Meals On Wheels

Meals On Wheels food is no longer edible. Meals of thin chicken breast and pork chops are overcooked and dry and hard to cut and eat. Noodles are so overcooked could be described as "good for wallpaper hanging" Veggies overcooked, some out of cans uncooked. Occasionally get good food that appears left over from perhaps city or state function and donated to MOW, then to us delivered in crumbling appearance. It was once better. Today I stopped my donation. Will look for better help source.

Delivered and paper or plastic bags with some time spills occurs.

Review 1: the people who work there are fine and helpful. However, the volunteers who deliver are low quality people. Meals show up about 50 % of the time. Not good if you are dependent on this service. Today is New Years Day. No delivery arrived yesterday, so nothing to eat today. Tomorrow is Wednesday. THey don't deliver on Wednesday. Usually you get a frozen meal for Wednesday before Wednesday arrives. So, I guess I won't eat tomorrow either.
One day, someone came, rang my door bell once. I was in the livingroom about 8 feet from the door. I went to the door struggling because it is hard to walk. When I got to the door, she was at the end of the street about to turn. I tried to hail her to no avail. At least that was earlier in the day. I called senior plus. They were able to send a deliverer from next town over. They contacted my actual deliverer said "I'm done. I'm going home". Not impressed.
Review 2: I just upgraded the stars because I am impressed they deliver despite almost no resources. They say they give 30% daily requirement of protein. Not true. Not all meals have protein. 30% is not enough. I am always hungry. For a long time I had nothing to eat on weekends. That was hard. But now they are delivering frozen meals for me to eat on weekends.
Today my meal fell on the floor. None of it was rescued. So I will not eat today. They are doing what they can within resources available.

Food is awful. Hunks of broccoli stalks, chunks of unseasoned tofu, just awful. Offered to dogs and they wouldn't touch it. Will cancel.

Really helped my granny a lot during some months she was on this service and during which time I could not run lunch over to her and Doordash was getting way too expensive. Some of the volunteers aren't very sunny or well-dispositioned, but the service itself was a god-send.

Only 5 days a week, 1 a day. It is 3 pm, very hungry. Took 2 bites, couldn't eat. Maybe later. Food not good.

More time is needed before they leave to let them in! They are supposed to be use the buzzer system and be buzzed in yet some don't know how to use it and will call on their cell phone! I answered a call that was made by their cell phone but no one said anything so I went downstairs to let them in but they had already left! They have it written on the instruction sheet to buzz to be let in yet still use their cell phone!

Recently started my mother on MOW and quality and quantity do not match the cost. The food is horrible, too much salt. We have only received one half-pint container of milk and what they call breakfast is not breakfast with expired cream cheese or tiny container of "fluff."
Food delivery is late The volunteer deliverer said she would always be late she likes to talk.
We tried calling but everything goes to voicemail and maybe they'll call back in a day or two.

Liver had green color on it. Who knows where they get the food? Also, I was told call medicaid for services MOW claims to have
Housekeeping, repairs, and ramps built. They said call medicaid. I believe it is all B.S.

My poor old parents have been getting meals on wheels. I wish I could give them zero stars. The meat and veggies are rubbery and inedible. The deserts are the worst I've ever seen. Lumps of something unrecognizable. The sandwiches are made with the cheapest lunch meat imaginable. Some type of fatty salami. I would never recommend this company.

I am a homebound senior with very low income, who lives in Albuquerque, and I have always appreciated immensely the 'Meals on Wheel' program. The meals, until recently, have been quite good. I don't know if there's a new chef or not, but for the last couple of months the meals have been awful. Very tasteless, little meat, etc. One meal had a slice of ham so fatty that I couldn't eat it or cut off the fat, there was too much. Another meal was pork and it was so touch I couldn't even cut it with a knife. When I did finally get a bite off, it was too tough to chew. Today I had what was supposed to be a chicken enchilada. Fatty chicken, just a few little pieces of tortilla. These are not good quality meals.

I set my expectations low but this mow's cannot even be called food. And some of the crap was spoiled. Is this how the rich United States feeds it's elderly human beings. Somebody is getting rich off this scam. Just so disgusted. And what is that foul smell all the food has. Same smell mow's had 25 years ago when my parents had this crap. The folks who provide this meals are despicable. They should eat this crap and feed it to their families.

I got warm meals delivered Mon thru Fri. They'd run out of milk or even run out of meals. They did not properly prepare ahead for snow days either. The meal portions were smaller than the proper amounts also. But worst of all meals would be delivered that were not sealed properly. Sometimes having spilled out into the grocery bag it was being delivered in. When you called them, they never offered to send a new meal and they gave you attitude. Like you had no right to complain. Over-all it was a horrible experience. I know farmers who treat there pigs better than they treated me. I am now with Mom's Meals and could not be happier.

