dinner for the residents of the nursing home i work at
the menu said “chicken and veggie quesadilla” and i open up the dry tortilla to see carrots, peas, and three brussel sprouts. literally nothing else
by redbirdbluegourd
32 Comments
dreampuff
Oh no. Is that a peas and carrots sleeve
band-of-horses
My daughter worked in the dining room at a senior home for a while and it was an insightful look into how awful corporate run senior care facilities are. Everything is done as cheap as possible, despite residents paying thousands of dollars a month to live there.
September_Royalty
Oh no…🥺
bitchesrus25
Straight to jail.
Brave_One_1845
That’s so sad. I don’t even see any meat.
Overall-Emu3014
All them cuts got the grannies eating peas and carrots lol.
RyouIshtar
“chicken and veggie quesadilla”
Not even a wine mom in suburban america would destroy a quesadilla this horribly….
SunwingArt
Does Cuomo run this place?!
thepretzel24
queSADilla
JustHereToLurk2001
I see the veggie, I guess, but the chicken is nowhere to be seen. Also that is a downright tragic tortilla 🙁
Abject_Republic_5432
Ugh. When my resident cried because she was gluten free and she got only mixed vegetables and a tiny cube of chicken I offered to make her a pbj myself with gf bread they had and they said no !!!!!! They said her family could bring her food and she started crying saying all her family was dead !!! I definitely snuck groceries into her room the next day.
4dafryguy
I’m so sick and tired of the nursing homes taking advantage of our elderly. There should be STRICT penalties, fines, and punishments for these “cost-cutting” tactics that really just mean more money for the institutions.
luiwtf
Corporate would be eating this through a feeding tube. Let’s normalize taking care of our parents when they need us.
SharkbaitOoAhHa
This genuinely makes me sad…they literally don’t care either…this makes me want to donate food to nursing homes. Wtf…they not allowed to have flavor?!
Oz347
tvkyle
Marginally better than boiled goose
mr_leicester
We need a show where chefs go into care homes and show how bad it is and how much good food could be made for a good cost.
sweetfruitloops
I hated this so much. These elderly literally have little to nothing left to look forward to and their meal times get destroyed.
I worked at a company charging $500 per shower per resident… each resident was supposed to take 2 per week. Made minimum wage. These clients had to buy their own products for their $500 bath too. It never made sense to me how or why
Original_Addition871
yeah so this is torture
THROBBINW00D
I worked at a nursing home kitchen in the early 2000’s as a teenager. The food wasn’t great but this is a different level of low effort.
RandomFleshPrison
I’ve seen some pretty horrible things passed off as quesadillas and/or enchiladas sadly.
doom_slug_
This is what the future holds for me?
Fickle-Secretary681
So fucking sad.
enchiladasundae
Elder abuse
Baby_Penguin22
Woof. I also work as a cook at a nursing facility and my chef would chew me out if I served something like that.
positiveParadox
/r/foodcrimes
LairdPeon
Let the forest take me if this is what I have to look forward to as an elderly.
No-Blueberry-1823
It’s almost a samosa but it needs a lot of work
BoomBoomDiddumWaddum
This made me cry. Literally. The thought that people are stuck there and have to endure this level of care.
BunnyCat2025
OMG, you live long enough to have to live in one of these places and get rewarded with that kind of “food”. My mom was in a facility her last years which was psychotically expensive and some of the things they served were less than appetizing, but they didn’t try to shovel something like this off on the residents 🙁
chunkychickmunk
My daughter and I volunteer at the nursing home serving dinner and yeah, its cat food at best. I feel so bad serving it to folks. Last week it was a chicken cutlet that looked like something breaded in cat litter and fried so long it was mummified
32 Comments
Oh no. Is that a peas and carrots sleeve
My daughter worked in the dining room at a senior home for a while and it was an insightful look into how awful corporate run senior care facilities are. Everything is done as cheap as possible, despite residents paying thousands of dollars a month to live there.
Oh no…🥺
Straight to jail.
That’s so sad. I don’t even see any meat.
All them cuts got the grannies eating peas and carrots lol.
“chicken and veggie quesadilla”
Not even a wine mom in suburban america would destroy a quesadilla this horribly….
Does Cuomo run this place?!
queSADilla
I see the veggie, I guess, but the chicken is nowhere to be seen. Also that is a downright tragic tortilla 🙁
Ugh. When my resident cried because she was gluten free and she got only mixed vegetables and a tiny cube of chicken I offered to make her a pbj myself with gf bread they had and they said no !!!!!! They said her family could bring her food and she started crying saying all her family was dead !!! I definitely snuck groceries into her room the next day.
I’m so sick and tired of the nursing homes taking advantage of our elderly. There should be STRICT penalties, fines, and punishments for these “cost-cutting” tactics that really just mean more money for the institutions.
Corporate would be eating this through a feeding tube. Let’s normalize taking care of our parents when they need us.
This genuinely makes me sad…they literally don’t care either…this makes me want to donate food to nursing homes. Wtf…they not allowed to have flavor?!
Marginally better than boiled goose
We need a show where chefs go into care homes and show how bad it is and how much good food could be made for a good cost.
I hated this so much. These elderly literally have little to nothing left to look forward to and their meal times get destroyed.
I worked at a company charging $500 per shower per resident… each resident was supposed to take 2 per week. Made minimum wage. These clients had to buy their own products for their $500 bath too. It never made sense to me how or why
yeah so this is torture
I worked at a nursing home kitchen in the early 2000’s as a teenager. The food wasn’t great but this is a different level of low effort.
I’ve seen some pretty horrible things passed off as quesadillas and/or enchiladas sadly.
This is what the future holds for me?
So fucking sad.
Elder abuse
Woof. I also work as a cook at a nursing facility and my chef would chew me out if I served something like that.
/r/foodcrimes
Let the forest take me if this is what I have to look forward to as an elderly.
It’s almost a samosa but it needs a lot of work
This made me cry. Literally. The thought that people are stuck there and have to endure this level of care.
OMG, you live long enough to have to live in one of these places and get rewarded with that kind of “food”. My mom was in a facility her last years which was psychotically expensive and some of the things they served were less than appetizing, but they didn’t try to shovel something like this off on the residents 🙁
My daughter and I volunteer at the nursing home serving dinner and yeah, its cat food at best. I feel so bad serving it to folks. Last week it was a chicken cutlet that looked like something breaded in cat litter and fried so long it was mummified
samosa nightmare