Wiltshire Farm Foods

calleyw

gilett wrote: »

....Humor is obviously wasted on some people lol

I got the joke about ronnie corbett. But fail to see how its suppose to be a joke that the food was still frozen!!!! Its suppose to be!!!!

Need to get better some better jokes as other wise you will die on your a$re like you did with that joke.

Yours

Calley

dandelionclock30

Hes just taking the PXXX by being sarcastic.

gilett

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Hes just taking the PXXX by being sarcastic.

At last. Thank you. At least someone had the intellect to see behind the sarcasm x

I'll have to get some knock-knock jokes for Calley, they might be easier to understand. :rotfl:

[Deleted User]

They are for old people who don't realise shops sell ready made meals these days.

emg

Deleted_User wrote: »

They are for old people who don't realise shops sell ready made meals these days.

That's what I always thought but people on this thread seem to be saying that they are nicer than supermarket meals and taste more homemade.

mumcoll

Money_maker wrote: »

They're not huge but bigger, more appetising and tastier than meals on wheels. Clients have always spoken highly of them and the customer care is excellent.

My OH works for Meals on Wheels - the Wiltshire Farm Foods and the Meals on Wheels are made in the same factory! They just have different packaging. This is true for the one he works in anyway.

BarryBlue

My father had Wiltshire Farm Foods for about the last 4 years of his life as he was living alone and in his 90s, as did his sister. My in-laws have them now, they are in their 90s too. The quality is decent enough, the portions enough for older people who are not very active, and there is plenty of choice. Often older people have to fancy something in order to have a hot meal and they are very easy to prepare and serve.


WFF meals are not particularly cheap but they do deliver at a regular day and time, important for many oldies. The delivery people I have encountered have been excellent, they will use the keysafe for disabled clients, and they will ensure the meals are all put in the freezer for you. Also, if you don't order they will contact you to check if you just forgot or don't need any.

gettingtheresometime

My Aunt had these delivered before she went into a nursing home and these, amongst other measures, basically kept her in her home for as long as it did.

MrGumby

Here's my two pen'orth, for what it's worth, after my wife and I finished up some WFF meals when my mil died. Well, actually, we didn't finish them up. We tried a couple and binned the rest. I managed to eat mine but my wife decided to go hungry after the first few mouthfuls, on both occasions.

On a positive note, they couldn't possibly be easier to prepare. They go straight from the freezer to the microwave and you don't even have to pierce the film. They are all-in-one meals too. That's perfect for anyone like my mil who, in her last few weeks, needed carers to come in and provide a meal.

Until then, we'd be buying her ready meals from Waitrose, mainly, with a few from M&S and elsewhere. We put a few weeks' supply in her freezer. The downside is that she had to remember to move the next day's meal from the freezer to the fridge, each day, and usually prepare veg/salad to go with them.

We don't like ready meals. They usually have a lot more salt, sugar, etc, than we would use. But we would both be prepared to live on them if we couldn't cook for ourselves, and we do eat them occasionally if we're out all day and late home. Waitrose meals are, for us at least, much better than those from WFF. (We also tend to prefer them to meals from other supermarkets except perhaps M&S).

WFF meals are comparable with economy-class airline meals. We'd really recommend sticking with supermarket ready meals as long as possible, perhaps focussing on things like pasta dishes that just need a bit of salad from a bag to go with them, for simplicity.

The twin-pack desserts (sponge puddings etc) from Waitrose and elsewhere are pretty good and you can always buy ready-made custard to go with them (we prefer natural yoghurt because the desserts are so sweet, but older people are often used to lots of sugar). The desserts we tried from WFF were very variable. Rice pudding was ok (but too sweet!) but the crumbles...there was nothing remotely crumbly about them. Horrible!

If you're ordering for an elderly relative, by all means give WFF and their competitors a chance, but do try the meals yourself before forcing anyone else to eat them long-term!