Delivered Meals
North Shoalhaven Meals on Wheels delivers nutritious meals, social interaction and a friendly check of a client’s wellbeing, helping people live the lives they choose.
We provide a wide range of soups, main meals and desserts that target the changing nutritional needs of older people. Our deliveries are face-to-face – not just ‘drop and go’. Our volunteers care, and grow valuable connections with our clients, week after week, delivery after delivery.
How to order
Contact us
Call the friendly team at North Shoalhaven Meals on Wheels on 4422 5111 or you can send us your details via our online Meals Request form below.
Confirm details
Once we have your details and MAC or NDIS number your local Client Coordinator will contact you to finalise details such as menu choices and delivery days.
Meal delivery starts
Our local Meals on Wheels volunteers start delivering the meals. If your needs change over time, your local Client Coordinator is your point of contact.
Convenience & Cost
Meals are delivered weekly right to your door. There is no limit to the number of meals you can order, and you can change as often as you need. You may like a meal every day, or you may just like to keep a few in the freezer for those times when you need an easy dinner.
With support from the Commonwealth Government and our strong volunteer base, we are able to provide exceptional value for money. Note the new main meal and omelette prices from 1 September 2024:
- Main meals $7.00
- Omelettes $3.00
- Soups $2.50
- Desserts $2.50
Nutritional Benefits
- Our meals are nutritious for everyone, especially those over 65 or recovering from illness or injury.
- We cater for special dietary needs including low salt, gluten free, vegetarian, and texture modified.
- Older adults may eat less than they used to, but their need for nutrients such as protein, calcium, dietary fibre and folate is higher. Our meals provide this extra nutrition, supporting stronger bones, muscle strength and overall wellbeing.
Most supermarket ready-made meals don’t meet protein or calcium targets and can be high in sodium and fat. View a comparison of nutrition information for our meals compared to supermarket equivalents. Better still, talk to your GP or an Accredited Dietician about nutrition needs appropriate to your age.
Your choice and responsibility
All of our meals come with nutritional information and ingredients listed. These are on our website, on client menus and also printed on meals. Your client coordinator will be happy to discuss allergies or intolerances, or your need for texture-modified meals.
Variety & Quality
Just as important as nutrition, our meals taste great! Our menus are planned on a four-week rotation, with 32 meals to choose from. You could eat something different every day of the month or stick with a few of your favourites.
All of the meals we deliver are prepared in commercial kitchens, with qualified Food Safety Supervisors on duty. Our kitchens are regularly inspected and meet the high standards required when cooking for vulnerable people. Wherever possible, we source our ingredients locally.
Our new commercial kitchen in South Nowra will continue to produce our soups and desserts, and then start producing main meals for our local area, where possible concentrating on using local fresh produce.
Home Care Packages
If you are on a Home Care Package (HCP), the Australian Government will give you a budget for services to help you stay independently in your own home. You still need to pay the meal costs of ingredient and packaging, while the Government, through your HCP budget, will cover administration and overhead costs. Together these are the ‘Total Meal Cost’.
- You pay 30% of the Total Meal Cost, being $4.20.
- While 70% of the Total Meal Cost is charged to your HCP.
Meals Request Form
To request delivery of meals, complete the form below and one of our friendly team will call you to confirm and work through any details. If you already have a My Aged Care or NDIS number, we will ask you for this when we call.
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