Always follow any specific advice from your Speech and Language therapist.
Description of a soft and bite-sized diet:
- Can be eaten with a fork, spoon or chopsticks
- Can be mashed/broken down with pressure from fork, spoon or chopsticks
- A knife is not required to cut this food, but may be used to help load a fork or spoon
- Chewing is required before swallowing
- Soft, tender and moist throughout but with no separate thin liquid
- ‘Bite-sized’ pieces – all food pieces must be no larger than 1. 5 cm
(about the width of a fork)
