My Services
My Services
At Gourmet Puree, I provide consulting on the transformation of the home kitchen to the dysphagia kitchen, individual or facility coaching, and classes for support groups. These are for persons with swallow disorders, caregivers, healthcare providers and facility chefs. My goal is to make meal times safe, easy, delicious, nutritious and enjoyable.
My Services
These classes provide a roadmap to transforming the home kitchen to a dysphagia kitchen. The object of my work is to prevent caregiver burnout. The video walks you through The System. They take away the guesswork. With meals in the freezer, a backup caregiver can reheat and serve a meal. The primary caregiver gets a night off.
Who is the audience for the classes?
My book was originally created for the home healthcare environment, but I soon realized that the book was being used in a variety of clinical environments.
My books have been used in the libraries of swallow support and memory support clinics, In the websites for caregivers for cancer treatment centers, for any clinical specialty where dysphagia is part of treatment or healing, such as oral surgery, bariatric surgery. ear nose and throat and gastroenterology. My books are also used by nursing agencies for the training of professional caregivers. They are used in hospice care and palliative care.
I do this work in my mother's memory, that what I created for her may be of benefit to others.
What I Offer
How to Transform Your Kitchen to a Dysphagia Kitchen
Step by step instructions in The System, including the Menu, Tools for the Kitchen, the Pantry, Implementing IDDSI, Food Storage and Labelling, the White Board for Keeping Track of What's on Hand. With handouts and a slide show.
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Batch Cooking: Cook Once and Eat 5 Times
How to Mix and Match Meals. Batch Cooking, Cook Once and Eat Five Times. How to Create Meals for individual appetite and mood, by making five servings of protein, five of carbohydrates, and a variety of vegetables. How to stock the freezer to save space.
With discussion of the best techniques for the dysphagia kitchen. With Handouts and illustrations.
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The No Bake Cake
For chefs in healthcare facilities, how to make a cake without making a cake, using a surprise kitchen appliance. May be upscaled for any number of residents. Uses recipes from Cooking for Dysphagia. May also be used at home. With Handouts for Healthy Pizzelle and The No Bake Cake Class.
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To Order
My colleague, a former manager of long-term care at a major insurance company in Florida, told me that in her visits to healthcare facilities all over the state, the greatest complaint that she heard from the Motel 6 level of facility to the Ritz-Carlton level was of boring tasteless food. My state senator thanked me for bringing her attention to the problem of nutrition for the elderly, in her role as a member of the Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs. My mission has been to educate family and professional caregivers and chefs in healthcare facilities. This is a quality of life issue. Nothing is more fundamental than food for improving quality of life and overall health. This is completely under the control of the individual. Food is medicine.
Make Mealtime Safer and Easier
Let’s work together to transform your kitchen, your meal planning, and your approach to care.