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Hospital food pics!

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BastardMonkfish · 22/08/2021 20:33

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.

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LauraAshleyDuvetCover · 23/08/2021 11:54

I too like aeroplane food. I also used to go into schools to run a day of workshops. I loved it if they gave me lunch.

SimonJT · 23/08/2021 12:16

A friends partner was served this, can you guess what its supposed to be?

Arsebucket · 23/08/2021 12:38

@LauraAshleyDuvetCover

I too like aeroplane food. I also used to go into schools to run a day of workshops. I loved it if they gave me lunch.

I worked in a school for a while. hated the job but loved the lunches

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forrestgreen · 23/08/2021 13:14

Mines just gone. Breakfast was 1 weetabix drowned in a bowl of milk which was sad. Lunch was a good ham salad, chicken soup was too salty sadly. Banana for pud which I'll save. No complaints here

Greenrubber · 23/08/2021 13:30

@SimonJT

Dog food spread on vanilla sponge?

Member278307 · 23/08/2021 13:36

Try to never stay in cheltenham hospital the food is awful. Would not give it to an animal.

cricketmum84 · 23/08/2021 13:39

I still remember the cup of tea and toast they gave me after giving birth. Such a basic boring thing but at that moment in time it was the best thing I had ever eaten 😂

CatRatSplat · 23/08/2021 13:51

Tea and toast in recovery, tasted good but threw it up seconds later - turns out I have a prolonged response to anesthesia, which u had suspected before and had warned them.

I was in for 15days with dd1, tried a lot, liked their curries. The guys running the food would sneak me extras when they realised I was trying to breastfeed 😂👍

StevieNix · 23/08/2021 13:59

4 years ago I was in hospital for 2 days before I gave birth to ds and for 2 days after and wasn’t fed by the hospital once. I just assumed that you weren’t fed on the maternity ward and had to sort yourself out? 😂 now your all making me think this wasn’t the case and I was just forgotten about, maybe because I kept being moved around to different wards etc, so maybe I just missed meal times?
I had a packet of peperami’s and some cereal bars and DH bought me in a m&s sandwich on the last day but that was it. God I was absolutely starving hungry when I got home

Tealwarrior · 23/08/2021 14:02

@BastardMonkfish

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

And of course, the obligatory tea and toast.

That looks nice but I wouldn’t have fancied cold.

Tealwarrior · 23/08/2021 14:15

@MumsWordRules

This is what a family member was served a few years ago. My stomach still churns looking at it 🤢

I think those eggs were steamed. I spent a few months in hospital as a child with a kidney disorder and all I was allowed to eat were those eggs and custard that looked exactly the same. It was horrendous and it took another 55 years for me to be able to eat either of them again and even then I’m very very fussy about them.

Yummmmm · 23/08/2021 14:15

I was so pleased when this appeared postnatally.

My first encounter with a "Corn Beef Pasty Pie".
The stuff of dreams. Devoured in seconds.

WTFIsTheAnswerToThis · 23/08/2021 14:27

This is such an interesting thread!

I am another weirdo who genuinely likes hospital food (and airline and school dinners) mashed potato in scoops! Soft cabbage! Arctic roll! Little pots of orange juice which fill up five minutes of boring hospital time, trying to lift the foil lid without it going all over the sheets! I like it all.

I'm in the NW and it's interesting though, how very different hospitals are. In one (don't know whether to name them or not ) they brought "supper" at bedtime, after three meals a day. You could have hit chocolate, toast or cereal etc, once they gave me a bowl of Rice Krispies and sprinkled sugar on them automatically. I loved it.

Another one has a canteen which does the most amazing breakfasts, when I have outpatient appointments I always ask for morning ones so I can get breakfast

In contrast, one had horrific food, and I mean health and safety wise, not just I didn't like the pastry. This is a jacket potato I had, which had mould on it. Around the time of my stay, there was a listeria outbreak caused by sandwiches which actually resulted in deaths.

thenumberseven · 23/08/2021 15:17

In 1982 I was in two different hospitals in a Spanish city, in the first one the food was very standard in the second it was amazing , excellent coffee, beautiful fresh bread rolls and great, varied menus well cooked, seasoned and presented.

Arsebucket · 23/08/2021 16:12

@StevieNix

4 years ago I was in hospital for 2 days before I gave birth to ds and for 2 days after and wasn’t fed by the hospital once. I just assumed that you weren’t fed on the maternity ward and had to sort yourself out? 😂 now your all making me think this wasn’t the case and I was just forgotten about, maybe because I kept being moved around to different wards etc, so maybe I just missed meal times? I had a packet of peperami’s and some cereal bars and DH bought me in a m&s sandwich on the last day but that was it. God I was absolutely starving hungry when I got home

I wasn’t fed or given anything to drink when I had my first ds by section 19 years ago.

I fainted on day 2 (day 3 of no food as obviously i had to starve before hand).

Then they gave me toast.

But nothing else until I was home the next day.

Turns out it was a help yourself situation - but god knows how you were supposed to do that a few hours post section. No one told me. not one midwife. So I just starved. (I didn’t ask as one made me cry a few times when I asked for pain relief that kept never showing up).

PurBal · 23/08/2021 16:15

I almost throttled the staff at the umpteenth offer of tea and toast.

Tobebythesea · 23/08/2021 16:20

As a comparison, this was served in a private ward of an NHS hospital. It was just ok.

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BastardMonkfish · 23/08/2021 16:36

@Nelia5

A grey dry Pork chop and potato croquettes was the worst. After that meal the ladies on my ward let me into a secret, always order food with a sauce or gravy, that way you don’t end up with a plate of fry food. Also order from the Indian or Caribbean menu if you are sick of bland food. I followed that advice and had lovely meals for the remainder of my 2 week stay.

Where are the 'your free food looks fine' people today when you've posted this

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BastardMonkfish · 23/08/2021 16:36

@Yummmmm

I was so pleased when this appeared postnatally. My first encounter with a "Corn Beef Pasty Pie". The stuff of dreams. Devoured in seconds.

Not sure about the corned beef thing but the spuds and beans look lush

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Oblomov21 · 23/08/2021 16:41

Shame about this thread, it could've been so nice, if some posters hadn't misunderstood.

Mine was delicious after my shoulder surgery 2 months ago. I was just pleased to be provided with a meal. That I didn't need to cook. Or plan, or buy from the supermarket. Pudding was delicious!

SimonJT · 23/08/2021 17:15

[quote Greenrubber]@SimonJT

Dog food spread on vanilla sponge?[/quote]
😂 no

Its supposedly a pizza!

Greenrubber · 23/08/2021 17:46

@SimonJT

No fucking way

OnceTheyDid · 23/08/2021 18:03

When I was in hospital for 10 days in 2019 they put you in a hotel over night and then transport you back and forth daily - meaning I got a lovely hotel fry up daily. The hospital food was really good too! There was a 4 page 'menu' to choose from and they catered for absolutely everyone !

Caspianberg · 23/08/2021 18:20

Not in uk, but I had a huge goulash and bread about an hour after Ds was born last year, brought to me whilst still in labour room.
This was Saturday evening. The food the Sunday and Monday morning before I left was horrible. Apparently I should have been given menu but I seemed to just be getting someone else’s. Ie black coffee and dry bread for breakfast.

Checked out ASAP as was starving trying to feed new baby and live off apple juice cartons I took with me. They only let me out that soon due to Covid, usually it’s a min week stay!

Caspianberg · 23/08/2021 18:24

Sunday lunch..

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