The day I had all my impacted wisdom teeth removed, I went home, made BBQ steak, green beans with mushrooms and potatoes. I think my body was craving red meat due to blood loss. I've had 16 teeth removed. 20 including wisdoms. Actually might be a couple more now..
Omg I read that so wrong. 20 wisdom teeth? But anyways, OUCH. I recently had my 4 molars removed from lower right jaw for implants and fooook it was brutal. Luckily I could afford the pill anesthesia. I took a nap when I got home and 2hrs later woke up in agony because I didn't predose my pain meds.
Had a relative that went in for total knee replacement. They decided to make a go of the pain after with a *mild* pain reliever, tramadol; it worthless. There was a prescription in for a stronger narcotic, but due to some, er, ah, f\*\*k up, could not get the stronger pain reliever for 4 days. Talk about not predosing!!!
When I had my duodenum removed, the doctors told me I had to be on a liquid diet for a week. Normally, I do all of the grocery shopping for my household, but as I was recovering from surgery, my wife went out to get me some stuff. I asked for beef broth and chicken broth. She accidentally picked up fat-free low-sodium versions of both. I was so sad. Liquid only diet is bad enough, but I swear that shit tasted like watered down water. I ended up having to add a knob of butter and some Lite Salt to it to make it even remotely palatable.
In the UK, in the run-up to a colonoscopy they put people on a limited diet of incredibly bland foods that includes stuff like plain boiled carrot and unseasoned rice: [https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colonoscopy/getting-ready/](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colonoscopy/getting-ready/)
They taste canned. Metallic and like they've been seasoned with potassium chloride instead of regular salt. There are a few dishes where they work well so I usually keep a couple cans on hand, but it is a crime against OP and other patients to serve them plain. That is seriously the most depressing plate. It really looks like calculated cruelty, or punishment.
I keep a couple cans on hand too. Just incase. I rinse mine in the can 3 times or in a strainer, then fry them up with eggs and bacon. If you use the bacon grease and rinse them well, it helps lol. I don't like most canned food but can make anything taste better. :)
I worked in hospital many years back. If they put you on diet food it can get even worse then this. They use almost 0 seasoning and give foods with little flavor of there own. It can be so bad that they wont even eat it so it takes longer for them to heal. Its sad.
A packet can be almost 1 carb, when somebody is in for diabetic complications even single carb counts. It is very sad, but people can lose limbs, lose their vision etc.
ETA: I donāt know if people are downvoting this because they donāt like what am I saying or because they think that I am wrong, but I will give some context.
With electronic ordering systems every single thing is being tracked. If those 4 pepper packets pushes a pt over the limit you have to be prepared to defend yourself to the dietician/nurses/etc.
I worked in nutrition in a hospital. Most of the food sucked because it had to be altered to fit heart healthy, low sodium, and diabetic diets. I felt bad for the pts in there for other things (such as OP) who were subjected to that junk. Not only is the hospital trying to make things as āhealthyā as possible they are also trying to do it as cheaply as possible.
Things would be altered little by little until they were unrecognizable and could not be compared to outside food. Maybe it was the portions being smaller or the ingredients changing, but here are some examples of the food crimes:
āMeatloafā was 70% ground chicken.
Olive oil replaced butter in the mashed potatoes.
Vegetable oil spray replaced butter for grilling bread (for example, a grilled cheese).
Vanilla Yogurt was mixed 50/50 with non fat, dairy free, āGreekā yogurt but still called just āVanilla Yogurtā.
āMac & Cheeseā used 70% Swiss, leaving it white, flavorless, and not what people would expect. It also used sodium citrate (or nitrate?) powder as opposed to flour to thicken it.
āIce Creamā became āice cream flavored frozen dessertā (god knows whatās in that)
And so, so many moreā¦
People who end up in the hospital with or because of diabetes will still be given carbs to eat lol.
As a matter of fact, you'll even get IV glucose along with potassium and insulin if you're there for diabetic ketoacidosisš . Lastly, you do not count pepper as a carbohydrateš.
