[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] Simple and Delicious! Snack Activity Collection (41–50)
Pumpkin soft cookies
Let’s try making soft pumpkin cookies.
When you think of cookies, most are crisp with a bit of crunch, right? By using pancake mix, even seniors can easily make soft cookies.
The cookies also include mashed pumpkin that’s been microwaved.
You’ll get cookies with a gentle pumpkin aroma and a fluffy, tender texture.
Seniors might find it refreshing to use pancake mix for treats beyond just pancakes.
Pancake-mix recipes were trendy a little while ago.
There are many snacks you can make with pancake mix, so why not give it a try?
[For Seniors] Easy and Delicious! Snack Activity Collection (51–60)
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.
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.
sweet potato yokan (Japanese sweet potato jelly)
How about making sweet potato yokan for a day-service snack activity using simple ingredients like sweet potatoes, agar, and sugar? Sweet potatoes contain insoluble dietary fiber, and agar contains soluble dietary fiber, making them great ingredients for supporting gut health.
Peel and cut the sweet potatoes, put them in a pot, and simmer.
Once they’re soft, mash them, add agar that has been simmered with sugar and water, then chill until set—and it’s done! It has a simple, comforting flavor and lets you get solid nutrition, so give it a try.
Apple cake
Autumn is the season when fruit tastes especially good.
Among them, apples are a fruit with many varieties and are easy to find.
How about baking a cake using those apples? Even though it’s called a cake, it’s very simple: just four ingredients, and you make it in the microwave instead of the oven.
The ingredients are apples, pancake mix, milk, and eggs.
Mix everything except the apples thoroughly to make the batter, and slice the apples into quarter-moon pieces about 2 mm thick.
Put the apples in a microwave-safe dish, pour the batter evenly over the top, smooth it out, and microwave for about 5 minutes.
Dust with powdered sugar before serving.
Japanese-style parfait with matcha mizuyokan and brown sugar syrup
Let’s try making a Japanese-style parfait topped with kuromitsu (brown sugar syrup) over soft matcha mizu-yokan.
You can use store-bought matcha mizu-yokan, and kits that include the ingredients make it easy to prepare.
These days, you can enjoy parfaits casually at family restaurants and cafes, and even supermarkets sell cup parfaits.
However, there was a time when parfaits weren’t so readily available and were considered an occasional luxury.
Some older adults might still feel that way about parfaits.
During a snack-making activity where you make parfaits, why not ask people what kind of image or impressions they have of parfaits? It could spark a lively conversation.
Tofu microwave cheesecake-style
Let’s make a tofu cheesecake using only a microwave, no oven needed! Thoroughly mix the ingredients—silken tofu, cream cheese, sugar, eggs, and flour—in that order.
Pour the batter into a heatproof dish, cover with plastic wrap, and microwave.
Let it cool to room temperature, then chill until set, and it’s ready.
Since it doesn’t require a stove or oven and involves no intricate steps, it’s perfect for making together as a fun snack-time activity.
Cut into bite-sized pieces, plate them, and dust with powdered sugar for a lovely presentation.