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With This Recipe Book in Your Arsenal of Elder Care Tools, You
Create Healthy Meals for Your Elder, Save You Hours and Hours of Time,
and Save You Hundreds of Dollars  ... Let Me Show You How...

As caregivers of elderly we aim to have the healthiest parents that
we can have.  But in this fast food state of mind, which our society
has put upon us, the quality of the foods we feed our elderly is
suffering from the availability of the fast food restaurants and the
amount of time that it takes to prepare a good healthy meal.  It
seems that more and more people are dependent on eating out, whether
it be driving through a fast food restaurant, ordering pizza, Chinese
delivery, or going out to a sit down restaurant.  When it comes to
feeding our elderly parents we can fall into this same downward spiral
of not having the time to cook a healthy nutritious meal and just
feeding them what is easy.  As a caregiver you are pulled in so many
directions that you don’t have the time every day to think of what
you can cook for your elder.

I Fell into the Fast Food Trap Have You?

I myself have fallen into the fast food trap with my parents. When
my parents first moved to Texas I decided that frozen food was the way
to go.  I would look at all the frozen dinners and look at the sodium
content and decide what items they could eat.  I picked out the
dinners by the amount of sodium per serving and see what was
appropriate for them to have on a daily basis.  The ladies taking
care of my parents could easily heat up the frozen dinners for lunch
and dinner without too many issues.  Breakfast was ok for them using
egg substitutes and making cereal/toast etc. One day I happened to
look at the sodium content in the cereal, pancakes, waffles, biscuits,
and flavored oatmeal, I was shocked and appalled at the sodium
content.  I never thought about sodium in frozen waffles and
pancakes.   One serving of those frozen waffles the sodium content
is 440mg!

 

2035MG OF SODIUM IN ONE MEAL!

Can You See The Body Swell?

The biggest motivator for me was one day I came home and saw that my
staff fed Mom and Dad the entire family sized lasagna for one
meal!!!  It was meant to be at least 2 or 3 meals for each of them. 
Both of my parents would eat all of the food that you put on the
plate, they grew up in the Great Depression and they didn’t waste
food.  The amount of sodium they got that one meal, 2035mg, was
enough for them for a week! 

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 package yields (595 grams)
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Amount Per Serving

Calories: 767
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% Daily Value*
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Total Fat 30g

45%

Saturated Fat 13g

65%

Cholesterol 113mg

37%

Sodium 2035mg

84%

Total Carboydrates 73g

24%

Dietary Fiber 9g

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Sugars 0g

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Protein 52g

103%

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Vitamin A

0%

 

Vitamin C

0%

Iron

0%

 

Calcium

63%

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*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily
values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs

I really felt bad that I was the one who was having the staff feed
them the frozen food and just because I wanted it to be easy for me
and not take too much of my time. I knew I had to come up with a way
to feed them a nutritious healthy meal that fit within the dietary
restraints and that was easy for our staff to prepare, and most
important I had to make it so I could do it without it taking up too
much of my time. I wanted to be a good daughter who was doing the best
she could for her parents not a daughter who was taking the fast
unhealthy easy way out.

 

 

THE “ELDERLY COOKBOOK” TAKES SHAPE

The Big Plan Find an Elderly Cookbook –
a.k.a. Wasting Time and Gas

The light bulb went off and I had an idea! I wasn’t sure how my
idea would work but I started with breakfast.  I got rid of all the
frozen breakfast items and began to cook my own “frozen food” for
them. I started searching all my cookbooks for the type of recipes
that I needed to cook for my parents.  No luck.  Most cookbooks are
targeted to one type of diet restriction, such as a Diabetic cookbook
or low sodium.  I could not find one cookbook that had all the things
I needed and no one had a cookbook that catered to feeding the
elderly. I spent at least a month of my time trying to find a cookbook
over the internet and driving around to book stores.  At the
bookstores I would grab a stack of cookbooks and thumb through and
scour the recipes.  I wasted so much of my time and my gas.

Since I couldn’t find a cookbook I turned to looking for specific
recipes instead of an entire cookbook.  I spent hours and hours
combing the internet for recipes.  I would assess each of them for
fat, sugar and sodium content and then either move on to the next
website or print them out and put them in a stack labeled “maybe -
with some modification.”   By the way, there never was a total
“yes” recipe that fit my criteria.  Ninety-nine percent of the
recipes I found were “no’s.”  After I got a stack of potential
recipes, I would then start to delete and add items to basic recipe. 
For example, if it said to use canned green beans; I would substitute
fresh or fresh frozen.  If the recipe called for salt, automatically
that got deleted and I would find a substitute herb to replace the
salt.  I would go through each recipe with a fine-toothed comb and
come up with a meal.  The next step would be to cook up a sample
dinner for myself and my husband.  He is my taste tester.  If the
recipe passed Jerry’s taste test, it would go on the list of foods I
could feed Mom and Dad.  When I found 4 or 5 good recipes, I would
then make up huge batches of the food, package them into one meal
portions, provide cooking directions, and freeze them for our staff.

This “Elderly Cookbook” is the Easy Solution to Your Meal
Preparation Dilemma. For Only $7

You can spend the many hours scouring the internet looking for
recipes; spend the time examining the recipes for the fat, sodium and
sugar content; spend the money and time to test the recipes; and you
can spend the time away from your family or you can simply order this
cookbook for just $7.00.

 

I did all the work for you.  I did the research, the recipe
substitutions, the testing and I put all these recipes into a cookbook
entitled Healthy Recipes for the Elderly.  I have made meal
preparation easy for you.

