The SpecialMoms Parenting Magazine 4th Issue | Page 37

One Year Later....
Julie Bombacino, CEO & Founder of Real Food Blends

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ulie has come a long way from starting her
business over 2 years ago. Julie created a line
of shelf-stable, 100% real food meals for people on feeding tubes.She wanted to find a way
to give her son AJ “real foods” through his feeding
tube. He got put on a feeding tube at about 6 ½
months after he had a seizure and was not gaining
weight and vomited almost every day. So she did the
only natural thing a concerned mother would do and
she turned to other mothers online and found them
blending real foods and putting that in their child’s
feeding tube.
She started blending real foods for her son when
he was about 10 months old and he started gaining
weight, stopped vomiting and started being a happier baby. Giving her son “real foods” knowing he’s
getting good nutrition was very healing for Julie and
she wanted other mothers to
feel like that. He is able to join
them during meal times and this
has changed the whole way their
family enjoys meals now.

and provides medical professionals with a viable real-food option for enteral nutrition.
“As the mother of a child on a feeding tube, I know firsthand the impact that these high-quality meals have on
patients,” said Julie Bombacino, CEO and founder of
Real Food Blends. “Partnering with Medline to increase
the availability of Real Food Blends for tube-fed patients
enables busy families to easily control and monitor their
loved ones’ diets, taking some of the guesswork out of
caregiving.” Source: PRWeb
Real Food Blends is actively working with many home
health care companies & DMEs to provide their meals
and directly bill people’s insurer(s). Please visit their site
for more information to see what insurance companies
are currently providing Real Food Blends and are accepting new patients.§

In August, 2014 Real Food
Blends announced their partnership with Medline, the nation’s
largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of quality medical supplies and services. Prior
to that people were purchasing
directly from Real Food Blends.
Medline’s addition of Real Food
Blends’ product line makes pureed meals more convenient and
accessible for tube fed people,

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