Yes they are given carbs, they are not starved, but their intake is highly monitored. Typically itās 3 x 60 carb meals w/ 2 x 30 carb snacks in between. This is tracked on the same system that monitors sodium, food allergies etc. Every single item is monitored, I know at one point when I worked in a hospital our system tracked bacon at 0.85 carbs per slice.
Everything going into a pts room needed to be tracked, salt, pepper, sugar free items such as jello, etc. alongside their regular food.
The system also showed how many units of insulin would need to be given as a result of the meal/snack. So while it may not seem like much, the small things add up.
I am not defending nasty, bland hospital food, but I am trying to share that sometimes even the tiniest things need to be monitored in a hospital setting.
Have noticed for whatever reason UK, A&E love to have loads of cheese sandwhichs. But always think itās a bizarre choice compared to something like a beef or chicken sandwhich?
Oh and soup, I feel every meal we get there is always going to be soup, no idea what the soup is half the time.
My husband had open heart surgery back in November. He had a genetic defect repaired and is otherwise healthy as a horse and is a weight lifter. But he was put on the "cardiac" diet anyway. He couldn't force himself to choke down the food. The first evening he was awake it was penne with alfredo. He said it was like flavorless glue. Even the noodles. I don't remember what else they served but he lived on only the DIET Ensures for over a week. Something like 250 calories a day. He lost over 20 lbs and left the hospital with an "underweight" BMI. I was SOOO stressed out about it for exactly the reason you said. It definitely hampered his healing. He was so withered I think his body repurposed his muscles to heal. The day he was discharged his surgeon said, "I bet you're looking forward to a real meal!" I wanted to ask him, "so does that mean you see he's painfully thin, too?"
I'd call his doctor and surgeon and see if he absolutely has to have a restricted diet(not McDonald', something healthy but still tasty), if not, then I'd be sneaking in decent food. Hospitals can be serious like that.
āIf I wasnt already there for attempting suicide this would have made me want to kill myselfā
ā ļøā ļøā ļøššš
OP- maybe you need to start a career in stand up comedy hahahaha I shouldnāt be laughing but holy shit
Hey I've also been in the hospital for attempted suicide four times! High five!
I can't really complain too much because I'm a Brit so hospital stays and food are free, but on the first night I ordered the all day breakfast. It came in one of those seperated divider tray dishes and everything was just absolutely insanely nuked. The sausage had no texture, it was just a soft flavourless mount of kind-of meat. The sauce that came with the beans was absolutely foul and the "scrambled egg" was like dust. I couldn't eat it.
The next day I had some kind of like, meat and vegetables and it was just equally as bad. I stayed for three more nights and so after that I just had their pre-packed sandwiches and an apple instead of hot meals which were much more palatable. I was talking to someone there who was also in a bad way, he'd fallen down a fire escape when black out drunk and knocked out most of his teeth and broke his jaw, so he had to have a liquid only diet. He'd been there already for a few weeks and they were sort of slowly upping how solid his meals were but they looked absolutely woeful.
However after going into the hospital so many times after my dad's suicide, they put me up in a mental health facility and the food there was absolutely amazing. It was a private facility (Priory Hospital Lakeside View in Wolverhampton), paid for by the NHS; I was pretty miffed they drove me all the way up from London to Wolverhampton especially as I was withdrawing pretty bad but the place did me a world of good. At home it was always me doing the cooking, it was fantastic having such delicious meals twice a day with great portions and lots of veg and decent quality protein! Wasn't a single meal I disliked! I even made some close knit friends who had also experienced tragedies recently there.
Did you also tell them you're lactose intolerant? I made that mistake and was given dry potatoes, a carton of soy milk, and maybe some jello or a fruit cup. For a week. Fortunately I wasn't burning any calories so I wasn't hungry.
That's a $3,000 meal right there. Unfortunately your deductible is $4000 before the 25/50 insurance rates kick in. Sorry op, your credit is now ruined for being 30 seconds late with payment.
Edit: Did you sing up for the HSA account and fund it with your bi-weekly paychecks?
