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Creating an Appetite for Life

The Maggie Beer Foundation was established in 2014 to improve the food experiences for older Australians, particularly those living within aged care homes.

Education & Programs

The vision of the Maggie Beer Foundation is to ensure that all residents in aged care have access to fresh, wholesome, seasonal food, abundant with flavour. To achieve this, we need to engage with and educate cooks and chefs in the aged care sector.

We know there are some amazing examples of great food in aged care, but there are so many others where there is a misconception that aged care food budgets prevent flavoursome, seasonal food being prepared. The MBF education programs have been designed to challenge this thinking and to share best practice.

Chefs and Cooks Programs

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Featured Recipe

Spring Frittata
Eggs are a compact and versatile source of high quality protein, vitamins and minerals, in fact eggs are one of the few vegetarian sources of Vitamin D which is so essential for healthy bones. Combined with calcium rich cheese and the fresh flavours of chard, asparagus and onion, this frittata is a flavour filled nutrient rich anytime meal. Fingers crossed you have access to freshly grown lemon thyme; it looks after itself and provides the most beautiful flavoursome addition to dishes. Chard is also so easy to grow, when picked straight from the garden the flavour is so incredible! Season Spring   Ability Easy  Equipment Stove & Oven

Method:
Preheat a fan forced oven to 180c. Grease and line a 20cm oven safe frypan or similar with parchment paper (have overlap up the sides- so you can easily lift out of pan to serve) Place a large shallow saucepan on the stove over medium heat, add the olive oil, sliced onions and a good pinch of salt, cook without colour stirring regularly, until soft (10 minutes). Add the butter and finely chopped garlic, continue to cook for 2-3 minutes without colour. Deglaze the pan with the apple cider vinegar. Increase the heat to high and add the finely chopped stalks and leaves of the chard/silverbeet, toss to wilt and evaporate off water. Take the mix and spread evenly over the base of the prepared fry pan. Meanwhile –trim the stalks off the asparagus, cut into inch pieces and place in a microwave safe container with a splash of water....
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Events

Community Event

Healthy Eating and Nutrition

25 September from 14:00-15:00“Who could live without flavour? Flavour is pleasure as well as health. It’s so vital to life” – Maggie Beer ‘Healthy Eating & Nutrition’ is a FREE community information session to help you get more out of life. This information session will teach you about nutrition and how you can get the most out of […]
Community Event

Healthy Eating and Nutrition

24 September from 10:00-11:00“Who could live without flavour? Flavour is pleasure as well as health. It’s so vital to life” – Maggie Beer ‘Healthy Eating & Nutrition’ is a FREE community information session to help you get more out of life. This information session will teach you about nutrition and how you can get the most out of […]
Maggie Beer Event

'Creating an Appetite for Life' Program

2019 dates TBC Once again, the Maggie Beer Foundation is sending out an invitation to passionate aged care cooks and chefs to engage in an Education Program that has proven the strength of its impact with participants around the country. As Maggie explains, “It would come as no surprise that I loved food all my life; it’s my […]

Get Involved

There are lots of ways to get involved with the Maggie Beer Foundation. With your help, we can ensure that as every person ages, they continue to experience the joy of food.