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Imagine you’re in hospital recovering from an operation. Your appetite is returning and you’re looking forward to nothing more complicated than a bowl of hot, tasty soup. Instead, on your tray you find a tired tuna sandwich encased in a plastic container, and a bag of crisps; or worse, a “ready meal” that looks like an unidentifiable plate of grey mush. No wonder more than 80,000 hospital meals are left uneaten every day and two-thirds of staff admit they would not themselves eat what they serve up to patients. You can’t blame either patients or staff: most hospital food is a disgrace.
After a needlessly long drawn out process of consultation, new recommendations to address this scandal are finally due to come into force in April. Unfortunately none of it amounts to more than a hill of over-processed beans.
The Department of Health set up a “hospital food standards panel” in December 2013. That was some progress, but then it invited food manufacturers (including Apetito, one of the biggest suppliers of hospital food in the UK) to sit on the panel. Food manufacturers, of course, have, understandably, one aim only: to sell their products. Asking them to advise on a healthy diet is like asking a fox to lock the chicken run. The panel’s feeble idea is to have minimum food standards built into NHS catering contracts from April.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/
After a needlessly long drawn out process of consultation, new recommendations to address this scandal are finally due to come into force in April. Unfortunately none of it amounts to more than a hill of over-processed beans.
The Department of Health set up a “hospital food standards panel” in December 2013. That was some progress, but then it invited food manufacturers (including Apetito, one of the biggest suppliers of hospital food in the UK) to sit on the panel. Food manufacturers, of course, have, understandably, one aim only: to sell their products. Asking them to advise on a healthy diet is like asking a fox to lock the chicken run. The panel’s feeble idea is to have minimum food standards built into NHS catering contracts from April.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/
or toast(But no jam as they don't allow jam or marmalade for diabetics BUT the toast is "Fine") Lunch consisted of Lasagna or curry and rice or sandwiches with a side of bread roll and ice cream pot for dessert,dinner very similar to lunch so you can imagine my readings were very grim at times although they put that down to me probably not being on the right meds regime! 
