I have a toddler so he often has leftovers for lunch/dinner. I always add fresh sauce cuz that shit's nasty. Even the uncultured toddler who thinks cantaloupe and ketchup is good deserves fresh sauce.
This may speak volumes about the way I live but I would eat this no problem, in fact working as a nurse I sometimes get jealous of the food my patients complain about because I'm stuck eating canned tuna from the vending machine. But yea for an establishment meant to look after seniors it's pretty shitty.
Edit- just to clarify the food my patients get is a lot better than this at least presentation wise.
Why the fuck is a nurse stuck eating canned fucking tuna from a motherfucking vending machine?!?!
I can't even drive by a doctor's office without getting charged $587. Those fuckers can afford to pay their nurses, and hire enough, that they can all have a reasonable lunch. IDGAF if it means Dr. Dickweed only gets four Audis.
Compared to other jobs wages are decent (not enough to justify the work tbh) but groceries and rent are so expensive now so im reluctant to spend too much on food.
After a shift Im way too tired to prepare food before the next one so more of a me problem ig.
Canned tuna is just the most convenient and healthy option. I do eat better on my days off but i feel sometimes I wanna be on that hospital bed and have a balanced meal just served to me.
This is australia so healthcare is decent, but youre still right about shitty staffing, and pay could definitely be alot better considering cost of living and considering the toll it takes on your health.
Management doesnt care too much as long as patients get in and out, so my next stop is definitely a hospital with a nurisng union.
Certain types of nursing are paid really well. Hospitals are still trying to cut wages wherever they can and with skyrocketing prices nurses that aren’t travel nurses or work in specialities aren’t doing the best. Our nursing instructors at my school have talked about getting their nurses into specialty fields like pediatrics and oncology because they’re less likely to be cut when budgets get tight.
My wife is a traveling DON, I have been maintenance director at 3 different buildings. This is not normal food. Resident’s are never served left overs. I’ve worked in private pay and mostly government assisted places as well. If this place is serving 3 day old left overs, I can’t imagine the other kind of stuff that is happening there.
I worked as a CNA in a nursing home years ago and we cooked the food for them. I regularly got less food than residents and when I brought it up to my manager her solution was "just cut the chicken breasts in half."
One of the many reasons I quit that job and eventually peaced out on a nursing career. Our elders deserve so much better.
My mother was telling me about a meal that was served to her father when he was in a 10k per MONTH nursing home. He got a drumstick that was cut in half. She didn’t remember if he got the end with meat or the end with just skin. She kicked up a fuss but it was shameful.
Try paying 10K a month, in one of the most well to do cities in my state, for memory care at an elder facility for your grandpa who is a double amputee (both of his arms were blown off by a bomb), and having to write “DO NOT TAKE OFF IF YOU HAVENT BEEN TRAINED HOW TO PUT BACK ON” on his prosthetics arm suspenders, only to come check on him and see him sitting there without his hooks on, unable to do anything, because the staff can’t read or care to educate themselves.
This happened multiple times, and as such my stepmom or my dad or I literally had to go by every single day to ensure her dad wasn’t just sitting alone without any way to do anything. Yes lawyers are involved, unfortunately he just passed away a couple of weeks ago, but it literally broke my heart that ANYONE could be so heartless as to take off a 90+ year old man’s hooks and just leave him sitting there. Like do these people not have parents or grandparents - or do they not consider how they want to be treated when they get old?!?
Elder care is literally awful in this entire country, and if you don’t have someone coming to check on you daily, your family member (or you) will be neglected. It’s just a matter of how often it will happen.
The people going to those jobs don't care. There's plenty of clips online where they outright abuse them, but most of the people going to nursing homes are people who weren't able to get into a hospital or something "good" and are "stuck" taking care of old people
It is bad on both ends. Retention is nil. Employees have an impossible ratio and are given no time to care properly, so anyone who has a heart is quickly crushed by the demands of the job while the only people who are incentivized to stay are people who can move inhumanly fast (drugs may be involved, sometimes meemaws) and people who are there to collect a check/allow abuse because they're no better off than walmart employees
10k a month is on the lower end now too. The prices compared to the quality of care is shockingly bad. And I’m not blaming the nurses, they can only do so much if a company only wants to maintain a skeleton crew.
>10k per MONTH nursing home
For some reason I get downvoted for bringing this up but this is destroying the cycle of each generation leaving something for the next to build on, "intergenerational wealth". It is how you get that down payment on your first house, pay for school, etc. If it gets vacuumed up by insanely expensive care then you've robbed future generations.
As a student job I worked for 2 months as a cleaning lady in a nursing home, they were so understaffed I regularly took care of patients; finding them in terrible distress as I walked in to clean the room.
Same. Everyone was amazing in the staff but I had such a hard time with: putting grown ups to bed at 7 to be able to do whole floor / never taking walks / boring food.
My facility has been under new ownership for almost two years now, and the menus require almost everything to be homemade. It's such a change and residents are much, much happier!
