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I had oral surgery yesterday and I'll be on a cold and soft food diet for a couple of days. I'm getting two more surgeries done in the next month so I'll be on the diet again soon. Last night my husband made cold cucumber soup, hummus, and baba ganouj for dinner. Does anyone have any ideas or recipes for soft and cold foods that are tasty and well-balanced nutritionally?

I ate some strange stuff as I child. My parents grew up in a rural area of Portugal. They raised their own livestock so they were used to eating almost every part of an animal. I remember eating chicken feet in rice. My mom hasn't made that in years, but I remember I liked to play with the feet as a kid. Has anyone eaten brains (pig, cow, sheep)? Apparantly, my parents fed that to me as a child but I don't remember what it tastes like. I heard it tastes kind of like eggs. The discussion about blood pudding reminded me of a Portuguese chicken and rice dish with blood-Arroz de Cabidela. It's tastes like "arroz con pollo" but the rice is black. It's actually very tasty. It's made with the meat and the blood drained from a freshly killed farm-raised chicken. The blood is mixed with vinegar and added to the stew. You can't make it with your supermarket Purdue chicken. It sounds kind of gruesome, I know. There are probably similar dishes in other countries like Spain, Italy or France. Has anyone had something similar? I found a recipe in English on this page: Weird Foods From Around the World http://www.weird-food.com/weird-food-bird.html

I'm really interested in this topic so I did some research about existing programs in my area (Washington, DC/Baltimore, MD). Here are a few examples of what some community organizations are doing. Local Food Alliance Healthy Cooking Project http://communityharvestdc.org/alliance/lfacooking.htm A program of Community Harvest http://communityharvestdc.org/alliance/alliance.htm Nutrition/Cooking classes: Super Pantry program http://www.povertysolutions.org/content/in...24/SectionID/76 A program of Center for Poverty Solutions http://www.povertysolutions.org Moveable Feast http://www.mfeast.org

Here's a link to Operation Frontline (the program that winebabe mentioned above). Operation Frontline http://www.strength.org/what/operationfrontline/ A program of Share Our Strength http://www.strength.org/ Description from Website