title: Nutrition and catering: 1. Some options in the delivery of meals on wheels.
abstract: Various options in the delivery of food to the elderly housebound are reviewed. These include precooked warm-held meals; precooked frozen meals reheated in a microwave oven en route, frozen meals or sterilised pouched meals for reheating at home, and packs of prepared raw ingredients for home cooking.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005502:Food / Q000592:standards; D005522:Food Services / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D006113:United Kingdom