Transitioning to Real Food Blends
Download our Transition Guide.
Getting Started
Always consult your healthcare team before making any changes to your diet. This conversation is key, as they know your individual medical needs.
Administration
Bolus, Pump or Gravity – You Choose!
Real Food Blends meals and snack are ready-to-feed via bolus syringe. Consider additional liquid for gravity or pump administration.
Real Food Blends original meals are suitable for use with a 14 Fr G-Tube or larger. Real Food Blends meals, Select™ meals and Mini Snack are suitable for use with a 12 Fr G-Tube or larger.
Real Food Blends products are made from whole food ingredients and therefore the consistency might vary. If this is your first time using real food, you’ll see that the consistency of Real Food Blends is thicker than your traditional tube feeding formula. This is intentional, as having a thicker consistency may allow for better GI tolerance.
Bolus feeding with Real Food Blends is simple. Watch our full how-to video.
Keep things simple by using a BoleeTM bag to administer your Real Food Blends meals. Learn how to in our video.
Looking for some tips on how to use Real Food Blends with a feeding pump? Our video shows you how!
Mealtime for People with Feeding Tubes
Having a variety of meals allows you to create a mealtime schedule like having our Eggs, Apples & Oats meal for breakfast and our Beef, Potatoes & Spinach meal for dinner.
An Easy Transition
If this is your first time using Real Food Blends, we’ve prepared an example transitioning schedule. We suggest a slow and smooth transition to our products. You can download our full Transition Guide here.
Do not hesitate to reach out to your Registered Dietitian for more information.
Nutritional Variety
Choose a variety of meals
We offer eight meals and one snack to provide nutritional variety through different real food ingredients. Real Food Blends is the only ready-to-feed true blenderized diet option for tube feeding that’s made from 100% real food and using no synthetic ingredients.
Take the time to pick out different meals for each day. Check our label for allergens and nutritional values to ensure you or your loved one will get the nutrition they need. We suggest mixing and matching our meals and snack for nutritional variety. Ask your medical team before making any changes to your diet.
Nutritional variety without limits
Each Real Food Blends meal or snack is made out of 5-8 simple ingredients. Real Food Blends makes having a blenderized diet a customizable experience for everyone.
- No dairy ingredients. Since milk is a common allergy and intolerance, we do not have it in our products. Dairy
products or other foods that are good sources of calcium, such as fortified almond milk, soymilk, plain yogurt, low-fat milk or kefir, can be added to the meals to meet your needs. - No added salt**. Simply add iodized salt, chicken broth, etc. to meet your specific needs.
- No added synthetic vitamins or minerals. All the nutrition you are getting is from real food. If micronutrients are a concern, a 100% complete multivitamin can be a simple solution. We understand that nutrition isn’t one size fits all. Blenderized tube feeding, and therefore Real Food Blends, is customizable to help meet your nutrition needs.
- Add water to meet your hydration needs.
Always consult your healthcare team before making any changes to your diet. Your healthcare team will help determine the amount of calcium and sodium you or your loved one needs.
* with the exclusion of dairy.
** not a sodium free food.