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Why are Meals of Wheels so expensive?

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#1

All I want is hot lunch!

A few years go I used to do short courses at the univeristy and enjoy a hot meal for £2.30.

As my hands are getting worse, I find I can’t prepare a hot meal for myself at home. I spent most of

last week home alone eating toast or porridge oats. So, I thought perhaps I should ask

about Meals of Wheels - which is called Community Meals in our area.

It is so expensive! £4.15 for a hot meal with pudding.

Why is it so expensive?

Does anyone use this service?

Is it possible to get a Health & Wellbeing grant to help with the cost?

Fay

#2

Hi Fay, no idea what they taste like but what about the ready meals that can be bought in the supermarket they would be a lot cheaper I would have thought.

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#3

Try these.

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#4

the problem is for a meal and a pudding even on whiltshire your talking about the same price.

I juggle with tescos i can buy two nice meals for 6.00 = 3.00 each but then a pudding well thats the crunch it will still cost about 4.00.

You can buy cheaper meals but i dont think they are as nutritious and are fattening.

I buy mashed potatoes, frozen veg and fish and stuff in freezer and its just a case of putting it in microwave. I dont cut up things.

I dont think there is a grant for food.

I do know a slow cooker is a great way to cook you can buy the meat and shove in a sauce and leave it all day, then just add a 2 minute rice, or some nice new potatoes already prepared.

Ask your local social services if there is money for a grant for the food. x

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#5

Wiltshire Farm Foods are good; you microwave them for say 6 minutes; you don’t even have to pierce the cellophane cover. Then you have the problem of tearing the top off; when it is boiling hot. If your hand/s are not very good this is a problem.

Also, WFF does not sell things like Dettol; washing tablets; bread etc.

The best idea is the person who suggested a slow cooker. You put the roughest meat in there and after 4 hours; o longer it comes out so tender.

Iceland is about the cheapest and is very good. You can get a meal for one for as low as £1. Everything is microwaved from frozen; take the cellophane top off when cold.

George

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