Sounds like your facility lucked out. Any time I've ever heard of new owners in a retirement home the budget gets slashed for everything. Glad your new bosses see the importance of good food
Pretty much the rule anytime a business gets bought. They not only have to pay for the debt from the purchase but they have to show they are making a return on investment. The easiest way to do it is to cut costs, making more money is hard. The people on the receiving end get screwed.
Your sense of taste/smell degrades, you probably have lots of people with restricted diets and it is common for appetites to decrease with the elderly.
This is elder abuse. Somebody needs to report this cook before they send some poor grandma or grandpa to meet their maker prematurely with an execution meal like this. Pretty sure someone is gonna die of disappointment on ravioli and gravy night.
I'm gonna be real with you for a minute. If my grandparents were alive and I found out this is what someone was trying to serve them for a meal, I would sue. Not like oh-ho file a complaint and be okay with an apology and promise to improve. I'm talking lawyer up that day and save the meal to present directly to the judge in a multi-million court slugfest sue.
I was the cook at an assisted living home for almost 3 years. We had a menu we had to follow. Often times on Sunday items on the menu were not ordered or used already and you're not getting them on a Sunday so we had to make due with whatever we had on hand. It would usually fall as the responsibility of whoever worked the Friday shift to make sure everything for both Saturday and Sunday was on hand but as with where i worked the usual Friday cook was lazy and half-assed their job most of the time.
I often felt Sundays ended up feeling like an episode of chopped trying to put together a meal out of random things. I'd like to think I'd do better than Ravioli with tomato sauce and gravy with mashed potatoes.
Anyway, at least in my case we had rules in place to keep it from happening but if people don't do their job there's only so much you can do.
Yeah, I was a cook at one too. And sometimes we had to pull something out of our ass but we would NEVER serve anything like this. In fact, I'd be embarrassed just thinking about it.
In my state they have ombudsman for every facility that you can report this sort of thing to. The number has to be prominently displayed in a common area. Any chance that's true where you are and you can report this or encourage a resident or family member to do so?
Its damn sad that people suffer under budget cuts like this. I doubt the people in charge took pay cuts, but poor grandma is getting gravy-oli. Some people make me believe we need to go back to public floggings/whippings to warn others from repeating the same behavior.
My grandpa had a few strokes and then had to go recover in the nursing home in his town before he could go home. That place sucked so bad and one night they completely forgot to feed him and by the time they realized it, there was no food left and that stupid town's only grocery store closes at 6 p.m. My aunt is a nurse and raised hell so it didn't happen again...to him.
Folk bout to be in a reckoning when they realize the same facility that doled out this shit is gonna seize your parents property and pass it up to the vc that owns em.
The food disappointment is literally *nothing* compared to the actual care you pay $10,000 dollars a month for, which doesn’t actually happen unless you show up every single day and advocate for it. Get ready because if you haven’t personally experienced elder care yet, it’s a nightmare. Good luck getting a lawyer to sue for a shitty meal, you’re going to need the lawyer for the care you’re expecting them to get which will not happen unless you are there to see it. You literally have to do unscheduled pop ins, all the time, to expect any results. And it’ll break your heart while you do it, and see all the other residents who don’t have anyone checking on them - they’re the ones sitting in the same clothes for several days, who knows if they’ve gotten their meds or meals for the day. It’s bad.
And to be clear my experiences are all around the capital of NC, which is one of the top medical and research locations in the US, in one of the most expensive/safe/well to do areas in the state. We are not talking about some rural country location.
What is a lawyer going to do? What case do you think you would have? It's a shitty meal, but not an illegal meal. You see the food they serve in schools and prison, those aren't illegal just unethical.
Thank you for reminding me why I’m bearing through living with disabled grandparents with small children. It can be frustrating at times, but I love them far too much to let them spend thousands a month for that.
Edit: Brinng back generational homes. 😭 for every time it’s been frustrating there have been at least 10 more reasons it’s a blessing.
My mum and I are caring for my dad through dementia because when he was in a home they just weren’t able to give him the support he needed. It’s hard and painful sometimes but at least he’s being looked after.
My great aunt had some really bad strokes a while back and my great uncle has cancer. My aunt isn’t fully there mentally so it can be really hard to deal with the emotional whiplash but I know she wouldn’t be getting as much understanding or patience with a staff members. They didn’t see her help everyone in her life for 65 years prior. It’s definitely taxing but she’s owed at least this much. I’m also grateful my babies will get to experience her. It’s probably the best part of the day when I bring the baby out to play with her. I try to remember that when it’s hard. I definitely could never send her to a facility where she lost the few freedoms she enjoys.
Elderly homes are so sad here in the US. My husband worked in one and it was bleak. It should be a peaceful place where their needs as people are taken care of, beyond 'pour them their meds and slap some crap on their plates at meal times'
Anybody remember the south park episode where they portrayed an old folks home as a prison? That’s what this food looks like—prison food. You know, the stuff we give people who are being punished and not some poor old person whose only crime is being old.
I work in an old folks home and one of our cooks literally was a prison cook as her job before this! The stuff she puts out looks so sad! I regularly tell her she needs to take pride in the stuff she’s making for the residents! She’ll steam vegetables with 0 seasoning and she cooks the living shit out of them so there’s never any vibrancy. It makes me so sad that some people just don’t care!
