The Blended Diet Family Recipe Book – 75 Tube Feeding Recipes
Preparing blended meals for tube feeding can involve a great deal of planning. Finding practical recipes can also be difficult.
The Blended Diet Family Recipe Book by Kelly Kent brings together 75 recipes developed through years of preparing blended feeds at home.
Kelly created the book after preparing meals for her tube-fed son, Mason. She wanted to share the recipes and practical knowledge her family had built up.
The result is a colourful, practical resource for families using blended diets.
Practical Recipes for Everyday Tube Feeding
Kelly developed her recipes while caring for her son Mason. She wanted to make preparing blended feeds more manageable for families.
The book includes practical advice on using affordable ingredients, preparing food in batches and storing meals.
Kelly also explains how soaking seeds, steaming vegetables and using softer ingredients can make blending easier. Families do not necessarily need an expensive blender to prepare meals.
Each recipe includes allergy guidance and notes about reflux, helping readers identify information relevant to their feeding plans.
Helping Family Members and Carers Prepare Blended Feeds
Preparing tube feeds often involves several people, including parents, personal assistants and respite carers.
Kelly designed her book so families could share written recipes and preparation information with others involved in feeding.
This can help carers follow established routines and reduce the amount of information parents need to explain repeatedly.
Read Our Interview With Kelly Kent
We spoke to Kelly about caring for her son Mason, developing her recipes and publishing her book.
She shares practical tips for preparing blended feeds, explains the difficulties families face and discusses why she wanted to help other parents.
Read our interview with Kelly Kent about blended tube feeding.
What’s Inside the Blended Diet Recipe Book?
High-Calorie, Low-Volume Recipes
Some children need meals that provide more energy in smaller quantities.
The book includes high-calorie, low-volume recipes, including 100ml calorie-shot ideas.
These provide recipe inspiration for families managing feed volumes within an established feeding plan.
Recipes With Different Nutritional Aims
The 75 recipes include blends using ingredients that provide important nutrients, including:
- Iron
- Protein
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Vitamins
- Antioxidants
Kelly also includes recipes developed with digestive concerns in mind, including reflux, constipation and bloating.
Other sections offer ideas for hydration and meals during recovery from illness.
Practical Advice From a Parent Carer
Kelly shares what she has learned from preparing blended feeds for Mason.
The book covers everyday subjects such as choosing ingredients, preparing meals and keeping useful foods in the cupboard.
Many recipes are suitable for batch preparation and storage.
This can help families organise meals and share preparation tasks between carers.
Having spent years caring for our own tube-fed son, I know how useful practical advice from other parent carers can be. – Shop Manager, Duncan Edwards
Who Is This Tube Feeding Recipe Book For?
The book may be useful for:
- Parents preparing blended feeds for their children.
- Families considering a blended diet with their healthcare team.
- Personal assistants and carers involved in meal preparation.
- Families looking for more variety in established blended feeding routines.
- Adults interested in adapting the recipes to their own feeding plans.
The recipes were developed with children in mind, although the author explains that they can also be adapted for adults.
About the Author – Kelly Kent
Kelly Kent is a parent carer and creator of The Blended Diet Family.
Her son Mason receives tube feeds, and Kelly has spent years developing recipes for him.
After discovering that Mason had an iron deficiency, she began paying closer attention to the nutrients in his meals.
She also found that many existing resources focused on technical feeding information.
Kelly wanted something more practical: a recipe book written by a parent who regularly prepared blended feeds.
Her experience led to this collection of 75 recipes.
Why Disability Horizons Shop Stocks This Book
At Disability Horizons Shop, we support products and resources developed by people with direct experience of disability and caring.
Kelly’s book fits that approach.
She identified a gap in the resources available to families and used her own experience to create something useful.
Our own family has experience of tube feeding. My son was tube-fed for many years, and I would have welcomed a resource like this.
We are pleased to support Kelly and make her book available to more families.
Save With the Blended Diet Family Book Bundle
Want to keep your blended tube feeding recipes and daily feeding records together?
You can buy Kelly Kent’s recipe book alongside The Blended Diet Family Feeding Companion as a discounted bundle.
The recipe book provides 75 recipes and practical preparation advice. The companion offers space to record feeds, symptoms and everyday observations.
What’s Inside the Feeding Companion?
- 80 daily food charts for recording recipes, calories, supplements, water intake and overnight feeds.
- 80 symptom tracking pages covering feeding tolerance, reflux, bowel movements, sleep and seizures.
- Weight tracking chart for recording changes over time.
- Medication and dose notes to record changes alongside daily observations.
- Weekly shopping lists organised by fresh, chilled, cupboard and frozen foods.
- General notes pages for observations and information to share with carers or healthcare teams.
The companion can help families keep feeding records organised. It also provides a useful handover document for personal assistants, respite carers and healthcare appointments.
Choose Your Book Option
Select the paperback or hardback recipe book on its own, or choose a bundle containing the recipe book and feeding companion.
The companion is also available separately from Disability Horizons Shop.
Book Information
- Title: The Blended Diet Family Recipe Book
- Author: Kelly Kent
- Recipes: 75
- Language: English
- Publication year: 2026
- Publisher: Independently published
- Available formats: Paperback and Hardback
Important Information
The book provides practical recipes and preparation ideas based on family experience.
Blended feeding plans should account for nutritional requirements, food safety and tube compatibility. Families introducing blended feeds should agree their approach with their feeding team.
