Home Care in Zionsville, IN

One of the most beneficial services a home care provider offers your elderly loved ones is making sure that they get the high-quality nutrition they need on a daily basis. Ensuring that your parents get the right balance of nutrients is essential to giving them the energy to get through their day, supporting their basic bodily functions, and warding off physical and mental illnesses. Preparing meals together is also a fantastic way for your aging parents and their in home health care services provider to build their relationship, exercise their minds, and make memories. With the help of their care provider, seniors who no longer have the ability to cook for themselves can still enjoy the fun and feeling of accomplishment of preparing meals safely.

When it comes to giving your aging loved ones high quality nutrition, it is important to also keep in mind the other tasks and activities in your parents’ home care routine. Recipes that are fast and simple, limit cleanup, and still provide delicious, satisfying meals simplify their daily routine. This recipe is reminiscent of the packet dinners cooked in campfires, making it a great way to channel some summery feeling at dinnertime without actually having to start a campfire.

Each of these packets contains one serving, so it is easy for your parents and their in home health care services provider to make up as many as they would like, even popping a few pre-assembled ones in the freezer to keep for later cooking to make an easy dinner later in the week.
What You’ll Need

• 1 boneless, skinless chicken breast
• 1 can of whole potatoes
• 1/4 cup mini carrots or chopped whole carrots
• 1/4 cup grape tomatoes or halved cherry tomatoes
• 1 ear of corn on the cob
• 1 can sliced mushrooms
• 1 small onion
• 1/2 bell pepper, green, red, yellow, orange, or a combination
• Garlic powder to taste
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 teaspoon Parmesan cheese
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 1/2 tablespoons butter, divided
• Aluminum foil
• Baking sheet
• Sharp knife
• Fork

What to Do

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Lay out two layers of aluminum foil for each packet you want to create
• Cut the garlic clove in half and squeeze lightly to start releasing the juices
• Rub the juices onto the center of the top piece of aluminum foil
• Use a fork to coat the foil with 1/2 tablespoon of butter on top of the garlic juice
• Place the boneless, skinless chicken breast on top of the buttered foil
• Drain the canned potatoes and arrange two to three potatoes around the chicken breast
• Use the sharp knife to slice the onion and arrange the slices around the chicken
• Cut the ear of corn in half and place with the chicken
• Slice the bell pepper half and add to the packet

The professionals at Great Care are available to talk with you and your family about all of your home care needs. Great Care is a non medical in-home care agency providing quality and affordable home care in Zionsville, IN and the surrounding areas. Call (317) 595-9933 for more information.