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 Meal
Service
3610 Macleod Trail S.E., Calgary, Alberta
T2G 2P9 Phone: (403) 243-2834 Fax: (403) 243-8438
www.mealsonwheels.com
Email:
info@mealsonwheels.com
Charitable Reg. No. 11882 3749 RR0001
It's More Than A Meal
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Meals are delivered
between 11:00 am and 1:00pm. A meal unit consists of two meals a
hot meal consisting of meat, poultry or fish, a starch and vegetable
with dessert and a cold meal consisting of a sandwich, soup, fruit,
cookie and a snack.
Many clients require daily
service, others require only Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Frozen
meals are delivered to cover the weekends. Special diets are
available, as well as services of a Registered Dietitian. Please
call with any additional questions to 403-243-2834.
We cater to health or
cultural needs, not individual tastes. Clients pay according to
their ability, with service available without discrimination across
all communities.
In 2005, 1856 clients
received meals from Calgary Meals on Wheels direct home delivery
program, in addition to the 216 bag lunches per day for the working
homeless, service to some 600 elementary school children, and those
served through our community support programs - totaling some
410,000 meals prepared, portioned, packaged, and delivered from
our central location.
Calgary Meals on Wheels is proud to say that in
our 41 years history, we have never failed to deliver the scheduled
meals. This reflects the commitment and support of some 747
dedicated volunteers, our staff and Board, and the assistance of
good neighbours during severe winter weather.
Our standard and
hallmark meal service is based on some 75 - 80 volunteers a
day (Monday Friday), delivering an average of 1400 meals (or 700
meal units) to seniors (60 plus), convalescents and people with
disabilities, living within Calgary city limits. These meals, which
include special diets and provide 85% of the nutritional needs for
the majority of the clients served, consist of 2 meals (a hot lunch
and cold supper plus a snack), and are delivered Monday to Friday
between 11:30 am and 1:00 pm. Extra meals can be ordered for the
weekend to accompany the Friday delivery. 52 % (fifty two) of these
meals are special diets, ordered for health care reasons. The price
for this service is on a sliding scale, with services available
without discrimination across all communities.
Besides the provision of good meals, a core value of this and our
other services, is the social contact with each client, ensuring
their safety, enjoying a short visit, and engaging each one in
conversation as an effort to reduce isolation and add care and
comfort by friendly and committed volunteers coming to their place
of residence.
Magic
Meals -
$4.25 per meal
Calgary Meals on
Wheels offers a new and innovative service for
Convalescents, People with Disabilities and Seniors called
Magic Meals. They are different from our regular meal units
in two ways. First, they only consist of a starch, a
protein and a vegetable. Secondly, they are frozen and can
be kept in the freezer until clients need them.
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Easy
to warm up meals for times when cooking is
difficult
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Frozen
dinners which can be ordered and stored in
client's freezer
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15 meals options available
which can be special diet adapted if ordered in
advance
Roast Beef
Breaded
Fish
Cabbage
Roll
Sliced
Baked Ham
Shepards
Pie
Macaroni
& Cheese
Crispy
Chicken
Creamy
Parmesan Chicken Breast
Steamed
Oriental Chicken
BBQ
Pork Ribettes
Salisbury
Steak
Curry
Chicken Legs
Beef
Stew
Meat
Balls
Pork
Cutlet
Chopsticks on Wheels -
$4.25 per day
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Provides one hot meal
each day
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Specially
prepared for the Chinese culture with specific
attention to authenticity
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Program
is planned in concert with the Calgary Chinese
Elderly Citizen Association
Food and Fellowship -
$6.25 per
participant
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Provides nutritious
hot meals to groups of seniors while providing
them with the opportunity to socialize through a
conjugate hot meal dining program for a minimum
of ten seniors per group
(usually in a lodge or seniors apartment
building)
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In
addition, each is given a cold bag meal for
their supper
Food and Caring
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price elevated on a sliding scale
Duck Soup -
currently we are
advised that 17 schools are on a waiting list for this program
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Provides
hot nutritious food twice a
week at lunch times, during the school year, to
children in seven high risk Calgary schools,
so that they can have the energy to concentrate
and learn
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The
meal is hot soup and a bun or crackers,
supplemented with milk and / or fresh fruit when
possible
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Project
is supported through fundraising by Meals on
Wheels and currently feeds over 600 children or
some 34,000 servings a year
Bag Lunches for Calgary Drop-In Centre -
subsidized by
Calgary Meals on Wheels & the United Way, in partnership with the
Calgary DropIn Centre
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