Grieving the loss of a loved ones comes with many challenges – even more so if you are left to grieve the loss alone.
Simple things like shopping and cooking a meal can seem like an impossible task. This is where the Delta Hospice Society can help.
This week Hospice program manager and bereavement counsellor Debra Wolinsky has started shopping and cooking for one – a program to provide the bereaved an opportunity to gain some practical shopping and cooking skills, and ideas to cook for one; to offer a supportive environment where the bereaved can connect with others who have the shared experience of a significant loss, and would like information on and support to shop and cook for oneself and to support the bereaved in connecting with other Hospice resources and supports.
“The loss of a loved one brings many challenges and adjustments. Good nutrition is fundamental and necessary for good self-care, however, eating well is often the first thing that bereaved folks stop doing because they may not have been responsible for shopping and cooking at home and lack experience and confidence in doing so,” said Wolinsky. “They have never cooked just for themselves and see that as an unnecessary task (easier to eat toast, for example).”
The program is four, two-hour meetings at Hospice’s Supportive Care’s kitchen from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays from Oct. 16 to Nov. 6.
Content will include: creating a grocery list and shopping at a local grocery store, basic cooking skills, reading and prepping recipes (recipes will be provided), preparing simple dishes; examples: salad, soup, stew, pasta, casserole, cookies, fruit crumble.
There will also be hands-on demonstrations led by experience home cooks with Food Safe certification. Participants will take home what was prepared or cooked.
For more information and to register, contact Debra at 604-948-0660, ext. 303 or email: [email protected].
