Hospital food thread-whats it like in your country?

[ayvasili]

I'm currently in hospital and thought I would post pictures of the food I'm being served. I live on a greek island, but thought it would be fun to see what people are being served in their countries m..anyone else want to play? Here is my dinner, makaronia pastitsio, served with boiled veg, a side of light greek yogurt and a dessert of cold custard

@daisydaisyrose that duly is a lucklustre salad and a sad looking bit of ham...where's the baked spud?? :( hope you get better food on your next stay.
I have been nil by mouth since midnight, it's currently 7am and I'm starving 🫣 op isn't until 1 so it could be a long day!

A relative of mine was in hospital last week in NI. He is coeliac and they tried to serve him bread three times. Ay the other end of the scale, my husband was in an Australian private hospital a few months ago. He had a thirty-six page menu which was available 24/7, I've never seen anything like it! The food was restaurant quality, I was tempted to check in myself.

I've only stayed in hospital when I had my children for 1 night and had jacket potato with cheese. But to be fair you had to choose the main meal for the next day, and as most people only stay one night so I think people went for the 'safe option.

But when my mum was in hospital over night earlier this year and had a very nice looking roast chicken dinner.

I'm the UK

Once, as a patient in a London NHS hospital, I was told that it was chicken burgers for lunch, but they had run out of some of the bits by the time they got to me. I got a plain burger bun and 2 sachets of ketchup!

The hospital I work in now (public HSE Ireland) has fairly decent patient food. Cereal, porridge, toast, yoghurt or fruit for breakfast. Hot vegetable soup around 11 o'clock, salad or sandwich and yoghurt for lunch, and hot dinner (meat, fish, jacket spud or salad, with either yoghurt, fruit or cheese and a cracker) around 5, and then tea and toast trolley around 8. I don't know who negotiated the yoghurt contract, but there is a yoghurt option at every meal!😄

I've only been in to have DC , both UK, NHS.
First time:
I went in at 9am on a Friday. Had DD 24hrs later. Finally got something to eat 36hrs after admission. Saturday night-plain jacket potato the size of a large egg.

Because I was on delivery suite then surgery I missed all the opportunities to order food/eat. So I ended up with whatever they could cobble together.

I was able to order breakfast (cereal) and a roast lunch for the Sunday. They were discharging me just as it arrived, so I sat back down and ate it! It was glorious as I was absolutely starving.

Second time was a CS and I could order everything. I remember that being lovely after the first time!

I was in hospital in Belgium and the food was amazing. I was nil by mouth but my room mate had the food. So soup or a small salad to start, poached salmon in a creamy sauce with rice and spinach, yogurt and fruit for pudding. And a choice of a glass of wine or beer with it!

This is completely shit-treatment of the coeliac patient. I have come across the same treatment with my anaphylactic to dairy son..they insist on putting cheese or yogurt on his plate despite his file having the information highlighted AND in red pen on every page. In the end, I was running to the hospital three times a day with food, just to make sure his food was safe.

This doesn’t surprise me, I have a life threatening allergy, I was served said allergen everytime I was an NHS patient, including times where staff insisted everything was safe, despite the very clear labelling on pre-packaged items having my allergen in the ingredients list.

Dinner tonite hamburger in a bun, mash and boiled veg, salad and cold custard

NHS is only free at point of access

@ayvasili That looks absolutely grim. My condolences.

I live alone so gratefully eat anything I don't have to cook but this was nice
Cheese and onion pie, peas, gravy, bread roll, ice cream, 2 orange juice, jam roly poly and custard, 2 mugs of tea and "a little jam shortbread in case you are hungry later"

Here's mine from a maternity ward. The food was the worst part of my experience of giving birth.

I loved off toast and jacket potatoes supplemented by things from the hospital Costa with both my deliveries (one i was in a week, one was mercifully just a couple of mealtimes).

My favourite was being told I had to have lunch before being discharged 12 hours after arrival when I was admitted at 7 months pregnant with norovirus... Throwing up blood in the night, but chicken curry was apparently the only option for lunch! I politely suggested they might be rid of me quicker if they could find me a jacket potato as I could just about stomach that.