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Planning Dietitian-Approved Menus: Three Critical Considerations

  Menu Planning

Dietitian-approved menus provide flavorful and balanced meal options for residents living adult care facilities. With careful planning, menus for assisted living centers, nursing homes and group homes can regularly meet residents’ nutritional needs and improve health and well-being. Proper nutrition is important, but it isn’t the only consideration that your food service staff must address. …

Benefits of Dietitian-Approved Menus for Assisted Living Centers

  Menu Planning

Dietitian-approved menus are frequently a requirement of assisted living facility guidelines. But, even if they aren’t a dictated requirement, approved meal plans are necessary to ensure that residents’ nutritional needs are met. Before adding meals, snacks or beverages to group home or nursing home menus, the recipes or ingredient lists should always be reviewed by …