This is a selection of tips sent in by parents
and carers. If you have any tips you would like to share, please
email
us.
Carbohydrates - For more flavoursome pasta
or rice try adding it cooked to make chunky soup.
Encouraging chewing - To encourage
chewing, dry food is better (not lumps and liquids together). Food needs to
be at different temperatures to increase/stimulate the feedback from the
mouth.
Moveable treats - Small boxes of Sun-Maid
raisins are very easy to carry around in your handbag or in the car.
Always carry some cutlery in your handbag or in the car then you can take
Ambrosia custards and rice puddings with you wherever you go.
Swallowing - Tinned apricots
are full of fibre, calories and vitamins. When liquidised they are just the
right consistency for people with Rett syndrome who have swallowing problems
and they are also great for constipation.
Won't eat vegetables? - Try pushing peas and
sweetcorn into Penne pasta tubes. Or mixing diced and small vegetables in
with mashed potatoes.