These Quick and Easy Recipes are:

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Low Fat
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Low Sodium
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Low Sugar or No Sugar
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Great Tasting
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High in Flavor
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Non-Spicy
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Designed for an elderly persons appitite

Recipes Include Soups, Casseroles,
And Main Dishes Made Of:

* Beef
* Chicken
* Pork
* Seafood
* Turkey
* Pasta

These recipes are made using everyday items that are found in your
typical grocery store.  No searching for odd ingredients and having
to go out of your way to a specialty shop.  How easy is that?

All Recipes Save You Money Because They Can Be:

* Doubled, tripled or made in any quantity
* Frozen - including the soups
* Made into individual serving dinners

Here's A Sneak Peek At Some Easy
Dinner Recipes Inside the Cookbook!

HAM AND POTATO CASSEROLE

(Serves 6) 

2 lbs. frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
1 can low sodium cream of chicken soup
 ½ cup melted butter
16 oz. no-fat sour cream
2 c. cubed ham, de-salted
½ tsp. pepper
1 ½ c. shredded Cheddar cheese
¼ c. butter, melted

To de-salt the ham, place ham into a pot containing enough water to
cover the ham.  Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes.  Strain
water out of pot and add new water to cover the ham.  Bring to a boil
and simmer for 15 minutes.  Strain water out of pot.  The ham now
has much less salt. 

Combine all casserole ingredients and mix well. Place in casserole
dish. Combine topping ingredients; sprinkle on casserole. Bake at 350
degrees for 1 hour.

CHIKEN NOODLE CASSEROLE
(Serves 6) 

8 oz. Wide Egg Noodles, uncooked or “no yokes”
1/2 cup non-fat sour cream
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
2 tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup egg substitute
2 tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 1/2 cups chopped broccoli, blanched and drained
1 1/2 cups skinless, boneless chicken breast, cooked

Topping

2 tbsp. bread crumbs

2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese

1 tablespoon Italian Herb Seasoning

Prepare egg noodles according to package directions; drain. Whisk
the sour cream, chicken broth, 2 tablespoons of the Parmesan cheese,
eggs and mustard in a bowl until blended. Add noodles, broccoli and
chicken and toss well. Transfer the mixture to a 9 x 12-inch baking
dish.

Cooking Food For Your Elder Can Be Easy!

I am sure you have whipped up a batch of pancakes or waffles for
your family’s breakfast.  Well, what if you just doubled the batch
and froze the extra?  That’s not hard to do.  It takes just a few
minutes extra to grill the pancakes or waffles and you have a healthy
breakfast for your Mom or Dad for a week!  You can go the unhealthy
way and go to the store and pick up a package of frozen waffles. 
Have you ever looked at the nutritional information on the side of the
box?  It doesn’t look too bad at first glance, but if you analyze
the sodium content and compare it to the recommend allowance for older
adults, two breakfast waffles are 36% of the sodium an elderly person
needs for a whole day!

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 2 waffles / 70g

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Amount per Serving

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Calories 190

Calories from Fat 63

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% Daily Value *

Total Fat 7g

11%

    Saturated Fat  1.5g

8%

Cholesterol 20mg

7%

Sodium 440mg

18%

Total Carbohydrate 29g

10%

    Dietary Fiber  2g

8%

    Sugars  2g

 

Protein 5g

10%

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Vitamin A

20%

Vitamin C

0%

Calcium

10%

Iron

 

Here is the Food and Nutrition Board and the Institute of
Medicine’s recommendations from a book published by the National
Academy Press  (2004) entitled Dietary Reference Intakes for Water,
Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate (The Dietary Reference
Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be
used for planning and assessing diets for healthy people.

 

            “The AI {Adequate Intakes} for sodium for
older adults and the elderly is somewhat less, based on lower energy
intakes, and is set at 1.3 g (55 mmol)/day for men and women 50
through 70 years of age, and at 1.2 g (50 mmol)/day for those 71 years
of age and older.”

Order Now and You Will Also Receive FREE 
A How to Guide - Preparing Meals for the Elderly

When you purchase Healthy Recipes for the Elderly you will gain
access to Preparing Meals for the Elderly.  This e-book How-To guide
will teach you how to make meals for your elderly and package them so
they can be frozen and cooked by the elder or a staff member.  This
must have companion e-book contains chapters on:

How to create your shopping list

Recipes for Breakfast

Tool Selection

Information on soft or mechanical diets

Teaches you how to cut and chop your foods for the elderly

Shows the different types of storage choices

How to wrap and package “TV dinners”

Many helpful hints

Plus much more!

This e-book is a great partner to your Healthy Recipes for the
Elderly Cookbook.  The cookbook only gives you recipe info but you
also need the “know how” and it is yours absolutely free with your
cookbook purchase

Don’t Wait Any Longer Struggling
On What To Cook For Your Elder

With this downloadable .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) copy of the Healthy
Recipes for the Elderly Cookbook you will:

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SAVE TIME. No need to search recipe books looking for a recipe that
fits your dietary requirements. I did the work for you! * SAVE
MONEY. Save huge amounts of money by cooking for your elder at home!

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EASILY PRINT RECIPES. Individual recipes are setup on their own page
to allow you to print just the recipe you want at any time. No need
to waste a tree printing all the 130 recipes at once, print only the
ones you need.
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MAKE THEIR DOCTOR HAPPY. They are following the dietary
restrictions placed on them and your parent or grandparent will love
the food.

You Have Nothing To Loose!

I'm so confident that Healthy Recipes for the Elderly Cookbook will
satisfy even the toughest food critics that I'm offering a full 60 day
money back guarantee! Try the cookbooks for two months and cook as
many of the dishes as you like. If you are not satisfied, simply ask
us for a full refund, no questions asked.

 

 

If you have any questions feel free to  Mary Davis at .

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