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NHS to stop offering weatabix for breakfast in hospital

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ladybird69 · 28/04/2019 19:13

I just wondered what others experienced in hospital recently. I was in hospital for 3 days and was never offered breakfast just had lunch and supper that we ticked boxes on menu for. I never knew that they did breakfast, no wonder I was starving.

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shouldwestayorshouldwego · 28/04/2019 20:16

Only things without gluten were orange juice, tea and coffee. Fortunately had a stash of breakfast bars.

Twickerhun · 28/04/2019 20:17

We get toast or cereal and drinks here for breakfast. Made on the ward by health care assistants, brought to your bed. I didn’t check if there was wetabix though as my poison of choice is cocoa pops.

speakout · 28/04/2019 20:19

My mother was in hospital 4 weeks ago, breakfast was porrige or cereal with toast, fruit, tea or coffee. All meals were delivered to he bed.

Lunch was typically a sandwich and soup with a yogurt or ice cream.

Dinner was soup, roast meat with veg and potatoes , slice of fruit pie,
Tea and biscuits were served mid morning, mid afternoon and before bed.

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JaneEyre07 · 28/04/2019 20:20

I was admitted last June with sudden onset chest pain.

I'm vegetarian and diabetic. The food choices meant I went without.

HexagonalBattenburg · 28/04/2019 20:22

When DD2 was in it was a trolley of various cereal and toast and parents told to "get as much as you need for yourselves as well - we can't swing hospital lunches for you so fill up"... unfortunately it made DD2 aware of the existence of coco pops which we'd got away without her knowing about before then! At that point she started watching the breakfast trolley like some sugar fuelled maniac and glaring at anyone who dared take HER coco pops.

ksake · 28/04/2019 20:24

Droch it’s a Glasgow thing ... in Aberdeen it’s toast , cereal , or hot porridge with salt or sugar . Also yoghurts ... If you’re unfortunately needing a specialist diet you can get a cooked breakfast (bacon, sausages, beans, and scrambled egg) .. OJ , pineapple, apple or cranberry to drink , tea and coffee , Horlicks or hot choc. Lots of choices for jam and marmalade etc , butter , marg, dairylea etc ...

I was horrified in Glasgow when they didn’t give me any toast , just a softie and jam .

stucknoue · 28/04/2019 20:24

Here they offer lots of options, apparently the best is "Asian breakfast". When I had my dd though (elsewhere) it was self service trolley

PerspicaciaTick · 28/04/2019 20:26

IME breakfast was always the best meal if the day. A hot drink, a carton of orange juice, a bowl of cereal and a slice of toast. Yum.

SihtricsHorseWitnere · 28/04/2019 20:28

Patients shouldn't have to ask how they can go about fucking feeding themselves in a hospital.

Fredscheesethins · 28/04/2019 20:29

I still don't understand why you didn't ask somebody. Didn't you see anyone with a slice of toast or mug of tea and wonder where they were getting it from? Next time, just ask where you can get something to eat.

wlv12 · 28/04/2019 20:29

On the ward I work on we do a buffet breakfast consisting of:

Toast
Cereals - cornflakes, weetabix, etc
Yoghurts
Fruit
Fruit juices/hot drinks

AspergersMum · 28/04/2019 20:29

I'm glad they are taking branded cereal off the menu. Why should we pay huge amounts for branded food across the NHS when alternatives are available and budgets are tight? Makes no sense.

Prequelle · 28/04/2019 20:29

How is cereal not food?

Anyway so noone on your ward got breakfast? Are you sure you jusr didn't sleep through it? There's usually a trolley between 7-9 (depending on ward). We have 6 different types of cereal and then toast after. Followed by hot drink.

Ylvamoon · 28/04/2019 20:30

I was on post natal ward after DC, first day: ... They had a buffet style trolley for breakfast in a little common room - which nobody told me about. Lunch came round and was served at the bed. Except, that it had to be ordered the day before... I was quite bluntly told that as I haven't ordered anything, there would be no lunch. This was applied to anyone else who hadn't put in an order. One midwife took pitty on me and got me some toast and butter which I shared with a lady in the same situation as me.
What a shambles! People need food to recover and get better. People come and go all the time, especially on a post natal ward. There should be some basic food provision / availability for everyone (=beyond a slice of toast with butter).

greenelephantscarf · 28/04/2019 20:31

Patients shouldn't have to ask how they can go about fucking feeding themselves in a hospital.

totally and absolutely this

justdog · 28/04/2019 20:31

When I was on the maternity ward after having dd, there was a girl who would go round in the evening asking for your breakfast choices. She stated I had the option of cereal plus milk, but 'you gonna have to pour your own bloody milk', or that I could have toast, butter and jam. But she was quick to state that she was 'not gonna waste her time putting the butter and jam on no toast for no-one, I ain't paid to do Shit like that'... she also told me that if I hadn't finished my dinner in time for her to collect the tray (approx ten mins after receiving dinner) then I could 'bloody well return it down the corridor' myself. I returned the tray.

I bloody loved that girl. She made me laugh during dark times.

TransFannyUltrasound · 28/04/2019 20:33

I was in (NHS) a few years ago, for a few weeks. Once I was allowed to eat, I really went for it.

Breakfast was porridge/cereals, toast, tea/coffee, THEN (depending which day of the week) it was bacon or sausages or scrambled egg, with baked beans or tinned tomatoes.

I struggle with preparing/cooking food, and washing up, so having all this stuff brought to me was ace.

justdog · 28/04/2019 20:33

I also realise that her bedside manner was massively lacking and I got the impression she probably was able to switch her attitude accordingly..: at least I hope so

brizzlemint · 28/04/2019 20:33

20 years ago breakfast was a help yourself affair from a room off the ward so I'd assume the same now.

duebaby2 · 28/04/2019 20:34

Always cereal (mini box packets) or toast or bring your own. Lunch and dinner were chosen via the tv but again you could also bring your own. I rejected a large stuffed crust pizza I’d requested via my parents because I felt so sick post partum - they took it home to eat and I cried.
Knowing I’ll have at least three days in with baby 2 (5 days with baby 1) it’s something I will think about this time because frankly the hospital food I thought I’d like was vomit inducing. Pasta was beyond pasta it was mush and plain despite being in a sauce

mimibunz · 28/04/2019 20:36

Wheetabix is grim.

GuineaPiglet345 · 28/04/2019 20:38

After giving birth I had to stay in for a week and I only got offered toast, and only if you were awake at 7am. I found the portions for all meals just weren’t enough for me, so I can’t imagine they’d be enough for male patients.

SihtricsHorseWitnere · 28/04/2019 20:42

Cereal isn't food Hmm. Okay, so porridge isn't food. Tell that to Scots who have been existing on it for centuries.

oneforthepain · 28/04/2019 20:49

Why did you not ask?

Why the fuck should hospital inpatients have to ask in order to be fed?

More like, why weren't the staff taking proper care of their patients?

MattMagnolia · 28/04/2019 20:51

In hospital recently I waited all day for a minor op needing GA so couldn’t eat. Finally at 1am I was woken to be told my op would be next day, so did I want some toast? No thanks so starved again next day until op and finally got dinner at 6ish.
Dinner was a wrapped roll and yoghurt. Apparently no cooked food was served unless at lunch, which I missed.

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