What can I make for my father to eat that he can eat with no teeth?!
What can I make for my father to eat that he can eat with no teeth?
He`s 79 and losing all his teeth,a list of foods (besides mashed potatoes and pudding)that I can make would be so helpful,thanks in advance!
Answers:
Soup, smoothies, applesauce.
Corn on the cob with peanut butter...
Lots of soups---broccoli/cauliflower with cheese is great.
Most ground beef casseroles are easy to eat; sweet potato casserole, corn pudding, sheperds pies....be creative.
rootbeer float'' or whiskey blended egg nog''
If he can take hot things, something like tomato soup or cream of _____ soup can work. He can even have other soups, if you have a blender. Just blend them. Tastes just like it did before. And for snacks, maybe a shake or smoothie.
Many types of pasta, such as bite-size ravioli, are good. Casseroles. Soft, boneless fish like salmon.
Have you ever made risotto? There are many different ways to make it using different fresh vegetables and it's very good and filling.
Mushroom Risotto
2 onions, finely chopped
7 1/16 ounces mushrooms, chopped (or more if you like them)
2 cups arborio rice
4 1/4 cups chicken stock (or vegetable if you wish)
1 cup parmesan cheese
oil
Heat oil in pan, add onions and mushrooms.
Cook until onions are soft.
Add rice, stir until combined.
Put stock in another pan and boil.
Stir in 2/3 cup stock to the rice.
Stir until all absorbed.
Continue adding stock in small amounts in this fashion until all used.
When this process is finished, add cheese.
Serve.
Garlic and Roasted Tomato Risotto
8 7/8 ounces cherry tomatoes, halved
8 cloves garlic, unpeeled
1 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
salt & freshly ground black pepper
1 large yellow onion, halved,finely chopped
7 7/8 ounces arborio rice (1 cup)
1/2 cup loosely packed shredded fresh basil
2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 180°C.
Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
Place the cherry tomato halves in a single layer on lined tray.
Place garlic on tray.
Drizzle the tomatoes with 1 tsp of the oil and season with salt and pepper.
Roast tomatoes and garlic in preheated oven for 30 minutes or until tomatoes shrivel around edges and garlic is soft.
Remove from oven and squeeze garlic from skin, chop roughly and place in a small bowl.
Set aside.
Bring the stock just to the boil in a saucepan.
Reduce heat and hold the stock at a gentle simmer.
Heat remaining oil in a medium heavy-based saucepan over medium heat.
Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 7 minutes or until onion is soft and light golden.
Add the rice and cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until lightly coated with oil.
Add a ladleful of the simmering stock to the rice and use a wooden spoon to stir constantly over medium-low heat until the liquid is completely absorbed.
Continue to add the stock, a small ladleful (about ? cup) at a time, stirring constantly, and allow liquid to be absorbed before adding the next ladleful.
Cook until rice is tender yet firm to the bite and risotto is creamy.
Start tasting after about 15 minutes- it will probably take about 20-25 minutes to cook and should be moist and creamy when finished.
Remove the risotto from the heat and add the garlic, basil and parmesan, and stir gently to combine.
Taste and season with salt (if needed) and pepper.
Add the tomatoes and fold through the rice gently.
Spoon into serving bowls and serve immediately sprinkled with a little extra pepper.
Your dad can eat anything he wants to, you just may have to put it through a blender. A good rule of thumb is, draw your lips over your teeth and see if you can bite (gum) the food. Any food you prepare needs to be soft and in small parts so your dad can swallow it. Try eggs, veggies, mac $ cheese, chicken dumplings (chicken needs to be shredded), cubed pork steaks, breaded and fried are very tender, baked potato, hash. Some frozen meats, eg. boneless BBQ ribs.
if you have a blender, you can make almost anything the right consistency. add a little liquid as needed. some things like cooked vegetables, meatloaf, fish, tuna can just be mashed with a fork. try cooked cereal. when my twins were babies i made my own babyfood from whatever we were having.
smoothies, soup.
Creamed corn/mushroom/chicken soup is good.
Hey pumpkin,
I had cared for my mom. After her third stroke she had severe difficulties to swallow.
An adult over 50 should take 1.5 g of protein for one kg of his weight. I had no chance to give her so much in form of steak.
I made her the following cocktail. 75g of tartar (crunched beefsteak), one banana, 125 g broccoli, 30g whey protein (such you can buy in sport shops, if your father is allergic to milk use soy protein, if you take whey proteine take that without cholesterine), one pill of vitamins and minerals and two potatoes and two tablespoonfull of sunflower oil. I warmed th cocktail in the microwave.
There was a German heart specialist saying that if you take 5 g of ribose each day, it will help your heart so much that you even will save a heart transplantation. My mother had a weak heart so I put 5g to the cocktail. I had the motto: If he is right it's splended, if he is wrong, it is her part of "dolce vita". Ribose is expensive. For my knowledge the cheapest ribose you can buy: VitaminExpress LLC, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, USA www.vitaminexpress.net
The rest of my cocktail I filled up with 600 ml of water. Of course I cooked the steak, the broccoli and the potatoes before.
I put all the igredients in a mixer and crunched it very fine.
If you don't have much time, you also can buy at the pharmacy fluid cost ( eg: Frisubin from Frisenius) but it is very expensive. And for my opinion not so good like my cocktail. When I gave my mom Frisubin she got a red had and was absent.
I gave her such a cocktail two times a day.
You have to watch that your pa is eating fast for humans feel full after 20 min of eating and old people do eat very very slow.
hope that helped you
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany
Heinz
ps: If you have questions send me a pn.