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Pre-prepared meals
- barbaraposner
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- Gordon
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BeePee wrote: How many points to you get for needing preprepared frozen meals which you can cook in the microwave? I have a carer who prepares them for me or I buy them preprepared.
The legislation requires the meal to be prepared from fresh ingredients and then cooked on a hob or in a microwave, so I would not expect you to score points for using prepared meals.
You need to turn the issue around and explain why you cannot "reliably" and "on the majority of days" prepare a meal yourself, be aware that you won't score points for thing that you do not do, only things that you cannot do.
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- barbaraposner
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A carer prepares the meal from fresh ingredients and I sometimes help her with the vegetable chopping (but less than 50% of the time and not reliably). We then freeze some of it and keep some of it in the fridge and I cook it up again later in a microwave ( more often than not though I just eat it cold out of the fridge or go to the local café to eat)
How many points do you think this might score?
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- Gordon
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BeePee wrote: Hi Gordan
A carer prepares the meal from fresh ingredients and I sometimes help her with the vegetable chopping (but less than 50% of the time and not reliably). We then freeze some of it and keep some of it in the fridge and I cook it up again later in a microwave ( more often than not though I just eat it cold out of the fridge or go to the local café to eat)
How many points do you think this might score?
For the reasons I covered in my previous post and based solely on the content you have posted, I would not expect you to score any points.
To repeat myself, you will not score points for things that you do not do, only those that you cannot do!
You need to explain why, assuming that this is the case, you cannot prepare the ingredients for a meal yourself. What condition(s) prevent you from doing so and why? How do the problems manifest themselves and how often? Would an aid or appliance allow to complete the task? Would prompting, assistance or supervision mean that you could reliably prepare the ingredients?
Gordon
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The system is not in your favour. You must not say that you help to prepare vegetables and tick the prescript or box that applies to you cannot cook fresh but can microwave, don't volunteer information which will used against you, this would be used against you
we are all going through it.
God Luck
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After being told I cannot cook due to a wonky left arm and hand and inability to feel hot and cold, the HP asked me if I tell hubby (who is my full time carer) what to do when cooking the meals, I said sometimes, that translated in her assessment that I can cook a meal with an aid and got me just 2 points.
I have found to my detriment that words are easily twisted by some HP's and when I have my next assessment (another is being suggested by the DWP as the first has been deemed unsound) I will probably be mute !
As Gordon said, prove why you can't do safely and on the majority of days and I pray your HP has more moral conscience that the one I had.
Good luck
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