Ask about the benefits of a hot meal, and you may hear comments such as a tummy warmer, a homecoming feeling, a good hot mea, first hot meal I’ve eaten since…
One thing I often forget about is my capable ability to move about the kitchen with heavy pots filled with liquid, knives, tools, and washing up afterward. My parent doesn’t have the energy to run the chicken from the barnyard, let alone from the grocery store, through its paces even into the soup pot.
Managing the shopping, to the car, then carting the groceries into the house is a huge chore for her. And just putting away the goods is enough for that days’ activities of daily living. Let alone all the washing, peeling, dicing, slicing, cooking and containerizing more than one portion.
When this house daughter has the urge to cook, I have lots of shapes and sizes of plastic wear for storage. I freeze, refrigerate, and then parse out the extras to the parent.
Miracles of the microwave: Food in a Plastic Package or Box
* No knives, no cutting required
* Unbreakable plastic container
* Serves a Hot Meal
* Is reasonably priced for the product
* Can be frozen and cooked whenever
* And expect comments, all kinds of comments, usually not so positive about your own cooking from the parent. Wait to hear, ‘it needs salt’. Then you’re doing fine. The parent can add salt and all the herbs they wish.
* But do what you can, when you can and stash it.
PS: You can forget those bisphenals. Remind them to warm it up on the plate or in a bowl, not in the plastic container!
