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As someone who just removed her two hands from a huge bag of Trader Joe's Original Potato Chips I would caution you to continue letting grandmother eat what she likes. It is her privilege and her right.
Once us old timers reach a certain age, we tend to lose our sense of taste and gravitate to foods that we can still taste. Will it all be healthy, heavens no. Give me a really good hamburger any day, same with pizza, I can still taste those.
Also, it could be the caregiver is a fantastic person but not a fan of cooking. If you start asking her to start complex cooking she may not stay on as a caregiver, and that wouldn't be fair to your grandmother.
Let grandma eat as she wishes.
Unless GM has a health issue (including obesity), I’d perhaps give the caregiver a list of what GM likes that you approve of, and leaving it at that.
The day my family starts dictating to me what I can and cannot eat is the day I kick them ALL out of my house.
It is not independence at all if the caregiver is making the unhealthy choices and ordering. Isn't grandma telling the caregiver what to order, using her voice?
Key is that grandma's needs are not being served. If she was truly independent to get her own food, this issue would not have come across your purview.
Services like Instacart online do have "lists" that can be on automatic delivery each week. You can set that up, for groceries to be delivered-a set list-weekly. A different list can be for monthly needs. To keep Grandma independent, you would ask her what she wants.
The home delivered meals (Prepared/delivered) usually administered by the Senior Centers do help the senior remain in their home longer-an overall independence issue. This program helps the senior by checking on her M-F--she has to answer the door to receive the fresh food. Maybe she would have less need for a caregiver on those home delivered meals mornings.
Not knowing your Grandma's specific needs, that's all I have to offer now.
I personally dislike the voice option. My bank on automated phone cannot get it right when I answer : "Yes". In drive-thru restaurants, they never get it right when I order "two". Maybe that's just me though. I do not have an accent.
I do believe that ordering your own food is a mark of independence. If that can be maintained with just a little help from family, and not taking over feeding her completely the wrong foods, then she can be "independent" longer.
Well said Lealonnie!
P.S. Whether ordered online and clicking a picture of pizza, or ordering by voice saying "Pizza", it's still Pizza, right? (joke).
Also, a voice activated feature on, say, the Wal Mart app would be useless because if you spoke PIZZA into the app, a giant list of pizzas would come up and then you'd have to scroll with your finger to find which one you want. I don't see a voice feature working, but it could be tried on a phone I guess. It'd be much easier to use a finger than a voice, since these apps are very easy to use.