I have a buddy who broke his jaw once playing football if I recall. They had to wire his jaw shut and the doctor told him he’d likely lose about 30-40lbs from having to be on an all liquid diet.
To my friend, that sounded like the cowards way to deal with a broken masticator. He decided to blaze his own trail and to that end, he bought a blender.
Everything he would have normally eaten, he blended.
Everything.
When he told me this I was paralyzed with horror.
“Everything? Like. Steak? Burgers? Tacos? You blended it?”
“Yeah,” he cheerfully informed me. “The trick is finding the right liquid to blend with. You can’t just go with water or milk, that would be gross.”
“THAT’S what would be gross?!”
“Yeah. So with tacos I made them with a hot sauce blend with extra spices to offset the liquid. They were pretty good!”
I was shuddering in agony as the story went on. He told me he’d started a book of recipes when he found a good proportion on something so he could blend it again and that he occasionally still blended a taco.
In the end he only lost 12lbs and the doctor was both horrified and impressed.
Edit: I checked in and had to adjust the amounts he was projected to lose and what he actually lost because both were skewerd by the vagaries of time
