[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 (31–40)
Easy demon Baumkuchen
An easy-to-make Oni Baumkuchen is also recommended.
First, prepare a store-bought Swiss roll cake.
Cut it into bite-sized wedge-shaped pieces.
Next, use whipped cream for the hair and a chocolate pen to draw the face.
At this point, it should already start looking like an ogre.
For the finishing touch, place an Apollo chocolate on top of the head, and it’s done.
If you change the color of the cake, you could make a red ogre too.
The fun part is drawing a variety of facial expressions.
Try making your very own Oni Baumkuchen.
Oni Cookies
These are ogre-themed cookies whose charm lies in the satisfying feel of cutting out the dough.
First, make the base dough.
As usual, mix eggs, cake flour, and baking powder.
Then chill it in the refrigerator and you’re ready to go.
Next, use your favorite cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
We recommend cutters like an ogre’s face or an ogre’s spiked club.
There are many products available, so try finding cutters you like.
By the way, be careful not to overbake, as the patterns can get blurred.
Tofu Mitarashi Dango
How about a very healthy snack that combines mitarashi dango with tofu? First, fill a pot with water and make a base seasoning with soy sauce, potato starch, and mirin.
Next, add sugar to shiratamako or mochiko, then knead in tofu and shape the mixture into small balls.
Once they’re formed, boil them, then chill them in ice water.
For extra flavor, you can lightly grill them at this point if you like.
Finally, toss them with the sauce you made earlier, and they’re done.
You’ll have an adorable set of dumplings that are sure to whet your appetite!
Dorayaki made with pancake mix
Hotcake mix, which became a hot topic after repeatedly selling out during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a fantastic product that lets anyone easily make snacks.
How about serving dorayaki—a Japanese-Western fusion treat featuring fluffy batter and sweet red bean paste—for a snack activity at your day service? The dorayaki batter is as simple as mixing hotcake mix, eggs, honey, and milk, then cooking it in a frying pan.
Using store-bought red bean paste makes the filling easy.
You can also enjoy the activity by adding your own twists, such as topping with whipped cream or fruit.
Pumpkin stick pie
Pumpkin stick pies made with frozen puff pastry sheets are an easy-to-eat, recommended snack for seniors.
Because pumpkin is hard and difficult to cut, wrap it in plastic wrap and microwave at 600W for 1 minute to make it easier to slice.
Add milk, salt, honey, and white pepper to the cut pumpkin, then microwave at 600W for about 6 minutes.
Finally, transfer to a pot and warm it while adding more milk, cooking until it becomes a soft, spreadable paste.
Spread the paste thinly over the puff pastry sheet, fold, cut with a knife, twist, and bake in a toaster to finish.
It’s also fun to change up the shapes, like squares or triangles.
[For Seniors] Simple and Delicious! Snack Activity Collection (41–50)
sweet pumpkin
There are probably many seniors who enjoy sweet, fluffy pumpkin.
Here’s a sweet pumpkin treat made with just that.
Cut the pumpkin into moderate pieces, microwave until soft, and remove the skin.
Mix it with ingredients like maple syrup and butter, then roll it into balls.
Use a toothpick to score lines on the surface so they look like tiny pumpkins.
Bake them in the oven, and top with bits of pumpkin skin to finish—adorable, pumpkin-shaped sweet treats.
While they’re baking, the sweet aroma of maple syrup fills the air, making this a dish you’ll look forward to eating.
Crepe
Creating something is fun, but recreational activities like cooking and baking that let you eat what you make are especially popular.
Here is an introduction to crepes—safe and easy to make even for seniors.
With common household ingredients like eggs, sugar, milk, and cake flour, you can make delicious homemade crepes.
Once you’ve prepared the ingredients and mastered the steps, heat a frying pan and start cooking.
Add toppings like fruit, cream, or chocolate, and you’ll have a cute crepe that looks as bright and delightful as it tastes.
