and smooth sauces

Salad dressings that are chunky or lumpy

Bacon or bacon bits

Use vegetable oil, smooth sauces, and gravies to add moisture for pureeing foods

MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS

Smooth yogurt, custard, pudding

Pureed cottage cheese and melted cheese in cheese sauce

Milk, milkshakes, eggnog, plain ice cream without nuts, fruit, or chunks

Yogurt with fruit, lumpy pudding (like tapioca or rice pudding)

Whole cottage cheese, cheese slices/cubes that are not melted

Ice cream with nuts, fruit, or chunks

Add chocolate syrup or other flavoring to milk for additional calories

BREADS AND CEREALS

Cream of wheat, farina, and grits

Pureed dressing, pancakes, sweet rolls, and Danish pastries

Oatmeal, dry cereal

Crackers, whole bread, whole bread products with nuts/seeds

Rice and pastas that are not pureed

SOUP

Smooth soups without lumps, pureed soups

Broth/strained soups

Cream soups with meat/fish or vegetable chunks unless they are pureed

Margarine or butter can be added to soups to add calories

Melt cream cheese or cheese in soups

DESSERTS

Smooth puddings, custard, pureed cake or pie with no lumps, seeds, or peelings

Gelatin

Smooth candies, such as truffles

Plain ice cream, sherbet, ices, frozen juice bars, mousse, souffles

Pudding with lumps, fruit, or nuts

Rice or bread pudding

Any pureed dessert with lumps, seeds, or nuts

Gelatin with fruits or vegetables

Add whipped topping to pudding, custard, pureed pie or cake to add calories

OTHER

Plain gelatin

Finely ground pepper, powdered spices, powdered herbs, salt, sugar, sugar substitute, brown sugar

Smooth jelly, honey, maple/chocolate/smooth fruit syrups, cream and powdered creamers

Meat sauces, BBQ sauce, marinades, smooth cranberry sauces

Nutritional shakes or supplements

Coffee, tea

Carbonate sodas like ginger ale and cola

Water

Coarse ground pepper, crushed or flaked herbs, seeds, any spice or herb that is not finely ground

Whole cranberry sauce

Add BBQ sauce when pureeing meat to add flavor

Marinate meats before cooking to add extra flavor when pureeing


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1-Day Sample MenuView Large1-Day Sample Menu

Breakfast

Snack

1/2 cup (120 mL) cooked cream of wheat

2 pureed scrambled eggs

1 cup (240 mL) milk

1/2 cup (120 mL) fruit juice

Coffee or tea

1/2 cup (120 mL) pureed fruit

Lunch

Snack

1 cup (240 mL) strained soup

3 ounces (90 mL) beef pureed with gravy

1 cup (240 mL) mashed potatoes with margarine and gravy

1 cup (240 mL) pureed carrots with margarine

1 cup (240 mL) milk

1 cup (240 mL) fruit juice

1/2 cup (120 mL) pudding

Dinner

Snack

1 to 2 cups(240 to 480 mL) pureed chicken noodle casserole

1 cup (240 mL) pureed spinach with margarine

1 cup (240 mL) pureed peaches

1 cup (240 mL) milk

Coffee or tea

1/2 cup (120 mL) ice cream

1 cup (240 mL) milkshake or nutritional supplement


When is this diet used?


Your doctor may order a pureed diet if you have: ‚  
  • Problems swallowing
  • Problems chewing
  • Had your jaws wired shut
  • Had teeth pulled or some other dental work

When do I need to call the doctor?


  • If you are losing weight
  • If you have any questions about what you can eat

Helpful tips


  • Avoid all solid foods.
  • Choose only foods you can swallow without chewing.
  • This diet can be low in iron, vitamin B12, vitamin A, and thiamine. If you are on this diet for more than a few weeks, you may need a multivitamin. Talk with your doctor.
  • Talk with your doctor about adding nonfat dry milk or dry breakfast powder to drinks or puddings to give you more calories and protein.

Where can I learn more?


Idaho State Department of Education ‚  
http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/cnp/specialNeeds/conditions_symptoms/DysphagiaPureedDiet.pdf ‚  
National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders ‚  
http://www.swallowingdisorderfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/level-1-pureed-therapy.pdf ‚  

Last Reviewed Date


2015-12-14 ‚  

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