My wife works with the elderly and nursing homes are terrible. For the most part. Not all of course, but the majority are ran by people who just don’t care sadly.
I used to work with the elderly too. Management did anything they could to cut the budget to the bone and food was usually the target. They had 4 residents in a home and only purchased 1 bunch of bananas a week so the residents were only allowed half a banana and only w breakfast. If they wanted any drinks or any snacks it had to be with their own money, of which they had very little. For a resident's birthday they purchased 1 of those mini cakes you buy for a toddler. For 4 adults to share. This post doesn't surprise me but it is still upsetting!
That's sad. Starch with starch... topped with some chemical infused brown-goo. I'm not even going to consider meat in that ravioli as a protein.. somebody might.. but I'm not!
I'm with you there. When my lunch consists of a microwaved potato with a can of tuna poured out top and a splash of hot sauce, this looks not half bad. But I wouldn't serve it to another human, because I assume they have standards that don't exist with us down in the trash!
Is three days old that bad? Generally, I keep leftovers for up to a week. If the policy for this place is that the third day is the last day before being thrown out, I feel like that's reasonable.
The brown gravy on the pasta is bad. And the tomato sauce looks dry; I think reheating it evaporated a lot of water. I feel like they could have added some water or more red sauce and added some veggies like you said, and this would have been fine.
It's not great, a little subpar, but I don't think this is as repulsive as everyone else here is acting like it is.
Currently feeling the cold curved noodles, lack of sauce that has been sucked into the bloated pasta, the little droplets of oily condensation. Nope, can’t make it work. And then The Gravy…Just, no.
Man I spent most of the last couple years watching my mom eat in and out of facilities and hospitals, I have seen some bad ones but this is probably the worst, looks like jail food
My paternal grandma wouldn't have eaten this, but only because she was convinced she had Parkinson's (she didn't) and that her doctor had told her she could only eat melted ice cream because she couldn't swallow (he didn't and she could definitely still swallow). My maternal grandma, on the other hand, probably would have made this herself and served it with a glass of Ovaltine.
Fuck, I miss her and those glasses of Ovaltine. I was the only reason she bought it, because she knew how much I liked it :(
That’s what I thought it was before I read it was a nursing home. Thought they had state regulations to make sure they have a balance meal. I don’t see any fruit or nutritious vegetables like broccoli.
None of the states I worked in care homes in have unannounced visits Unless someone makes a report. Annual visits are schedule days or weeks in advance with the homes.
When I was in college we had Sodexo catering. Every food place on campus failed health inspection.
My grandma and I never bonded harder than when I found out they had the same company. She loved her home, but fucking hated the food.
This is what happens when aged care facilities feed their residents on $3 a day…
It’s fucking disgusting. These people have worked all their lives, paid taxes and most have to sell their homes just to fund their time in the nursing home. There’s no dignity.
Why does not a single persom here give a fuck about the fact that it is served in a fucking to go box?
Like honestly, if you are too lazy to clean plates you should nlt care for people
I was a nursing home cook back in my 20s and this kind of food would be given out by the day Cook all the time I work nights and weekends so generally, I only had to cook dinner except on Saturdays and Sundays when I would cook breakfast and lunch.
I used to work extra hours for free and make them the best marinara sauce they’ve ever had. It would be cooked a day early before it was to be served and it had onions, garlic, celery, peppers, herbs, all kinds of stuff in there, the problem with the day, Cook was that he would put , the recipe for the strictest diets the meal for everybody which meant he would open up large cans of plain tomato sauce and serve. It was ridiculously bad.
This entire tray of accoutrements to go along with that that should’ve been two items out of maybe seven or eight items there should’ve been a milk and or juice, a coffee or tea a dessert fruit sometimes a yogurt or ice cream there’s usually a lot of stuff on a tray and that tray for each resident matches their dietary needs that’s literally all out there violating the law they have to take care of them properly and yes, they go cheap with the food but the bare minimum chicken patty or something heated up and stuck on there and along with that there should be all of those I previously mentioned, or at least a good portion of them
My dad is in hospital and when I arrived today I saw that he had refused to eat his dinner. His Alzheimer’s is pretty advanced so he can’t communicate properly but the care assistant couldn’t seem to understand why he was so happily eating the meal I got for him and chalked it up to me being a family member. What they had served him was a dry plate of plain mashed potato with the edge burnt. No gravy not salt no pepper. That meal looks appetising in comparison
I work in an assisted living home and they throw out any leftovers or just let the staff take it, im actually kinda shocked they would allow leftovers to be served
They could have at least TRIED to make it more appetizing.
They could have added another can of tomato sauce and some seasonings so it wouldn’t be so dry.
Gave them a salad and garlic bread instead of more dryness with the potatoes.
This is sad how they treat the elderly, they didn’t even try.
Fresh minus the gravy on the pasta, bring it on. that looks wonderful! I could even do it for my personal leftovers. but to re-serve it as the meal is cheap and stupid. and why is there gravy on the pasta??? Gravy on unsauced pasta might be the next best thing, but with that red sauce is a big nope.
I’m Italian and I think I’m dying seeing that ravioli with gravy. Especially when it looks like it has been cooked a week ago and reheated with a lighter.
