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As caregivers
of elderly we aim to have the healthiest parents that we can have. But in this fast food state of mind, which
our society has put upon us, the quality of the foods we feed our elderly is
suffering from the availability of the fast food restaurants and the amount of
time that it takes to prepare a good healthy meal. It seems that more and more people are
dependent on eating out, whether it be driving through a fast food restaurant,
ordering pizza, Chinese delivery, or going out to a sit down restaurant. When it comes to feeding our elderly parents
we can fall into this same downward spiral of not having the time to cook a
healthy nutritious meal and just feeding them what is easy. As a caregiver you are pulled in so many
directions that you don’t have the time every day to think of what you can cook
for your elder.
d Trap Have You?
I myself have
fallen into the fast food trap with my parents. When my parents first moved to
Texas I decided that frozen food was the way to go. I would look at all
the frozen dinners and look at the sodium content and decide what items they
could eat. I picked out the dinners by the amount of sodium per serving
and see what was appropriate for them to have on a daily basis. The ladies taking care of my parents could
easily heat up the frozen dinners for lunch and dinner without too many
issues. Breakfast was ok for them using egg substitutes and making
cereal/toast etc. One day I happened to look at the sodium content in the
cereal, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, and flavored oatmeal, I was shocked and
appalled at the sodium content. I never thought about sodium in frozen
waffles and pancakes. One serving of
those frozen waffles the sodium content is 440mg!
of Sodium in One Meal!
Can You See The Body Swell?
The biggest
motivator for me was one day I came home and saw that my staff fed Mom and Dad
the entire family sized lasagna for one meal!!! It was meant to be at
least 2 or 3 meals for each of them. Both of my parents would eat all of
the food that you put on the plate, they grew up in the Great Depression and
they didn’t waste food. The amount of sodium they got that one meal,
2035mg, was enough for them for a week!
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