Meal Preparation and Nutrition Support in Tamarac
An aide can shop, cook to a written diet and sit while it is eaten. Writing that diet in the first place belongs to a dietitian or a doctor, and we work from what they set down.
Cooking is the easy half
Food left in a fridge is not the same as food eaten. The gap between those two things is where most nutrition problems in a house actually live.
So an aide stays while the meal is eaten and writes down what was finished. Three weeks of that is evidence, and it is the kind a doctor can use.
What an aide will not do is change a diet. Thickened fluids, restricted salt, diabetic requirements — all followed exactly as written, never adjusted because something looked unappetising.
Meals usually sit inside a visit booked for something else rather than being bought as their own hour.
What the hours cover
From the shop to the plate to the note afterwards.
The shopping
Done against a list settled in advance, and every till slip stays in the house for anybody who wants to look.
Cooking and serving
Made properly, then put on the table with somebody sitting opposite.
Sticking to the diet
Salt held down, textures softened, sugar watched, fluids thickened — each of them to the letter of whoever prescribed it.
What goes in the fridge
Portions set aside to cover the gap until the next visit, each one written on so nobody has to open it to find out.
Written down afterwards
Put in front of somebody, finished or pushed away, and written either way. A month of those pages is worth reading.
Reasons households ask
- Weight has come off without anybody deciding it should
- The same few things are eaten on repeat
- Standing at a hob has become more effort than it is worth
- Out-of-date food keeps appearing in the fridge
- A diet was set at discharge and nobody is following it
Bring the diet sheet to the call
If one exists, it answers half the questions before they are asked.
Read it to us — (754) 351-4153