Nutritious meals are provided via: - Diner's Clubs: Local restaurants offer meals for older adults ages 60 and older throughout the day or over the lunch hour with no reservations required. - Community Dining Centers: Community dining locations offer well balanced, hot meals. Meals include milk and are served daily around noon. Special diets such as diabetic, controlled sodium, and low-fat/low-cholesterol can be accommodated through meals. Upon request, hot or frozen carryout meals are provided. - Food Vendor Services: Registered dietitians create diverse, fresh, nutritious meals to comply with federal guidelines childcare, schools and older adults. Offers a wide range of menu items to satisfy a wide range or customers. - Meals on Wheels: Volunteers deliver locally prepared hot meals Monday - Friday and perform a safety check for older adults unable to leave their homes. Frozen meals available for weekends, holidays, and other closure days. - Meals to Go: Provides shipped frozen homestyle meals. Each shipment includes 14 frozen meals. In addition to a nutritious meal, Senior Nutrition provides seniors: - Activities and friendly interaction - Connections with area professionals - Information about other community senior services

- Advocacy and outreach on elder services - Congregate meals for dine-in and home delivery of meals - Educational conferences - Elder activities - Elder/Disabled Energy Program (electric and gas service payment assistance) - Information and referrals - Social nutrition

- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget. - Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves - Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program. - Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need - Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

Provides a senior meal and meals on wheels service in partnership with Lutheran Senior Services

Provides meal services, community events, and wellness for elders who are White Earth Nation members. Services include: - Congregate meals - Employment opportunities - Exercise sessions - Foot care clinics - Home-delivered meals - Information and referral services - Nutrition education - Nutrition counseling - Social events - Podiatry clinics - Transportation through public transit program - Wellness screenings

Offers nutritious, balanced meals and food-service options for older adults and others across Minnesota, helping people eat well, stay healthy, and maintain independence without the burden of meal preparation. Services include: - Community Dining Centers and "Diner's Club": Hot, dietitian-designed meals served in a communal setting, great for socializing over a meal - Food Vendor Services: Acts as a food vendor supplying nutritious meals to institutions (child-care centers, schools, adult-day programs, assisted-living facilities) under programs that follow federal nutrition standards - Meals on Wheels: Home-delivered hot meals (typically Monday-Friday, with options for weekends) for older adults who may have difficulty leaving home. Delivery includes a friendly visit and a safety check - Meals to Go: Frozen, ready-to-eat meals shipped statewide, ideal for people living in rural areas or those without access to dining centers or delivery services

- Advocacy and outreach on elder services - Congregate meals for dine-in and home delivery of meals - Educational conferences - Elder activities - Elder/Disabled Energy Program (electric and gas service payment assistance) - Information and referrals - Social nutrition

- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications: Provides assistance with applications for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a county-run, state-supervised Federal program that helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for sound nutrition and well-balanced meals. The program issues electronic food support benefits that can help stretch your household food budget. - Information and Referral: Offers information on resources of local food shelves - Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) Applications: The program is designed to provide healthy and nutritious food products each month at no cost to eligible individuals over the age of 60. Helps eligible individuals apply for the program. - Second Harvest Heartland: Provides a free food distribution program to those in need - Prairie Five Meals Program: Offers congregate dining, home delivered, and frozen meals serving 34 communities in the area. Frozen meals are available for weekend, holiday, emergency and rural delivery. The program promotes health and independent living in the senior population through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation.

The Heritage Community Center offers a place for seniors to come for companionship, activities, resources, and meals through fundraising events

Provides hot congregate meals on a regular basis for elderly or disabled adults who may be at risk for nutritional deficits without assistance and who can profit from opportunities to socialize with others: - Special foods for individuals on diabetic, low-salt, and low-fat diets - Choice of scheduled meal or chef salad

Volunteer-delivered meals for older adults who are unable to prepare meals. Meals are delivered at 12 noon.

Provides home delivered meals

Provides a dietary meal to homebound individuals or older adults over the age of 60. One hot and up to four frozen meals are available each week. Dedicated volunteers from area churches, businesses, and service groups deliver the meals. Volunteer opportunities are available for those interested in delivering a meal.

