This month Andrea Holey RD, a Morrison Dietician, and I had the opportunity to present to Fulton Manor's PACE program. We have about 200 PACE participants with 75-80 having lunch with us Monday through Friday. Since Halloween is coming up the theme was SCARY!!!! foods and not so scary foods.
Andrea focused on MYPLATE.gov, making half of your plate fruits and vegetables and talked about the different kinds of fats (scary and not so scary). I prepared samples of Roasted Autumn Panzanella Salad with Pomegranate Vinaigrette, Sautéed Swiss Chard with Salmon and, for a treat, s'more cookies.
This is the first year for the haunted gingerbread houses and they were so popular we have bigger and better plans for next year already. The dietary staff gobbled up all the examples of the scary foods with the Twinkies mysteriously ending up in our director's office.
