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“STOP using the “F” word”, Australian chef Maggie Beer said.

In this case, that “F” refers to aged care facilities, the subject of Ms Beer’s workshop Creating an Appetite for Life.

Ms Beer believes that aged care homes should feel like home and a significant part of that comes down to cooking healthy, flavoursome meals that do not have to break the bank.

“If we can give them [aged care residents] the smells of home cooked food, that feeling they are a person and still living, not just existing, that’s the thing we most want to do,” she said.

It has to be in every bite equal measures nutrition and pleasure. - Maggie Beer.

“It’s vital that we give food that is full of the right nutrition to give bodies the muscle mass and energy to be physical in whatever limited way possible – but without pleasure side by side to that nutrition it doesn’t improve their wellbeing.

“It has to be in every bite, equal measures nutrition and pleasure.”

Ms Beer hopes to be a conduit for change in addressing CEO’s of aged care homes Australia wide.

Chefs from across the New England region attended and learned to cook healthier meals and challenge the status quo in the kitchen.

 

Source: http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/4527237/healthy-food-for-full-hearts-says-maggie/?cs=2452

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