Summer menu launches in NSW

A taste of summer

Hall & Prior aged care homes in NSW are celebrating the arrival of summertime with a brand new menu for residents to enjoy. By Fiona McHugh, Director of Nutrition and Hydration, NSW.

We are excited to welcome back some gorgeous seasonal fruits and vegetables as well as some zesty, exciting flavours to our summer dining table experiences. Our summer menu is currently rolling out in homes after the completion of our ‘Food Focus Activities’ which took place in early November. These activities gave us the unique opportunity to highlight the summer menu and place a focus on educating our residents on menu design and nutrition priorities, including important items such as dairy foods and hydration.

Organised by the lifestyle team and dietitians, activities included milkshake and smoothie making and jelly cube tastings, as well as other refreshing beverages. Our residents were asked to taste test and decide if they would like any of these to be added to the summer menu.

We are excited to reveal that their choices have led to the development of each home’s final menu which includes honey mustard chicken, BBQ glazed pork, prawn, mango and avocado summer pasta salad, braised lamb chops, herb and parmesan-crusted barramundi, seasonal fruit smoothies and tasty pastas.

For those residents who have favourite dishes on the old menu, don’t worry. Classics like roast dinners, fish and chips and chocolate ripple cake are still available.

Food is such a big part of every day happiness. It’s why we work so hard in consultation with our residents and families to talk about your loved ones’ diets and what they most love to eat. It’s all done to ensure we put a smile on the plate at every meal.

Our menus are developed by our chefs and dietitians and we listen very closely to the important feedback our residents provide on a daily basis, through our food focus activities, food and mealtime experience meetings as well as through our regular food satisfaction surveys.

We will also be asking for feedback on our new menu items after residents have had the chance to enjoy the new meal selections.

TASTE TESTERS The new summer menu options in NSW’s Hall & Prior homes have been given the thumbs up.

Please feel free to chat to any of our team should you have something to share on your dining experience.