Thick & Easy Pureed Beef with Potatoes & Corn, 7 oz Trays, 7 Pack

Thick & Easy Purees are texture-modified meals from Hormel Health Labs, made for people who have difficulty chewing or swallowing and sold into healthcare, senior dining and home care. This item is a homestyle beef entree with potatoes and corn, pureed and portioned into a sealed 7 oz tray, seven trays to the pack. Each tray holds a complete pureed entree portion, not a side or a component meant to be built into something else.

The manufacturer makes these trays shelf stable rather than frozen, so they keep in a dry pantry or on a cart and need no freezer space, which is part of why the same tray shows up in a hospital tray line and in a family kitchen. Heating is a microwave job of about a minute, vented, until hot throughout.

Texture level is a clinical decision. For the consistency appropriate to a particular person, direct the question to their speech-language pathologist or healthcare provider.