Hospital food pics!

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Anyone in hospital/been in hospital recently and has pictures of their meals? Let's compare!

Here's the roast dinner I was given when I was having DD last month. I couldn't cut the slices of beef with a knife and fork because I was breastfeeding and only had one arm free so I ate with my left hand

And of course, the obligatory tea and toast.

I used to cook the hospital meals 🤣
I did that job for 20 years and they have definitely improved over the years .
NHS sweetcorn chowder is my all time favourite meal 😋

When I was in hospital waiting for the induction to kick in before having my baby. Delicious. Best part about being in for 10 days was all the yummy food. In fact I was very happy on the final day that I wasn’t discharged until 3pm so I got to eat the lunch!

@blissfulllife yep. Really good puddings in hospital.

After having DS I had to stay in for a few days due to high blood pressure/pre-eclampsia. For lunch one day, they offered sandwiches - ham, tuna or cheese. Tuna please, I say. She hands me the goodies and leaves. ‘Oh no,’ I said to DH, reading the sandwich label. ‘It’s tuna and sweetcorn, she just said tuna. I don’t like tuna and sweetcorn.’

I opened the sandwich to remove the offending sweetcorn to find there was one piece in the whole sandwich sad day for the tuna and sweetcorn fans on the ward that day but great for me

Swede is so nice, it’s just a ball ache to peel and chop.
Oh those “scrambled eggs” 🤮

No picture as my daughter is 25 but the night she was born at 6, I had been in labour since early that morning. I got to the ward, I don't know, probably about 7 o'clock and my husband drove home - tired too.

I was suddenly starving. There was literally no food. No placed open. No vending machines back then.

I had to go hunting and found the food trolley in the day room, abandoned in the dark, with some cheese and biscuits (luckily those little separately wrapped ones) which I scoffed. I'd got to the stage I'd almost turned to formula in the little boxes they supplied in the nursery!

I had a section and they sort of forgot about me afterwards so I missed dinner, I just thought I wasn’t allowed to eat. So the only thing they had when I was asked was breakfast stuff. Needless to say they gave me one of everything available! And it was great look at the pint of milk

I also liked how they would offer orange juice as a starter to the main meals haha!

@NotMyCat

First meal spinal op Cheese and onion pie Pink bowl is jam roly poly and custard Ice cream Orange juice Mug of tea (there were two) Bread roll Yoghurt Cake

Apparently if you like the food, they REALLY feed you I also got hot chocolate with cream at 3am (I can't sleep after GA)

Was the pastry as good as it looks?

Loads of choice too 😍

@blissfulllife that’s an amazing choice!!

I think hospital food is much much better than what is served in schools. I think less money is allocated to school meals than hospitals.

I have had many stays for myself and the children and it has always been excellent.

3 bloody kids I’ve had in hospital (south east) and never been offered tea and toast or a meal of any kind

Really good choices on that menu!

Unlimited hot chocolates too. I put 2 pounds in 5 days 😂. Can't fault any of the food at all honestly.

However I will rush to add before someone reminds me to be grateful that I am indeed forever thankful that those are the only reasons I’ve had to spend any time in a hospital so I’ll take no food over my health any day. I’m a bloody fussy cow so I’d not be happy with anything in those photos anyway

@NotMyCat I have dm'd you.

Sorry to derail - as you were!

Why is this the thread I’ve always needed? My DP can’t think of anything worse than a hospital meal but they are literally going to be my saving grace when I go in to give birth as I love a hospital meal 😂 he doesn’t get it but I am loving the pics.

@diddl it was! I ate the lot quite happily

I was in crewe hospital recently, for my DVT.
I got called in for 12:30 for a scan.
While in was in the waiting area, the "lunch lady" came round.
I had a choice of individual wrapped sandwiches, crisps, cake and biscuits.
I was instructed to chose one thing from each section! Cake and biscuits as well as crisps.
Sandwiches were really nice. So was cake. I took the other bits home for later.
I was a little disappointed by not being offered a drink. But I had brought drink with me. And I was happy to get a nice lunch.

When I had ds I refused the hospital food, my mum brought me M & S sandwiches, salads & snacks in with her every day. I didn't have as much as a drink in the 6 nights I was there. The meals I saw looked revolting, not the kind of food that anyone in hospital should be given. Exh was in the small hospital near our caravan after a heart attack, the hospital had their own allotments & used their own produce in the hospital the meals there were excellent, plentiful & nutritious.

When I had DC1 10yrs ago it was still system that you ordered a day in advance so you got what the previous occupant had ordered on the first day ... except I was put on a new ward so no one had ordered anything so there was no food for us.
That was day one of the induction process.
Day two there was food although it was all left outside the ward on a trolley as none of the existing staff could apparently work out whose job it was to bring it to us and we weren't told about it for an hour or so but it didn't really matter as I spent the entire day puking.
DC1 born at 4am on day 3. No tea & toast. Got take up to the ward at 9am to find I'd missed breakfast. I was brought lunch but it was the one ordered by the person on the maternity ward the day before rather than the lunch I'd ordered in the ante-natal ward. It was left at the end of my bed. I was on a drip, a catheter and holding an 8 hour old baby so that wasn't much use. A cleaner who didn't speak any English came into my cubicle and found me crying and fed me.
Tea was OK - perhaps because DH was around for that - but, again, the food ordered by the person the day before
Day 4 - still on catheter & drip & not allowed to get out of bed - breakfast is a "help yourself" from the end of the corridor. That was another meal missed. Lunch was very exciting as it was what I'd ordered the day before & DH was there so it got to me and drip, catheter etc had been removed so I was mobile. Tea didn't happen as, apparently I was going to be discharged... which I was at about 9pm.
With DC2, I took a lot of food in!

I had to stay in hospital for one week after DD was born at the start of last year and the food was pretty decent actually! There were vegetarian options and hot and cold meal options. Tea and coffee was available by the kitchens throughout the day. I didn't feel the need to ask DH to bring extra food in (the chocolates helped though )

I got this...

@HasaDigaEebowai

Your free food looks fine to me

Free at the point of service. She’s paid for nhs and food through taxes.

I moved ward just before dinner and was told that my meal couldn't be transferred so I would just have to have whatever was left. I'm not a particularly fussy eater so was ok with this but was breastfeeding so starving.
What was left was a very wrinkly plain omelette with a side of rice.
Luckily the lovely dinner lady took pitty on me and brought two portions of apple crumble, a portion of cherry Bakewell, a flapjack and a chocolate muffin.