Celebrity chef and restaurateur Manu Feildel has donned the apron and been busy in the kitchen of AnglicareSA’s Westbourne Park Residential Aged Care home, showcasing his new range of sauces to our hospitality and Resident Experience teams.

The acclaimed chef, known for his role as a judge on Channel 7’s My Kitchen Rules, hosted a taste test with six of his heat-and-eat sauces from his range, By Manu, for AnglicareSA and South Australian food supplier Timpecha Wholesalers which supplies AnglicareSA’s residential aged care homes with grocery products and fresh milk each day.

Erich Schwensen, General Manager of Timpecha Wholesalers, said he arranged the visit to AnglicareSA after meeting with Manu at a conference.

“I suggested that it could be worthwhile coming to South Australia and to meet our key customer AnglicareSA, and talk to the chefs about his range and whether it was suitable for the residential aged care setting and what they thought of it,” Erich said.

Manu said that in busy kitchens where there could sometimes be a shortage of time to prepare some ingredients, his product, a heat-and-eat sauce range, could address this without compromising on flavour.

“The solution before was you either make your own sauce or buy the powder, which are both of different quality,” Manu said.

“That is where By Manu comes in, where we make a sauce with real ingredients, no additives, no preservatives, with the convenience of being able to quickly heat them.”

 

 

AnglicareSA Operations Manager, Resident Experience, Maurits de Graeff, said the organisation was committed to a ‘food first’ focus across its aged care homes, where fresh, nutritious, and delicious food is available for residents when they want it.

He said products like Manu’s sauces brought home-style cooking flavours into meals that would meet customer expectations from now into the future.

“AnglicareSA is looking at how, in the future, we can still perform to residents’ expectations,” Maurits said.

“Because in a couple of years, the residents’ expectations will change, and we need to make sure we can meet those changes as we move into the future.”

Maurits also said that sauces like Manu’s, being rich in nutrition and taste, could reduce the need for adding proteins and powders.

“We want residents to eat food that is healthy, nutritious, and flavourful, without having to add in a bunch of proteins and powders that do not always taste nice,” he said.

“With this kind of product, even if we have limited time or resources, we can still provide tasty food for our residents, without spending a lot of time or money on making powders and mixing them into food.”

AnglicareSA’s Resident Experience team is currently exploring trialling Manu’s sauce range across our six Residential Aged Care homes before potentially rolling it out as a permanent fixture on the menu.