Jon. ,maybe a good blender will help you with food, It will liquify them . As for the spaghetti you said you make, over cook the pasta by about 15 minutes and you can mash it like butter and it goes down so much easier. I need you here to treach you a lot of tricks with a guy that has no teeth, not much tongue and 24/7 pain in his mouth and throat. I also have xposed dead jaw bone. on both sides to put up with as it gets very sensitive.