Food services are available to older people, people with disabilities and their carers who have been assessed as nutritionally at risk and are unable to prepare regular meals.
Home delivered meals
Our meals are nutritionally balanced, appetising and culturally appropriate. We can also cater for most dietary requirements and texture modified meals.
Eligibility
To find out if you are eligible for these services, email our assessment team or call them on 9243 8806.
Fees
$6.45 per meal.
Our great meals service, only better
In 2007, Moonee Valley joined with 19 other councils to build a regional food kitchen based in Altona. This kitchen, which will be operated by a not-for-profit company called Community Chef, will be the most advanced of its kind in Australia.
The regional food kitchen opened in August 2010 and produces 1.2 million meals a year for residents across greater Melbourne.
This important regional project is supported and funded by all levels of Government in an aim to better meet the food security and nutritional needs of Melbourne’s growing older population. We started using the regional food kitchen in March 2011.
How does the new service work?
Clients still receive the same great service from us, with food delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year, by our team of delivery staff and volunteers.
However, our Meals on Wheels service now also offers greater independence, more choice and flexibility for clients.
The regional food kitchen uses the freshest ingredients and the most up to date food safety processes to prepare meals for our residents.
If clients choose, can now order several meals in advance rather than having to wait at home each day for their delivery at a certain time. Food can be kept chilled in the fridge until required and will have a much longer life than the existing hot meal service.
Clients however can still receive their meals each day if they choose and can get help heating them if required.
More meal choices
There is a much larger menu with more choice including Anglo/Australian, Asian, Mediterranean, Kosher and Halal meals; as well as choices to suit other dietary and health requirements.
The delivery service runs from the Food Services Kitchen at the Ascot Vale Neighbourhood Centre, which has been upgraded. The dinning room at the Ascot Vale Neighbourhood Centre still offers hot meals to residents.
Many councils across Victoria offer this important meals service. It is much more effective for councils to pool their resources together to improve this service for all residents.
More information
More information can be found in the questions and answers (pdf, 35KB) or by contacting our Aged and Disability Services team on 9243 8888.
Community dining rooms
We have three dining rooms in Moonee Valley where a midday meal is served in a social setting.
A three-course midday meal is served including orange juice, soup, main course (meat and vegetables) and a dessert.
Modified, vegetarian and prescribed special and culturally specific diets, as well as soft and vitamised meals, are catered for.
Lunch is served at 12 noon at the following neighbourhood centres:
Ascot Vale Neighbourhood Centre
Lunch served: Monday to Friday
8325 1813
Niddrie Community Hub
Lunch served: Wednesday
9351 0534
Kellaway Avenue Neighbourhood Centre
Lunch served: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
9370 4672
Eligibility
To find out if you are eligible for this service, email comcare@mvcc.vic.gov.au or call them on 9243 8806.
Fees
$6.10 per meal.
More information
For more information on dining rooms, call our Citizen Services Centre on 9243 8888.