Hospital Food - Sample Meals
A large number of special diets are prescribed as part of the treatment of certain disorders. The following chart gives sample meals for three diets commonly prescribed in hospitals. The bland diet is often prescribed for patients who have fever or who are convalescent. The low-fat diet is suitable for patients suffering from gall bladder disease. The high fibre diet is for patients suffering from constipation.
Meal Bland Diet Low-fat Diet High-fibre Diet
Breakfast Fruit juice
Cereal, milk and sugar
Eggs (boiled or poached, not fried)
Toast and butter. 		Fruit juice
Cereal, milk and sugar
Egg (boiled or poached, not fried)
Tea with skimmed milk 		Fruit juice
Whole-grain cereal or bran, milk and sugar
Whole-grain bread
Weak tea
Lunch Cream soup
White fish
Creamed potatoes
Cooked vegetables
Stewed fruit and custard
Milk or weak tea 		Liver or veal
or white fish
Boiled potatoes
Cooked vegetables
Fruit
Skimmed milk 		Lean meat
Potatoes
Vegetables such as spinach
or cabbage
Stewed fruit
Buttermilk
Supper Chicken or lean meat
Cooked vegetables
Sponge cake or jelly
Milk or weak tea 		Cottage cheese
Salad (without oil
or dressing)
Fruit or cake
Skimmed milk 		Cheese or lean meat
Salad
Whole-grain bread
Fresh fruit
Weak tea
Having read all this, it is my humble opinion that a healthy person requires a combination of all three of these diets. If you are ever in hospital, they are no places for a rest cure and the food is somewhat sparse. Get home as soon as you can and relax, enjoy the food you really fancy there too.
    With hospitals food there is a wide variety of standards. Kings College hospital food is so bad, it's not fit for Pigs! Lewisham Hospital on the other hand is extremely good, so much so it is sold to staff and persons visiting patients. I'm given to understand that Guys Hospital is about the same standard as Kings College. With regard Kings food, it is based on fact as I was visiting my wife there for over THREE weeks (dates can be supplied) and saw all meals except breakfast. Someone (via my guestbook, and too afraid to leave a name or contract address) has threatened that I should remove this info before Kings take legal action to have it removed. If they can prove their food is not as described over a similar period, I will remove it, and NOT before! (Axiompc). As of 22nd August 2004, over a three day period, I've had the chance to see the food provided to patients and although it seems to have improved a little, it is, in my opinion, still not fully fit for human consumption. Much of it arrives, and is served, in packaging similar to that used by Chinese takeaways. Many patients still have relatives bring in home cooked meals for them so that must indicate something. (Axiompc).

If my comments are not enough, I suggest people take a look at NHS Food article that I found on Interactive BBC channels.

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