Meals for someone with no top teeth!!

sweetserendipity

Hello everyone

My poor Dad is getting all of his top teeth taken out next week _pale_ He's not getting a denture straightaway, probably not for a few weeks, so I'm looking for 'soft' food ideas, if anyone can help?!

Breakfast -
weetabix

Lunches/Dinners (he keeps odd times & meal times tend to merge/blur so will keep these meal ideas together ) -
Soup (probably home-made by me) possibly with pieces of bread floating in it to make it more filling
Cheese & mushroom omelette (he has this now & thinks he could manage it without his top teeth)
Shepherds/Cottage pie (he's not a great fan of mince, so don't know how this will go down, but at least it would be soft!!)

Puddings -
Stewed apple
Yoghurts

As you can see, I'm very low on ideas because he's such a fussy old devil &, just to complicate things, a Type 2 Diabetic as well!! He's 71 & usually eats fairly traditional food.

I would be sooo grateful for any advice, meal ideas etc., as I'm dreading the coming weeks. I need to keep him from starving & also stop him from getting totally fed up with himself.

Thank you!!

angeltreats

I think this might be an Irish thing but when I was a child it was very common to have a bowl of (usually vegetable) soup with a big scoop of mashed potato sitting in the middle of it. Very filling and I still think of it as comfort food. Might be worth a try for your dad.

Would pasta be too difficult with no top teeth? If it was well cooked it would be nice and soft and it would be a bit of variety. You could also easy freeze portions of lasagne, for example.

Also rice pudding might be an idea.

catznine

We've had tooth problems here and cheesy mash is a great favourite and comfort food. Also home made cream of veg soup - potatoes, carrots, green beans, onions cooked in a stock and then blitzed in the blender, add milk on reheating. You could put dumplings into some soup for a change. Mashed up baked beans either on their own or added to a tin of chopped tomatoes and heated through are lovely especially with some grated cheese on top.

Would your dad try a smoothie, bananas and/or strawberries whizzed up with a yogurt would be nourishing. Good old angel delight can be a godsend, jelly and ice cream, trifle, rice pud, mashed banana in custard.

Gigervamp

angeltreats wrote: »

I think this might be an Irish thing but when I was a child it was very common to have a bowl of (usually vegetable) soup with a big scoop of mashed potato sitting in the middle of it.

Not just Irish. I used to love tomato soup with mash in the middle.

How about risotto?

Butterfly_Brain

Poor Dad
I have had five teeth taken out, and I had as follows
Breakfasts :
Porridge with different toppings (Maple Syrup, Honey, Jam, mashed up strawberries, mashed up bananas, chocolate spread)
Weetabix with warm milk
Lunch :
Soup with bread soaked in
HM Parsnip and Apple soup
HM cheese and potato soup
Cauliflower Cheese
Spag bol from a tin because it is soft
Dinners :
I tried to have the same as the family just mashed up really well with a bit of gravy
I had lots of Angel delight, Semolina and ground rice
HTH

wogglemaker

I frequently have a similar problem where my mouth is sore through oral thrush (I use a nebuliser six time a day hence the problem).

Some suggestions
baked sweet potato and a soft topping.
Smoked haddock poached in milk with bread to soak in the milk (one of my favs)
spag bol.
semolina
Scottish staple mince and tatties peas and beans
lasagnia (sp)

Edit I totaly agree regarding Soup, the list is never ending Carrot Lentil & corriander, roast sweet potato & Red onion and many more all liquidise wellWell

annie123

Had this with my dad last year, he couldn't manage mince, your dad will have no chewing ability, lower teeth on gums is painful, especially as he will have just had his teeth out.

Pasta can be eaten (and make sure its over cooked) but use the mini ones often says for soup on the packet, my dad had 1/2 tin of condensed chicken/muchroom/tomato soup with it
I also made tuna pasta bake with the same pasta, he could eat that after a week or so after the extractions.
Mash with gravy served with jamie olivers roasted veg, cut into bit size bits.
scramble eggs and baked beans,
instant noodles,
lots of soups, bread can be added as soft crutons to make more of a meal of it if needed,
porridge
Pate/soft cheese on bread (no crusts and cut into bit size pieces also no tearing ability)
soft berries and yougart
bananas, cut into bite size pieces
custard, ice cream, jelly
tea and dunked in biscuits

He continued the same foods for the first week or two whilst he got used to the denture too.

hth

sweetserendipity

Some brilliant ideas there, thanks very much!!

I've never thought of having mash in soup, but that would definitely help fill him up :T

Spag bol from a tin is a good idea, I'm sure he's eaten that before. Also makes me think of tinned ravioli, maybe chopped into small pieces, think that would work.

Some lovely sounding, nutritious meals on here, thanks again everyone, I feel more prepared now!!

SueC_2

Not quite the same I know, but with a broken arm I've recently been relying on foods that I could eat from a bowl using just a spoon. Several of my favourites have already been covered here (spaghetti bolognese, with any pasta other than spaghetti!), but fish pie is another good one that I think would work for your dad. And how about chilli and rice? Or any stew that's been cooked to death? Scrambled eggs?

sweetserendipity

annie123 wrote: »

Had this with my dad last year, he couldn't manage mince, your dad will have no chewing ability, lower teeth on gums is painful, especially as he will have just had his teeth out.

Oh, that made me wince, annie _pale_ Good point though, hadn't thought about the bottom teeth making his gums sore if he was trying to eat something like that

Never thought about scrambled egg :doh: think that would work with the squashed baked beans idea mentioned earlier.

SueC_2

Baked beans go down quite smoothly without much of a chew too. So do spaghetti hoops for that matter.