In short. For meal help and meal preparation in Tetouan, the kitchen needs to be ready: clean utensils, a blender if needed, groceries already in. Adom (adom.ma) and the AdomApp app (adomapp.com) connect you with an independent person, with no medical care. Quotes are personalised and free, and you pay after the service.
Someone who comes to prepare meals works with what they find. If the kitchen is bare or the utensils are missing, the session goes on searching rather than cooking. This piece sets out what is worth preparing and what is better not to do. The service is non-medical: it replaces neither a health opinion nor a doctor's instructions.
Blender and textures: settle this first
When a relative eats better with blended meals, the blender becomes the central tool. Check that it works, can be washed and has all its parts. State the texture wanted as the family or a health professional defined it, not as you picture it. If it changes from day to day, write that down: the person cannot guess.
Before the first visit: what to do
- Take stock of utensils: pans, frying pan, knives, board, spoons, storage boxes. A few, in good condition and washed, beat many.
- Check that the hob, oven or burners work, and mention any quirk in lighting them.
- Have a blender or grinder ready if meals must be puréed, and say which kind and where it is kept.
- Buy or set aside groceries beforehand: the week's staples, oil, everyday spices, fresh items depending on what the person is helped to eat.
- Write down the meal instructions given by the family or a health professional: foods to avoid, textures, times. The helper applies them; they do not decide them.
- Describe the kitchen: it may be narrow or open to the living room, depending on the building. Tetouan has districts outside the medina whose buildings are of a different type from the medina's; yours is what matters to whoever comes.
The pitfalls: what is better not to do
- Do not leave food whose date you do not know: the person should be able to throw it away without hesitating.
- Do not ask for a medical diet or a dietary treatment without written instructions from a health professional.
- Do not assume all the equipment will be brought along: say in the request what you have and what you do not.
- Do not forget to flag an allergy or a refused food, even if it seems obvious.
- Do not store hazardous products (bleach, detergents) next to food.
- Do not leave knives and burners within reach without saying who handles them.
A request that invites an answer
On meal help, state how many meals are to be prepared, describe the kitchen, the equipment already there, the groceries and the instructions. The more precise the request, the easier it is to compare replies.
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Frequently asked questions
Who brings the utensils and groceries?
Unless agreed in writing, what you have at home. Say in the request what is available and what the person should bring.
Do I need a blender?
Only if meals have to be blended. In that case check it works and state the texture expected.
Can meal help follow a prescribed diet?
It can apply an instruction written by the family or a health professional, but it does not decide it and is not medical follow-up.
How much does it cost?
No price is displayed: it is a personalised, free quote on AdomApp, and you pay after the service.
Does Adom employ the person who prepares the meals?
No. Adom connects people; the person stays independent and you choose.
