Cooking for Braces: Big Pot of Soft Foods
March 7th, 2010
When you have braces, your are limited in the types of foods you can eat. However, you can still eat healthy by softening nutritious vegetables with a variety of ingredients in a large pot style meal.
This style of cooking can incorporate your favorite foods. Here, I will be using the follow ingredients:
- Baby carrots (several large handfuls)
- Skinless chicken drumsticks (3)
- Whole kernel sweet corn (1 can, no salt added)
- Russet potatoes (5)
- Broccoli heads (few handfuls)
- Yellow squash (1)
- Rotini pasta
- Liquid egg whites (16oz)
These ingredients were selected for their taste, consistency, and nutritional value. Read more…