Steward Manor

Success Story

January 2018

Outcome: Long term

SNAP-Ed Assistant: Toina “Toni” Williams/Hardin County

When working with senior adults, they don’t want you messing with their ability to make food choices. They feel that this is the one area that they still have control over since moving into an assistant living facility, when they were use-to doing things on their own. When someone comes in talking making better food choices, you will have some resistant from them, they don’t like change and disarranging their foods. I assured them that I wasn’t there to take anything away from them but to make better choices when it comes to seasoning food.

While doing classes at Steward Manor, I have a group of ladies that uses a lot of salt and I was telling them that you can use salt, but there are alternatives that they can use.  In the class “Know the Limits”, we talked about how knowing the limits and what is in some food can help them with seasoning their food.

We made the salt-free seasoning from the curriculum, they was skeptical about it because it didn’t have any salt in it. I did a follow up on the seasoning to see if they had used it and what they thought about the taste of it. They loved the taste of it on their vegetables and chicken and pork chops. 

One participant want the recipe again so, that she could make some more for future use. And that is a behavior change for her because she was one of the skeptical ones, about using the salt-free seasoning, other than salt.