Menus and Mealtimes food and restaurant
 
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The most important part of an older person’s day is often their main meals.

Mealtimes provide nourishment, but more importantly, it provides a social setting where they can enjoy the company of others and share a meal together.

When the meal provided is delicious and nutritious, it provides an added sense of enjoyment to their dining experience.

When the mealtime experience is positive, relaxed, tailored to their preferences and a pleasant place to enjoy their meal, they will share this experience with their family and friends.

To achieve these positive experiences for our older people, chefs and catering teams need to be clear and confident with what is expected of them with menus, food quality and mealtimes.

Nosh Dietitians Co. can guide your chefs and catering team to develop a nutritionally adequate menu that offer variety and choice to suit your residents’ preferences and to support your clinical staff to deliver an enjoyable mealtime experience in the dining room.

Does this sound familiar?

  • You're constantly receiving complaints about the food (i.e. often the most important part of a resident’s day).

  • You often receive reports of residents losing weight or not receiving high quality and nutritious foods.

  • You feel like you need specialised help for both the residents and the food services team.

  • You're frequently seeing the food services budget increase, without seeing a reduction in unintentional weight loss or food complaints.

Imagine if you knew exactly what to do to provide your residents with quality nutritious food they enjoy that is also within budget and also meets Aged Care Quality Standards requirements.

What if you could have…

✔ Accredited Practising Dietitians with experience in aged care providing clinical services for all your referrals and catering services.

✔ A specialised Dietetic service that understands the nutritional needs of older people, food service requirements and budget constraints in the aged care industry.

✔ A team of professionals who are ready and willing to work with the chefs and the catering team to provide the most nutritious and quality meals possible within your budget.

✔ Menu reviews completed with quality clinical evidence and reporting, with Quality Improvement strategies, to meet Aged Care Quality Standard requirements.

We’ll be in the kitchen with you,

supporting your head chef

  • Menu Development

    We work with you, using your knowledge of your residents’ preferences, to design a menu that is specific to their nutritional requirements and meets their dietary preferences and cultural needs.

  • Mealtime Experience

    We know you’re busy and your time is short. We review your meal services to improve efficiencies, provide catering training to clinical staff and ensure everyone knows their role to create a pleasant and supportive mealtime environment for residents.

  • Nutritional Standards

    Creating a delicious menu is important, but creating a nutritious menu can be more challenging. We help you achieve nutritional standards for older people and ensure your recipes and purchase orders support this menu design.

Every older person deserves delicious AND nutritious food.

We help dietitians, aged care management and chefs provide high quality food and nutrition services for all older people, both in residential aged care facilities and communities.

Our 20 years of experience will fast track your results in food and nutrition services, to meet Aged Care Quality Standards and maintain the quality of life of our older people.

Because they deserve it.