Difficult foods
These foods can be especially hard to chew or swallow so may need to be avoided or specially prepared so that they are soft to eat.
Please discuss them with your Speech and Language Therapist.
| Dry foods | Crackers, cake, bread (see below) |
| Crumbly foods | Biscuits, pie crust, crumble, cheese, granola |
| Hard foods | Boiled sweets, nuts, some meats, toffees, chocolate, biscuits, seeds, raw vegetables, hand cooked crisps |
| Tough or chewy foods | Steak, bacon, harder vegetables, dried fruit, chewy sweets |
| Crispy or crunchy foods | Crisps, pastry, toast, raw apple, bread crusts, biscuits, crackers, coconut, granola |
| Stringy or fibrous foods | Pineapple, celery, broad beans, rhubarb, onions, some meats, mushrooms, green beans, lettuce, watercress, spinach |
| Skins | Peas, grapes, fruit skins or husks like sweetcorn, grapes, segments of orange, sausages, tomatoes Avoid skin bone or gristle. |
| Pips and seeds | Remove pips and seeds |
| Juicy food where the juice separates off in the mouth | Watermelon, orange segments, grapes |
| Mixed consistency foods | e.g. solids and liquids: hard cereal which do not blend with milk (e.g. muesli), fruit salad with juice and soups with food pieces, granola e.g. different textured solids: fruit cake, mixed vegetables, yoghurts with fruit pieces, seeded bread |
| Bread |
Consider these options when preparing bread. Speak to your SLT for advice about bread.
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