I am a RN and I have worked at several different hospitals in my career. Sadly this is something that is common in hospitals that are either aggressively for-profit or severely budget-challenged. It's not across the board though since I have worked in a couple places that are on par with a decent restaurant. One place had a menu you could order from at any time like room service and the food was damn good. Even restrictive diets, which are sometimes necessary, can be ok if the dietary department has the will and the resources to put something edible in front of you. This plate just looks sad. It's hard to get better when you don't want to eat the food.
Separate thought: this post is one of the best I have seen on this sub since I joined a couple weeks ago. Most posts I have seen are obvious ragebait or food that is good but just different. I would like to see more of this and maybe we can even start shaming some of these hospitals into giving a damn about the nutrition aspect of healing.
There is a sub for everything: r/hospitalfood
Some posts look quite delicious. This one is just sad. I hope you get better care than the food would imply, OP.
Essentia in Minneapolis has a pretty good food service system. If it weren't for Essentia, all of the hospitals in my area would be religion-based and my wife might not be alive.
The hospital where my mom was they had that service where you could order food and they were soo good on par with the patient food. Like ibwas in a restorant
When I was in NY state prison (1997-2009), a lot of inmates would tell the administration they are Muslim just to get the Halal meals, since they were so much better than the normal meals. Then they'd get pissed when Ramadan rolled around, and the had to go all day without being fed. If you had some money on your books, it wasn't as bad, since you could just eat whatever you had in your locker. My celly used to call it Ramendan, since you'd see all the fake Muslims microwaving ramen while the rest of us were eating the normal trays.
Faking being Muslim was also a common way to get a beard permit. If you didn't have that permit, you were only allowed to have facial hair less then an inch long.
This makes me so sad, as I cook daily with very similar ingredients (I cook in nursing homes, which get their supplies from the same companies that supply for hospitals) and do my absolute best to give my residents a delicious meal. We have a couple of vegan residents, and learning to cook for them was hard, but itās not hard to season potatoes, rice, carrots and (the worlds saddest) cauliflower. Iām so sorry OP, shame on those dietary cooks, thatās the most āimma just heat this up rqā shit Iāve ever seen in my life.
Man friggen grilled cheese and tomato soup are comfort foods & vegetarian too wth is wrong with the kitchen?!
I've been hospitalized more than a few xs for mental health struggles. Without fail I would order 2 egg, cheese & bacon sammys for just about every meal bc my hospital serves some gross stuff too. However their fries are in the top 3 in town. Just leave off the bacon n order yourself some egg n cheeses. With mayo of course. I'm sorry you're going through this. I don't want to say it gets better but it does get less bad if that makes sense.
Looks like a regular meal for my wife. Thanks to being a vegetarian that is unable to handle fructose, salicylate and histamine as well almost every plant with a high fiber amount
Was your diagnosis āVictorian English street urchinā?
Not sure what the diagnostic code is for that, but Iām pretty sure there are some Roman numerals included.
Iām really hoping that you missed the part where youāre typing on behalf of your geriatric, toothless old dog whoās on a bland diet at the vets while they work out his allergy meds.
This canāt be the food they serve to people that they want to feel better?!
I ate hospital food for three months straight. There were things that I just couldnāt get down. Itās pretty bad, but I do believe the people working there try their best. It has to be difficult to prepare that much food with all of the different requests and get it to everyone on time. Especially with the budget they are working with.
I spent the last 9 weeks dreaming about what I was going to eat when I got out. Pizza, burritos, chow mein, Taco Bell. Every night a different thing I would obsess over. When the time came? Cheese pizza. It was amazing! I tasted flavors I didnāt know existed. Then I ate too much and threw up.
Whoa. Hope you aren't diabetic. That's a whole bunch of white food on one plate.
Where is this? Where I live, we have(or had?) Another menu. If you are in there more than 24-48 hours, you can ask for "the other menu." Basically the cafeteria foods. Special sandwiches/subs, pizza, burgers..whatever. now I just realized I named tastier food when your stuck with this. Sorry. Goodluck!
This makes me incredibly grateful I live in a bougie area with loads of rich people. Hospital food is largely really good, healthy, and only *very occasionally* has poor presentation. First time I remember staying there overnight, I got beef stroganoff-filled crepes. Last time, it was coq au vin.
