Full-fat yogurt. Kefir. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Buttered bread. Thai fried bananas. Someone else said mashed potatoes – make them with butter and heavy cream (not milk). They will be the best mashed potatoes you have ever tasted (mash them up a bit and then use a handheld blender to finish them).
Melt a chocolate bar in a double boiler and eat it with a spoon. Get creative!
All this cream sounds tasty, however I’m quite lactose intolerant. So the only dairy products that I eat regularly are butter and cheese. I don’t know why those two don’t bother my stomach as much as other dairy products.
uni57- do you live on a dairy farm or something? all that stuff sounds delicious though …
as for soft foods, make a smoothie! 1 banana, a couple strawberries(really however many you want) and about a cup of orange all blended up in a blender is a good smoothie. i never really measure when im cooking so those arent precise measurments.
Try finding raw cream. Pastuerization destroys the enzyme lactase, which breaks down lactose. People often have better luck with raw dairy (once they get over the propoganda-and-big-business-induced fear of raw dairy). Also, you can let the cream sour first (if it’s raw). The bacteria will pre-digest some of the lactose for you. And the presence of lactase will help you digest the rest. Just a thought.
Have you tried cream (as opposed to milk)? Butter is made from cream and you do okay with butter. I’m just wondering if cream has a lower lactose content than milk. Perhaps using cream in mashed potatoes isn’t as bad as drinking a glass of milk.
If you want to try raw milk/cream/butter, there are many sources.
No, but I do drive 80 miles each way to a dairy farm every Friday to get raw milk. Supermarket milk is not food. It’s made from sick cows that drop dead long before their time (those are called downer-cows – the next time you eat a burger at a fast-food chain, that’s what you are eating). The milk is full of pus and has a high pathogenic bacteria count. The milk is then subjected to high heat to kill all the bacteria. The heat also destroys enzymes and denatures the delicate protien molecules. It is a highly-processed food that is nothing like the real thing.
On the other hand, raw milk from healthy grass-fed cows that are free to roam on the pasture is nature’s perfect food. The beneficial bacteria (like the bacteria in yogurt, but different strains) is a natural protective mechanism for the milk. If you leave it on the kitchen counter, it will sour and become healthier for you. Pasteurized supermarket milk will rot.
yeah, i know how you feel, phlegm. when i had my braces put on, it hurt so bad i couldn’t eat hard foods for like a week. and my back teeth didn’t touch because of a herbst so i couldn’t eat salad or chips or thin things for at least a month. anyway: soft foods. i think yogurt, refried beans, and smoothies were already mentioned. bananas are good, and so is baby food. no kidding. baby food can be whatever you want but try not to look at those tubs of spinach that are all pureed. :X and if you really have a craving for hard things like crackers, either put them in a little water and mix it up like baby food or just suck on 'em.
my older brother had his wisdom teeth out around thanksgiving one year and my aunt put ALL of thanksgiving dinner in a blender (and i mean all: rolls, turkey, cranberry sauce, creamed onions, sweet potatoes, salad and salad dressing, everything in there). he drank it. :X
“purée de pois cassés” (I’ll be damned if I knew the proper word in English)
“foie gras” (I’ll be damned by the Chicagoean authorities for eating that!)