Food

Welcome to part 2 in the series – Cooking with Esther.   Esther Perrim (our General Manager) will take us step-by-step through the process of preparing a delicious recipe from My Food Bag and of course our Eldernet ‘taste testing’ team is on hand to help her out at the end. …

We had heard so many good things about the variety of My Food Bag options we decided to contact the My Food Bag team to check it out for our readers. Our amazing General Manager Esther Perriam is a lady of many talents.  Esther took up the challenge to test …

A healthy diet is important for everyone. We all know that babies and young children need enough of the right food to grow and be healthy. But did you know that very old, along with the very young, are most vulnerable to the effects of poor diet? As we age …

Cooking can be daunting for some.  While for others it’s not the cooking itself that is the issue, it’s learning how to cook for one again.  I know when I had all the children at home, as they left it was difficult to ‘downsize’ the meals.  I had gotten so …

Most of us have some experience with feeding babies. We blend together a mixture of bland foods and baby eats up. When it comes to feeding adults it is a different story altogether. What suits baby will not please most adults! First of all, adults have different nutritional needs to …

Feed your mind as well as your body We all know that eating healthy can help us live longer and stronger, sharpen our minds and generally make us feel a lot better.  Having just completed the article ‘Top rest home chefs battle in Auckland’ and watching all the healthy, as well as …

A group of industry experts determined to boost the standard of rest home food established a competition where top rest home chefs get the opportunity to battle it out – Master Chef rest home style.  Sixteen Chefs from 9 care homes and one hospital from all over the country competed …

I hear a lot of talk about older people being “given something to do” as if they don’t actually have a life to live and frankly it makes me really annoyed.  The reason that I get annoyed about this is because older New Zealanders are too often being put in …

When was the last time you sat down at the dining table and enjoyed a meal together with friends or family?  We live in a rushed society, and scoffing down whatever we can find can be commonplace.  It’s so easy to head to the fridge and nibble on whatever looks …

In keeping within the “Tours and Travel” theme for this month, I thought I would share my recent experience with Indonesian food. I recently returned from a very relaxing holiday in Bali, where the people are friendly, the sun pleasantly warm and the food absolutely delicious.  As a matter of …