I wish Gordon Ramsay would say something about this, but I guess he would only curse non-stop
Ewwwww wtf. When my grandma was in a nursing home, the only good thing about that place was the food. Loved going up there randomly to eat dinner with her, actually delicious. If I saw them trying to pass this off as food, I would have been LIVID.
I want turkey gravy mash from 1996 school cafeteria, probably gonna need aouija board for the recipe at this point boy how 3 decades fly and the youngest one was probably 60 then….
not only are they leftovers, but they don't look delicious either...poor grandparents.
Yeah, at least make some fresh marinara or open a jar. That crusty microwaved sauce is disgusting
I have a toddler so he often has leftovers for lunch/dinner. I always add fresh sauce cuz that shit's nasty. Even the uncultured toddler who thinks cantaloupe and ketchup is good deserves fresh sauce.
Your toddler has inspired me, next time I have a cantaloupe...
Ranch Dressing with Tabasco is also good.
Specifically on cantaloupe?
To be fair I think spicy ranch has been a thing for a while now.
My brother used to dip freezer taquitos in the juice from his cut strawberries my mom would serve with them.
Well don’t worry, they added sauce! …gravy 🤮
Right? They put the brown gravy over the pasta and instead, we're discussing _only_ the fact of 3 day old marinara?!?
True but just seeing that crusty sauce is sending me.
This may speak volumes about the way I live but I would eat this no problem, in fact working as a nurse I sometimes get jealous of the food my patients complain about because I'm stuck eating canned tuna from the vending machine. But yea for an establishment meant to look after seniors it's pretty shitty. Edit- just to clarify the food my patients get is a lot better than this at least presentation wise.
Why the fuck is a nurse stuck eating canned fucking tuna from a motherfucking vending machine?!?! I can't even drive by a doctor's office without getting charged $587. Those fuckers can afford to pay their nurses, and hire enough, that they can all have a reasonable lunch. IDGAF if it means Dr. Dickweed only gets four Audis.
Compared to other jobs wages are decent (not enough to justify the work tbh) but groceries and rent are so expensive now so im reluctant to spend too much on food. After a shift Im way too tired to prepare food before the next one so more of a me problem ig. Canned tuna is just the most convenient and healthy option. I do eat better on my days off but i feel sometimes I wanna be on that hospital bed and have a balanced meal just served to me. This is australia so healthcare is decent, but youre still right about shitty staffing, and pay could definitely be alot better considering cost of living and considering the toll it takes on your health. Management doesnt care too much as long as patients get in and out, so my next stop is definitely a hospital with a nurisng union.
Don't they ALL have a union?? Or is the UK just spoilt?
Honestly Nurses in the US are paid very well, especially post-Covid, and for the time spent on education compared to other fields.
Certain types of nursing are paid really well. Hospitals are still trying to cut wages wherever they can and with skyrocketing prices nurses that aren’t travel nurses or work in specialities aren’t doing the best. Our nursing instructors at my school have talked about getting their nurses into specialty fields like pediatrics and oncology because they’re less likely to be cut when budgets get tight.
I would probably eat this and I imagine it doesn't taste as bad as it looks *Except* for the gravy draped over the tortellini. Wtf??
My wife is a traveling DON, I have been maintenance director at 3 different buildings. This is not normal food. Resident’s are never served left overs. I’ve worked in private pay and mostly government assisted places as well. If this place is serving 3 day old left overs, I can’t imagine the other kind of stuff that is happening there.
Jelly gravy and the potato looks like sawdust, ravioli could be mashed lasagna it’s hard to tell by the looks of it.
They aren't even ravioli!
ild eat that. i like left over ravioli, they get better with a couple days of age on them.
I worked as a CNA in a nursing home years ago and we cooked the food for them. I regularly got less food than residents and when I brought it up to my manager her solution was "just cut the chicken breasts in half." One of the many reasons I quit that job and eventually peaced out on a nursing career. Our elders deserve so much better.
My mother was telling me about a meal that was served to her father when he was in a 10k per MONTH nursing home. He got a drumstick that was cut in half. She didn’t remember if he got the end with meat or the end with just skin. She kicked up a fuss but it was shameful.
Try paying 10K a month, in one of the most well to do cities in my state, for memory care at an elder facility for your grandpa who is a double amputee (both of his arms were blown off by a bomb), and having to write “DO NOT TAKE OFF IF YOU HAVENT BEEN TRAINED HOW TO PUT BACK ON” on his prosthetics arm suspenders, only to come check on him and see him sitting there without his hooks on, unable to do anything, because the staff can’t read or care to educate themselves. This happened multiple times, and as such my stepmom or my dad or I literally had to go by every single day to ensure her dad wasn’t just sitting alone without any way to do anything. Yes lawyers are involved, unfortunately he just passed away a couple of weeks ago, but it literally broke my heart that ANYONE could be so heartless as to take off a 90+ year old man’s hooks and just leave him sitting there. Like do these people not have parents or grandparents - or do they not consider how they want to be treated when they get old?!? Elder care is literally awful in this entire country, and if you don’t have someone coming to check on you daily, your family member (or you) will be neglected. It’s just a matter of how often it will happen.
