Hey, this is Megan and Stacy with another What We're Cooking and Eating Now episode.

In case you're new here, in this series, we each share three meals we've recently cooked for our own families.

Then we share the links for all of these recipes in our free listeners community so that you can crib them,

take our six ideas, turn them into your meal plan for next week, done and freaking done.

You can find out more about joining that free community to get those recipe links by visiting

didnidivu.com backslash community.

My question for you, Stacey, is a little bit

community adjacent because Oliver had surgery last week and you went to our didn't I just feed you

community, your personal Instagram community and ask people for ideas for like soft foods while

he's recovering. So one, how is recovery going? Two, what kind of

soft food recommendations did you get and what worked? Yeah. So Oliver had a tonsillectomy and had

his adenoids removed. And I have to tell you that the recovery is a little bit more brutal than I expected, and it isn't

that we weren't prepared. I just don't think that our brains processed it accurately, because oftentimes

when you hear about getting your tonsils removed, you're hearing about younger kids getting it,

and you're like, yeah, you get to eat ice cream for a week

and just relax and you'll be fine. So that is the truth. I even had the surgical recovery nurse say,

like, it's amazing. You get little kids in here. You give them a popsicle and like they're fine.

They get up, they go, and recoveries really easily. I don't know the reason I'm sure people

listening. There are people out there who understand why, but starting at around 11 or 12 is my

understanding, but like those preteen years when your body starts to be big, like almost like an adult.

Certainly Oliver at, you know, nearly six feet, 14 years old is adult sized.

It's a really difficult recovery. So for a full two weeks, we have had to stay within 30 minutes

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