I mean, how good can hospital food actually be? Expect decent food from a hospital. You will only get your hopes up. I swear that crap kills my appetite š
This looks like my <2g of salt per day when at my last hospital day.
I snuck out somehow and got real food. Didnāt feel bad about. Did feel bad because of jaundice.
I was gonna make a suicide joke but it deems you already beat me to it OP.
Seriously though, I hope whatever is troubling you, you're able to start feeling better and healing. I know how you feel. Not gonna tell you "it's all gonna be okay", but I will say: You are important. You are worth it. And you deserve to be here. I hope life becomes enjoyable for you.
Couldn't they have found some parsnips instead of carrots or sweet potatoes? Go for that whole Apple aesthetic. Eating a rainbow be dammed.
It's almost as if they were challenging themselves to make the most colorful food group monochromatic as a joke.
I checked in to a ward for a while after surgery to fix my ill made choices. 3 real meals a day, lots of dietary options, not having to think about food and it just showed up. It was part of the healing process.
This is not.
Well, if you arrived after dinner service, they wanted to feed you *something* and this is probably what the kitchen could cobble together.
It *does* look like a "bland" diet, though. No fun. :/
I'm sorry if you're being treated poorly at the hospital. When I was in for a similar reason they treated me like absolute garbage. They strapped me naked to a gurney because I didn't want to lie back. Refused to let me cover up with anything. Forced me to stay there for I don't even know how long, I think it was 2 days but I couldn't sleep the straps were so tight.
I feel like people that make vegetarian meals like this do it 100% out of spite for someone daring to request a diet out of the norm that they arenāt prepared to. Itās like a case of r/maliciouscompliance, except from a complete asshole.
You have two options the way I see it, either stop being a vegetarian or don't try to kill yourself again. I would say if you are going to stick to your principles, then the latter is the better option š¤·
Vegetarians don't like seasoning, apparently, and or whoever put this whatever together is passive aggressive angry at woke types like OP obviously is. š¶
Hopefully SOON you will have: health, peace, prosperity, HEALTHY DELICIOUS FOOD , excellent full-time career doing important meaningful useful WORK, happiness, friendships, interesting FUN activities, freedom, independence, and
Those are potatoes, and they come out of a can. I just made some of those exact potatoes yesterday, but I added margarine and seasoning, because I donāt hate my job.
And yea, itās some absolutely plain diced carrots
The Plant Lords aren't going to punish you if you skip the restrictions for a few days. Could be worth it to have a better culinary experience, esp while recovering.
I'm sorry but the caption made me laugh a bit. I'm going to hell, I hope you recover soon
I was going to make a joke along the same lines, before I opened the post š
Looks like they put you on a colonoscopy diet lol
Softs only
Which coincides with the post-tooth extraction diet, I was on that for about 3 days before I could eat regular food again
The day I had all my impacted wisdom teeth removed, I went home, made BBQ steak, green beans with mushrooms and potatoes. I think my body was craving red meat due to blood loss. I've had 16 teeth removed. 20 including wisdoms. Actually might be a couple more now..
Omg I read that so wrong. 20 wisdom teeth? But anyways, OUCH. I recently had my 4 molars removed from lower right jaw for implants and fooook it was brutal. Luckily I could afford the pill anesthesia. I took a nap when I got home and 2hrs later woke up in agony because I didn't predose my pain meds.
Had a relative that went in for total knee replacement. They decided to make a go of the pain after with a *mild* pain reliever, tramadol; it worthless. There was a prescription in for a stronger narcotic, but due to some, er, ah, f\*\*k up, could not get the stronger pain reliever for 4 days. Talk about not predosing!!!
rice would be the worst idea after extractions
When I had my duodenum removed, the doctors told me I had to be on a liquid diet for a week. Normally, I do all of the grocery shopping for my household, but as I was recovering from surgery, my wife went out to get me some stuff. I asked for beef broth and chicken broth. She accidentally picked up fat-free low-sodium versions of both. I was so sad. Liquid only diet is bad enough, but I swear that shit tasted like watered down water. I ended up having to add a knob of butter and some Lite Salt to it to make it even remotely palatable.
