395 – When Pureed Food Tastes Better Than Your Dinner: Inside Mama Gourmet’s Mission to Change the Game
Swallow Your Pride Podcast
Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Swallow Your Pride podcast, Theresa sits down with Kelly Kalseth, founder and CEO of Momma Gourmet, a company that is changing what pureed meals look and taste like for people with swallowing disorders.
Kelly's journey started in 2015 when her son Caleb was born premature at 30 weeks and was later diagnosed with Tracheal Malacia. After navigating thickened liquids, swallow studies, and surgeries as a first-time mom, Kelly saw a massive gap in the food options available to people on modified diets. When she toured a Meals on Wheels kitchen and saw the shelf-stable brown purees being served to clients, she knew she could do better.
Today, Momma Gourmet provides chef-crafted, flash-frozen pureed meals made with real ingredients like red beets, cauliflower, lentils, quinoa, and Greek yogurt. Every meal packs at least 28 grams of protein and ships nationwide on dry ice. Kelly talks about the emotional experience of eating, why food presentation matters even on a pureed diet, how she's expanded into halal meal options, and her goal of getting nutritious purees into senior living centers and hospice programs. She also shares a client testimonial from a caregiver whose 99-year-old mother eats every single bite.
If you work with patients on modified diets (or love someone who's on one), this episode is going to make you rethink what's possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get into today's episode, I want to tell you about what is happening inside the |
| 0:07.2 | MetyslP Collective this month, because honestly, this lineup is insane. |
| 0:12.1 | So first, if you work with or want to work with larynegectomy patients, we just dropped a |
| 0:15.9 | brand new advanced simulation on post-larinectomy communication and swallowing management. The video, |
| 0:22.9 | the optics of this are so cool. I'm so proud of our team for how these simulations have come out. |
| 0:28.0 | It is on demand right now, and you'll work through TEP candidacy, a laryngeal communication options, |
| 0:33.5 | swallowing changes, post-total aaryngectomy, and how to actually counsel patients and coordinate with the rest of the team. |
| 0:39.2 | It's available for advanced Ashesi Hughes and you can start it today. |
| 0:43.1 | Now tomorrow night, April 15th at 8.30 p.m. Eastern, Scott Wonderling is doing a demo and discuss on assessing and treating high-level cognitive communication challenges in adults with TBI and mild TBI. So if you've ever had a |
| 0:55.9 | patient who looks fine on paper but can't get back to real life, this one is going to hit home. |
| 1:01.7 | Scott walks through what actually matters to the patient's daily function, not just what |
| 1:05.7 | scores tell on a standardized test. Then on April 22nd, George Barnes is leading an implementation hour on clinical decision-making. |
| 1:13.6 | We'll use the next morning, not just notes that sit in a folder. |
| 1:16.6 | All of these also have recorded versions as well, so if you can't attend live, you can catch the recording. |
| 1:21.6 | Just go to MetisLPcollective.com to get signed up. |
| 1:25.6 | And this Friday and Saturday, April 17th and 18th, Ashley McAulis is teaching Voice Beyond |
| 1:30.5 | the Basic. |
| 1:31.3 | This is 10 hours of an advanced level content from 11 to 5 Eastern both days. |
| 1:36.1 | And yes, it will also be recorded. |
| 1:38.5 | Ashley has over 12 years in medical and specialty voice practice. |
| 1:42.4 | She does her own videos, trabboscopy and fees, and this course |
| 1:45.2 | covers everything from interpreting E&T reports and clinical voice evaluation turned to |
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