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Another soft food suggestion...

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:26 pm
by Kimber
Chocolate chip cookie dough.

:BigGrin:

OK, so this really isn't a healthy "food" but it is soft and you could just let the chips melt on your tongue...

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:41 pm
by Jillianleab
That does sound yummy! If anyone lives near a Dairy Queen (I do) they can go get a cookie dough blizzard! Yum!

To add another soft food idea to the board, here's a link to Cinnamon Mashed Yams; I had some at dinner tonight! My teeth don't hurt, but they are delicious all the same, and in my opinion, much better than regular mashed potatoes!

http://www.bahamabreeze.com/recipes/app ... m_mash.asp

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:41 pm
by lionfish
I reckon!

I used to love eating raw cake dough as a kid. This would be similar.

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:31 pm
by hippyhippo
My first meal after being braced: Banana pancakes! For you chocoholics, toss some chocolate chips in there and it's heavenly!

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:31 pm
by lionfish
While we're on soft food suggestions, this is another of my long term favourites.

Make a bechamel (white) sauce, add a teaspoonful of hot english mustard to the butter/flour mix before you add the milk, then when the sauce starts to thicken, add grated cheddar or parmesan cheese. Normally I'd add this sauce to cauliflower, white fish or something similar. Sometimes though I'm really naughty, make up a quantity and simply scoff the lot!

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:09 pm
by Zondrae
Hey Karen - I can't even afford to keep buying bananas at the moment. Aren't the prices insane?! :shock:

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:05 am
by Jillianleab
On the topic of bananas... mash one in a bowl, add a bit of brown sugar and some cinnamon. Mix it together well and put a small spoonfull in the center of a wonton wrapper (usually can be found in the frozen foods section). Add a drizzle of Nutella (or chocolate sauce) and fold the wrapper up, sealing the edges. Drop the whole thing in hot oil and fry until crispy. Serve with ice cream and (duh) more Nutella!

And on the topic of Nutella... spread Nutella on a slice of pound cake, butter cake, etc (must be dense). Top with thinly sliced strawberries. Put another slice of cake on top, and grill on a panni grill, or on the stovetop, using cooking spray as lubricant. The Nutella gets all warm and gooey, and the cake ends up with just a bit of a crisp to it.

I love food.... :oops: it's amazing I'm not 500lbs!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:35 pm
by tardissauce
No matter the time of day, anytime anyone mentions pancakes, I immediately start craving them...its uncontrollable! :D

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:07 pm
by 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!

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:06 pm
by 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!

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:46 pm
by 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.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:29 pm
by lionfish
Meryaten, I think Oz pancakes are more griddle like than crepe like.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:44 pm
by lionfish
Me too, especially with butter and syrup running all over them. :D

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:57 pm
by 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?

Pricey bananas...O_o;;;

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:02 am
by turrrtlelove22
whoa!!! :shock: 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