Coordinates Meals on Wheels programs in the metropolitan area by helping to enroll people throughout the Twin Cities. To locate a Meals on Wheels program, click on the link to enter an address and zip code: https://meals-on-wheels.com/

Meals by reservation for homebound older adults and their spouses, including safety checks for older adults

Connects and provides older adults and their caregivers with services in their community to allow them to live long, healthy, and independent lives in their own homes. Services include: - Food Assistance: Congregate dining locations offering low-cost meals, low-cost frozen meals, home-delivered meals, NAPS, and SNAP - Healthy Living: Blood pressure checks, fall prevention screenings, telehealth conferences, Tai Chi and yoga sessions, and stretching/balance education - Information Services: Offers memory loss education and Dementia Friends, Medicare counseling and assistance, fraud/scam identification and prevention, assistance with internet search, assistance with Healthcare Directives and Power of Attorney forms, and classes to older adults - Mobile Community Center: Brings services and socialization to the door or community. The vehicle is equipped with high-speed internet, flat-screen TV, applications for programs, and meeting space for coffee and conversation. - Social: Offers card parties, coffee and conversation time, caregiver respite, karaoke parties, video calls and chats with friends, and social media assistance

VINE volunteers deliver noon meals each weekday to aging adults and others who aren't able to shop for and/or prepare nutritious meals. An important benefit of the program is a personal safety check. Service is not available on holidays.

Coordinates the delivery of charitable food and essential items. Partners with Owatonna area churches that provide weekly community meals to deliver them to individuals and families facing transportation barriers. Meals are served on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Offers recreational activities for older adults. Activities offered include: - Bicycling club - Bingo - Book clubs - Card games - In-person or virtual caregiver support groups - Exercise classes such as Silver Sneakers Strength and Balance, Tai Chi, flexibility and strength, and yoga - Health insurance counseling - Knit and quilting - Line dancing - Legal information and resources - Ping pong - Outreach services such as referrals, mobile meals, and home visits - Special events - Technology assistance - Trips and community tours - Walking groups The Heritage Center is also available for rent for family parties, babyshowers, meetings, or a corporate event.

- Title III Congregate Meal provision to an elderly client or other eligible participant at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting. - Title III Home Delivered Meals may be made available to individuals with disabilities who reside in a non-institutional household with and are accompanied by an individual eligible for congregate meals. - Title VI Congregate and Home Delivered Meals will include enrolled members of any recognized tribe aged 55 years or over within the program service area. Eligibility will include spouse, handicapped or disabled individual in the same household of the eligible participant who accompany participant to a congregate site. - Title VI Caregiver Program will include caregiver support services directed toward informal, unpaid family caregivers of adults 55 years and over. Grandparents and relative caregivers, age 55 and older, who are the primary caregivers of a child not more than 18 years old because the biological or adoptive parents are unable or unwilling to serve as the primary caregiver of the child. They must be related to the child by blood, marriage, or adoption and live with the child.

Meals on Wheels through Lutheran Social Services - Mobile meals are available to those who are unable to prepare their own meals

- - Meals on Wheels program for residents of Cokato - - - Congregate dining is offered as a noon meal with friends and neighbors - - - Nutrition advice and education are given to participants on a regular basis

Trained advocates providing information and resources to people over the age of 60. The goal is to assist residents in finding resources to stay in the home and find possible options for alternative living situations. Helps with services such as: - Assist with plans for recreational activities - Caregiver education and support - Caregiver relief - Community education - Consumer protection - Deliver home meals and work with nutrition sites - Forms assistance - Health care directives - Home visits - Medicare Part D enrollment - Nutrition Assistance Program for seniors (NAP) - Partners with Senior Linkage Line and Area Agency on Aging - Scams/fraud - Senior legal rights - Transportation resources - Volunteer recruitment and training

Provides home-cooked meals consisting of an entree, vegetable, bread, fruit and seasonal dessert. Individuals can order 1 - 5 meals a week.

Provides a nutritious meal delivered to ones home by volunteer drivers within Blue Earth city limits.