Eating with braces

[LadyDaffodil]

Talk me about what your teenagers ate with braces, give me meal ideas please 🙏🏼

DS13 is coping brilliantly with his braces (2 weeks in) but is always hungry, mash is great, as is pasta but I'm running out of ideas for meals we can all eat without him thinking he's got a bowl of weetabix, while we tuck into steak and chips.

Any ideas welcome

I'm looking forward to being able to buy Diet Coke again! We've all had to go fizzy free so DD doesn't get tempted! I have to say DD's pain has been horrible especially in the beginning but we think it's to do with correcting the jaw position. Rubber bands are now off and she weirdly misses them!

Anything hard you need to bite into in case you break anything.

No fizzy drinks,

After that, I'd say you can eat almost anything as long as you are prepared to spend half an hour prising stuck bits of food from your teeth. Weirdly, I find salad leaves really get stuck.

I see they’ve settled down, but if anyone else is looking for ideas I used to rely on (when they were sore after tightening; after a few days I could eat as normal):

Dal and rice
Mexican black beans, rice, avocado, salsa
Veggie cottage pie
Fish pie (no prawns)
Tagine and cous cous (the veg gets very soft in the slow-cook)
Jacket or mashed potato and cheesy beans
Soup with bread dipped in to make it mega soft
Lots of ice cream!

As an adult brace wearer I would say watch dense food - I lost brackets eating flapjacks and a soft roll. Its not dinners that do it if you're cutting up food normally, its biting into snacks or fruit. After a few days they should settle and you can eat almost normally except for biting into apples, crusty bread etc. uSe painkillers if needed and dental wax for any bits rubbing.