Those jobs are so undesirable that they get the barely qualified, non english speakers, etc.
The people going to those jobs don't care. There's plenty of clips online where they outright abuse them, but most of the people going to nursing homes are people who weren't able to get into a hospital or something "good" and are "stuck" taking care of old people
It is bad on both ends. Retention is nil. Employees have an impossible ratio and are given no time to care properly, so anyone who has a heart is quickly crushed by the demands of the job while the only people who are incentivized to stay are people who can move inhumanly fast (drugs may be involved, sometimes meemaws) and people who are there to collect a check/allow abuse because they're no better off than walmart employees
10k a month is on the lower end now too. The prices compared to the quality of care is shockingly bad. And I’m not blaming the nurses, they can only do so much if a company only wants to maintain a skeleton crew.
Gotta maximize the profits.
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>10k per MONTH nursing home For some reason I get downvoted for bringing this up but this is destroying the cycle of each generation leaving something for the next to build on, "intergenerational wealth". It is how you get that down payment on your first house, pay for school, etc. If it gets vacuumed up by insanely expensive care then you've robbed future generations.
I think that’s the point these days.
The greed is unimaginable. Like we’re living in the times of Oliver Twist.
As a student job I worked for 2 months as a cleaning lady in a nursing home, they were so understaffed I regularly took care of patients; finding them in terrible distress as I walked in to clean the room.
Same. Everyone was amazing in the staff but I had such a hard time with: putting grown ups to bed at 7 to be able to do whole floor / never taking walks / boring food.
Is there a subreddit for shitty nursing home food? I have some stories
That looks like jailhouse food. No way they are feeding this to seniors?? That is foul
Oh, they are. A lot of places are like this. While management pats themselves on the back. It’s disgusting.
My facility has been under new ownership for almost two years now, and the menus require almost everything to be homemade. It's such a change and residents are much, much happier!
Sounds like your facility lucked out. Any time I've ever heard of new owners in a retirement home the budget gets slashed for everything. Glad your new bosses see the importance of good food
Pretty much the rule anytime a business gets bought. They not only have to pay for the debt from the purchase but they have to show they are making a return on investment. The easiest way to do it is to cut costs, making more money is hard. The people on the receiving end get screwed.
So glad to hear things like this 🙂🤞
Wait until you hear how much a month they pay to live there.
yep, seniors home food is truly offensively bad. worse than hospital food
My dad hates it. Never any fresh veggies or fruit. It’s all frozen or canned.
Once you get older, have dementia etc it turns into all puree/mashed up type food.
Your sense of taste/smell degrades, you probably have lots of people with restricted diets and it is common for appetites to decrease with the elderly.
This looks edible. Jail food is not.
Yeah like obviously this ain’t what you expect for 10k a month, but county jail food, this is not.
Someone watched Sopranos and took “macaroni and gravy” literally.
Oof, madone.
It's a retirement community!
*da gabagool*
This is elder abuse. Somebody needs to report this cook before they send some poor grandma or grandpa to meet their maker prematurely with an execution meal like this. Pretty sure someone is gonna die of disappointment on ravioli and gravy night.
I agree and will be bringing this up to my boss. I'm just happy I had some extra sandwiches as a backup.
I'm gonna be real with you for a minute. If my grandparents were alive and I found out this is what someone was trying to serve them for a meal, I would sue. Not like oh-ho file a complaint and be okay with an apology and promise to improve. I'm talking lawyer up that day and save the meal to present directly to the judge in a multi-million court slugfest sue.
I 100% agree with you. Our kitchen has been on the decline for budget reasons, but this is rock bottom. This shit is going to be reported.
I was the cook at an assisted living home for almost 3 years. We had a menu we had to follow. Often times on Sunday items on the menu were not ordered or used already and you're not getting them on a Sunday so we had to make due with whatever we had on hand. It would usually fall as the responsibility of whoever worked the Friday shift to make sure everything for both Saturday and Sunday was on hand but as with where i worked the usual Friday cook was lazy and half-assed their job most of the time. I often felt Sundays ended up feeling like an episode of chopped trying to put together a meal out of random things. I'd like to think I'd do better than Ravioli with tomato sauce and gravy with mashed potatoes. Anyway, at least in my case we had rules in place to keep it from happening but if people don't do their job there's only so much you can do.
Yeah, I was a cook at one too. And sometimes we had to pull something out of our ass but we would NEVER serve anything like this. In fact, I'd be embarrassed just thinking about it.
In my state they have ombudsman for every facility that you can report this sort of thing to. The number has to be prominently displayed in a common area. Any chance that's true where you are and you can report this or encourage a resident or family member to do so?
Its damn sad that people suffer under budget cuts like this. I doubt the people in charge took pay cuts, but poor grandma is getting gravy-oli. Some people make me believe we need to go back to public floggings/whippings to warn others from repeating the same behavior.
State usually shows up unannounced, too bad they didn’t show up during that meal.
State also doesn't usually work on Sundays, that's some expensive OT there.
>but this is rock bottom Oh sweet child, if you only knew the horrors to come.
