My Thirty-Seventh - Veggie pizza - 100 Meals Pureed - Recipes for Head and Neck Cancer Survivors

My Thirty-Seventh veggie pizza


1 unit pizza - no outside crust
extra red sauce
extra cooked veggies

or

1 hot rolls mix or pre made uncooked pizza dough
Marinara sauce or spaghetti sauce
veggies like olives, onions, and peppers
meat
cheese
lots of water


For a year, I have been trying to figure out how to make a good pureed pizza.  My family has been making homemade pizza for generations.  It wasn't until the other night that I finally figured how to make a good pureed version.  My wife is not a fan of pizza dough, and will gladly steal extra sauce and topping when she can.  I had made a pizza for my wife and daughter to eat when they got home, because I was going to the high school for a TED Talk.  When I came home half the pizza dough/crust was still there.  WOW THAT'S IT!  Skip the crust, and extra sauce and veggies.

There is enough crust under a piece of pizza you don't need the extra crust.  You do need extra veggies to add flavor.  The meat and sauce would otherwise overwhelm everything.


TOO MUCH CHEESE!?!
I've been asked about cheese being too sticky for G-tubes.  My experience is that if the cheese is not too hot it doesn't stick to the tubing.  Secondarily, it doesn't take much cheese to add flavor.  Cheese and tomato sauce can overwhelm any recipe.  Which is why it took me so long to come up with a good pizza recipe.  Most nutritionist will tell you that you don't need much cheese in your diet to remain healthy.  I agree.  In these recipes, you only need enough cheese to retain that pizza flavor.

OLIVES AND PEPPERS AND ONIONS
These three and great flavor to a pizza puree

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Supermarket food bars - 100 Meals Pureed - Recipes for Head and Neck Cancer Survivors

A dozen years ago, I read a great article about using salad bars to purchase items that you only need a couple of them for a meal, and not a whole jar or can.  Sometimes you only need a couple of olives . . .

Last year, when I could drive, I would pick up my daughter from dance in the next town over.  Before I get her, I would pick her up a salad, and most importantly I would top it with "baby corn".   There is no way I would bring a jar home, because baby corn for one salad a week would take forever to use.  If we made a salad every night with baby corn, we would be bored of it soon enough.    So I use the fresh baby corn on the salad bar.

Nowadays, supermarkets have gone beyond the salad bar to full food bars.  The beauty, for us with pureed food issues, is that you can purchase small premade meals.   Most homemade recipes are designed for multiple people, and if you are reading this, you are probably already bored with your food options and you want to be able to change up your meals everyday - just like everyone else.

Many of the food bars also give you the option of international food.  International give you a great break from the bland, because supermarkets tend to over spice these foods because they have to sit in the tray for a couple of hours and still taste good when they come home.

For care-givers it also cuts down on prep time.  One of the toughest commercials for me to watch are the Nationwide commercials with Peyton Manning.  When I see that Chicken Parmigiana sandwich, I WANT ONE SO BADLY.  It takes a lot of effort to make a chick-parm, but to be able to purchase a puree sized portion

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My Thirty-Sixth - Pot Roast - 100 Meals Pureed - Recipes for Head and Neck Cancer Survivors

My Thirty-Sixth recipe for the new cookbook - Pot Roast

What was I thinking?  One of the classic meals in America is Pot Roast with roasted carrots and potatoes.  My mom use to make a great pot roast, and the chilly weather outside makes me want it even more.  Pot Roast is also a family gathering food, so there is a good chance it will be served when there are a lot of people in the house.  You will be the envy of your friends and family as you add the extra gravy to the Vitamix blender.

The best part is that the meat, vegetables, and starch are cooked all the way through, which softens it up for the G-tube.

They say that bananas are the number 1 fruit bought at supermarkets as a spur of the moment item.  My number 1 item is Organic Carrots.  I seem to put carrots in everything, including my daughter's school lunch bag.  Carrots give a nice color to purees whether you are drinking it on pouring it down a G-tube.  Pot roast without the carrots looks more like a grey ooze which I have yet to see on Food Network as a popular option.

1 Unit Pot Roast

1-2 units Carrots and Potatoes

extra grease and gravy

OPTION

brown mustard

BROWN MUSTARD

If your Pot Roast gets boring after a couple of days, add a little brown mustard.  The brown mustard is very aromatic dash to the puree.

EXTRA GRAVY

For most people, extra gravy is a bad health option; however, most chemo/radiation patients are told to put on weight.  There are a lot of calories in this bad boy.   OK, your nutritionist is going to tell you there are better sources for nutrition.  I maintain that the only good nutrition is one that actually gets into your body, and there is a good probability that Pot Roast juices have a better chance of making into your belly, than coconut oil.  Save the coconut oil for the dessert smoothie.

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