Rachel Long

Enjoying Catering for schools again and working on my own little projects.

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

The cooking lessons have begun, 9 primary school children doing a 5 week course. Week 3 tomorrow, as we move on to fruit we’ve had such great fun learning new skills and trying new flavours.

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

With the sun shining so lovely it had to be these for afternoon tea

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Last chance to sign up for the virtual training session on Malnutrition and Food First - tomorrow at 2pm https://t.co/N6LY8cX796 Open to all care home staff in NW Surrey.

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Happy valentines!! Today we enjoyed a lovely indulgent chocolate brownie and some love inspired shortbread biscuits #foodfirst #valentines

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We enjoyed these beautiful Yorkshire puddings with our roast beef today. This batch were made using our @BeNCHProjectNHS residents boosted milk. #NationalYorkshirePuddingDay #foodfirst #foodboosters

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When it’s Sunday, it’s raining and it’s Ice cream for breakfast day. The special has tobe. Warm waffles and ice cream with a mixed berry sauce. Topped with a drizzle of honey for our @BeNCHProjectNHS residents. #foodbooster #foodfirst #icecreamforbreakfastday

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Today for lunch we celebrated Chinese New Year, with sweet and sour chicken with egg fried rice or beef in black bean with vegetable noodles. Or there was a bit of everything 😋. Followed by coconut ice cream and home made fortune cookies. Quite liked my fortune 😊.

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

Sent an extra snack trolley round today focused on hydration, big bowl of fresh melon and milk shakes, also another great way to offer boosted milk for the residents that need it #BeNCHprojectNHS #hydration

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They say preparation is key. Each morning we start by making up boosted milk bottles for our @BeNCHProjectNHS residents. Milk powder is add to a pint of milk for each resident almost doubling its calories and protein This is then used in teas, coffee’s and any milk based cooking.

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Today at lunch was a succulent lamb steak, with roasted rosemary potatoes and a cranberry and red wine jus or a creamy squash and leek risotto. Followed by a stunning apple and cinnamon cake which was boosted with a whipped cream #yummy #foodfirst #Benchprojectnhs

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

Today lunch is, a lamb stew with a buttered slice of home made soda bread or a cheese and onion quiche with a rocket and Parmesan salad. Then a rich chocolate tart with an orange mascarpone cream yum!! #boosters #BeNCHProjectNHS

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

Another good booster is cream on soup #foodfirst #BeNCHprojectnhs

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

This is an amazing project. The training and resources are a fantastic help and the support is second to none.

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So what is the BeNCH Project? Training for Care Home staff to make sure that EVERY care home resident in NW Surrey gets the best nutritional care they can! Optimise and Standardise - that’s the goal. #BeNCHProjectNHS @BDA_Dietitians @BDA_olderpeople

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

So much fun!!

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

Happy new year !! 2021 ended with a busy few weeks of creativity, with Yule logs, Christmas cakes,gingerbread house’s,Nutella trees,pantos and Brussels sprouts. There was also time to deliver hampers around the local area. I can’t wait to see what 2022 will bring…..

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

One of the choices after super today was yogurt another great item to boost with milk powder and cream, taste lovely too!! @BeNCHProjectNHS #foodbooster #BeNCHprojectNHS #foodfirst

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

Celebrating a 100th birthday today. We started the day with pancakes and ended it with birthday cake and enjoyed a lovely singer that came to entertain us.

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

So pudding today we enjoyed Rocky road mousse’s. The ones in the silver bowls are for our @BeNCHProjectNHS care plan residents, made using their boosted milk and added cream. Not inc the decoration and topped with digestive crumb and marshmallows 😋 #BeNCHprojectNHS #foodfirst

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Soon we’ll be enjoying some orange and chocolate cake with a nice hot cup of tea 😋

[Rachel Long @RLong08]

Today lunch was a lemon baked bass fillet on garlic & butter roast potatoes with green beans or a chilli jacket potato. Our BeNCH project residents enjoyed extra cheese on their potatoes & extra butter on their fish dish. As well as BOOSTED custard on their pear & ginger cake.