Advice please - Help with food/Meals on Wheels alternative???

[margauxx]

I'm trying to help my mum out who's worried about HER mum.
My gran who lives alone is nearly 93 but very stubborn and independent. She's slightly forgetful but so much better when she eats a good meal.
However, she doesn't often do this as she's not really v good in the kitchen. For example, she has NO clue about using the freezer/sellby dates etc. Things go in and out of the freezer willynilly and the microwave we bought her is a glorified cupboard.
My mum would go in and cook for her everyday if she lived close by. Meals on wheels in her area (south wales) only send frozen meals and they're not v appetising.
Does anyone have any experience with this?? What other options are there?
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions
margauxx

Could you hire someone privately to go in say once a day for an hour to make something/fling something in the micro?
Could you contact her GP or social services to see if they can suggest anything else?

cant believe meals on wheels in her area do that. my dad gets them and they are not great but at least they are delivered really hot. another option is to get a carer to go in daily. dad has one that makes his breakfast and then makes something for lunch and leaves in the fridge. social services are your best bet for services in her area. your right she does need good hot meal at least a couple times a day with the bad weather coming up. she probably could do with help in other areas as well. if she cant afford to pay for it everyday she will get help with the cost. dads carer is more of a friend and does alot more than she paid for.

Here in Oxfordshire there are no "meals on wheels", elderly people tend to use Wiltshire farm foods, who deliver frozen meals on a weekly basis, and for people who can't microwave them, a care package is arranged where a carer visits at lunch time to heat the meal up. Social services organise the appropriate care packages. The alternative is private care.

You can only get frozen meals twice a week in the Borders as well. But there are other companies thad do frozen meals, some of which are nicer than others I think. Wiltshire is one of them, as brightwell said. A good contact would be the Princess Royal Trust for Carers link HTH

I meant every other week, not twice a week. Doh.

whiltshire farm foods are prefered over meals on wheels with the elderley people i see, if she or someone else is able to microwave it, when they deliver they put it straight into the freezer