Ready meal advice

[Lippy1234]

Hi, I’m new on here. My DM is 68 and has advanced Alzheimer’s, we’ve been agreed a care package for her. A call in the morning to help with medication, make her breakfast and make a sandwich for lunch. She’ll also receive an early evening call when the carer will heat up a ready meal. The plan is I’m going to do an up line shop for her once a week and be at her house when it arrived to put it all away. So my question is has anyone got any recommendation for supermarkets that do nice ready meals. My Mum likes healthy food, I don’t think she like meals such as cottage pie. I’m also trying to find meals that are not high in salt as she has high blood pressure.
The last year or so have been very difficult so I’m hoping the care package will help at least for a few months before we start looking at alternative accommodation for her.

raeray and thesandwich and you everyone else thank you so much for your posts.

I did buy the frozen jacket potatoes and tubs of prawn cocktail and that has been a good success.

As others have done, I tend to rotate between the stores as it gets repetitive. But I have also noticed how many of the ready meals get binned in favour of snacks (sausage rolls, pork pies, crisps) and sweet things like biscuits and individual trifles. So I have now reduced the amount of ready meals I get DM a week and increased the amount of snacks instead. I think that means she feels less overwhelmed by 'stuff'.

My issue is milk (I have bored people to death on the Cockroach thread about DM and milk) as she gets through so much of it that I suspect she is actually binning it. So I put some in her freezer for emergencies, which she takes out, defrosts, leaves to go off, then bins.

What is the cockroach thread?

I have just started my elderly mum on ' Parsley Box ' www.parsleybox.com
She has tried 7 meals now and liked 6 - result !
The beauty of them is they do not need to be refrigerated or frozen, they just go in the cupboard and the ones she had delivered have a 6 - 8 month sell by date.
Good luck - it's hard to try and do everything you want to do for them !

We got Dad a mix. Mistly traditiona british meals. Depended on brother was shopping (morrisons) or me (saisburys occasional m&s). But as he was borderline malnourished we werent worried about calories etc.

Parsley Box, I have found much better than Wiltshire.
they have an Edinburgh postcode and deliver reliably.
the advantage is that their foods are stored in a box, at room temperature, until needed then simply microwave, or oven if preferred.
so you can order a lot in, last months, no need for fridge /freezer space.
you don't have to be in when they deliver, they can leave the box outside.

Yes they are based in Edinburgh. My parents live rurally in Scotland so was pleased as they will deliver to them. Glad they sound good.

I think we are going to buy MIL some food from Parsley Box .
DH took her to dietician again and she has lost more weight . She is down to 6st 7lbs fully dressed with many layers ! She lives alone and manages very well with an hour care visit every day we can’t see her. ( more for company than any physical need .)
She is definitely eating more snack food and not having to defrost food might help ( I know she can cook from frozen but insists on defrosting ) DH takes her out every Wednesday to Marks and Spencer but that’s more for socialising .
I have dropped out of the care picture as I have been having chemotherapy and am waiting to recover enough to have a mastectomy and reconstruction .
My role is to visit when well enough and do the crossword with her and ask Alexa to tell us jokes !

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/elderly_parents/3790756-The-Cockroach-Cafe-Mark-2-general-coping-with-oldies
Is the latest in the long running chat thread- loads of wisdom and support and a few laughs.
Another angel slice fan here!(dm) Plus coop trifles.......

ooh yes the angel slices go down well here too! Also the non-chilled tubs of rice pudding and various flavours of custard. And an endless supply of jelly babies.