Meal idea for my disabled friend

ubamother

A few suggestions
Potato topped fish pie
Macaroni cheese (with the small macaroni for ease) with any additions she likes - bacon, toms etc.
A homemade pasty type pie with pieces of chicken and veg in a thick white sauce/gravy
If she's using her energy up to recover, eating a full meal might be quite tiring in itself - a nice sandwich, or good cheese and biscuits, thick soup and a bun might make a nice change, or snack, and easy to do.
Occasionally having good hand-held food that doesn't go cold (i.e., already is cold!) might help her feel happy about eating at her own pace, and wouldn't start congealing if she's slow, which can be very offputting, so may help her sense of independence.

babyshoes

I make a really nice pork in cider recipe that would reheat well. I use pork shoulder slices as they break down with long, slow cooking and are very moist. I cook it in the Le Creuset so I can brown meat on the cooker then put the whole lot in the oven to cook, but you could brown in a frying pan and cook in a casserole dish.

Brown some pork of your choice using a bit of oil - if using slices of shoulder you don't need to dice it but other types may need dicing. Remove from pan. Stir a couple of spoons of flour or cornflour into the juices over a low heat. Add a bottle/tin or two of cheap, sweet cider bit by bit, stirring well to avoid lumps. Toss in some small mushrooms, or quartered larger mushrooms. Optionally add sliced apples and apple juice to make up the liquid level instead of a second tin of cider, especially if your cider is not sweet. Replace meat in sauce and bring to boil. Put the lid on and put it in a low oven (gas 3-4) for a minumum of 2 hours, but longer is better. Remove lid towards end of cooking if sauce needs reducing.

Enjoy with rice, mash or cous cous to soak up the sauce. Nice served with broad beans on the side.

maidincornwall

thanks again everyone, I did check and they are allowed to reheat my meals, as she is totally mentally aware of everything she is making the choice over what she eats, though the carers are very good and happy to reheat them. She can actually take them from the fridge/freezer herself and put them into the microwave, turn it on etc but cant carry a hot meal to the table yet.

Blue_Elephant

Haven't read all of the posts, but if she's diabetic, be careful of ready meals of any sort! they're full of sugar for the most part.

Get some of those portioned up frozen veg that you stick in the microwave, you know in the plastic thingies, don't know what they're called. That way she can have veg with every meal but you don't have to mess about with fresh all the time.

then you could have some of the meals mentioned above, but don't forget, if she's paralysed you'll have to be wary of the glucose content of those as she can't really exercise to work the excess glucose off.

To be fair, you could make absolutely anything, then cut it into bitesize pieces before you freeze?

Find out what she liked to cook before, get the recipes off her if you can, then make that stuff maybe?

Just thinking out loud, hope it helps.

maidincornwall

Yes thats one reason for avoiding ready made meals as they are full of sugar and rubbish, low fat ones tend to have more sugar in them too! The idea of her eating one of those portions of veg is laughable, she just dosent eat anything green!!!! or that looks like a vegetable!

Blue_Elephant

haha then hide them in sauces/stews :P

Also maybe think about food you can eat with your hands? Pizza, cut up burgers (do see if these can be homemade, the shop bought ones are full of cr*p) possibly quiche if it's not too soggy. If she was originally right handed, though I'm making assumptions it might also be hard for her as she's still learning to use her left. It can be easier if you can just pick the food up.

Try going about everyday life using only your "other" hand, and you'll see what I mean.

Oh and on that note, this is a classic case of where those no touch handwashes come into their own

(my grandad was diabetic and lost the use of the right side of his body through a stroke. Unfortunately he lost his speech too but I have some incredibly happy memories of him so all is good. )

meritaten

my OHs uncle had throat cancer and he couldnt eat the normal meals his sis (my MIL) made him. so I took over his meals.
he loved shepherds pie as he could mash the filling into the topping and it went down ok.
stew - ok as long as the veg was very soft and chuncked small (untill a few months before he died when I had to use the masher).
not curry - he couldnt cope with the spices..
Cheese and potatoe 'pie' (just cheesy mash really)
Scrambled eggs - if someone there to make for him
he also loved
rice pudding - not the tinned one but made the 'valleys' way
Jellies - not the block stuff - but the ones I made with real fruit juice and gelatine.
and his all time favourite - egg custard - in his last month in hospital it was one of the only two things he ate - the nurses used to say to my OH 'have you brought his egg custard'? as soon as he set foot on the ward! poor sod couldnt eat any pastry by then so I just used to do egg custard in a bowl for him!
he also liked chunks of bread soaked in hot milk and honey drizzled over - and fair play for the nurses they occasionally did that for him. (I understand that in his childhood that was considered 'invalid' food).

My own dad used to say that if they were ill his mum used to heat condensed milk and soak bread in that!
tbh - any food which he would eat was ok! the doctor said the same a couple of months ago when my mum was ill - 'doesnt matter what she eats - as long as she eats'! so she ate chicken stock and trifle for a month!

squeaky

madvixen wrote: »

Can be found on the Delicious Magazine website, just search Kashmiri Butter Chicken

HTH

Thanks.

Like your reason for editing

In case anybody missed it the recipe can be found here: http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/r...butter-chicken

Looks nice.

Molly41

The Wiltshire Foods are all very carefully balanced and there are meals that are suitable for diabetics and in fact other food issues too. As regards what is nice? Well its a personal preference but I like all I have tried. I was aghast at having to use them but was told by the dietician that it was better to eat a ready meal than nothing at all !