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You can get a NINJA machine from Walmart or Amazon for about $50. Prepare a daily milk shake using Ensure or other nutritional drink plus about one or two cups of ice cream, and add a little milk to make the drink smoother. The nutrition drink comes in various levels of nutrition and can provide about half of the nutrients for daily living for an elderly person, depending on activity, and the ice cream can boost the caloric intake to provide energy and alertness and maintain body weight. The NINJA is a well engineered system and the containers and covers can be washed in the dishwasher and used daily. It takes about five minutes to prepare the drink that is delicious and satisfying. I have been doing this for my wife for six months and she has regained quite a bit of her former weight. She is not on soft foods and eats one hot meat and veg. meal at noon in addition to several snacks during the rest of the day. She starts the day with about one third of the shake and finishes the rest of it during the day. She has a light supper and fruit around 6 pm. At one point my wife seemed not able to swallow and we had tried several foods before settling on the NINJA, but somehow the swallowing ability seemed to return to her; we don't know how but it saved her life.
I make my 90 year old mom, chicken soup, and different beans. I add proteins (steak, pork etc) then purée them. I meal prep once a week for her, portion out lunch and dinner for the week. They are delicious, I add lots of produce to give her a balanced hearty meal. That’s how I got her to eat again.
Puddings and jellos and squashes and soups with breads in them. Custards, and shakes and thick smoothies. And as the CountryGal says, almost anything can be made into puree, even my infamous Buffalo Hot Wing Pasta Sauce and noodles.
Here are some suggestions: Bread pudding, turkey meatloaf, eggs, omelets, casseroles, bananas, avocados, cottage cheese, smoothies, homemade cream of tomato soup, shepherd's pie, mashed sweet potatoes. Salmon pie without crust Look online for some recipes with these ingredients. Make sure water intake is good to prevent dehydration on a soft diet. Hope you find some good recipes for your mom.
Once you start to think about it there are lots of foods that are ordinarily soft
squash and rutabaga are often served mashed polenta with your favourite pasta sauce serve those mashed potatoes cold as potato salad refried beans hummus almost any soup can be whizzed with a stick blender and seems like normal food custards, both sweet and savoury pumpkin pie (without the crust) rice or tapioca pudding (cooked very soft or pureed if needed) yogurt oatmeal or cream of wheat with lots of brown sugar and a pat of butter those little cups of applesauce come in lots of different fruit combinations
Countrygal, there are many resources online if you google "pureed food for seniors+recipes". Will you be making the food or someone else? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUTOY-MQzU0
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I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
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I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
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APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
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omelets, casseroles, bananas, avocados, cottage cheese, smoothies, homemade cream of tomato soup, shepherd's pie, mashed sweet potatoes. Salmon pie without crust Look online for some recipes with these ingredients. Make sure water intake is good to prevent dehydration on a soft diet. Hope you find some good recipes for your mom.
squash and rutabaga are often served mashed
polenta with your favourite pasta sauce
serve those mashed potatoes cold as potato salad
refried beans
hummus
almost any soup can be whizzed with a stick blender and seems like normal food
custards, both sweet and savoury
pumpkin pie (without the crust)
rice or tapioca pudding (cooked very soft or pureed if needed)
yogurt
oatmeal or cream of wheat with lots of brown sugar and a pat of butter
those little cups of applesauce come in lots of different fruit combinations