The meal is ok at times, fruits can be damaged (see orange picture below) the people that deliver the food are sociable sometimes; but, if you ever have to talk to those that work at the location, good luck! They can certainly be replaced... Whenever they answer the phone, they make you feel like they are doing you a favor by answering the phone. Perhaps, they forget they have a job because of us...

I should warn any prospective clients - my dog won't touch this food! It is AWFUL. This program is supported by taxpayers and I'm sure it would not be, if the taxpayer tasted the food. They have no delivery schedule so when the food finally arrives, it is thawed and unhealthy for consumption. I'm sorry I couldn't give this review a negative star. You will get no nourishment from the food and neither will your pets

I doubt the food is prepared under ADA guidelines. It's atrocious! Boiled potatoes and spaghetti without tomato sauce is not food. The previous vendor tried to make delicious food and they succeeded at making my 95 year old grandmother eat. Not this new vendor. It'd better if they just delivered the milk, juice and bread and butter. The rest of it gets thrown in the garbage by my grandmother and I don't blame her.

My mother used meals on wheels while recuperating from a broken hip. After only 2 weeks she canceled the service. The meals were unacceptable. She was paying for a lump of disgusting meat not fit for a dog, green beans which turn rubbery when microwaved. The same meals each week. You need to do better for our elderly and disabled. You can buy a better meal off the dollar menu at McDonald's.

I received M's on W's for about 6 mos and had to discontinue as it was killing me. I gained 25 lbs, and experienced kidney failure with blood chemistry all over the map, resulting in life threatening conditions.

Besides mostly horrible frozen dinners from Jackson, Mississippi which is reportedly produced by certified nutritionists and properly trained chefs (that's a crying matter laugh) the taste and food quality is generally low grade that could be pitched at Wal-Mart for one fourth the price M's on W's reportedly pays.

The there is all the low grade tossed in this nits of sugary treats and juices. Non of these should be consumed by anyone but certainly by anyone who is unhealthy which is probably 90% of the people receiving this poison.

Though a small percentage of the "food" is acceptable occasionally in very small amounts, as a daily intake, the total package turns out to be killing doses of poison.

These include unhealthy oils, most likely trans fats, little to no omega 3s, very little whole animal products are stretched out with carbs, way too much carbohydrate including sugars. Overly processed foods; any fruit is processed.

Parent was receiving food. Delivery ppl would only take a minute for elderly to reach door and leave. And say parent did not ans door. Nor ans tel as parent had to walk back to tel. Very slow. Ended up in hospital. Then MOW rude person says no food as route full….on waiting list. We know this is revenge because parent complained. Beware the scam run on our elderly.

I had a medical appointment, when they came and since I wasn't home to answer, they called the cops on me. When I got home, there were police cars everywhere. I didn't know what was going on. Their food tastes like $#*! and I can't eat half of it because I have no teeth. Its not their job to call cops on a person, they should just leave the food if nobody answers.

First of all, shout out to all the folks who volunteer their time & effort to making sure the food reaches those who need it. Thank you.
That being said, I'm disabled, VERY bad knees & degeneration of the disks in my lower back, so standing at the stove, cooking, is quite painful. I opted for the once a week frozen delivery, since I can't make it to the door in a timely manner. Now I don't know about the daily, fresh meals, but I pray they are better than the nasty, frozen meals. I don't know who thinks up these dinners, but there are few of them that are even edible! Most are bland, or consists of ingredients that don't go together, which makes these dinners inedible. I've had the cheap tv dinners that tasted better! I think there should be an anonymous survey given to the folks who receive these meals. That way, maybe whoever is in charge, can find a better distributor for frozen meals that are actually palatable, instead of the garbage being distributed now.

My mil is in her 80's and she has Dementia. The food that was delivered at 10:30 was to be the only meal. Let me explain it another way. If they are going to help the elderly, then do what you can to show some compassion not signs they should get food stamps. The elderly should consume as many calories as they can. The Meals On Wheels get this one meal they call "Between lunch and dinner." That meal should help them a lot. 836 calories is nothing. Great idea if they can put in as many calories as the drivers eat a day. Do not brag

Some of the meals were very good and nutritional with meat, vegetable, and fruit. Then it gets so bad the food is not edible. For example hot chilli powder and chilli peppers. Would you feed a child something like this! Or FROZEN boiled egg dried toast for dinner, or pumpkin in scrambled eggs, or worse sour milk in scrambled eggs, or ham and bean soup with lime. For barbecue chicken the sauce is Heinz 57. Yuk! I go to pick up my frozen meals the person that delivers to my vehicle doesn't wear a mask.

I'm writing in respond for my friends mother at 90 years old who is a receiver of this service and she wants to thank the wonderful fellas that bring her meals to her front door out.
She also wants to share with everyone her creative ideas using recycled food trays she gets daily as meals are served. It's keeps her motivated doing her art projects because it's keeps the mind healthy and strong. Thank you to everyone at Meals on Wheels for the wonderful service.