Care Dine With Me scheme provides inclusive food offering

Priesty Fields Care Home head chef Barry Moorcroft serves up a delicious selection of foods for its 'Care Dine For Me' scheme
Priesty Fields Care Home head chef Barry Moorcroft serves up a delicious selection of foods for its ‘Care Dine For Me’ scheme

A Cheshire care home has launched a nutritional scheme based on the hit Channel 4 TV show Come Dine with Me.

Priesty Fields Care Home’s Care Dine with Me scheme enables residents to choose their preferred menu of choice before providing a scoring system to help correlate residents’ favourite meal of choice – promoting inclusivity and interaction around the dining room.

Rishi Sodha, care director at Priesty Fields Care Home, said: “We first came up with the idea as a way of getting residents to provide us with a greater understanding of what they would like to see on their plates more frequently as opposed to a standardised menu. It was also a great opportunity to provide a bit of fun and laughter in the dining room.”

Located in a green residential area close to Congleton’s town centre, Priesty Fields includes 78 spacious en-suite bedrooms, along with a gastropub, farmers market, cinema, spa, salon, gym, library, private dining room, garden lounge and GP office.

The home is operated by the Handsale care group, which oversees the management of eight residential and nursing care homes across England, Scotland and Wales. The group prides itself on empowering its staff to provide outstanding care by putting well-being and community at the centre of its operations.

Sodha concluded: “Care Dine With Me was a great success amongst our staff and residents. At Priesty Fields, we work tirelessly to create an inclusive care culture, which is what Care Dine With Me is all about. The opinions and thoughts of our residents influence every aspect of our care offering, so we were delighted to put together an initiative which allowed us to gain vital insight regarding our residents’ likes and dislikes when it comes to food, while also enjoying a laugh or two. It’s become an activity that everyone looks forward to weekly and is something that is definitely here to stay.”

You can watch Care Dine With Me in action at Priesty Fields Care Home, here: https://vimeo.com/782481563/c499a0813c

To find out more information about Priesty Fields Care Home, please visit: https://handsale.co.uk/priestyfields/.

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