NDIS Meal Preparation
Core Supports
What can NDIS fund for Meal Preparation?
NDIS participants have the opportunity to secure funding for meal preparation through the Assistance with Daily Living category. This includes NDIS food preparation services and delivery supports which are indispensable for accessing the nutritious meals required to enhance your well-being. However, it’s important to note that the NDIS does not cover the everyday living costs that are common to everyone such as the cost of food or ingredients for your meals.
The NDIS recognises that access to meal preparation services can significantly alleviate the everyday cost of living for people with disabilities who often contend with additional challenges in preparing and accessing healthy meals. This support ensures that you have the means to maintain a healthy diet without the additional financial burden of purchasing and preparing food yourself.
By receiving meal preparation assistance, participants can focus on other aspects of personal growth and well-being. As NDIS meal providers, Maple caters to your specific dietary requirements and preferences, ensuring that your meals are not only nutritious but also enjoyable, ultimately contributing to an enriched quality of life.
What Meal Preparation Services Can Maple Provide?
Maple Community Services can help with a myriad of Meal Preparation tasks based on your personal needs to ensure you are getting a healthy and balanced diet to improve your quality of life. These may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Constructing meal plans and menus
- Shopping for ingredients
- Preparing or assisting with cooking meals
- Washing up
- Helping with food storage and organisation
- Splitting food into daily meals
Why Choose Maple for Meal Preparation Services?
At Maple, we are full service support providers. That means we go above and beyond to not just prepare your meals, but make sure that you are eating the best you can be.
- We have experience and empathy and will do all we can to improve your quality of life.
- We create relationships with our clients and provide a personalised service, getting to know your likes and dislikes, as well as your nutritional needs.
- We will take into consideration your personal needs when we go about our food purchasing and preparing.
- We are trustworthy, timely, and communicative.
- We understand the importance of a nutritional, balanced, and enjoyable diet, and how this can significantly impact your physical and mental health.
- We are renowned for our extremely fast turnaround and approval times for Referrals.
We proudly provide our NDIS meal preparation and delivery services across nationwide Australia. In Western Sydney, we are active in Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Camden, Central Coast, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Hawkesbury, Hills Shire, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith, and Wollondilly.
Our services also extend across Bayside, Burwood, Canada Bay, Georges River, Hornsby, Hunter’s Hill, Inner West, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove, Liverpool, Mosman, North Sydney, Northern Beaches, Randwick, Strathfield, Sutherland, Sydney, Waverly, Woollahra. We are also extending our services and accommodations into Brisbane, Queensland; Darwin, Northern Territory; and Perth, Western Australia.
There are many factors that the NDIS considers before deciding on your available funding. The support service needs to be reasonable and necessary to help you achieve your goals, purpose, and aspirations.
Meal preparation and menu plans are covered under the Core Supports category and considered as Assistance with Daily Activities. If you are unable to cook a meal or shop for ingredients because of your disability, you should be covered under the NDIS funding to pay for meal preparation and even have meals delivered to you.
The specifics of your NDIS Plan will determine how you can use the available funds. If you’re not sure if your needs fall under this category, we can help you clarify with the NDIA exactly what is and isn’t covered under your personalised plan.
The NDIS will cover the cost of having your meal prepared and delivered to you. It doesn’t cover the cost of ingredients as these are considered to be ‘everyday expenses.’ Since this is the case, most meal service providers use a standard formula for all their meals instead of itemising each ingredient in a dish. By doing this, it breaks down the cost for preparation, delivery, and ingredients and this may vary depending on the provider. Generally, providers use a co-pay method where NDIS funding will cover around 70% of the price of the meal and 30% is covered by the participant.
How Do I Access Maple Meal Preparation Services?
First of all, get in touch with us online, by phone, or in person! We can meet with you, help assess your dietary needs and what’s covered and available to you under the NDIS, and then partner you with the right people. Together, we’ll create a plan that works for you to make sure you're eating a balanced and nutritious diet that will keep you as healthy as you can possibly be.
Can you use NDIS for Meal Preparation?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funds reasonable and necessary supports that are connected to the disability you are living with and each participant's NDIS Plan is different. The NDIS can provide you with funding to use Maple’s Meal Preparation services if you are unable to do it yourself.
Unfortunately, the NDIS does not cover the cost of the food itself. The services are provided to participants subject to the rules set out in the NDIS price guide, but we will work to make sure you can make the most of what’s available to you.
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