My dad spent 40 years mastering his craft, and last week someone half his age told him how to eat.😠

I'm not sure about this post being AI generated either to be honest, but just wanted to say to the OP that most elderly people do not eat as they should in my experience.

I worked in the community for 3 years, mostly with the elderly and I think it's true to say that none of them were eating a healthy diet. Buying, preparing and cooking good quality and nutritious food takes alot of effort and I see it in my own 90 year old Mum, who was a Cordon Bleu cook in the 70s, just hasn't got the energy or inclination to prepare food just for herself in the way she did as we were growing up and when my Dad was still alive.

She eats ready meals, egg on toast, beans on toast, sandwiches etc and plenty of fruit, but really doesn't have much of an appetite these days 😔.

So assuming this comment was from a health professional or a friend with good intentions, it's a perfectly valid thing to say to someone if you are concerned for them.

Or as Oscar Wilde said when faced with the arrogance of youth: ”I’m not young enough to know everything

It's incredibly frustrating when the younger generation thinks they know it all. Experience and craft mean nothing to them anymore.

Being an oldie living on my own I seldom cook my meals. I buy my ready meals from M & S seldom from supermarkets. If I do cook my meal I love pork meatballs with a sauce which includes brandy!

It would be another media nanny state brainwashed person

Why do you assume that jakuss.

This is an honest question as we have no context

Maybe if you gave more context, like who and why someone thought your dad had to be told to eat better. It doesn’t make much sense otherwise.

This person may have been well meaning but I would certainly have set them straight about making assumptions without information. Then they could be even more well meaning the next time they gave advice. Younger people should have allowances made in this situation. It is not helping them.

Cath9

Being an oldie living on my own I seldom cook my meals. I buy my ready meals from M & S seldom from supermarkets. If I do cook my meal I love pork meatballs with a sauce which includes brandy!

Why does buying ready meals from M&S as opposed to other supermarkets make any difference? No criticism of eating ready meals BTW just wondering why you consider M&S superior

I’m reminded of the member of staff* at my mother’s care home, who was bringing round the little sandwiches for tea, and told my mother - then over 90, with dementia - that she should be picking the brown bread ones, not the white, as they were healthier.

*the only one I never took to - IMO she was in the wrong job.
As I told her, at her age my DM could eat whatever she liked.

I use co-pilot at work to write emails for me. I sometimes change it a bit afterwards but it saves me so much time.

I also sometimes ask it questions or tell it a scenario and it often has sympathy for me. More sympathy than my co-workers!

OP sometimes when people have experience and a particular skill, 'some people' can be so patronising about it. I tend to think of them as the shallow thinkers

Nanny27

Cath9

Being an oldie living on my own I seldom cook my meals. I buy my ready meals from M & S seldom from supermarkets. If I do cook my meal I love pork meatballs with a sauce which includes brandy!

Why does buying ready meals from M&S as opposed to other supermarkets make any difference? No criticism of eating ready meals BTW just wondering why you consider M&S superior

I refuse to believe M&S isn't superior. Even when the glow from my yellow stickered basket is blinding all the other customers

Do we yet know the context of the comments to Nora's father of who made them?

I think I've read the thread pretty well but I still don't quite understand.

Please can someone explain to me if they know?

Daffydilly

mrsfeather

Yes it's AI. I hate this!

How do you know?

First paragraph is a giveaway.

Essay on "professional chef" misses the mark.

Patronising tone, attitude and definition, inappropriate for the target audience.

What a fuss about nothing, Father dealt with it appropriately, he is not senile and handled it the way he chose. If it had been me the comment had been made to, it would have washed over me, not important.