From Recipes to Feeding Pumps: Why This Dietitian Now Writes About Devices

When I started this blog back in 2013, it was about food on plates: cycling fuel strategies, gluten-free recipes, low-FODMAP swaps, the everyday science of eating well. That work was real, it was well-cited, and I still stand behind it.

But clinical practice quietly rewrote my definition of nutrition. The patient on my caseload who matters most this week is not choosing between brown and white rice — she is being discharged on overnight tube feeds and her daughter is terrified of the pump. For her, nutrition is a device.

That is the pivot. The same evidence-first voice, the same dietitian who cares whether the advice actually works, turned toward the hardware that delivers nutrition when a plate no longer can: feeding pumps, glucose monitors, clinical scales, dysphagia aids.

It is not a betrayal of the food writing — it is its logical extension. Medical nutrition therapy is nutrition. And the families navigating it deserve the same plain-English, no-nonsense guidance I once gave about breakfast.

So that is what this revived site is about: helping patients, carers and fellow dietitians understand and source the equipment behind real nutritional care. If you want to see where it starts, read my walkthrough of the home enteral feeding equipment that makes it possible.