{"id":503,"date":"2006-05-30T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=503"},"modified":"2009-04-04T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T04:26:01","slug":"musings-on-a-liquid-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2006\/05\/30\/musings-on-a-liquid-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on a liquid diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope none of you ever has to subsist on a liquid diet, but in case you do, I have a few pointers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get a blender and a strainer\/sieve. NOW. You may also want to get a food mill, which is what they use for baby food, apparently, but it just looks like a strainer with a few attachments to me. No doubt it makes life easier, but it might not be worth coughing up the money for a few weeks&#8217; worth of food.<\/li>\n<li>Fiber is hard to come by. I just bought some wheat bran, which I plan to start adding to the milkshakes I&#8217;m drinking. Don&#8217;t forget about applesauce and other purees.<\/li>\n<li>This is a basic recipe for cream of anything soup:\n<ul>\n<li>Finely chop an onion (and a leek, if you want :D). This is very quick in a blender. Anyway, you&#8217;ll want to cook those in some fat of your choice over medium heat until soft.<\/li>\n<li>Finely chop whatever other vegetables you want to add. (I&#8217;ve only made cream of carrot and broccoli.) Add those to the onions\/leeks, and cook for 5 minutes or so.<\/li>\n<li>Add enough chicken\/vegetable stock to cover the veggies, more if you need a thinner soup.<\/li>\n<li>Bring to a boil, and simmer for a good 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from heat, let cool slightly, and ladle into your blender in small batches. Have a second pot handy to collect the blended soup. Blend to desired consistency.<\/li>\n<li>Add some milk to blended soup. Re-heat as necessary. Add whatever spices you like.<\/li>\n<li>Ladle and serve! \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t add any spices, since I cooked my onions and leeks in butter. \ud83d\ude00 Also, I don&#8217;t have any spices.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spices may become your best friend. Nothing tastes like anything on a liquid diet. I just added salt and pepper to everything.<\/li>\n<li>Milkshakes can also be made from soy milk \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>Even a little jar of baby food holds more than it looks O_O I can&#8217;t say it really tastes like much, though.<\/li>\n<li>If you thin foods, thin them with broth, milk, or juice, as opposed to water, which will only dilute the taste further.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of things can be pressed through a strainer: I usually have a mashed potato through a strainer as part of my dinner.<\/li>\n<li>Remember to drink a lot of water to keep hydrated. It sounds ridiculous, since everything is liquid, but water is still important.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One week to go before I start eating overcooked mac and cheese!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope none of you ever has to subsist on a liquid diet, but in case you do, I have a few pointers: Get a blender and a strainer\/sieve. NOW. You may also want to get a food mill, which is what they use for baby food, apparently, but it just looks like a strainer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-liquid-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}