Cooking for sick gramp and need pureed food recipes!!

I am currently visiting my grandfather who has PSP a form of Parkinsons, and he can not eat on his own and it must be pureed. ( or at least VERY soft.) He has ALWAYS loved food and the foods his caregivers are giving him is MUSH!! TASTELESS MUSH!!  I am going to make tons of food and freeze it individually for him, but I am running out of ideas.

I have sweet potatoes, meat loaf, turkey and stuffing, chicken alfredo.....and a ton of desserts but I need ideas for proteins and entrees??

Can anyone help??

Almost any food can be made into a soft texture by using a food grinder or processor.  Peas, carrots, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, scrambled eggs, egg salad, any white fish that is broiled or poached are great.  Using a lot of different herbs and spices help a lot for flavors.  Pasta's with different sauces are also good.  You can add protein powder to a soft dessert dish like pudding to get more protein in.  Also rice pudding is a great soft food (my favorite.)  Yogurt is a good source of protein and yoplait custard style  has a great smooth pudding texture.  Hope this helps and good luck.

that's what my mom did for my aunt when she was in the hospital: she'd make her something really good and just puree it.  it's kind of off-putting, until they stick in their mouth.  already mushy foods: smoothies, soups, hummus, mashes potatoes (you can make 'em SO good!), apple sauce (if it's home-made and still warm=yummy!).  agreed with yogurt and rice pudding.  also: what are his fave foods?  see if you can adapt them.  or ask him what he'd like.  good luck!

When I was doing a popular very low carb diet (which didn't work for me in the long run) I wanted mashed potatoes so badly when that is what the rest of the family was eating. My guy, who totally rocks, made me my own "mashed potatoes" out of cauliflower. I know Granpa can have actual mashed potatoes, but here is the cauliflower version to change things up a bit!

It's so simple that I feel silly typing it out. But he just steamed some cauliflower, mashed it up, and added butter, salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

Hi

Cooked chicken with a spoonful of gravy or chicken soup can be pureed well beaf can be pureed with a little gravy or beef broth soup, vegetables can be mash down pumpkin and potato mash, potato cabbage and onion and herb mash, stew can be blitz down easily and they can contain meat or pulses. I also find seperating food ie the meat puree that down mash and pureed carrots and pureed greens looks far more appertizing and taste alot better that cooking something up altogether and blitzing it also this way everything looks different and its a good way of having meat potatoes and 2 veg rather than everything looking brown soup or stew like, also he will get a slightly different texture this way too, ho[e this helps.

Lots of love astralhippy aka sue

Thank you all very much! I am excited  to make the cauliflower because he is kind of sick of mashed potatoes and he will love that. It is also a good way to get his veggies in. I guess I was having trouble because when he was less sick I  would come down and make 3 weeks of food and froze it for him and I was able to make steaks, lasagna, breads,cakes , cookies  and everything. I can still make those things I just have to puree it but it just looks so awful, and he HATES the pureed food but has finally stopped fighting it because he chokes on everything. I just want to spice up his meals to keep them interesting , because he is eating less and less.

He loves sweets so I have also been making banana bread pudding and chocolate cream pies and I mix in two huge scoops of whey protein so that even if he just eats the cake he is getting enough nutrition to support his lean muscle mass!!  ( but I do have to say it is hard to not lick those bowls of pudding clean!!! :) )

Thank you again!!!! Keep the ideas coming!!

Get a baby food grinder!  There are several nice one's that can be used at the table.  You can grind any table food, nice and fresh, with very little mess and easy clean up.  That way he gets to taste home cooking, seasoned just the way he's always liked it.

A "stick" style immersion blender is a great help for pureeing soups and such right in the pot, and smoothies in a tall container.  They aren't too expensive. 

You can make really wonderful pureed yams or sweet potatoes, or butternut squash by steaming until soft and mashing or putting through a food mill. 

and may i also add: you are making such a differnce in his life.  it's really great that you're doing this for him.  keep it up!