Elderly relatives and food

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>>8324607
Pic is tomorrows lunch

Half a pork pie cut in half and covered in hot sauce, a scotch egg, a sausage roll, several pieces of red onion (chopped with a butter knife because she doesn't use anything else), a frozen raw pollock fillet on a bed of cheese.

What recipes can I teach her?

>>8324616
Nigga if she thinks this sort of thing is edible she's definetly too far gone to learn cooking.

>>8324607
PUT HER IN A HOME OP

>>8324607
Aww OP that's sad. You are a good person to try sparing her feelings.

Things I'd consider:

Tell her you appreciate what she does, but would like to pack your own lunch or are going to eat out with coworkers or something.

- or -

Make a very simple, legible list of what you would like in a lunch bag. If some of what she packed is fine with you (sausage roll, whatever), include those things. Maybe simple one-piece fruits and veggies, a banana, an apple, a carrot.

- or -

Keep doing what you're doing. It is so hard to get old, and feel like you're just a burden on people. She wants to do something nice for you. Letting her continue is a kindness, although I understand the cost of the waste may be frustrating or non-trivial.

>I would teach her to make couscous with a kettle but she might burn herself.

This has some of the same risk, but you could also teach her to microwave a cup of water, poured over couscous, to cook it. OR if you'd like couscous dishes regularly, cook up a couple cups during the weekend, add some oil so it doesn't clump, and she can start a couscous dish using your precooked supply.

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>>8324616
>raw frozen pollock
Fucking tie her to a tree and end her already, holy shit.

>>8324616
Holy shit

I hope this thread stays alive so you can post another pic tomorrow

>>8324616
>frozen raw pollock
Fucking hell

>>8324616
The sad thing about Dementia is that they can't learn what they forgot.

Dementia is terrible, you will frustrate yourself trying to teach someone with dementia. If you want to eat a better lunch, and if your daily schedule allows, you could make it with her. So you could have her chop something for you, while you do most of it. It's a tough situation, and it sucks to watch someone break down with dementia.