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I miss toasted sandwiches!!! Eating pizza is NOT the same!!! No Gum chips!!! And getting full is hard!!! lol What do you miss eating? What have you been eating?

I eat whatever I want, except what's on the no-no list (chewy/hard candies, gum, pizza crust, hard breads, etc) Chips aren't on my no-no list so they're fair game for me lol I have eaten them with braces... heck, I even bite right into soft sandwiches

Other than the first few weeks and then maybe 2 days after each adjustment, my diet hasn't changed much.

Also, this is being discussed here:
http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtop ... =3&t=41054

Try sugar free gum. I chew it all the time and have had no issues whatsoever and my ortho said the sticky, non-sugar-free gum is what you have to avoid.

A good steak

Looking back, it was a whole apple, which I have to bite into with my front teeth.

Toasted sandwiches! Yeah! I miss toasted sandwiches too!

I really miss nuts. They were my get-though-the-afternoon snack food. I haven't found anything that works as well.

For me, it's more about the mechanics of eating that what I'm eating. Eating pizza with a knife and fork just seems wrong. Cutting an apple--or any other fruit other than bananas--into small pieces IS wrong. A quick, healthy snack is now time consuming and messy.

I've been eating more yogurt and eggs. I find store bought cookies a bit hard so I've been making cookies more often. That's probably not a bad thing. I still eat salads for lunch; I just cut the pieces smaller.

I'm not a big beef eater so dinners haven't changed too much. I eat a lot of chicken, fish, pasta, and chickpeas. However, I love barbequed steak and I haven't had one since I got braces seven weeks ago. It's not exactly barbeque season around here so I'll have to wait until May to try it.

chewing gum

I just miss biting into things, I can pretty much eat anything now - if I take the proper precautions and cut it up.

I'm a chewing gum addict...and I really miss chewing it =(

I'd love a BLT. Or, a Cobb salad. Haven't worked out how to eat lettuce.

Today is day 2, and right now I think I miss all foods! I even had a hard time with mashed potatoes today. Hopefully I can figure it out soon, because I'm hungry.

Maybe I'll finally lose the 10 pounds I need to lose :-)

Siobhan wrote:I'd love a BLT. Or, a Cobb salad. Haven't worked out how to eat lettuce.

Lettuce is easier if you avoid the main stem parts of the leaves... stick to the soft outer area of lettuce leaves

I pretty much eat everything I ate before but now I think twice with some foods becuase it's a pain to clean my braces after some of them!

Ahh, pizza! I remember having to cut it up into pieces for the first few months that I had braces. I can say "it does get better" though, as I can eat pizza normally now.

What I truly miss is corn on the cob. I tried to cheat once earlier this year and I just had corn stuck all in my braces and it wasn't fun at all. I told my boyfriend he is taking me out to dinner where I can get corn on the cob when I get my braces off next month.

Five months in, I can eat just about anything. My ortho is a good friend, and I have made a point of eating all of her "no-no" foods in front of her. It started with her trying to get me to eat one of her kettle chips at a festival, moved on to eating popcorn next to her at the movies, and then proceeded from there. Just finished the list on Halloween by eating a mini-Snickers bar at her house. Kind of sad to have finished the challenge. That said, I don't eat some of the things lots, because it a)takes too long, and b)the clean up is a pain!
Hang in there!