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Hospital Food
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What is your experience of hospital food?
On the 3 occasions in my life I have had to stay in an NHS hospital it has been pretty grim. I'm not usually fussed when it comes to food and will normally eat anything and everything but the food in hospital did not taste right and looked very un-appetising, very similar to the photos in the link.
The private hospital I stayed in many years ago wasn't much better.
What is your experience of hospital food?
On the 3 occasions in my life I have had to stay in an NHS hospital it has been pretty grim. I'm not usually fussed when it comes to food and will normally eat anything and everything but the food in hospital did not taste right and looked very un-appetising, very similar to the photos in the link.
The private hospital I stayed in many years ago wasn't much better.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.In the 70's I spent quite a lot of time in hospital following an accident at the pit and to put it politely the food was rubbish the only good thing about it was the portions were that small you didn't have to suffer it for long.I think if it hadn't been for family and friends bringing me goodies I'd have wasted away.
Of all the places on the planet, shouldn't we expect reasonably healthy food from a UK hospital? It's beyond me why its so difficult. Our speed of recovering so often depends on us being able to get back to a normal well balanced diet, yet we have to rely on friends and family to bring fresh food into us. I just about managed a small jacket potato with cheese when I was in hospital, but the was no hope of a little bit of side salad for it. And for those on restricted diets, its almost impossible. Nothing low fat, low sugar or low or high fibre. In this day and age they should set the example.
I've just had to spend a week in hospital in Poitiers. Medical care was great, but almost all of the food was completely inedible. I lost weight. Remember, I had to pay 'Hospitalier' fees (not cheap) for my plates of uneaten food. How about a bowl of dry, raw, sliced radish (no dressing of any sort) offered as a starter? So, France is no better. Re. UK - James Martin went into Scarborough hospital (it was a series on TV) and transformed the catering - even covered the cost of doing so by improved practice.
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when I was last in hospital I was on a pureed diet, I was presented with something that looked like a cow pat on a plate, as an insulin dependant diabetic I had to eat it as I had already had my injection, and there was nothing else for me, it was foul, after three days of this I could not even put my spoon in it let alone eat it, I went hypo, the Doctor raised hell when he saw what I had on my plate and things did improve a bit, but I went home very underweight.