Send us your hospital food photos
Help us highlight the shocking disparity between good and bad food culture in UK hospitals.
We want you to send in any examples of hospital food you come across in the next few months. Don’t include people or names, just the food that’s dished up at mealtimes. There are three ways to get your photos to us:
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"I'm on a dairy free/vegetarian diet apart from taking a little cheese. A stay in hospital for several days met with many difficulties, but from previous experience took a cool box with soya milk, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables for salad, own baked bread, baked other items, vegetable rice, pasta salad and similar - herbal teas, protein drinks and fruit drinks, and my own cereals. (Enough for the first couple of days). Problem no.1 (We don't have anything for you unless we remove the ham from a salad sandwich!) 2. We can't put your items in our fridge. 3. Veggie sausage? beans and mash (very suspect (even real meat) sausage) salty baked beans and nauseous instant mash. No.4 soup which was so salty & foul even the non-veggies couldn't eat it, maybe it was instant re-constituted soup (from powder form?). Inedible food apart from one dish, which was quorn and vegetables in a tomato sauce (goulash). Mostly the type of food we are educated not to eat, bottom of the range supermarket brands with loads of additives!!!!"
"I just spent nearly 3½ weeks in hospital, and have to say the food wasn't as bad as I was expecting. It was fairly school dinnerish (the way they used to be) - lots of stodge, veg didn't taste of much, and I think there was too much sal...t. There was a choice of several dishes or a salad or sandwiches and hot or cold deserts. I thought the portions were good (although others complained they were too small) and there was always fresh fruit, yoghurt, biscuits or toast if you wanted it, even through the night. There was a fridge for patients to store items in so long as you labelled them and avoided "banned" foods. My main worry was the vegetarian options. Fortunately I'm not veggie as that would limit you to one choice each meal, almost always cheese based, and sometimes fish!!! And when the vegetarian option was good there was a danger of running out."
"had a hospital stay in march last yr, food was disgusting, floppy rubber toast, lousy greasy choice for lunch, tea ok"
"Barnet hospital great food! Was in dec last year but everytime its good"
"Wish i'd taken a photo of the brown broccoli i was served up in hospital in 2007. Didn't help me get better."
"I had veg crumble 2 days ago. Minimal and i mean minimal veg, no cheese sauce (dried up) and tons of horrid crumble."
"Was in hospital twice - as both private and NHS patient. Food was great both times!"
"one word yuck! was in hospital a couple of weeks back, I was served cup a soup and grey potato!"
"Please would you help hospitals understand people who have food intolerances might still like to eat breakfast."
"I know an intelligent elderly lady who loves her food, and who is in a hospital in the South West at the moment. I asked about the food and she looked very dismayed saying she's served white bread 3 times day. I know no more than that about the meals themselves."