Another soft food suggestion...

[lionfish]

Blue cheese in cauli cheese - alright!!

Bananas......at A$14/kilo simply do not get put in my shopping basket at the moment.

That baklava looks good. I love Greek/Leb pastries. I think it's the honey that does it for me.

That nutella thing sounds absolutely sinful!

[jcdamon3]

Bananas are cheap here. Under $1.00 per pound. I eat them with my oatmeal/cereal every single morning. I am upset on mornngs when I have run out of bananas.

Nutella - I don't touch the stuff. If you are a true chocolaholic it is way too sweet! Disgustingly so. I eat the dark chocolate almost exclusively. Once you have the real stuff everything else just taste horrible and sickening sweet. Just pop a piece of dark choclate in your mouth and let it melt. Very braces friendly! Good for the heart and lower in sugar than milk chocolate.

Hmmm - pancakes. Must be hard to get a vegan version of pancakes, KK. If you have a vegan recipe- shoot it my way!

Watermelon should be soft enough for most early braces wearers. It is quickly going out of season here, so hurry up!

[jcdamon3]

Heh! I would think dark chocolate would be more "vegan" than milk chocolate. If there is such a thing as being "more vegan". I never heard of a vegan lifestyle but just looked it up. I guess it means you don't wear leather shoes. That would be tough for me!

I had a vegan boyfriend once and he cooked for me once in awhile. The food was marvelous and would be perfect for braces wearers. He ate vegan when he wasn't tempted by alchohol and a nice big steak!

There might be such a thing as vegan pancakes although I have never heard of vegan flour before, that's why I am curious.

I only drink soy milk, so soy based pancakes wouldn't be an issue. I just nee d to get my hands on vegan flour.

[lionfish]

Meryaten, I think Oz pancakes are more griddle like than crepe like.

[lionfish]

Me too, especially with butter and syrup running all over them.

[jcdamon3]

The vegan food that I ate was like aduki (sp) beans, (very soft), a yamlike type veggie (very soft) and maybe some veggies which I can't remember. Gee the meal was like 14 years ago. I remember it all being pretty soft and was either beans or some kind of whole grains cooked.

Anyway, there you go, two more soft foods. Refried beans and yams. Delicious! Keep the cheese off the beans and cook them without lard and you may have yourself a vegan like meal. (I don't know how to tell which oils are vegan) Is Canola oil okay?

[turrrtlelove22]

whoa!!! I have never paid over 40 to 50 cents a pound for bananas!!! Wow. The recipes sounds delicous and I dont' even have braces yet!!...lol

[newmetal]

Can you still eat cookie dough ice cream with braces?Its the best desert and im worried when i get braced ill have to give that up with the steak.

[jcdamon3]

Hmmm just be really careful with those chocolate chips. They can get really, really hard when they are frozen. When you just have braces, your wires are much thinner and can bend easily. As you get thicker wires you don't have to be quite as careful. But the risks are both bending your wires and breaking a bracket off. I have only broken one bracket off in 13 months - knock on wood. I don't even know what I broke it on. Possibly a corn chip.

[Jillianleab]

Newmetal, as long as you are careful and chew on your molars with the chocolate chips you should be okay. Or, you can always let them sit in your mouth and get a little melty first As far as steak goes, I eat it all the time! For the first maybe two weeks after being braced it was too tough, and for about three days after my first adjustment. But after that - no problem!