The Blend Magazine

Offering a fresh, honest and empowering approach to tube-feeding, THE BLEND explores how people and families who rely on enteral and parenteral nutrition live, adapt and thrive. The magazine is a premium, coffee-table worthy resource brimming with beautiful photography, practical advice and stories that celebrate resilience, normalise medical devices and foster connection among those navigating life with feeding tubes.

THE BLEND ISSUE FIVE WAS CREATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH…

A message from the editor, Melanie Dimmitt

Contributors • Some of the creatives behind The Blend Issue Five share why they love making content around tube-feeding

PROFILES • Intimate conversations with people sparking change.

sweet DREAMS • She’s lived with PAIN for as long as she can remember. But for this SEAMSTRESS and STORYTELLER, hope springs ETERNAL.

Mother of invention • Amid financial instability, the stresses of growing a business and the struggles of single parenthood, JANA BERENGUER shines a light on her beautiful son.

LEADING WITH LOVE • As CEO of the Oley Foundation, BETH GORE drives major change for those who rely on nutritional support. She shares how her family’s journey propelled her into advocacy and celebrates the power of connecting with others who have “been there, done that”.

Wild at HEART • AUTUMN CULLEN wanted all five of her children — including her disabled daughter — to have every opportunity to thrive and explore. So when those opportunities didn’t exist, she set out to create them herself.

best in show • From the brink of death to small-screen stardom, dogs have been a lifeline for this sparkling talent. And she says the same about her feeding tube. UK pet expert and television presenter CHLOÉ FULLER tells MELANIE DIMMITT how being disabled has fuelled her rise to fame — and why she’s proudly representing nasoenteric tubes in the media.

LIFE • Extraordinary wisdom found in the everyday.

brain food • Every child deserves to learn, play and eat alongside their friends — no matter how they’re lunching and snacking.

Don’t be scared • In Crookwell, NSW, Ali Stephenson lives with her husband, Adam, and three children – Harriet, 7, Noah, 5, and Mabel, 1. Noah has Down syndrome and began tube-feeding in early 2025.

Be strong and speak up • In Goulburn, NSW, Teresa Andrew’s granddaughter Karma, 11, has relied on tube feeding and total parenteral nutrition (TPN) since birth.

Set the example • In Sunbury, Victoria, Natasha Mancini’s boys, Ethan, 9, and Jackson, 7, both rely on G-tubes — Ethan since he was six, and Jackson since he was five.

PACK LIKE A PRO

MIND over MATTER • Peter “Evo” Eveleigh on life with a terminal condition, tube-feeding and the stuff that truly matters.

magic in the mayhem • The Once Upon a Gene podcast host gets honest on the messy reality of tubefeeding your child — and making it work.

ROCK ON

A day at the beach • We’re all going on a summer holiday with this sun-chasing, tube-feeding crew. Towels packed, hats on, let’s go.

INNOVATION • Bold minds revolutionising enteral nutrition.

HOME TRUTHS • The founder of Blended by Sarah on de-medicalising meals, challenging myths and championing choice for tube-fed families.

“Blended feeds have been a game-changer for our family.”

NOT A PHASE • DR TESSA TAYLOR, founder of Paediatric Feeding International, provides some clinically-backed rebuffs for unhelpful comments and advice.

Turning Point • The right support changes everything. Three parents share how, alongside the team at Kids Feeding Specialists, dietitian and feeding therapist SIMONE WRIGHT rewrote the story for their tube-feeding children.

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