Posted on 08/03/2025 4:27:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Not much different than schools and jails.
Or any other institutional setting.
I’ve been in a home for a year now and the food is fair at best. Too many carbs, too much high fructose corn syrup, everything cooked is overcooked due to fear of bacterial transmission and they don’t want residents to have their own mini-fridges or microwave ovens - thus dependent on already overtaxed staff for dumb crap I’d rather do myself.
Way too many calories overall so I eat breakfast, save lunch in an ice cooler and eat it for dinner if the served dinner sucks (50/50). Often I combine the best elements of lunch and dinner for a decent meal. Even two meals daily is excessive due to lower activity, and I walk around the building four or five times a day and attend the gym room that’s actually occupational therapy stuff.
Breakfast is usually good but they make ‘eggs to order’ like Henry Ford painted Model T’s. “Any way you want as long as they’re scrambled”. From what I hear from the other residents most other places in my bracket are far worse so blessings counted.
It would be nice if the nursing home food was good and tasty. Old folks there have little to look forward to left in life. Often the food is tasteless and drab.
People in a nursing facility are on their way out and nutrition is no longer important to them.
Bkmk
Coule years ago, I spent 3 nights in hospital. They had contracted food out. It was actually pretty good, if you made the right choices.
I was in a rehab situation for two weeks this year. The food was inevitable. They sent the nutritionist to talk to me and I told her that there is nothing in Real on the plate. It was on plastic food and it couldn’t possibly make anybody healthy and I couldn’t eat it. It was useless. She had no idea what I was talking about. So I had to have people bring me a protein powder and juices and coconut water to survive.
It’s a shame they have to cook everything to death. Removes nutrients and flavor.
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