OUR DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS MEALS ARE available in hot and frozen formats, based on a rotating menu cycle. Clients choose their food every week from an extensive and varied menu. Care is taken to offer dishes with a healthy balance of carbohydrates, proteins, fats and starch. All meals are made under the direction of registered dieticians and follow Canada’s Food Guide. Reflecting the diversity of our community, we offer both hot and frozen Canadian dishes as well as Chinese and East Indian (South Asian) meals.

The meals are exceptionally affordable and subsidies are available for clients with limited income.

Hot meals are delivered to a client’s home Sundays to Fridays in the late morning or at noon hour. There is no delivery of hot meals on Saturday, but an extra meal can be delivered on Friday along with the regular fare.

Hot meals are supplied by the kitchen of True Davidson Acres, a senior citizens' centre, and by Ellen's Health Food, a Toronto food-preparation company. A typical entrée consists of:

• Beef, chicken, pork, fish or vegetarian alternative
• Potatoes, rice or pasta
• Two types of vegetables or salad
• Soup
• Bread and Margarine
• Dessert

We are able to accommodate clients with special dietary needs and specific intolerances such as diabetic foods, no-salt, soft, puree, renal, lactose-free and gluten-free.

Frozen meals are prepared by Private Recipes, a Brampton company that supplies dinners to many of the Meals on Wheels agencies in Ontario. The frozen meals, which are as tasty and nutritious as our hot meals, are delivered once a week, on Tuesdays. To order, clients contact the office a week before delivery, by either phone or fax, or by passing their selections directly to volunteers.

Clients can order individual frozen entrees, without soup or salad, or packages of 3 to 7 frozen stand-alone entrees.