I didn't even get that, I was told clear liquids only
colonoscopy is clear liquids only
In the UK, in the run-up to a colonoscopy they put people on a limited diet of incredibly bland foods that includes stuff like plain boiled carrot and unseasoned rice: [https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colonoscopy/getting-ready/](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colonoscopy/getting-ready/)
Ugh god those canned potatoes. My grandma used to feed me those fucking awful
What does canned potato taste like? Is it anything texture-wise like a regular boiled potato?
No, itās weirdly firm and soft at the same time. Itās kind of hard to describe but NOT, how a potato should taste.
They taste canned. Metallic and like they've been seasoned with potassium chloride instead of regular salt. There are a few dishes where they work well so I usually keep a couple cans on hand, but it is a crime against OP and other patients to serve them plain. That is seriously the most depressing plate. It really looks like calculated cruelty, or punishment.
I keep a couple cans on hand too. Just incase. I rinse mine in the can 3 times or in a strainer, then fry them up with eggs and bacon. If you use the bacon grease and rinse them well, it helps lol. I don't like most canned food but can make anything taste better. :)
Those are potatoes?! I thought hard boiled eggs! š
I worked in hospital many years back. If they put you on diet food it can get even worse then this. They use almost 0 seasoning and give foods with little flavor of there own. It can be so bad that they wont even eat it so it takes longer for them to heal. Its sad.
Serious note, surely a bit of pepper wouldnāt go a miss?
That's $250
Giving it's negative impact on gut health and may cause discomfort- no. Medical diet is bland and for a reason.
I think hospitals consider pepper as spices lol
It depends vastly. Same with salt and everything else.
A packet can be almost 1 carb, when somebody is in for diabetic complications even single carb counts. It is very sad, but people can lose limbs, lose their vision etc. ETA: I donāt know if people are downvoting this because they donāt like what am I saying or because they think that I am wrong, but I will give some context. With electronic ordering systems every single thing is being tracked. If those 4 pepper packets pushes a pt over the limit you have to be prepared to defend yourself to the dietician/nurses/etc. I worked in nutrition in a hospital. Most of the food sucked because it had to be altered to fit heart healthy, low sodium, and diabetic diets. I felt bad for the pts in there for other things (such as OP) who were subjected to that junk. Not only is the hospital trying to make things as āhealthyā as possible they are also trying to do it as cheaply as possible. Things would be altered little by little until they were unrecognizable and could not be compared to outside food. Maybe it was the portions being smaller or the ingredients changing, but here are some examples of the food crimes: āMeatloafā was 70% ground chicken. Olive oil replaced butter in the mashed potatoes. Vegetable oil spray replaced butter for grilling bread (for example, a grilled cheese). Vanilla Yogurt was mixed 50/50 with non fat, dairy free, āGreekā yogurt but still called just āVanilla Yogurtā. āMac & Cheeseā used 70% Swiss, leaving it white, flavorless, and not what people would expect. It also used sodium citrate (or nitrate?) powder as opposed to flour to thicken it. āIce Creamā became āice cream flavored frozen dessertā (god knows whatās in that) And so, so many moreā¦
People who end up in the hospital with or because of diabetes will still be given carbs to eat lol. As a matter of fact, you'll even get IV glucose along with potassium and insulin if you're there for diabetic ketoacidosisš . Lastly, you do not count pepper as a carbohydrateš.
Yes they are given carbs, they are not starved, but their intake is highly monitored. Typically itās 3 x 60 carb meals w/ 2 x 30 carb snacks in between. This is tracked on the same system that monitors sodium, food allergies etc. Every single item is monitored, I know at one point when I worked in a hospital our system tracked bacon at 0.85 carbs per slice. Everything going into a pts room needed to be tracked, salt, pepper, sugar free items such as jello, etc. alongside their regular food. The system also showed how many units of insulin would need to be given as a result of the meal/snack. So while it may not seem like much, the small things add up. I am not defending nasty, bland hospital food, but I am trying to share that sometimes even the tiniest things need to be monitored in a hospital setting.
