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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.

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.

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Between meals

Nothing here needs cooking. These are a list to choose from rather than part of the seven days above: the plan counts breakfast, lunch and dinner, so whatever you add from here is on top of that. The energy shown is for everything in the line.

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What this plan is built on

These are the sources behind the food choices in this week. We are not clinicians and this is not a treatment plan; if you want to check the reasoning, or hand it to someone who can, start here.

  1. A small particle size diet reduces upper gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with diabetic gastroparesis: a randomized controlled trial
    Olausson EA, Störsrud S, Grundin H, Isaksson M, Attvall S, Simrén M. Am J Gastroenterol. 2014;109(3):375-385. doi:10.1038/ajg.2013.453. PMID:24419482.
  2. AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of Gastroparesis
    Staller K, Parkman HP, Greer KB, et al. AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of Gastroparesis. Gastroenterology. 2025;169(5):828-861. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2025.08.004. PMID:40976635.
  3. Definition & Facts for Gastroparesis
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Definition & Facts for Gastroparesis. NIH; last reviewed January 2018; verified 16 September 2026.
  4. Diagnosis of Gastroparesis
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Diagnosis of Gastroparesis. NIH. Retrieved 30 August 2026.
  5. Dietary intake and nutritional deficiencies in patients with diabetic or idiopathic gastroparesis
    Parkman HP, Yates KP, Hasler WL, et al. Dietary intake and nutritional deficiencies in patients with diabetic or idiopathic gastroparesis. Gastroenterology. 2011;141(2):486-498.e7. PMID 21684286.
  6. Dietary Interventions for Gastroparesis: A Systematic Review
    Eseonu D, Su T, Lee K, Chumpitazi BP, Shulman RJ, Hernaez R. Adv Nutr. 2022;13(5):1715-1724. doi:10.1093/advances/nmac037. PMID:35425953.
  7. Eating, Diet, & Nutrition for Gastroparesis
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Eating, Diet, & Nutrition for Gastroparesis. NIH; last reviewed January 2018; verified 20 August 2026.
  8. Effect of dietary fat and food consistency on gastroparesis symptoms in patients with gastroparesis
    Homko CJ, Duffy F, Friedenberg FK, Boden G, Parkman HP. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2015;27(4):501-508. doi:10.1111/nmo.12519. PMID:25600163.
  9. Symptoms & Causes of Gastroparesis
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Symptoms & Causes of Gastroparesis. NIH; verified 20 August 2026.
  10. Treatment for Gastroparesis
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Treatment for Gastroparesis. NIH; verified 20 August 2026.

The reasoning is set out in full in Every rule for gastroparesis takes something away. Most people are already short., Two rules get repeated for gastroparesis, and only one was ever put in front of patients, Drinking your dinner is a technique, not a defeat, The small-particle diet is a claim about physics, not a list of allowed foods, Six small meals a day is a scheduling problem, and nobody hands you the schedule, The gastroparesis diet: what the four rules are, where each one came from, and what they cost and Diabetic gastroparesis and food: the trial that was run in this group, and the glucose question it does not answer.