Breakfast: eat cereal with bran in it because it has fiber and it is filling-very healthy and soft, add fruit such as banana, blueberry, strawberries Lunch: salad, can add salmon or shrimp to salad, mushrooms, green pepper, tomatoes, whatever veggies you like. Dinner: baked chicken, and fish. Baked potato or sweet potato, spinach salad with raspberry vinagrette, broccoli, peas, asparagus, eggplant, green beans. For the TMJ-if you don't have a mouth guard- they are definitely worth it and you may want to talk to your dentist about getting one. They make a mold of your mouth and construct the guard specifically for you. You wear it at night and it can prevent grinding of the teeth at night and jaw clenching. It also prevents headaches. They are expensive but they really work. The over-the-counter cheaper mouth guards don't work because they are not molded to your mouth and they just don't stay in. Hope this helps.

Put a blender on your shopping list then you can eat the hard healthy foods too. Also, grated carrot goes really well in spagetti bolognese.

Avocado (bottle dressing or on its own), Kumara (mash it), Tomato (thinkly sliced or dices), Strawberries, Banana

Why don't you boil your carrots?

Most of the healthy stuff (in my opinion) is around the perimeter, not down the aisles.

Apples. Sugar snap peas. Bannanannnaaaas. Fish, if you grill it. Carrots go into the stew, which is easy on the jaws. (the mouth guard helps!)

You can always steam carrots. A lot of people like them this way - it makes them sweeter-tasting. You can also go for leafy, green vegetables (try to avoid iceburg lettuce, as it has almost no nutritional value), cabbages are good (especially red cabbage in a salad - yum!). Peas, green beans... You know, tasty veggies. Berries are wonderful. Bananas, peaches and pears are also great. Whole grains are good - oat meal, quinoa, etc. Yogurt is great, kefir is delicious. Lean ground beef, chicken, etc. Beans are good - kidney, black, pinto, whatever. Lentils are good. Make bean soup. Put a lot of veggies in there =) If any vegetables are too hard to eat, try steaming or stewing them. Also, try to avoid any processed food - even if it is minimally processed.

You can eat carrots... Just cook them until they are soft, or buy a juicer and juice them. Fruits and vegetables (almost any can be juiced, you know, and when you cook most of them, they soften, if they're not soft to start with.) Beans (cooked right) are plenty soft, and you can season them however you wish. Soups (not the Chunky kind, unless made with ground beef, and you can make these yourself, too.) Potatoes (again, cooked... Mashed, baked (microwaved) then mashed, hash browns (use very little butter and more seasoning, or use olive oil and seasoning). Sweet potatoes are good, and can be made ANY which way. If you like sweet potatoes sweet, sprinkle Slenda on them. Salads with julienne veggies (carrots, cabbage, radishes, etc.) Cut up lunch meat into small squares, use shredded cheese, and low-fat salad dressing. Lean meats, but with TMJ, you may have to go with the ground version, or have the butcher grind any type of meat you wish. You want some fat, because that's where a lot of the flavor is, but you can cut it off after it's cooked, rather than eat it. And if you broil or grill it, a lot of it will melt away. Slow-cooked roasts are also good, but again, try to keep the fat out of what you EAT. If you can see the grains of the meat, try to get one that's cut against the grain, as it will "fall apart" easier, so be easier to chew. Eggs are relatively healthy, if eaten in moderation. You can make them in numerous ways, too - Fried (non-stick pan), poached, scrambled, etc. Yogurt and Cottage Cheese, if you can - some don't like them.

Cheeses made from skim milk, prepared frozen winter squash (this turns out like baby food when you cook it),and grapes - they don't require much chewing like apples or hard veggies.

Kiwifruit, soft and mushie and loaded in vitaim D And no kiwifruit isnt a code word for me lol

Try this eating plan: The Mediterranean Eating Plan http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Mediterranean-Eating-Plan Everything about it is healthy! :)