Swiftysmoon

I may be a bit late, but I have a disease that makes it difficult for me to swallow food, and a pantry full of stuff I don't know what to do with.

(I have lentils, kidney and black beans, chickpeas, frozen peas, i have an eggplant. Sun dried tomatoes, tuna, rice, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, lemon, carrots, spinach, oats, coconut milk, tomato paste and quinoa. I have basically every spice you can think of.) The most important thing is that everything is easy to swallow.

I've been making a lot of hummus, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, mushy peas, and soups, but I need ideas to vary this because I'm living off of ice cream and apathy at this point. I'm struggling to figure out how to balance my diet. Is there any way you can help?

I hadn't thought about egg dishes. I'm allergic to chicken and their eggs, but I can handle duck eggs, so once the quarantine let's up and I can source some, I'll give the egg dishes a try. Curries are a good idea too. I'm pretty fond of curry generally, and I definitely have all of the ingredients for it. I love cottage cheese, but it has been problematic in my experience. Something about the consistency doesn't lend well to swallowing via gravity.

I have a really hard time with smoothies mentally. They tend to be easier to swallow than most things, but they're too similar to the meal replacement drinks I have to use on really bad days. It's like when you eat too much of something and it makes you so sick you don't want it anymore. I usually sub in oat products where I can when I do make smoothies (since I have a dairy allergy), but I really dislike most sweet things these days. Most of my low energy /on the go options are sweet, and it gets hard to keep it up after a while. I'm still happy to try any interesting combinations you can suggest that include veggies, though. Getting them into my diet is difficult right now because they're so fibrous and always have to be blended into something. I've thought about spinach and apple, but I haven't tried it yet. I'd love to figure out how to make a passable v8. It doesn't exist in the country I live in now.

A lot of great ideas here. I'm especially feeling that shepherds pie. The pasta salad and burger patties would definitely be too dense for me to swallow (though i could maybe try blending the pasta into a paste). I was just thinking of making baba ganoush, since I have plenty of tahini ans its about the right consistency. The carrot soup sounds really lovely too. I haven't tried it before, but it soubds like it could be nice with a bit of coconut milk even.

I'm actually in a very similar position. Was misdiagnosed once with a spine disease and my rheumatologist has since settled back on fibro being the cause of my pain and fatigue. I know fibro fog can be bad, but my complete inability to remember experiences I've had more than a year ago or what happens in the media I consume is baffling to me.