I flew up to Brisbane to present at the inaugural Australian IDDSI conference as a guest speaker. IDDSI stands for International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative and it refers to texture modified food for people with swallowing difficulties.

I asked one the members of our reference committee to nurse my iPhone tripod and just ensure it captured me presenting - mostly because I wanted to hear how many um’s i said .. quite a few.

Just a bit of housekeeping to put this in context. The woman introducing me is Dr Lisa Sossen APD, PhD who aside from keeping me fed whilst away via Textured Concept Foods - is a Dietitian who works mainly in the aged care field. Lisa is the founder of Lisa Sossen & Associates and also specialises in cancer nutrition.

It was an emotional introduction and it took me by surprise and then it hit me as I started to present.

This is just a snippet and I have the full recording which (despite my nerves and dry mouth) I managed to get it out in the allotted 20 minutes!

My book GULP. Taking a seat back at the table after head and neck cancer was not ready for this presentation despite my best efforts and it will be finalised this week.

Shoutout to Precise - they have some Mango Jelly in a tub I have now a new craving for and it’s packed with protein and will make brilliant future hiking snacks.

Super special thanks to Julie Cichero and Peter Lam founders of IDDSI and all round good humans.

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Eat Well.

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