my partner's 85 year old mom

Easy Filipino food prep for Lola ❤️🙌 more variety, less effort…always made with love ❤️ my partner and I are Caregivers for her 85-year-old mom. She is Filipino and she requires soft and lower sodium food. So of course, I always make sure her meals are soft and lower sodium to meet her dietary restrictions. But I also want her to enjoy her cultures cuisine on a regular basis. To make my life easier as a Caregiver, I started doing a food prep at the beginning of the week. And I’m always rotating what we do. Almost 3 years into our caregiving journey, and I feel like I’ve come up with a pretty good system to get more variety for less effort. And the ingredients are versatile so they can work for the rest of the family who does not require soft and lower sodium food. So here’s what I prepped this week! INSTANT POT CHICKEN (Filipino) 1 whole chicken 4 cups lower sodium broth water (enough to fill to max line) 6 cloves of garlic, peeled 1 onion, peeled, cut in half 2 cups Kalabasa Squash 4 taro, peeled 1-2 cups of yardlong beans 2 inches of fresh ginger, grated 1 tsp fish sauce 1 no salt added dashi packet 2 dried mushrooms 1 bay leaf DIRECTIONS Prep veggies, garlic, and onions Place all ingredients in pressure cooker Pressure cook on high for 25 minutes Allow to naturally release for 10 minutes Remove poultry to cool Remove meat from bones. Drain broth Save bones and scraps in a freezer bag for a future broth MUNG BEANS 1 lb dried mung beans (soaked over night) 7 cups water 1/2 TBSP fish sauce 4 cloves garlic, minsed 1 inch ginger, minsed 2 lime leaves 2 dried mushrooms 1 bay leaf 1/4 tsp baking soda (if needed) #caregiver #agingparents #lowsodium #softfood #filipino