"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> "Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
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>> On 9/4/2011 6:22 PM, W. Baker wrote:
>>> Tiger > wrote:
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>>> : The is an elderly couple who take a taxi to/from the restaurant every
>>> : day for their dinner. Dinner is 4:30 pm for them and they take home
>>> 1/2
>>> : the senior's portion they just ate. The lady indicates that a soft
>>> : boiled egg, toast and coffee is their morning meal; the left overs are
>>> : their mid day meal; dinner ensures they have at least lunch at home
>>> the
>>> : next day.
>>>
>>> : i didn't define elderly
>>> : he's 102 and she's 97
>>>
>>> : kate
>>>
>>> Do they have a senior feeding program either like senior lunches for a
>>> small fee or meals on wheels whic bring a prepared meal to the house 5
>>> das
>>> a week? The other meals woul only entail light shopping that your
>>> mother
>>> could learn to do or that one of you could send over or oder from the
>>> computer.
>>>
>>> Wendy
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>> Wendy, Meals on Wheels provides this service to the elderly. I don't
>> know about the remote area that Julie's parents live in. I know some
>> restaurants make your choice from 10 items, prepared in advance, frozen
>> and you only need to reheat them. These would be more upscale meals and
>> typically are a touch more appealing than the meals on wheels options.
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> There are some really nice frozen meals delivered to the door and they
> would be cheaper than restaurant meals too. My aunt was laid up with a
> broken leg for a while and she is an avid cook, never makes a thing out of
> a packet. I have loved going to her house all my life Anyway she had to
> get some frozen meals in (they weren't the diet plan type). A small
> independent company that made realistic meals, not a thin slice of meat, 3
> peas and a tablespoon of rice and 90% of the weight of the meal as a
> sauce, lol).

They might eat a frozen meal once in a while but usually they won't.