Pasta/Rice Soft pasta dishes such as lasagne, macaroni cheese, ravioli or spaghetti bolognese either home-made or bought ready prepared. Vegetables Fresh, frozen or tinned vegetables, cooked until soft. Mash with a fork or potato masher to make them easier to swallow.
Soft cereals. Hot cereals, like cream of wheat or oatmeal. Pasta and noodles.
Breads, cereals, rice, and pasta:
Breads, muffins, pancakes, or waffles moistened with syrup, jelly, margarine or butter. Moist dry or cooked cereal. Macaroni, pasta, noodles, or rice. Saltine crackers moistened in soup or other liquid.
A soft diet is prescribed for people with digestive problems. The diet consists of foods that are tender, mildly seasoned, and easy to digest. While on this diet, you should not eat fried or spicy foods, or raw fruits and vegetables.
When you only eat soft foods, this does not happen. Your jaw begins to think it does not need to be as strong, so your cells focus their attention elsewhere. This can cause your jaw to get softer and even lead to tooth loss if it goes on too long.
People on a soft diet should not have:
Biscuits (unless dunked in tea to soften), nuts, toast, raw apple, hard and/or crunchy foods, foods that crumble easily, raw vegetables, breads with mixed textures bread rolls with crunchy outside and soft inside), crackers/rice cakes.
cottage cheese, macaroni cheese, cauliflower cheese and cheese and potato pie are all soft options.
Spaghetti (Italian: [spaˈɡetti]) is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. Like other pasta, spaghetti is made of milled wheat and water and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals. Italian spaghetti is typically made from durum-wheat semolina.
More importantly, we're on about soft foods at the moment, and between baked potatoes, boiled potatoes, and mashed potatoes, there's a lot of soft food ideas to choose from.
Foods in the puréed food and mechanical soft food diets are smoother and easier to swallow than regular foods. They need very little or no chewing. If you're on a puréed food diet, you will eat foods you don't need to chew, such as mashed potatoes and pudding.
Milk, cheese, and yogurt products (like Greek yogurt) come in many soft food forms. Dairy provides exceptional animal proteins along with lots of vitamins and minerals that older adults need.
Foods to Avoid
Rich pastries; any dessert containing dates, nuts, raisins, or coconut; fried pas- tries such as doughnuts. Beverages Fruit and vegetable juices, lemonade, caffeine-free beverages (soda drinks, cof- fee, tea), sports beverages.
Every day, try to include: 2 servings of soft tender meat, fish or alternatives (e.g. eggs, pulses) 2 servings of milk and dairy foods 5 servings of soft fruit and vegetables Small amounts of foods containing fat and/sugar. (no nuts or dried fruit) with milk.
Soup is a healthy and safe option in a soft food diet.
Foods with a fibrous or 'stringy' texture - e.g. celery, green beans, melted cheese or pineapple. Fruit or vegetables with thick skins, seeds or pips - e.g. baked beans, peas, grapes and tomatoes. Crunchy and crumbly items such as toasts, biscuits, crackers, crisps, pie crusts.