After 11 days post-stroke auntycare, she’s stabilized enough (now in rehab) that I can take a day off. Why is institutional food STILL so terrible in so many places? Jerky-dry meat, cooked-to-mush veg. Unidentifiable gloop. We’ve cooked for 100s together. Feel like we need to take over kitchen. - ThreadSky

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rebeccaterk.bsky.social • 33 days ago

After 11 days post-stroke auntycare, she’s stabilized enough (now in rehab) that I can take a day off.

Why is institutional food STILL so terrible in so many places? Jerky-dry meat, cooked-to-mush veg. Unidentifiable gloop.

We’ve cooked for 100s together. Feel like we need to take over kitchen.

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rebeccaterk.bsky.social•33 days ago

They brought her lunch while she was eating mine: brown rice, mild harissa chickpeas, yogurt. Her tray had a white glob they told us was cheese tortellini w/Alfredo. Not even a sprinkle of paprika. Just congealed white glob.

rebeccaterk.bsky.social•33 days ago

A subscriber to my CSA who was in assisted living once told me that many residents were former farm wives & she thought they literally did not care what they ate so long as they didn’t have to cook or do dishes one more day of their lives.
They were free of drudgery at last.

rebeccaterk.bsky.social•33 days ago

That said, I also helped source fresh veg prep equipment for a rural care center in Western MN & staff told me how residents’ eyes lit up over asparagus & other seasonal veg & they’d start telling each other stories—the food would help create joyful community.

rebeccaterk.bsky.social•33 days ago

I don’t exactly know how to broach the subject of meals with her short-term rehab center (and I understand dietary guidelines & constraints), but seeing those trays of food makes us both frustrated and sad.
It just doesn’t have to be that way.

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