Category: Recipes – Best Foods for Dementia Patients
-
Wild Rice Chicken Mushroom Soup
This Wild Rice Chicken Mushroom Soup is a great cold-weather meal. It’s good for families and for people with dementia, because it’s comforting, balanced, and easy to chew. Here you’ll learn about flavorful and healthy wild rice, and how to make this straightforward soup that caregivers can prepare quickly and that you and your loved…
-
Dementia-Friendly Hamburger Soup with Cream of Mushroom
Hamburger soup is a meal that definitely says ‘caregiver friendly’. It is delicious, soft, filling, and good for the whole family, including people with dementia. What is Hamburger Soup? Hamburger soup is a simple, hearty soup made with ground meat, vegetables, and broth. We call it “hamburger” soup because it traditionally uses ground beef. It…
-
Split Pea Soup: A Comforting and Healthy Choice
Do you have a loved one with dementia who needs soft or pureed food, and you are tired of making separate meals? Soups can make life easier. A hearty, one-pot soup like split pea soup is filling, nutritious, and soft enough for people who struggle with chewing or swallowing. If someone needs pureed food, it…
-
Making Pureed Food for Dementia Patients at Home: A Complete Guide
Has your loved one with dementia been struggling to eat or swallow their food? Are they losing weight, avoiding meals, or coughing while eating? If so, pureed food specifically for dementia patients might help. This post is a follow-up to my recent article on dental soft diets. While soft diets help when chewing becomes harder,…
-
The Complete Guide to a Soft Food Diet for Dental Pain
Why would someone need soft foods? A person having anything from recent dental work or dentures that don’t fit can mean that some foods will be harder for them to chew. People with dementia can also have difficulty chewing, because dementia can affect the part of their brain that controls chewing. If you or your…
-
High Protein Peanut Butter Bread
This is a high protein, high calorie version of the viral peanut butter bread recipe! With this recipe you can make a delicious, soft, peanut buttery bread for your loved one with dementia. Not only does it taste great, but it also will give your loved one lots of calories and protein per bite. Even…
-
High Protein Pumpkin Muffins for People with Dementia
Is your loved one with dementia ignoring their meal but devouring their desserts? This muffin could be a great snack choice for them! Why make a higher protein dessert? Sometimes, people with dementia prefer to eat sweet things. Why this happens isn’t really known. It isn’t unusual, though. People with dementia can have changes to…
-
High Protein Lemon Pudding for People with Dementia
Lemon Pudding I’ve always loved lemon flavored desserts. There’s something about the contrast between the tart sharpness of the lemon and the sweetness of a dessert that makes a perfect blend of flavors. When I started making this series of healthy, high protein desserts, I know I wanted to try my hand at a lemon…
-
High Protein Chocolate Smoothie
People with dementia sometimes do not like the kinds of foods they used to enjoy. You might notice that your loved one with dementia only wants to eat sweet things. I’ve worked with many people with dementia who only want to eat dessert, rather than their meals. I’ve even spoken with a person who was…
-
A Dementia Dessert: Pumpkin Pie Dessert Smoothie
A Nutritious Dessert for your Loved One with Dementia People who have loved ones with dementia often notice that their loved ones really love to eat sweet things like desserts. This is actually really common. For reasons we don’t really understand, sometimes people with certain kinds of dementia will often really prefer sweet foods. I’ve…