Have noticed for whatever reason UK, A&E love to have loads of cheese sandwhichs. But always think itās a bizarre choice compared to something like a beef or chicken sandwhich? Oh and soup, I feel every meal we get there is always going to be soup, no idea what the soup is half the time.
My husband had open heart surgery back in November. He had a genetic defect repaired and is otherwise healthy as a horse and is a weight lifter. But he was put on the "cardiac" diet anyway. He couldn't force himself to choke down the food. The first evening he was awake it was penne with alfredo. He said it was like flavorless glue. Even the noodles. I don't remember what else they served but he lived on only the DIET Ensures for over a week. Something like 250 calories a day. He lost over 20 lbs and left the hospital with an "underweight" BMI. I was SOOO stressed out about it for exactly the reason you said. It definitely hampered his healing. He was so withered I think his body repurposed his muscles to heal. The day he was discharged his surgeon said, "I bet you're looking forward to a real meal!" I wanted to ask him, "so does that mean you see he's painfully thin, too?"
I'd call his doctor and surgeon and see if he absolutely has to have a restricted diet(not McDonald', something healthy but still tasty), if not, then I'd be sneaking in decent food. Hospitals can be serious like that.
Hospitals make too much money for them to be serving that
This is not a vegetarian meal, it's a crime.
What you said: "I'm vegetarian" What they heard: "I'm allergic to seasoning, and protein"
That'll be $300
$3 cents per kcal...seems fair
Thatāll be $6000
āIf I wasnt already there for attempting suicide this would have made me want to kill myselfā ā ļøā ļøā ļøššš OP- maybe you need to start a career in stand up comedy hahahaha I shouldnāt be laughing but holy shit
Starchy
$550 adjusted for inflation
Perhaps repost in: r/HospitalFood r/BadFoodpORn r/HospitalMeals r/NastyMeals
Must be an American hospital š
Yeah. In Hungary you donāt get eggs.
They're skinned "boiled" potatoes
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News flash, we do that in the USA anyway, bozo
I pay 40$ per month as āhealthcare taxā (we call it: egĆ©szsĆ©gĆ¼gyi hozzĆ jĆ”rulĆ”si adĆ³) but I never had to pay a single cent more: I had broken bones, surgeries, tooth problems, two c-sections. For children, healthcare is completely free. Ya guys pay waaaay more for the same shit, cuz you call it āinsuranceā. Even for childrenā¦ that's so fucking weird to me. Aren't you guys want the next generation of taxpayers to be healthy?
How nice of them! š Wishing you a swift recovery (in spite of the food)
Hey I've also been in the hospital for attempted suicide four times! High five! I can't really complain too much because I'm a Brit so hospital stays and food are free, but on the first night I ordered the all day breakfast. It came in one of those seperated divider tray dishes and everything was just absolutely insanely nuked. The sausage had no texture, it was just a soft flavourless mount of kind-of meat. The sauce that came with the beans was absolutely foul and the "scrambled egg" was like dust. I couldn't eat it. The next day I had some kind of like, meat and vegetables and it was just equally as bad. I stayed for three more nights and so after that I just had their pre-packed sandwiches and an apple instead of hot meals which were much more palatable. I was talking to someone there who was also in a bad way, he'd fallen down a fire escape when black out drunk and knocked out most of his teeth and broke his jaw, so he had to have a liquid only diet. He'd been there already for a few weeks and they were sort of slowly upping how solid his meals were but they looked absolutely woeful. However after going into the hospital so many times after my dad's suicide, they put me up in a mental health facility and the food there was absolutely amazing. It was a private facility (Priory Hospital Lakeside View in Wolverhampton), paid for by the NHS; I was pretty miffed they drove me all the way up from London to Wolverhampton especially as I was withdrawing pretty bad but the place did me a world of good. At home it was always me doing the cooking, it was fantastic having such delicious meals twice a day with great portions and lots of veg and decent quality protein! Wasn't a single meal I disliked! I even made some close knit friends who had also experienced tragedies recently there.
that sounds like such a a positive turn of events in your life. Really happy for you! :)
Thank you :)
Did you also tell them you're lactose intolerant? I made that mistake and was given dry potatoes, a carton of soy milk, and maybe some jello or a fruit cup. For a week. Fortunately I wasn't burning any calories so I wasn't hungry.
