Easy Winter Meal Ideas to Bring to Your Elderly Loved One

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When you’re trying to keep your elderly loved one well-fed in the cooler winter months, you might find yourself facing more than one challenge. Having a list of easy, go-to meal ideas can help you to put together a meal on short notice when you need to take something to your loved one.

Pasta Dishes

Pasta is really easy for you to prepare for your loved one and it’s even easier for her to reheat later. You might want to slightly undercook the pasta and then mix it with the sauce. As the pasta sits with the sauce, it will soak up more of it and be perfect once reheated. You can try all sorts of different types of pasta and sauce combinations. Try using whole wheat pasta for the biggest nutritional boost.

Soup or Stew

Soups and stews are incredibly easy to put together. You can even bring the ingredients over to your loved one’s house earlier in the day, set everything to cooking, and then she can eat whenever she’s ready. You might want to let her home care providers know if the soup or stew needs any extra attention, too.

Casserole

A great casserole is another one of those versatile dishes that you can bring over for your loved one. You can either cook it in advance and leave reheating instructions or you can bring over an uncooked casserole and leave full cooking instructions. Casseroles are a great way to sneak extra vegetables and other nutritious ingredients into your loved one’s diet.

Baked Chicken

Baked chicken is so easy and you can even make it a one dish meal. Cut up potatoes, carrots, and any other vegetables and put them in the bottom of a foil roasting pan. Put the chicken on top along with any spices or sauces you want to use and then bake until the chicken is done. Everything will be delicious and ready to eat.

Pay attention to what your loved one enjoys and what she doesn’t like as much. If it disappears quickly from the fridge, it’s likely a hit. Then you can repeat the meals that she loves.

If you or an aging loved one are considering home care in Herndon, VA, call the caring staff at Medical Professionals On Call today. 703-273-8818

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Michelle DeFilippis

I graduated with a BS degree and had been selling medical equipment to hospitals, clinics and technicians. More recently, a family member was diagnosed with dementia and we, as a family, realized we were not prepared t care for her. We were thrown into that whirlpool of hospital stays, 24/7 live-in care, skilled care, caring for mom ourselves and finally, now daily home care. This was such a stressful time that I started thinking there had to be other people, other families as overwhelmed and unprepared as we were.

Medical Professionals On Call has such a caring, professional staff who are available to step in with whatever level of care necessary for loved ones and to relieve you of that stress.

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