Wow this is my first day on my diet for my surgery and I have sort of cheated and I say that he my Surgeon gave me two choice of diets to follow and it's not particular a liquid diet it's 1000- 1,200 and or a meal replacement option and I would rather just do the liquid I choose to do the meal replacements diet which consists on drinking the protein shakes basically and having a boil egg, piece of fruit or greek yogurt for a snack and a Protein shake for lunch and Dinner 3 to 4 oz of lean protein unlimited non-starchy vegetables so I tried my premium Shake for breakfast but anyways I love the pasta my sister made for Christmas so I ate abt 2 tablespoonful and I ate a pinch of pound cake so I'm done with cheating hopefully be I've come to far to not get this done. But good luck to you.