Ground beef blues

[Phat girl 6]

Just wondering if anyone else finds texture in their food disgusting after all the weeks of liquids. I can not chew or swallow ground beef. I've tried Wendys chili and the ground beef just clumps together in my mouth. Even if I chew and chew it never dissipates. Same with spaghetti sauce with ground beef in it. Is this normal?

[Tiffykins 673]

Yep, normal. Textures really bothered me for several months. It does get better, I promise. I started using slightly higher fat content in meat instead of the 97% lean just because the extra fat (4% isn't going to kill me if I bought 93% lean or even 90% lean) made the meat easier to digest. Same goes for chicken. Instead of chicken breast, chicken thighs worked better early out. Ground turkey is repulsive and I used it to cut fat, but when I really looked at the nutrition facts, I wasn't overly impressed with the difference in the numbers vs. ground beef.

[RickM 1,747]

We never had to do the weeks of liquids, but ground meats can be a problem for some. My wife had a problem tolerating ground beef for a long time, and our surgeon suggested ("prescribed" in our vernacular, now) filet as often being better tolerated than ground beef. After six years (for her, four months for me,) we still use the excuse of going to Outback as having to fill her "prescription." Likewise, the higher fat cuts are often better tolerated at first - dark meat chicken is moister than light meat, etc., though long term, of course, you want to stick to the leaner cuts as dictated by basic nutritional sanity.