Choose cereal with 150 calories per servings and whole grains on the ingredients list. Add 1 cup of skim milk and 1 cup of fruit to your cereal for a healthy breakfast!

Look on the label to make sure your frozen meal has around 300 to 400 calories and 800 mg (or less) of sodium. Round out your meal with produce.

Here Dawn, myLifetime.com’s Nutritionist, recommends to always pick non- or low-fat milk and yogurt. When picking a cheese, make sure the saturated fat content is under 20%. As for eggs, use eggs and egg whites.

In this clip Dawn recommends sticking to 2 healthy snacks per day between meals. Each snack should have about 100 to 200 calories. Some good options are pistachios, low-fat yogurt, or a granola bar.

This 3D animation reveals the placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy – PEG , or “feeding tube” in patients who are unable to take food by mouth for an extended period of time. It demonstrates the two main surgical techniques for PEG tube placement. 1. The “pull” method, 2. The “push” method.

All About Gastrostomy Tubes: Tube Feeding and Cystic Fibrosis from Children’s Memorial on Vimeo.

Ainsley has a trach due to upper airway swelling. She is unable to eat and is fed with a gastrostomy tube. We make a blenderized diet of pureed foods that we give with a quick bolus tube feeding.