The Soft Gourmet: Eating Well On A Soft Food Diet

The Soft Gourmet: Eating Well On A Soft Food Diet is a cookbook featuring soft food to look forward to! This kitchen-tested collection of delicious, nutritious recipes supports the healing and stamina of people who cannot bite or chew food, and provides a practical strategy for caregivers of patients recovering from oral surgery, maxillofacial reconstruction, dental implants, cancer treatment, and other conditions requiring a Soft Food Diet.

Our surgeon and our reconstruction dentist both wrote: ＂This soft foods recipe book is a game-changer＂ for caregivers, patients, and clinicians of Oral Surgery, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, Otolaryngology, Trauma Surgery, and Dietitians. ＂All of these clinicians and their patients stand to gain so much from this book.＂ (see Foreword)

The Soft Gourmet offers:

• 77 delicious, nutritious recipes of easy-to-swallow foods-a year’s worth: 26 yummy soups and stews! - smoothies, custards and puddings, main dishes, pastas, potatoes, sides, sauces, and sweets-that the whole family can enjoy
• Kitchen strategies to succeed over a long healing period
• Patterns of Soft Gourmet Cooking: convert any recipe to Soft Food
• First foods: menu plan and recipes for the first tender weeks following oral surgery
• Pantry lists: boost protein, create creaminess, and provide key nutrients for patients for whom biting, chewing, and swallowing is difficult, and who struggle to maintain weight and energy

Written by a caregiver-cook, The Soft Gourmet: Eating Well On A Soft Food Diet will help you keep joy and sanity in your caregiving kitchen during recovery.