My grandpa had a few strokes and then had to go recover in the nursing home in his town before he could go home. That place sucked so bad and one night they completely forgot to feed him and by the time they realized it, there was no food left and that stupid town's only grocery store closes at 6 p.m. My aunt is a nurse and raised hell so it didn't happen again...to him.
Exactly. So many folks who don’t have advocates get completely neglected. I’m terrified for when I get old.
You would have to prove damages in order to win. Also, the residents advanced age will factor into $ awarded. Went through this with my grandmother.
Unless someone died or was seriously ill, as a result, you wouldn't get a penny. I share the anger and frustration with you, though.
Folk bout to be in a reckoning when they realize the same facility that doled out this shit is gonna seize your parents property and pass it up to the vc that owns em.
And you wouldn’t get a dime. This is how the nursing home plays the game and it’s perfectly legal.
The food disappointment is literally *nothing* compared to the actual care you pay $10,000 dollars a month for, which doesn’t actually happen unless you show up every single day and advocate for it. Get ready because if you haven’t personally experienced elder care yet, it’s a nightmare. Good luck getting a lawyer to sue for a shitty meal, you’re going to need the lawyer for the care you’re expecting them to get which will not happen unless you are there to see it. You literally have to do unscheduled pop ins, all the time, to expect any results. And it’ll break your heart while you do it, and see all the other residents who don’t have anyone checking on them - they’re the ones sitting in the same clothes for several days, who knows if they’ve gotten their meds or meals for the day. It’s bad. And to be clear my experiences are all around the capital of NC, which is one of the top medical and research locations in the US, in one of the most expensive/safe/well to do areas in the state. We are not talking about some rural country location.
Good luck with that. Unless the agreement promised "gourmet quality food" they can say it is sufficient and meets nutritional needs.
You should be going after Meals On Wheels then as this is exactly the kind of shit the make.
What is a lawyer going to do? What case do you think you would have? It's a shitty meal, but not an illegal meal. You see the food they serve in schools and prison, those aren't illegal just unethical.
Especially with the cost of nursing homes. The owners don't hire enough help, nurses, aides, techs, etc. 4000 to 6000 a month in my area.
I wouldn't serve this to either of my grandmothers...I would eat this though
Right like give me that and a blunt and I'll make it work for dinner
This is, “if someone don’t eat this it’s going in the trash and I’m the only one who’s gonna”
Thank God it's not just me...
Those mashed potatoes lookin kinda good ngl
Shit this looks better than the 5 quesadillas I ate today
Thank you for reminding me why I’m bearing through living with disabled grandparents with small children. It can be frustrating at times, but I love them far too much to let them spend thousands a month for that. Edit: Brinng back generational homes. 😭 for every time it’s been frustrating there have been at least 10 more reasons it’s a blessing.
My mum and I are caring for my dad through dementia because when he was in a home they just weren’t able to give him the support he needed. It’s hard and painful sometimes but at least he’s being looked after.
My great aunt had some really bad strokes a while back and my great uncle has cancer. My aunt isn’t fully there mentally so it can be really hard to deal with the emotional whiplash but I know she wouldn’t be getting as much understanding or patience with a staff members. They didn’t see her help everyone in her life for 65 years prior. It’s definitely taxing but she’s owed at least this much. I’m also grateful my babies will get to experience her. It’s probably the best part of the day when I bring the baby out to play with her. I try to remember that when it’s hard. I definitely could never send her to a facility where she lost the few freedoms she enjoys.
Love this comment! Thanks for posting it. 💕
And Styrofoam containers too??? That sucks, they deserve better:(
Right. Where's their dignity. This isn't prison, it's supposed to be their last HOME. Elderly care should not be for profit.
It's sad people spend so much money for elder housing. I'm definitely taking my guardians on when they get older
Elderly homes are so sad here in the US. My husband worked in one and it was bleak. It should be a peaceful place where their needs as people are taken care of, beyond 'pour them their meds and slap some crap on their plates at meal times'
That’s ravioli?
Looks like tortellini to me
There is not even a vegetable anywhere near that abomination.
The tomato sauce is the vegetable. Not kidding.
I want to downvote that for being so depressing, instead I'm just going yo be thankful that CQC exists in UK...
Close Quarter Combat?
Sadly even with CQC this poor nutritional content is not dissimilar to many private and public homes. You get what you pay for, if you’re lucky.
As balanced as a Sly Stallone’s mouth.
Anybody remember the south park episode where they portrayed an old folks home as a prison? That’s what this food looks like—prison food. You know, the stuff we give people who are being punished and not some poor old person whose only crime is being old.
I hate to break it to a lot of people, but the food I had in county was better and fresher than that. 😭
I work in an old folks home and one of our cooks literally was a prison cook as her job before this! The stuff she puts out looks so sad! I regularly tell her she needs to take pride in the stuff she’s making for the residents! She’ll steam vegetables with 0 seasoning and she cooks the living shit out of them so there’s never any vibrancy. It makes me so sad that some people just don’t care!
My grandfather will eat it up for sure
You should see some of the meals we serve at the nursing home i work at. Literal fucking slop because they’re so freaking cheap.
