A blended diet contains food that has been combined to
create a liquid to be consumed by a straw or spoon, or fed directly into the
stomach though an enteral tube feeding.
You may need a blended food diet if you are having difficulty chewing or
swallowing. Blended meals may also be
recommended if you have had recent facial surgery or a broken jaw. People reliant on enteral nutrition may opt
to use a blended food diet as an alternative to canned nutritional products.
Drink Your Meals is a website featuring over 100 blended
food recipes. It is a website
specifically designed for people who need to follow a blended food diet. Each blended food recipe at Drink Your Meals
contains fresh, unprocessed ingredients to maximize your nutritional
intake. In addition to being nutritious,
these blended drinks are also delicious.
The Drink Your Meals blended food recipes are also Zone
balanced. The Zone nutrition diet plan
is designed to help you balance your meal intake to aid in both blood sugar and
hunger control. A Zone balanced blended
drink provides 30 percent of its calories from protein, 30 percent of its calories
from fat and 40 percent of its calories from carbohydrate.
Drink Your Meals also allows you to create your own blended
meals with its recipe builder. The
recipe builder provides the calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat content of
your new blended food recipe to help you track your intake and stay within your
calorie goals. If your newly created
blended meals are Zone balanced, you can share them with other Drink Your Meals
members.