Tubie Meal Time: Blended Feeding Tube Meal Ideas For Newbies

Haven’t used yet but some good ideas for recipes. There aren’t too many books around on this subject so good learning tool

ideal book for what we need

Absolutely awful book. Very few actual recipes, adding milk to cereal and blending is not what I would call a recipe! No calorific values, meals aren’t nutritionally balanced. Majority offer little to no nutrition and half the book is a diary! Have returned as an unsatisfactory product to Amazon. All my above sentiments are echoed by the professionals in our dietetic team.

Purchased for my partner who is on a feeding tube for life and was sick of ensure shakes.Not much info available in the uk for blended diets so brilliant find

This book contains some interesting recipes and ingredients that spark ideas for my own concoctions. Tips and tricks on blending, food shopping, constipation (though I have the opposite problem), and the high calorie foods chart are helpful. The forms section could do with just one form of each type and leave it to the reader to photocopy as needed. Then again, I can see that so many same forms does beef up the page count though.However, I fail to grasp the enthusiasm reported as "...yummy!" or "...loves it" and so on. My experience with being on a G-tube for five months (and knowing I'll be on it for the rest of my life) is that I don't "taste" much. How could I? Food goes straight into the stomach, not even coming anywhere near the taste buds! I do get a bit of the flavour as burps if the ingredients are strong enough. Garlic, turmeric, ginger, raw onion, all come to mind. I do get a nasty "taste" if my GERD flares up or if I regurgitate (rarely, and I try to minimize it as much as possible).Most of my "real" foods that I blenderize just turn out a beige, bland colour. It's certainly nothing to look forward to, and it doesn't make me think "yum!"Besides, I find that the caloric value of real food as opposed to formula (especially like TwoCal) is much less, such that I have to ingest large quantities of real blended food to come to the equivalent of what I'd get with formula. Then I just feel bloated and that leads to GERD. Certainly doesn't promote that "Ooh yeah! Gimme more o' that!" feeling.Still, as mentioned earlier, this book has given new ideas to vary my creams and soups. BTW, I only use Campbell's creams and Chunky soups that have a very high calorie count and that provide some needed nutrients, like fibre. For example, Campbell's: cream of chicken, cream of cheddar, bean and bacon, cream of bacon; Chunky soups: seafood or clam chowder, chicken a la king, chicken pot pie. And I add soy protein isolate.I do see the appeal of "real" whole foods, but it's a lot more work to make and to feed, for reasons stated above. I think for many people, it's a "feel good" thing, knowing that you're ingesting something other than "chemical formula".But all in all, G-tube feeding is ho-hum. If you can actually taste what you're plunging in, then you're golden and more power to you!

I'm so excited to have gotten this book. It has so much information in it besides the wonderful recipes. I have tried several of them and am 100% a happy camper. If you, or a loved one is on the feeding tube you need this book! Especially if you are thinking of or are all ready on a blenderized diet, get this book!

I expected this book to have recipes and nutritional info for blended diets to help me create meals for my son, however there are just recipe “ideas” and not much more other that half a book dedicated to blank recipe pages for me to fill in

Pages to write down my recipes are fine but I could have done that without paying for a book!!! More content please.

There are some good recipes in here! I haven't found many books to help with recipes for my gtube fed daughter.