Cookbook
The Gastroparesis Kitchen
Practical recipes organised by physical form, with particle checkpoints that make texture easier to judge when gastric emptying is delayed.
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Who this book is for
A practical cooking system that makes food form visible and repeatable, from fork-mashable and finely minced meals through spoon-soft, smooth and liquid options.
Research and background
These free guides explain the evidence and practical context around the book’s topic. Relevance is not a treatment or efficacy claim.
The gastroparesis diet: what the four rules are, where each one came from, and what they cost
Small meals, low fat, low fibre, small particles: the gastroparesis diet is four rules that get handed over as one. Only one has a randomised trial behind it, two are guideline implementation notes, and all four take food away from people who, in the largest registry study, were already eating far too little. Here is the whole picture on one page.
Diabetic gastroparesis and food: the trial that was run in this group, and the glucose question it does not answer
In diabetic gastroparesis the diet has two jobs that pull against each other: the stomach needs small, soft, low-fat meals, and the blood glucose needs carbohydrate that arrives when the insulin does. The only randomised trial of the small-particle diet was run in exactly this group. What it found, and how to eat so both jobs get done.
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Seven-day plan
Free 7-Day Gastroparesis Meal Plan
Seven days of soft, small-particle breakfasts, lunches and dinners with all 21 recipes and a printable shopping list. Small particle size is the part of current dietary guidance these recipes implement, and it is the part a recipe can actually control. Each is written at an ordinary serving size — around 580 kcal — so if you are eating to a smaller-meal pattern, they divide cleanly into two sittings. A rotation to cook from alongside your own dietetic care, rather than a complete daily intake target.
Topic
Gastroparesis
Meals built soft and small-particle, which is the dietary lever a recipe can genuinely control and one current guidance supports. Portion size is yours to set: these are written at an ordinary serving and divide in two if you are eating smaller and more often. Diagnosing, curing or treating gastroparesis is not something food does. If eating is not going in, if you are dehydrated or losing weight without meaning to, that needs a clinician rather than a different recipe.
Guide
Every rule for gastroparesis takes something away. Most people are already short.
A registry of 305 people with gastroparesis found average intake at 58% of energy needs and 2% following the recommended diet. What that does to how the usual advice should be read.
Guide
Two rules get repeated for gastroparesis, and only one was ever put in front of patients
Low fat and low fibre travel together in every gastroparesis handout, as though they had the same evidence standing behind them. They do not, and knowing which is which changes how tightly you should hold each one.
Guide
Drinking your dinner is a technique, not a defeat
Liquid and blended meals get treated as the bottom of a ladder people feel ashamed to be standing on. The clinical logic runs the other way, because the realistic alternative to a blended meal is very often no meal at all.
Free recipe
Smooth Oat and Banana Porridge with Milk
Rolled oats simmered well past the usual point and then blended with ripe banana, milk powder and a knob of butter into a pourable porridge with no grain left in it.
Free recipe
Creamed Eggs on Soft White Toast
Soft-boiled eggs chopped small and folded through a thin milk sauce, spooned over trimmed white toast and left a minute to soak in.
Free recipe
Whipped Cottage Cheese with Butter-Poached Pear
A whole tub of cottage cheese blitzed until the curd disappears and it turns to pourable cream, under pear poached soft and finished in a buttery honey syrup.
This cookbook is practical food and texture support for people managing gastroparesis. It does not diagnose gastroparesis, promise symptom control, adjust medicines or insulin, or replace individualized nutrition and medical care when intake, hydration or weight are concerns.
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Take the free seven-day plan first
Seven days of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, every recipe in full, with a printable shopping list and a printable plan. Free, no account, and it stays free whether or not you ever buy the book.
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