Food Groups

Safe Foods

Foods to Avoid

Thin liquids

(if allowed)

Milk products

• Yogurt (smooth or fruited)
• Cottage cheese

Firm cheese

Meat and Protein

• Ground or minced (1/8 inch or less)
• Tender cooked meat and poultry moistened with thick sauces or gravy
• Pureed fish
• Moist pureed casseroles
• Tuna or egg salad without crunchy ingredients
• Poached, scrambled, or soft cooked eggs
• Soufflés
• Tofu

Smoked meats, cold cuts, sausage, nuts, wieners, fried, hard cooked, or runny eggs, sandwiches with bread, peanut butter

Vegetables

• Finely minced or pureed soft well cooked vegetables
• Mashed potatoes
• Winter squash

Raw, fried or crisp-cooked vegetables, corn, peas, pickles,  asparagus, lettuce, salads, Cole slaw cooked legumes

Food Groups

Safe Foods

Foods to Avoid

Thin liquids

(if allowed)

Fruits

• Pureed fruits
• Soft well mashed bananas
• Applesauce

Canned or cooked whole fruits, raw or dried fruits, fresh or canned pineapple, skins or seeds

Thin fruit juices, watermelon without seeds

Breads, Cereals, and Starches

• Cream of wheat, cream of rice, malt-o-meal
• Oatmeal that has been put in a blender and becomes “pudding-like”
• Soft pasta or rice in a sauce that has been put in a blender

Breads, fried breads, rolls, buns, muffins; pancakes, French toast, and toast, minced rice or pasta without sauce to hold it together  brown or wild rice, dry cereal, crackers, popcorn, chips, pretzels, French fries

Milk or cream for cooked cereal 

Food Groups

Safe Foods

Foods to Avoid

Thin liquids

(if allowed)

Soup

• Cream soups that have been put in a blender
• Broth soups that have been strained or put in the blender
• Plain broth

Regular soups that have both solids and liquids

Desserts

• Pudding
• Custards
• Rice pudding

Popsicles, gelatin, bread pudding, cakes,  pies, cookies,  desserts with nuts, seeds, sticky caramels, or dried fruit

Ice cream, ices, sherbet, sorbet, malts, milk shakes, frozen yogurt, eggnog

Beverages

• All beverages that are a safe liquid thickness for you.

Tip:  Beverages may need to be thickened.

Juices with pulp

Milk, juice, coffee, tea, soda, carbonated beverages, alcoholic beverages, ice chips

Other

• Butter, margarine, oils, vegetable shortening
• Salad dressings, vinegar, mayonnaise
• Gravy
• Sour cream
• Whipped topping
• Salt, pepper, herbs, spices, catsup, BBQ sauce, mustard
• Honey, smooth jellies, molasses
• Sugar or artificial sweetener
• Syrup

Seeds, nuts, coconut, sticky foods, hard or  chewy candies

Nutritional supplements