Are the meals that bad?
MILs meals have no fibre listed in their nutritional value statement, they provide only 350 calories, and only 1 of your 5 a day. I didn't post this initially because I didn't know if fibre was zero or just not listed. Clearly they are better than not eating, but it would be good to have a nutritionalist comment on ways of eating well.
MIL now has a spinal fracture - apparently straining when constipating can cause this. MIL has had three separate bouts of constipation.
I think her meals are so bad that they should not form her main source of nutrition. Out of interest I looked at W*** F**** and their meals also don't list any fibre in them and interestingly there was no option to choose High Fibre, even though I understand constipation can be quite an issue with the elderly.
The slow cooker doesn't take long to set up. The stuff can be thrown in and there is an option to add barley etc to bulk up fibre. It does provide two meals for her.
We kept her off those meals for a week and she has appeared much better.
The problem is she thinks they are healthy because there is an advertising splash saying whooop de do One of your five a day. Her second meal of the day is usually toast and jam.
MILs meals have no fibre listed in their nutritional value statement, they provide only 350 calories, and only 1 of your 5 a day. I didn't post this initially because I didn't know if fibre was zero or just not listed. Clearly they are better than not eating, but it would be good to have a nutritionalist comment on ways of eating well.
MIL now has a spinal fracture - apparently straining when constipating can cause this. MIL has had three separate bouts of constipation.
I think her meals are so bad that they should not form her main source of nutrition. Out of interest I looked at W*** F**** and their meals also don't list any fibre in them and interestingly there was no option to choose High Fibre, even though I understand constipation can be quite an issue with the elderly.
The slow cooker doesn't take long to set up. The stuff can be thrown in and there is an option to add barley etc to bulk up fibre. It does provide two meals for her.
We kept her off those meals for a week and she has appeared much better.
The problem is she thinks they are healthy because there is an advertising splash saying whooop de do One of your five a day. Her second meal of the day is usually toast and jam.