Hospital food pics!

[BastardMonkfish]

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.

Breakfast on post natal, the staff know the food is shit but not their fault. Lunch and dinner meals were horrific, luckily it was a central London hospital so lots of choice in the area.

Baby born at 1815. No food until breakfast cornflakes the following morning.

Hit 'Post' by mistake.

Friend has recently spent time on the cardiac ward. All cardiac patients are advised to give up caffeine, but there are no decaf drinks available for them.

I am now gluten and dairy free, the only way I can avoid uncontrollable diarrhoea. I doubt they would be able to feed me now.

@Caspianberg

Sunday lunch..

What is that brown thing?

@Caspianberg

Sunday lunch..

I hope the potatoes were nice.

@SimonJT - burnt/ dry cheese stuffed pork schnitzel thing.
@PickAChew - not particularly

You can see how filling the ‘soup’ looked too.

This was breakfast before I scarpered

There was nothing else like butter to go on bread, just this kind of apple potato creamy salad. Brought to me at the lovely time of.. 5.45am

@BastardMonkfish

Thanks for comments in my defence, maybe I should have added lighthearted to the thread title but it didn't occur to me that the OP would have been taken any other way!

Rubbish.

Your opening thread was passive aggressive mocking. You were just not overt about it because you wanted to see which way the wind blew.

You are not there for the food.

After a traumatic birth that upsettingly involved zero tea and toast, the midwife on the ward ordered a meal for me.

It was beef stew.

I’m a vegetarian.

It was fucking delicious 😂

@Greenrubber my husband is vegan and they had a whole menu of vegan/ gluten free options. Unfortunately none of the vegan meals were available when he was there 🤷‍♀️ He had dry toast for breakfast and plain jacket potato every night for dinner with fruit for lunch. They did have soya milk for tea though but would definitely recommend taking some of your own food.

No photo as the food was eaten in about 1972 when I had my tonsils out as a small child. Duchesse potatoes were served with the dinner. They had been piped in a whirl it was incredibly amazing to me as it looked like ice cream.

When I had DS I ate quite a nice fish pie and veg. I had him two hours later.

@EssexLioness

Ahh I hope they didn't tease him with the menu before telling him they had none of it in
I will definitely have to pack a few bits

@Greenrubber, yeah they did the first night! 😬 he ordered a Thai green curry and they came back and said they didn’t have it. Then he was told they didn’t have any of the vegan options. I wasn’t allowed to visit due to covid and he was feeling so poorly he tell me about the food until a few days in. After that I obviously took him lots of bits to eat. Such a shame as I know other people who have eaten off the special menu at the same hospital and said the food is actually really good.I hope you fare better and everything goes ok for you

• he DIDN’T tell me

@EssexLioness

Thank you!

27 years ago, I was taken in for observation at 33 weeks and the maternity unit had a little kitchen with a fridge full of freh, packaged sandwiches, a fruit bowl and a cupboard full of picky things. It was brilliant!
(Just a shame that family members took them when visiting, clearly marked for patients only)

I was in hospital earlier this year, with covid, and despite my having lost a lot of my sense of taste, I thought the food was good. Some of the combinations were a bit odd - macaroni cheese, diced carrots and mashed potatoes, or lasagne with mashed swede and mashed potato.

I had crumble for pudding a couple of times, and that was nice too. Lunch was soup and a sandwich, and those were perfectly nice too.

I have to confess, I was dreading the food - I trained as a nurse, and the food in the hospital where I trained was abominable, and my mum was in Stoke Mandeville for 7 weeks, and was very critical of the food (but then my mum does tend to find things to criticise) - but I was pleasantly surprised.

Well, it sounds like the NHS hospitals have better food than the big city hospital in Canada where I was stuck for a week in December. Behold my delicious lunch of "chicken chow mein," which I could mot bring myself to eat:

Sorry hit post too soon. Here it is.

@Caspianberg

This was breakfast before I scarpered

Breakfast?? In what British household does anyone have that for breakfast! How bizarre.

These are the same meal choice on separate days. I felt as if they had forgotten my dinner on the first day and concocted it by pinching food from other plates. Luckily, I wasn't very hungry and had no sense of taste 🤣

@lovefall that's great if you're desperate for pure carbs but the appear to have forgotten the chicken :s

I've just been in for 5 weeks with a nasty bout of covid pneumonia and sepsis (I have had my vaccines!) Glad to still be here tbh, was discharged on Sat.
I probably tried the whole menu and am jealous of those of you with lovely food! Powdered scrambled egg, soup with no salt and none offered, dry bread rolls....some of the meals were ok and I'm grateful of course.
But the best things were the puddings, like Apple crumble or choc sponge and custard, and the fact that you were encouraged to eat them as much as possible! I need to lose weight so made the most of it while I could!

@TakemedowntoPotatoCity

I very quickly learned that they have not figured out how to make a powdered boiled egg, and then ordered boiled egg for breakfast every day.

I too was living on their desserts, which is not something I ever have at home but seem to be hard to ruin.

I think I hit my low point when the son of the woman in the next bed summoned the nurse as the smell of my dinner was making his Mom nauseous. Oh the irony. It was a south Asian tandoori chicken supposedly and she was from our very large south Asian community.

I wanted to crawl under my bed, IV pole and pump with me.