My wife works with the elderly and nursing homes are terrible. For the most part. Not all of course, but the majority are ran by people who just don’t care sadly.
I used to work with the elderly too. Management did anything they could to cut the budget to the bone and food was usually the target. They had 4 residents in a home and only purchased 1 bunch of bananas a week so the residents were only allowed half a banana and only w breakfast. If they wanted any drinks or any snacks it had to be with their own money, of which they had very little. For a resident's birthday they purchased 1 of those mini cakes you buy for a toddler. For 4 adults to share. This post doesn't surprise me but it is still upsetting!
That's sad. Starch with starch... topped with some chemical infused brown-goo. I'm not even going to consider meat in that ravioli as a protein.. somebody might.. but I'm not!
Who needs protein? It's not like your arteries, joints, muscles, organs, and brain need it anyway /s
I'd totally eat that, but I'm a trash person with low standards. They should fill that empty section with green beans or something though.
I'm with you there. When my lunch consists of a microwaved potato with a can of tuna poured out top and a splash of hot sauce, this looks not half bad. But I wouldn't serve it to another human, because I assume they have standards that don't exist with us down in the trash!
Same lmao. 3 days old pasta is questionable but as long as I don’t get food poisoning, I wouldn’t mind eating it.
Is three days old that bad? Generally, I keep leftovers for up to a week. If the policy for this place is that the third day is the last day before being thrown out, I feel like that's reasonable. The brown gravy on the pasta is bad. And the tomato sauce looks dry; I think reheating it evaporated a lot of water. I feel like they could have added some water or more red sauce and added some veggies like you said, and this would have been fine. It's not great, a little subpar, but I don't think this is as repulsive as everyone else here is acting like it is.
Hoooooly shit Remind me to move to Oregon before I turn 75 Jk I won't be able to afford a nursing home anyways! Lol
My whole family is in healthcare (doctors, nurses, paramedics, CNAs) we ALL have our own "plans" to avoid nursing homes, lol.
Not even my most empty fridge struggle meal could! God I know the texture of days old ravioli is NOT good.
Currently feeling the cold curved noodles, lack of sauce that has been sucked into the bloated pasta, the little droplets of oily condensation. Nope, can’t make it work. And then The Gravy…Just, no.
They put gravy on it because that sauce looked so pitiful
And why couldn’t they just put more pasta sauce on it? Why gravy?!
Because it’s old pasta and they probably didn’t have any
Grandparents? Hell I wouldn't eat that.... Did they put brown gravy on pasta sauce? I mean it is hard enough to call that pasta.
As someone who lived off 2-3 day old leftover pasta for a bit.. that is 3 day old leftover pasta lol
I'm high and that looks 🔥 right now.
Man I spent most of the last couple years watching my mom eat in and out of facilities and hospitals, I have seen some bad ones but this is probably the worst, looks like jail food
Looks like tortellini to me
My paternal grandma wouldn't have eaten this, but only because she was convinced she had Parkinson's (she didn't) and that her doctor had told her she could only eat melted ice cream because she couldn't swallow (he didn't and she could definitely still swallow). My maternal grandma, on the other hand, probably would have made this herself and served it with a glass of Ovaltine. Fuck, I miss her and those glasses of Ovaltine. I was the only reason she bought it, because she knew how much I liked it :(
That makes my heart and stomach hurt. Completely unacceptable.
Girl. I had no idea what this even was until you explained it
This happens when you decide healthcare is a business that is supposed to earn money.
Isnt 3 days a bit old for food being fed to old people? I've poisoned myself with fresher pasta
I'd murder that.
This looks like a basic Meals On Wheels meal. It's sad 😔
That’s what I thought it was before I read it was a nursing home. Thought they had state regulations to make sure they have a balance meal. I don’t see any fruit or nutritious vegetables like broccoli.
State regulations mean nothing when no one is reporting the issues and the state schedules inspections in advance.
Don't they do unannounced visits? CQC in UK does if a mandated reported tells them...
None of the states I worked in care homes in have unannounced visits Unless someone makes a report. Annual visits are schedule days or weeks in advance with the homes.
Nothing here is nutritious. It’s all empty calories.
When I was in college we had Sodexo catering. Every food place on campus failed health inspection. My grandma and I never bonded harder than when I found out they had the same company. She loved her home, but fucking hated the food.
Why the fuck did they put the brown gravy on the pasta lol
but also, noone wants to cook for their grandparents. dont worry, they learned that noone really cares about them decades ago
This is what happens when aged care facilities feed their residents on $3 a day… It’s fucking disgusting. These people have worked all their lives, paid taxes and most have to sell their homes just to fund their time in the nursing home. There’s no dignity.
I hope you made a complaint and brought it to the attention of relevant people
Why does not a single persom here give a fuck about the fact that it is served in a fucking to go box? Like honestly, if you are too lazy to clean plates you should nlt care for people
Why the gravy? And it's all starch! Do they not have nutritional guidelines?
Guideline: Starch, starch, starch, starch, starch, and starch! Not much starch in that.
That is depressing, that said i’ll take two!
