Hi everyone! Welcome back to the Maximizing Low Vision Series at Braille Institute. I am Alyssa and I am Shelby and we are occupational therapy interns here at Braille Institute.
These lessons are tailored for individuals with low vision to learn about tips, techniques, and devices that may make daily living tasks a little easier for you to accomplish independently or with minimal assistance.
This is lesson 3, so if you missed the previous 2 be sure to check those out. The first week focused on devices and techniques to help with health management and medication management.
Last week or week 2, we focused on tips and devices to make your personal grooming routine a little easier. This week’s topic we will be focusing on meal prep and kitchen safety.
So why is kitchen safety and meal prep important? Well, eating is a basic need that we must do daily to survive, which means we will probably be in the kitchen quite frequently throughout the day.
There are multiple kitchen appliances, utensils and even gadgets that make cooking and meal prep easier, however some may be dangerous to operate if unable to see the settings or buttons.
Meal prep requires many skills such as being able to cut or peel foods safely, selecting the correct measuring utensil to avoid spillage, and being able to locate items and ingredients you will need.
It also involves the ability to operate different appliances such as a microwave, stove, or oven. Using a microwave requires accurately locating and selecting settings. Using a stove and oven requires the ability to accurately set temperatures, identify when burners are on/off, and monitor food when cooking.
So we hope we are able to introduce you to some new tips, techniques, or devices that can increase kitchen safety and help you cook your favorite meals more confidently and independently.
Course Objectives
Identify one strategy or adapted device to help with meal preparation
Identify one safety tip for the kitchen
Identify one strategy or device to implement in your own meal preparation
So as always we will start with some learning objectives for our lesson. We hope that by the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify one strategy or adapted device to help with meal preparation.
We also hope you will be able to identify one safety tip for the kitchen. Lastly, we hope that you will also be able to identify one strategy or device to implement in your own meal preparation.
And before we get started we want to make it clear that we are just introducing you to different techniques and adapted devices that may or may not be beneficial to you. You might have a better system in place, and that is okay we just want to inform you of what is out there.
We are also not saying to go out and buy every product in this presentation, but to maybe find 1 or 2 items that will help you and you believe you will use most often and incorporate it into your meal prep routine.