Table
The one thing I changed from the recipe was adding more peppers. I cut up a green pepper, a red pepper, and a yellow pepper, instead of just one. Just a little way to add some more veggies. Otherwise, I followed the recipe pretty closely.
Morty even helped out a little bit and we mixed the sauce up together. (Shortly after I took this picture, he tried to shove his right fist into the sauce, which was precariously perched on his lap, so this is the only picture I got)
The table version of this meal turned out great. I love how you do all the work for a slow cooker meal ahead of time - I started this in the early afternoon - so that by the time dinner rolls by, everything is already done.
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To make the blenderized version of this meal, I used 2 oz of one of the pork chops and about a cup of the veggie sauce - i.e. the rest of the recipe ingredients. I tried to make sure that I scooped up a bunch of the peppers and tomatoes in my measuring cup to put in the blender.
I planned to make this with 1 1/2 cups of brown rice, leftover from our meal, but unfortunately, we only had a little over a cup, and I wasn't going to cook more rice, so I ended up substituting a slice of bread in our mix. Oh well.
Even though I list Trader Joe's Omega-3 Carrot Orange Juice, you could really use whatever juice you have on hand. I just happened to have purchased this juice on a recent grocery shopping trip. I think I thought I was just getting carrot juice when I put it in the cart, but noticed later that it contains sardines, anchovies, and tilapia! Sound gross? Yeah, maybe. But I can't taste any of the fish. And it does have the good Omega-3's that the nutritionist wants us to get. She suggests fish 2 times a week - even for Morty's blends. We don't quite get to that yet - but I'm trying to do more fish.
I also list applesauce, but we actually put a homemade low-sugar apple butter in our mix. It came from a recent apple picking adventure that resulted in far too many apples than I knew what to do with. I've been adding apple butter to a lot of his mixes lately. I'm actually not even sure what the difference is between apple sauce and apple butter - maybe apple butter has more of the liquid cooked out of it?
Now, even though I didn't exactly follow it, here's my planned g-tube recipe:
| Whole Milk | 1 cup |
| flavored Kefir - 1% milkfat | 1/2 cup |
| TJ's Omega-3 Carrot Orange Juice | 1/2 cup |
| brown rice | 1 1/2 cup |
| applesauce | 1 cup |
| Tangy Pork Chop Veggie Sauce | 1 cup |
| pork chops | 2 oz |
| Canola Oil | 3 T |
| Children's Multivitamin | 1/2 tablet |
| calcium chews supplement | 1/2 chew |
| Volume (oz) | 40 |
| Cal/oz | 33.9 |
| Cal/cc | 1.1 |
| % Fat | 23% |
| % Carbohydrates | 65% |
| % Protein | 13% |
