TF foods/bev's for a "clears only" diet/fast?

[Periwinkle]

Hi everyone, I'm hoping you can help me. I just found out I have to have surgery next month and have to do 2 days of what essentially seems like fasting before the day of surgery. I was given a list of allowable "foods" and I can't eat hardly any of them. I am 100% sugar (incl. juice) free and other than chicken broth, I'm really having a hard time figuring out what I could eat that would still be actually nutritious and a "real food", i.e., not popsicles sweetened with aspartame and bright green jell-o sweetened with Splenda. blech.

Foods on their "allowable" list:

Jell-o (orange or lime flavor only)
Clear broth / consomme
Apple juice
Grape juice
Popsicles
Water ice
Coffee (black)
Tea (plain)

No dairy, creamer, citrus juices, red jell-o, sorbet, applesauce, or other non-clear foods.

The only thing on the list I would even think of touching is broth (aside from coffee and tea of course). What am I going to do? Can anyone come up with any ideas of other clear liquids/"foods" that would be ok? :

[kbchavez]

I remember reading recently that you can make jello with Bernard Jensen's gelatin and a nice flavored tea sweetened with stevia. I would think lacto-fermented sodas would be OK, or coconut water kefir. And rejuvelac. What about kombucha? Where I live (in N.Cal), I can buy all of these things at the store (except coconut kefir). Whole Foods has rejuvelac and these elderberry root sodas that are naturally fermented. Sometimes they're a little sweet and unbubbly still, so I let them sit out for a while until they're fizzy and I can't taste sugar. Honestly, you might want to relax your sugar standards a bit so you can get SOME nourishment before undergoing surgery. I would think coconut water would be good. It's pretty tough to get proteins and fats in a clear liquid (very small amounts in broth), so if you don't consume any sugars, you will essentially be fasting. I could be wrong, but that seems stressful for a body about to go through a trauma.

[Periwinkle]

Thank you SO much. These are wonderful ideas. Just amazing... I never thought of coconut water.... I don't even know what it is. I'm going to go to our organic grocery store and get these items and see if they are clear enough.

so if you don't consume any sugars, you will essentially be fasting. I could be wrong, but that seems stressful for a body about to go through a trauma.

I know. Sadly my gut has to be TOTALLY empty and anything other than clears is going to run the risk of there being stool in there still. (sorry TMI) So I kind of think the idea IS to fast. I think it is going to be really really hard, but your ideas are wonderful - thank you!