Practical dysphagia support for eating, nutrition & mealtimes.
Managing Meals Differently is a practical eating and feeding support service for adults with complex eating and nutrition needs for different textures, with swallowing difficulty (dysphagia) needing a texture modified diet. We are dietitians and speech pathologists who are Sydney based and are compassionate, practical, individualised and evidence based.
We provide strategies tailored to the person, their needs, and their usual foods.
People we help
Support when dementia, ageing, illness or swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) make eating and mealtimes difficult. Receive support for nutrition, food choices, textures, and managing meals and swallowing safely.
Weaning your baby and introducing solids?
Navigating an allergy or issue with a gastroenterologist or other specialist Doctor ?
This is not an eating disorder service - please contact us if you require assistance with that for referral on.
For those with Special Diets & Feeding Difficulties
Combined assessment with both the Dietitian and Speech Pathologist can be provided in a coordinated approach for both standard Medicare and NDIS consultation.
How we can help
We can visit you or your loved one in your or their environment to observe and assess - nursing homes and independent living facilities
Suggest improvements for nutrition
Manage dysphagia, Nutrition and PEG feeding if it comes to that
Adapt meals and modify textures
We can also discuss meal management over telehealth if you are the carer for a person with dysphagia or a special diet
Explore personalised dietary preferences to find meals that work based on Heritage, culture and nutritional needs
Support you, your families and Carers if needed with training
Support patients with feeding difficulties, and ultimately, make nutrition and mealtimes easier.
Why Manage Meals Differently?
Through her years of experience as a dietitian, Jill has observed the different ways that support around special diets can help people to manage them. Through her training and personal interest in cooking and food (she loves to cook), she has picked up several strategies and techniques for managing meals differently to help support nutrition and swallowing.
Who? - a little bit about Me
She has a poodle cross dog called Sunny, he can accompany her on visits if additional pawsitivity is needed.
Jill Ng, Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD)
Senior Dietitian to North Shore Private Hospital
An experienced clinical dietitian, Jill has worked at North Shore Private since 2013 until now, 2026 - and provides inpatient nutrition support to older adults on the neurology, stroke ward, oncology ward, and ICU that may have more than one condition they are balancing.
Jill trained at The University of Wollongong between 2004 - 2006 and the South Eastern Illawarra Health Service (St George and Prince of Wales) during her initial years. She also did contract work at St George Private in cardiothoracic surgery and oncology day patients and then later went onto work in the UK in Bariatric Weight loss surgery units where textured, stage up diets were the normal route to support weight loss after surgery.
She is interested in providing family nutrition and mealtime management strategies to make things easier for you and your family to manage, particularly for those in the sandwich generation who may be managing older parents as well as younger family members.
She has a direct link with the Specialist Neurology Speech Pathology Service to North Shore Private and they can be added to services on request. Please email for more information and pricing.
She also speaks Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin) and is able to support patients within this group facing Dysphagia Management who need Nutrition Support. She is a registered Medicare provider and can offer face to face appointments at Balmain East Drs on request (9555-7887) on Thursdays - with a GP referrral under medicare.
A Gap is payable - and depends on your medicare safety threshold on the amount but the Medicare Standard rebate is 63.40.
She is able to support plan managed and self managed NDIS participants via home visits or telehealth secure link.
She is not a registered NDIS provider and therefore unable to provide direct support to Agency managed participants.
Mixed Textured Meals
Meal Selection and Support
Calories/Nutrition Supplements