Light supper help please?

[MissCommando]

Hiya, I need some ideas for light supper meals for OAPs please.

I work in a care home and all the staff have agreed that the suppers are not great. The cook wants us to think of some ideas. Don't want anything with toast as they have that a lot.

Thanks

[bednobs]

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[pastafreak]

That's a lot of food on that menu sher....I don't think I ever saw the residents where I worked offered any fresh fruit.

[Kristal53]

nice old fashioned things like homemade broth with dumplings.

[woofgang]

You can't ask at the time but do you do chat sessions? Could you do one on "what I like to eat" or what we used to eat and don't have now or any food related topic to get some ideas?

[DTCwordfan]

coming over, pasta, agree about the chipotle.

However the dish gives some flexibility to the sensitivites if you cook up and through it, i.e. (i) for those with "issues", some straight pasta -may be a tad of butter or oil (ii) those with ordinary sensitivities, the mac cheese (iii) a third pot with the stronger stuff and (iv) a final pot with the works and some spice/pepper.....it's about knowing the numbers and habits/preferences, I gues..

[MissCommando]

pasta - we have fruit bowls in the room but they rarely fill them.
Also, when our residents have fruit salad for afters, it's fruit from a tin. Schools have to take advice from dietitians, I just wish it was the same for old people.

You've come up with some good ideas so I'm writing them down now. Thanks

[woofgang]

Did you see the James Martin program about Scarborough hospital? It was brilliant and you can buy the recipes
http://www.scarboroug...s_item.php?newsid=511

[pastafreak]

Unfortunately,most nursing homes-both private and council-run-are only concerned with 'numbers'.
I worked in a home with pretty good standards when it came to food. Then-it was sold,it's residents moved out as the new owners wanted to change the use....and then the severe belt-tightening started. Where we had prepared everything fresh (except soups)..now it almost all came from tins. It was soul destroying for any one who wanted to do the best for these people. I firmly believe that diet has such a huge impact on not just health but also the mind. Our new residents were all folk with mental health issues...to say some deteriorated with the rubbish food is an understatement.

Sorry for my rant......

[DTCwordfan]

I agree, pasta, and understand - one of the things about having a mater with the big A, is to make her eat at least half decently, well three quarters as she likes her pasties and fish and chips.

[DaisyNonna]

Seems to have a menu heavily weighted to carbohydrates. Where do the people get their fruit and vegetables? What about hydrating drinks throughout the day?
Supper at 6.15? Do let us all be tucked up nice and early so the staff can relax, bearing in mind many elderly people sleep poorly.
Cereal and toast for breakfast? What a balanced diet to set one up for the day.
Remind me to buy a chain and padlock before it is too late. Have a lovely telegraph pole to chain myself to before they take me away. And you know what you can do with your blancmange!

[pastafreak]

DT-if she's made it this far-she deserves her pasties and fish and chips. I think the elderly are entitled those little things that make them happy. Bet she enjoys them ;-)

[ladybirder]

I think I'd rather blow my brains out than go into this home MissC. Sounds mind bogglingly awful, so depressing. I hope the cook ends up there herself.

[pastafreak]

At least it seems MissC and her fellow support workers have the health of the residents at heart.

[DTCwordfan]

Exactly my thinking, pasta; we are trying to keep her here as long as poss - midway through the A....so some taxations, shall we put it that way....

[ladybirder]

Agree pasta and good luck to them, I hope they can make a difference but they are swimming upstream aren't they. And I guess they find it depressing too. Unfortunately I am sure there are many homes like that. Thank goodness I found my mother a good one, because there are some.

[pastafreak]

I'm glad my mum was never in a nursing home. Knowing what I do now,it would have hurt terribly to have her in a less than perfect one. If such a thing exists.

[ladybirder]

Well my mother thought so pasta. She used to grab my hand and say she wanted to stay there forever and please not to take her away. She loved it. They put flowers in her hair and manicured and varnished her nails. It was recommended to me by friends in the know.

[pastafreak]

You're very lucky LB to have found such a place. I fear they are the exception.

[DaisyNonna]

Anybody try to put nail varnish on my nails would get a good punch.
As for flowers in my hair? I am not lunch for a butterfly.

[pastafreak]

Hahahaah! ^^^^^