An alternative for your feeding tube

pinedog said:

If you decide to get the tube, which I would strongly advise, then to use this recipe you need strong support to help prepare it. It's a lot of work but worth it. If after reading this you are still interested I can email the whole recipe.

To do this you need a juicer and a blender. Through the juicer goes kale, broccoli, cauliflower, parsley, celery, carrot, spinach, beet, apple, grapes. In the blender goes tofu, almond butter, avocado, banana, pure fruit juice, prune juice, milk, protein powder, olive oil, herring fish oil, chicken broth, multi vitamins and what's called Green Formula. This is well mixed and seived to make enough to supply three feeds a day for three days. This provides 2000 calories a day of well balanced nutrition with lots of energy and protein. It takes an hour or so to prepare which I suppose is a lot less time than preparing nine separate meals.

DRMom said:

Father is on Feeding Tube
Email to me any recipes, natural you have. He has lost 9 pounds since his surgery. I think he needs real food, but not sure how to prepare it and do it right so he will thrive. Please help. Any assistance you can give is much appreciated.
Debbie email me at DebMorgan@live.com

sweetblood22 said:

DrMom
You can try to start a new post, because this is an old thread, and I haven't seen a lot of these people post in the last couple years. Also further down in this post are some suggestions and a website for Lucys Real Food. Looks like a very detailed site to help with learning to make regular food that can be put through a peg tube.

Here are links to that site and a thread we had on this site:

BEST WEIGHT GAINING SMOOTHIES. Ideas here can be put thru tube if run thru an emulsifier.


LUCY's REAL FOOD. Haven't tried this but it looks promising.  

Good luck.

sarahjane7194 said:

my mother
my mom is having the same problem. she was diagnost with throat cancer and is going through radiation also. she is unable to tolerate the food through her feeding tube and is worried. she is only getting about 1/3 of the nutrition she needs. she talked to her doctor who said" you know your fighting cancer right" and my mom said " i know but theres only so much i can do" i am worried too because my mother is not one to worry about herself, just us kids. i would love to have your recipes and i will prepare them for her. i feel helpless and if i can do this for her and it works, would feel like a miracle. Thank you Sarah

LucyVance said:

Unclogging a Feeding Tube
Hi there - On the links and resources page of Lucy's you'll find some good information on unclogging tubes, various methods and equipment that is available. lucysrealfood.com

Greend said:

My food intake
I guess being from Alabama I am just too simple. About 2-3 months ago I decided, with my wife's help, to dump the Ensure diet and start using real food, The Ensure only diet was leaving me too tired all of the time and no energy. We started out with her measuring calories, amounts etc and then blending them all together. This works fine but is labor intensive. I then started just taking whatever food she cooked (I do not use food with gristle ot fat because it tends to jam my tube) adding whatever I thought might boost the balance (bananas, tofu, avacado, sunflower seeds, yogurt etc) and processing it through my 1200W butt kicking Ninja blender with a LOT of liquids. I have found that if there are objects in the mix that stop up my syringe then they too will plug my tube so when I'm drawing up my food into the syringe and something plugs it up I just pick off the offender and continue.

The tube port I have has a wide opening to accomodate the syringe and then connects to the flexible tube above the flushing port. What this means is that if the tube gets plugged, then it will most likely be plugged at this junction point and then I can flush it to clear the blockage and the jammed food will exit back through the tube entry point. Bottom line on this pitiful explanaton is that I don't have problems with the tube getting blocked.

I have processed Wendy's 1/2 pounder, KFC chicken bowl, oriental food, and a couple of meat loaf TV dinners. The key is adding enough liquids when you blend it to get a good puree. For liquids I have used V8 juice, gator ade, grape/apple/cherry juice, Silk, regular milk and even a couple of Sprites.

For breakfast I have eggs, sausage, oatmeal (fiber), toast or bisquit, and lots of orange juice.

Lunch is whatever everyone else has with a lot of liquid.

For dinner I have found that a mostly fruit meal sits better on the stomach and I sleep better.

The negative to this is that I have to urinate a lot more because of the fluid intake.

This is working GREAT for me and while I don't taste the food the psylogical boost from eating "normal" food is good. Not a lot of weight gain but a lot more energy.

Tonight I'm going to try a Snickers bar with a Budweiser for the liquid additive.

Canadian_Poppy said:

my husband has recently been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. he became dehydrated and malnoursihed and had a feeding tube placed a week ago. we are hoping to leave the hospital today. we have always eaten well and are very interested in making our own food rather than using only nestle formula. we have been working with a naturopath but she has no experience with feeding tubes. he will need all his strength to deal with the proposed treatment and we find questionable value in the 'sterile' cans, as promoted by the dieticion. we have always been interested in 'live' food. if you have any recipes or tips to share we would be very grateful for the help. good luck in your journey