BD = Blenderized Diet

There is a movement growing among tube feeding families. Families looking for a better way to ensure nutritian and health for their loved one. Its called Blenderized Diet--feeding real food through the tube in meals that are just like what we eat by mouth (as opposed to canned, commercial formula -- ka-ching $$ ka-ching $$ ka-ching $$).

While the health benefits are vast and the difference marked, there is a surprisingly strong resistance all across modern medicine in america to this wonderful solution. So here is my stand to making a difference! And below, a little photo story of how we prepare my daughter's food. Since off of formula and onto real food my daughter has had less struggles with weight gain, reflux and vomit. She also had a drastic increase in volume tolerance. The changes came slow for her but have been WELL WORTH the effort.

And so, with no further ado, I present to you, "The Blenderized Diet"

Ingrediants for three days worth of food

My precious VitaMix doing the "chewing"
Mixing the three blenderfulls together always results in some fun
color swirls. ...red beets are especially fun, I will post a
picture of those some other time

My little kitchen helper putting lids on the "meals"

The final product, a days worth stay in the fridge, the rest are freezer bound.

P.S. If you or someone you know is tubefed and want to know more about a blenderized diet some of the links on my list of websites in the column at the left have some great information and practical help.