Meals On Wheels

First of all, shout out to all the folks who volunteer their time & effort to making sure the food reaches those who need it. Thank you.
That being said, I'm disabled, VERY bad knees & degeneration of the disks in my lower back, so standing at the stove, cooking, is quite painful. I opted for the once a week frozen delivery, since I can't make it to the door in a timely manner. Now I don't know about the daily, fresh meals, but I pray they are better than the nasty, frozen meals. I don't know who thinks up these dinners, but there are few of them that are even edible! Most are bland, or consists of ingredients that don't go together, which makes these dinners inedible. I've had the cheap tv dinners that tasted better! I think there should be an anonymous survey given to the folks who receive these meals. That way, maybe whoever is in charge, can find a better distributor for frozen meals that are actually palatable, instead of the garbage being distributed now.

High in salt. Non-organic. A disgusting presentation of low quality food. In a rich country like the United States seniors deserve good food and high quality meals.
Meals and wheels is far from that.

I set my expectations low but this mow's cannot even be called food. And some of the crap was spoiled. Is this how the rich United States feeds it's elderly human beings. Somebody is getting rich off this scam. Just so disgusted. And what is that foul smell all the food has. Same smell mow's had 25 years ago when my parents had this crap. The folks who provide this meals are despicable. They should eat this crap and feed it to their families.

I have been delivering meals for MOW for approx. 6 years. Do the writers of these negative reviews realize that (1) virtually all of us volunteers and doing the best we can out of a feeling of love and respect for our seniors and communities and (2) the food is meant to be nutritious, and as tasty as possible? It is not attended to be FiveStar gourmet quality--MOW is run on a shoestring budget and we are all doing the best we possibly can.

I'm writing in respond for my friends mother at 90 years old who is a receiver of this service and she wants to thank the wonderful fellas that bring her meals to her front door out.
She also wants to share with everyone her creative ideas using recycled food trays she gets daily as meals are served. It's keeps her motivated doing her art projects because it's keeps the mind healthy and strong. Thank you to everyone at Meals on Wheels for the wonderful service.

My mother loves the meals. They always have a meat, vegetable and potato. The delivery is consistent 90% of the time, as being the same time daily. The driver has been accommodating and calls if no one answers the door. For a volunteer, charitable program relying on donations, I cannot say anything negative about it

Soy milk makes food tastes horrible Thanksgiving meal I got had to throw away yes some people are allergic to milk but what about us that don't like soy milk get second chef I throw atleast 2 to 3 meals away every Monday when my volunteer brings me my food on Monday it depends on the vegetables or other like lintel cauliflower Brussels spouts I'm not eating I want real food like a real American wants not plant food especially in meat

Just gotta say "Meals On Wheels" your doing a FANTASTIC JOB! Here's why. It's takes an Army of people who care to want to help this organization to feed so many that can't provide for themselves. It's dedicated employees to go above and beyond providing hot nutritional meals for so many that can't cook due to health related issues.
To all these complainers who argue the fact that the food is terrible, junk, spoiled, no good etc. You all should be ashamed of yourself! Just be glad your receiving something (free) and something to fill an empty stomach each day! If it wasn't for such organization none of you would be getting anything. If you feel you want better meals, maybe you should get off your lazy *** and go to work!
For the remaining others who are happy and content with its service thank you for keeping these hard dedicated workers pushing out the nutritional meals each day for the many that deserve.

I received M's on W's for about 6 mos and had to discontinue as it was killing me. I gained 25 lbs, and experienced kidney failure with blood chemistry all over the map, resulting in life threatening conditions.

Besides mostly horrible frozen dinners from Jackson, Mississippi which is reportedly produced by certified nutritionists and properly trained chefs (that's a crying matter laugh) the taste and food quality is generally low grade that could be pitched at Wal-Mart for one fourth the price M's on W's reportedly pays.

The there is all the low grade tossed in this nits of sugary treats and juices. Non of these should be consumed by anyone but certainly by anyone who is unhealthy which is probably 90% of the people receiving this poison.

Though a small percentage of the "food" is acceptable occasionally in very small amounts, as a daily intake, the total package turns out to be killing doses of poison.

These include unhealthy oils, most likely trans fats, little to no omega 3s, very little whole animal products are stretched out with carbs, way too much carbohydrate including sugars. Overly processed foods; any fruit is processed.

I had a medical appointment, when they came and since I wasn't home to answer, they called the cops on me. When I got home, there were police cars everywhere. I didn't know what was going on. Their food tastes like $#*! and I can't eat half of it because I have no teeth. Its not their job to call cops on a person, they should just leave the food if nobody answers.

Parent was receiving food. Delivery ppl would only take a minute for elderly to reach door and leave. And say parent did not ans door. Nor ans tel as parent had to walk back to tel. Very slow. Ended up in hospital. Then MOW rude person says no food as route full….on waiting list. We know this is revenge because parent complained. Beware the scam run on our elderly.

I set up meals on wheels for my 86 year old mom, the salad looked old and a mess. The meals looked terrible, the ham lunch there was two piles of cream corn with raw carrots in it, the ham was mostly fat. The second day my mom thought she had gotten sick from the apple pie she said the apple pie was sour, I tasted it it was sour. Monday she got spaghetti I tasted the noodles also spoiled. Today her meal was some kind of chicken it looked raw, every day the salad looked terrible. I started calling 6 days ago to stop the meals but I couldn't get a hold of everyone.
I'm not a picking eater but the food was really bad. It's really sad that they are passing off this so called food on people who really need it.
I would be so worried that my mom would get sick of the food I really think that healthy department should check how the food is made and how old it is. I finally got ahold of someone they had no idea who I would call about the food.
Margaret Brighton Colorado

I've had a variety of the meals.One weeks worth. I found them to be generally bland and tasteless. I was not impressed at all.

I should warn any prospective clients - my dog won't touch this food! It is AWFUL. This program is supported by taxpayers and I'm sure it would not be, if the taxpayer tasted the food. They have no delivery schedule so when the food finally arrives, it is thawed and unhealthy for consumption. I'm sorry I couldn't give this review a negative star. You will get no nourishment from the food and neither will your pets

Got out of the hospital and was told these meals would be delivered but days later they hadn't arrived. Someone from mow called and said if they deliver a box of meals (about a dozen) and they are not cold (cold packs had thawed) that I should not eat them. A box did show up about 3 days late, trays were warm. I opened them and fed them to the birds on the lawn, they ate all of it. I'm glad I didn't have to eat them because they were horrible looking. None of the meat dishes looked like meat, it was a meat bologna type mix sitting in water. At 6$ per meal someone is making a killing. For 6$ I can get a turkey pot pie and a carton of milk. The budget for these meals has to be about 20 cents maybe. The packaging cost more than the meals. Truly disgusting.

I doubt the food is prepared under ADA guidelines. It's atrocious! Boiled potatoes and spaghetti without tomato sauce is not food. The previous vendor tried to make delicious food and they succeeded at making my 95 year old grandmother eat. Not this new vendor. It'd better if they just delivered the milk, juice and bread and butter. The rest of it gets thrown in the garbage by my grandmother and I don't blame her.