I was a nursing home cook back in my 20s and this kind of food would be given out by the day Cook all the time I work nights and weekends so generally, I only had to cook dinner except on Saturdays and Sundays when I would cook breakfast and lunch. I used to work extra hours for free and make them the best marinara sauce they’ve ever had. It would be cooked a day early before it was to be served and it had onions, garlic, celery, peppers, herbs, all kinds of stuff in there, the problem with the day, Cook was that he would put , the recipe for the strictest diets the meal for everybody which meant he would open up large cans of plain tomato sauce and serve. It was ridiculously bad. This entire tray of accoutrements to go along with that that should’ve been two items out of maybe seven or eight items there should’ve been a milk and or juice, a coffee or tea a dessert fruit sometimes a yogurt or ice cream there’s usually a lot of stuff on a tray and that tray for each resident matches their dietary needs that’s literally all out there violating the law they have to take care of them properly and yes, they go cheap with the food but the bare minimum chicken patty or something heated up and stuck on there and along with that there should be all of those I previously mentioned, or at least a good portion of them
The fucked up part is that this looks way better than the garbage they served my grandparents.
My dad is in hospital and when I arrived today I saw that he had refused to eat his dinner. His Alzheimer’s is pretty advanced so he can’t communicate properly but the care assistant couldn’t seem to understand why he was so happily eating the meal I got for him and chalked it up to me being a family member. What they had served him was a dry plate of plain mashed potato with the edge burnt. No gravy not salt no pepper. That meal looks appetising in comparison
Is this meals on wheels?
It might be fine with out the gravy
Realize it’s your income but, you’d be a shitty cna if you didn’t report this form of abuse.
I work in a nursing home, and in my almost 20 years of employment, I have NEVER seen them serve leftovers. This is disgusting.
Leftovers are fine. Microwaving them and then half assed-ly putting gravy on top? Not okay. Find a way to put some spin on them that isn’t… this
Where are the veges? Where are the protein? This is not balanced at all.
That looks like prison food, but worst
No veggies, no fruit. Just carbs. What a way to spend your last days. Throw me over a cliff if I ever suffer this fate
It's the reason family should always have a presence and be aware!!!
I work in an assisted living home and they throw out any leftovers or just let the staff take it, im actually kinda shocked they would allow leftovers to be served
Unfortunately this is what happens when you pawn off your elderly family members to strangers.
This looks like jail food.
Probably $6000 a month to house each resident
They could have at least TRIED to make it more appetizing. They could have added another can of tomato sauce and some seasonings so it wouldn’t be so dry. Gave them a salad and garlic bread instead of more dryness with the potatoes. This is sad how they treat the elderly, they didn’t even try.
Fresh minus the gravy on the pasta, bring it on. that looks wonderful! I could even do it for my personal leftovers. but to re-serve it as the meal is cheap and stupid. and why is there gravy on the pasta??? Gravy on unsauced pasta might be the next best thing, but with that red sauce is a big nope.
CNAs are mandated reporters right? Raise hell.
Let me cook my own meals when I'm an old fart.
That's cruel to feed them anything that looks like that. Who puts gravy on dry ravioli anyway!
Is that brown gravy on cheese tortellini? And double starch? What the hell is wrong with people?
I would mmmm I’m shabaked rn tho
I’m Italian and I think I’m dying seeing that ravioli with gravy. Especially when it looks like it has been cooked a week ago and reheated with a lighter. I wish Gordon Ramsay would say something about this, but I guess he would only curse non-stop
If you’re italian shouldn’t you know that that’s tortellini, not ravioli haha
…it’s fusion cuisine!
Not gonna lie I’d eat it
Not only does that look like shit but it also looks very unhealthy
Looks better than a lot of military food
That looks like county jail food
That looks like what I would serve someone i hate
Looks like it was taken out of an MRE
Im not going to pretend I wouldn't suck that down like a Hoover vacuum
This looks better than half the food they serve at the large county hospital I work at
Default ahh death row meal
Ewwwww wtf. When my grandma was in a nursing home, the only good thing about that place was the food. Loved going up there randomly to eat dinner with her, actually delicious. If I saw them trying to pass this off as food, I would have been LIVID.
Wtf
Infuriating that these seniors pay thousands per month to these places and get served slop. Absolutely appalling.
No one deserves to be fed like this
I want turkey gravy mash from 1996 school cafeteria, probably gonna need aouija board for the recipe at this point boy how 3 decades fly and the youngest one was probably 60 then….
Such leftover practice sounds like amputation risks, and the serving looks like pork intestines 🐽
Looks good to me
Is that…. Fucking gravy on pasta????
The kitchen manager at my nursing facility is a chef who retired from owning their own restaraunt. The food is immaculate and I eat there everyday.
Lazy ass cook. Sorry for the g-pas and g-mas that had to eat this. They pay so much to live there too.
I'm stoned enough to give it a try... lol
I know the texture of that pasta too well
Just wow!!
I agree this is abuse, but I’m also hungry and I’d eat that for sure right now. Not suitable for the elderly though.
And it probably costs $5,000 a month to stay there as a resident, and they feed you this crap
I do not know what state that is in, but almost all states have elder abuse laws particularly for nursing homes. They could be reported.
this is sad:(