[For Seniors] Easy and Delicious! Snack Activity Roundup
Eating—meals and snacks alike—is one of life’s pleasures for older adults as well.
Snack-making activities are very popular and are offered at many senior care facilities.
However, for staff, choosing ingredients and coming up with recipes suited to older adults—such as how to prepare them—can be challenging.
In this article, we introduce easy-to-make snack ideas for seniors.
We’ve gathered many recipes that can be made together around a table or prepared easily using a microwave.
You can make delicious snacks without using hard-to-chew or hard-to-swallow ingredients.
Please give them a try with everyone together!
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[For Seniors] Easy and Delicious! Snack Activity Roundup (91–100)
Protein-rich! Wheat gluten honey snack
Fu is usually rehydrated in water before use.
It’s often added to miso soup, but here’s a snack that uses fu as-is without soaking.
Place fu in a heated frying pan and dry-toast it.
Once well toasted, melt in some butter and toss to coat, then add honey and coat again.
Finish by dusting with kinako (roasted soybean flour) and mixing to combine.
The gentle sweetness of the honey, the nutty aroma of the kinako, and the light, crisp texture make this a snack you won’t be able to stop eating.
It does use the stove, but it’s simple enough that older adults can give it a try.
chocolate fondue
Chocolate fondue, a familiar sight at hotel buffets, is a dessert where you dip fruit and snacks into chocolate sauce—perfect for parties and events at senior care facilities! If you want to keep it simple, try using a griddle.
Just place chocolate in a deep container and melt it on the griddle.
You can even toast potato chips and marshmallows alongside it, making it a win-win.
Using a colorful assortment of fruits like strawberries, oranges, bananas, and kiwis will surely delight the seniors!
Shirasu toast with cheese and mayonnaise
Shirasu (baby sardines) are an easy way to get calcium, so you’ll want to add them to your table more often.
But the repertoire tends to be limited to things like sprinkling them over rice or adding them to vinegared dishes.
This recipe turns shirasu into a snack by making them into toast.
Spread mayonnaise on a slice of bread, top with shirasu, sprinkle cheese over that, and toast until nicely browned—done! It’s great because the toaster does all the work and it’s super easy.
If you add an extra drizzle of mayonnaise on top before toasting, it develops a beautiful char and looks even more delicious.
Dessert buffet
Let’s have everyone choose their favorites from an array of different desserts.
People who want to try as many varieties as possible and those who want to stick to only what they love will each show their individuality through their choices, so it’s a great idea to use their selection points as a conversation starter.
If each dessert is large, there’s a chance they’ll only be able to pick one, so prepare smaller items like fruit and mini cakes.
It could also be fun to let everyone show off their creativity—playing with tray colors and combinations might even lead to inventing brand-new desserts.
Biscotti with Sesame and Kinako in a Frying Pan
Biscotti, a traditional British baked sweet with a crunchy texture.
While the typical biscotti recipe involves kneading the dough and baking it in the oven, this version is much easier.
Mix plenty of kinako (roasted soy flour) and sesame—both rich in calcium—into the dough, shape it into a round, and cook it in a frying pan lined with parchment.
Flip it over and steam-cook it further.
Slice it into long, thin pieces, arrange them on a heatproof plate, and microwave to dry them out.
Biscotti are known for being very hard, so if that’s difficult for older people, try shortening the microwaving step.
Fruit Daifuku
Fruit daifuku has become a big trend in recent years.
Do you think making it by hand is too difficult? Believe it or not, you can easily make it using a microwave! The colorful cross-sections when cut are sure to delight seniors as well.
First, wrap your favorite fruit with store-bought smooth red bean paste (koshian).
Next, mix the mochi ingredients with water and heat them in the microwave.
Finally, wrap the fruit with the mochi and you’re done! Try choosing seasonal fruits like strawberries, mandarins, or kiwis to enjoy a sense of the season.
Fruit milk agar jelly
Somehow, milk kanten has a nostalgic flavor, doesn’t it? Agar is easier to handle than gelatin and sets more firmly, so I recommend it.
Using milk also lets you get some calcium.
It’s convenient to use mixed cut fruit that includes several kinds of fruit.
The more varieties you use, the more luxurious it looks.
After arranging the fruit in the mold, freeze it once.
That way, it won’t come loose as easily when you pour in the agar mixture.
It’s fun to think about how to arrange the fruit to create a lovely design.
