Recipes
Find new and great tasting recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Focusing on puree and soft meals that are easy to prepare.
How to
Learn how to prepare for puree and soft diets. Using the basics in cooking and no-how with our video's, live kitchen and cooking courses.
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Nutritional priorities change throughout life
Our new resident dietician, Natalie Creak shares a few basic tips. Look out for more from Natalie over the coming months. Nutritional priorities change throughout life. It is expected that the requirements of a 17 yr old adolescent male will be different to a 70 year old female. In later years we tend to need…
Dietitian Natalie Creak
It’s fantastic to be able to introduce our new expert Natalie Creak. She is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and will add skills, insight, information and glamour to the Clunki Team. Natalie believes that when it comes to food it’s all about balance and that there is no such thing as a ‘bad food’… other than those that…
Sweet Potato and Coconut soup
Katie Prendergast from Safe Swallowing offers this great tasting soup which you can modify yourself for puree or soft diets. Sweet Potato and Coconut soup (suitable for soft and puree diet) Serves 4 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time- 35 minutes Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1…
Safe Swallowing
We interviewed Katie Prendergast about her career as a Speech Pathologist and how she took the unique opportunity to help those with swallowing difficulties. You have unique and specialised skills in the area of dysphagia. Where did you refine these? After university I began working in the acute stroke and rehabilitation units at a large…
White chocolate and almond parfait
This week’s video recipe is a delicious dessert suitable for those on a soft or puree consistency diet, and should give you some extra ideas about how to vary the flavours and consistency of some of your regular dessert ideas. A basic custard is the starting point for lots of desserts and sweet treats from…
Disclaimer:
The contents of Clunki are suggestions only. We do not advise that you change your diet consistency unless directed by your health professional.