By Kelly Kent | Practical blended diet recipes written from lived experience
The Blended Diet Family Recipe Book is a practical tube feeding recipe book containing 75 purposeful recipes for tube-fed children.
Written by parent carer Kelly Kent after years of preparing blended meals for her son Mason, the book brings together the recipes, preparation ideas and practical knowledge her family developed through everyday experience.
Rather than reading like a clinical textbook, it is designed to be a useful kitchen resource for families already using a blended diet or considering one with their healthcare team.
75 purposeful blended diet recipes created with tube-fed children in mind
High-calorie, low-volume blends for situations where smaller quantities are useful
Recipes focusing on nutrients including iron, protein, omega-3s and vitamins
Includes blends designed around considerations such as reflux, constipation and bloating
100ml high-calorie shots provide additional recipe ideas for manageable volumes
Practical information drawn from a family's real experience of blended tube feeding
Kelly Kent wrote The Blended Diet Family Recipe Book after years of preparing blended meals for her son Mason.
Her approach developed through everyday family life. After Mason was found to have an iron deficiency, Kelly began looking more closely at the ingredients and nutrients within his meals. She started creating blends with particular nutritional purposes in mind.
Kelly also found a gap in the books available to families. Much of the information she encountered was technical and text-heavy, rather than a practical recipe book written by somebody already preparing blended feeds at home.
The result is this collection of 75 tried, tested and adjusted recipes.
The book includes recipes designed to provide more calories within smaller volumes, including practical 100ml calorie-shot ideas.
This can provide useful recipe inspiration for families who need to think carefully about feed volumes as part of an agreed feeding plan.
Recipes cover a range of ingredients and nutritional considerations, including blends containing sources of:
Iron
Protein
Omega-3
Vitamins
Antioxidants
There are also sections covering digestive-friendly blends and recipe ideas intended for times such as illness recovery and hydration.
Kelly shares lessons learned from preparing blended feeds at home, including food preparation, cupboard essentials and practical considerations around ingredients.
Recipes are designed to be realistic for family life, with many suitable for batch preparation and storage.
The recipes were created with children in mind, but the author notes that they can also be adapted for adults.
Having recipes written down can be particularly useful where more than one person is involved in preparing feeds.
The book can provide a shared reference for parents, family members, personal assistants and other people supporting a tube-fed child, subject to the child's individual feeding plan and professional advice.
Kelly Kent is a parent carer and the creator of The Blended Diet Family.
Her son Mason is tube-fed, and Kelly's knowledge comes from years of preparing his feeds, adjusting recipes and learning what works for their family.
The book grew from a gap she experienced herself: families could find clinical information about tube feeding, but there was far less practical recipe guidance written by another parent actually living with blended tube feeding every day.
That lived experience runs through the book.
At Trabasack, we're disability innovation specialists and supporters of products created in response to real gaps in people's lives.
As a shop run by disabled people and award-winning inventors, we know the value of lived experience in creating practical products and resources.
Kelly's story fits closely with that approach. A parent encountered a problem, spent years building practical knowledge and then turned what she'd learned into something other families could use. My own son was tube fed for many years and this book would have been so helpful to have back then!
Supporting people who create solutions from lived experience is an important part of what we do.
Title: The Blended Diet Family Recipe Book
Author: Kelly Kent
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 117
Recipes: 75
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9798257414312
Publication date: 26 April 2026
Publisher: Independently published
Approximate dimensions: 21.6 × 28.5 cm
Approximate weight: 358g
Subject: Blended diets, tube feeding, recipes and family food preparation
A blended diet isn't appropriate for every tube-fed child or adult. Individual nutritional, medical and feeding requirements vary.
This recipe book is a practical family resource and isn't a replacement for individual medical or dietetic advice. Changes to a tube-feeding plan or the introduction of a blended diet should be discussed with an appropriate healthcare professional who understands the person's nutritional and clinical requirements.