There are an endless number of recipes to blend for your sons liquid diet! The trick is using enough tasy and nutritious liquids to thin the meal. Campbells soups, especially the chuncky version are quite tasty and blend down very easily. Carnation instant breakfast is also a very healthy choice, very similar to ensure in nutrients. Blend this or a protein powder in to every shake you make! I have a website if you need a feeding device for your son www.zip-n-squeeze.com This product replaces syringe feeding and is SO much easier to use and aesthetic too! Also if you go to yahoo and type in orthgnathic support group you will find an endless supply of recovery sites and links. Your son can also chat with others who are in the same situation. Hope this helps, Susan Beaudette RN Zip-N-Squeeze Products 714-997-7146 E-Mail: zipnsqueeze@earthlink.net Here is a link that might be useful: www.zip-n-squeeze.com

I hope you guys know that all the diet is doing to you is dehydrating you. You are losing all water in your body not actual fat.

Ya, blender: get some protein powder from a health food store or excercise food store READ the label. You can make delicious SMOOTHIES with 'product' recommended serving of protein powder, any fruit of choice, milk and BLEND, yogurt too. You can even use peanut butter to throw in. Tell you doctor you want a dietitician - immediately. They can help with balanced meals. Can even try talking to a pharmacist for recommended supplements to put in these things. SMOOTHIES are great - yogurt and fruit and water Mashed potatoes and chili whipped into a drink with beef broth to thin out... Try those lovely canned stews and blend them, chunky soups and add MASHED potatoe to them for the starch content. Let me know if any of this helps. Dessert can be ANY PUDDING MIX, thinned out a little with milk... Green vegetables? Try another dinner shake with a creamy cheese sauce thinned with a little milk (recommend carnations canned 2 percent). Think about when you were a kid...I loved hamburger, mashed potatoe, peas and ketchup. I would smash it all together on my plate before eating it. If he is turned off by the LOOK, get some of those plastic cups with the straws that are solid colour so you can only taste and not see. The mind is funny sometimes. I hope this helps. Strongly suggest a dietician, need protein with his meals. Oh yeah, banana and peanut butter shakes are good to... chocolate and raspberries/strawberries (fresh/frozen) Let me know how it goes, Peggy

It's entirely possible. For anything that calls for soybeans you can easily substitute other beans (white beans are probably the blandest and would change the flavor of the recipe the least but there's no reason not to use whatever bean you like). You can substitute things like rice milk, water, fruit juices for soy milk, as long as the flavor difference will work with the recipe. You'll be skipping tofu and tempeh and I don't know of good subs for them, but just leave them out or be creative. There's always seitan but personally it just tastes like soggy bread to me. I have many vegetarian cookbooks that have tons of recipes without soy (unfortunately, all are in storage 2500 miles away right now). Take some time at a bookstore or used bookstore and peruse all the veggie cookbooks there -- you should find plenty that fit your bill. There are tons of veg*n websites, too. I'm sure you can find good recipes there and also support for your changes. If you're worried about protein, see the website below, or google something like "protein myth" or "protein needs." It seems to be one of the least understood nutritional components, partly thanks to the pseudo-science of things like the Adkins diet. Here's an additional link: http://exercise.about.com/cs/nutrition/a/protein_2.htm I cook lots of things without soy -- in fact, we only eat it every few weeks at most and then only as tofu or tempeh -- there are so many great veggies, grains, beans, fruits, and a whole world of delicious eating without meat, and if you want, without soy! Have fun! Here is a link that might be useful: veggie protein