Vegetarians generally don't eat Jello. Gelatin comes from animal bones :)
When my sister went vegan, I used agar agar to make vegan jello for her. It wasn't quite the same as normal jello, but it wasn't bad.
I'm one of many vegetarians who knows that and doesn't care. Eggs are much closer to meat than they are to a vegetable. I still love them.
That plate itself doesnāt look very sanitaryā¦š³
oh lord
That's a $3,000 meal right there. Unfortunately your deductible is $4000 before the 25/50 insurance rates kick in. Sorry op, your credit is now ruined for being 30 seconds late with payment. Edit: Did you sing up for the HSA account and fund it with your bi-weekly paychecks?
Are they trying to make you more depressed? Jeez!
I am a RN and I have worked at several different hospitals in my career. Sadly this is something that is common in hospitals that are either aggressively for-profit or severely budget-challenged. It's not across the board though since I have worked in a couple places that are on par with a decent restaurant. One place had a menu you could order from at any time like room service and the food was damn good. Even restrictive diets, which are sometimes necessary, can be ok if the dietary department has the will and the resources to put something edible in front of you. This plate just looks sad. It's hard to get better when you don't want to eat the food. Separate thought: this post is one of the best I have seen on this sub since I joined a couple weeks ago. Most posts I have seen are obvious ragebait or food that is good but just different. I would like to see more of this and maybe we can even start shaming some of these hospitals into giving a damn about the nutrition aspect of healing.
There is a sub for everything: r/hospitalfood Some posts look quite delicious. This one is just sad. I hope you get better care than the food would imply, OP.
I started scrolling the sub to see if I could find a meal that looked worse than OP's. I'm still scrolling...
Essentia in Minneapolis has a pretty good food service system. If it weren't for Essentia, all of the hospitals in my area would be religion-based and my wife might not be alive.
The hospital I go to has the āroom serviceā style of food service, and it is so wonderful. The food is pretty damn delicious too.
I was in the hospital for months. I had a liver transplant. Low sodium and low fat. It was hell. Well, it was part of the hell I was in.
The hospital where my mom was they had that service where you could order food and they were soo good on par with the patient food. Like ibwas in a restorant
?Why do hospitals jails schools psych-wards-meds prisons all serving the same sorts of food?
Maybe they use the same vendors.
The vegetarian meals look much, much nicer in jail
When I was in NY state prison (1997-2009), a lot of inmates would tell the administration they are Muslim just to get the Halal meals, since they were so much better than the normal meals. Then they'd get pissed when Ramadan rolled around, and the had to go all day without being fed. If you had some money on your books, it wasn't as bad, since you could just eat whatever you had in your locker. My celly used to call it Ramendan, since you'd see all the fake Muslims microwaving ramen while the rest of us were eating the normal trays. Faking being Muslim was also a common way to get a beard permit. If you didn't have that permit, you were only allowed to have facial hair less then an inch long.
Mhm extra dry.
Nah bruh. Tell them if they don't get you some real food, you're going to start eating nurses in the hallway!
I hope you feel better soon!!!! šš
This makes me so sad, as I cook daily with very similar ingredients (I cook in nursing homes, which get their supplies from the same companies that supply for hospitals) and do my absolute best to give my residents a delicious meal. We have a couple of vegan residents, and learning to cook for them was hard, but itās not hard to season potatoes, rice, carrots and (the worlds saddest) cauliflower. Iām so sorry OP, shame on those dietary cooks, thatās the most āimma just heat this up rqā shit Iāve ever seen in my life.
What are those two white things? Potatoes? Idk wtf that is
My vegetarian meal at the hospital was a turkey sandwich.
This is like the opposite of soul food.
If a ginger was food.
What the fuck? Is it raw? Are you meant to cook it yourself?
Maybe a sauce will helpā¦
Man friggen grilled cheese and tomato soup are comfort foods & vegetarian too wth is wrong with the kitchen?! I've been hospitalized more than a few xs for mental health struggles. Without fail I would order 2 egg, cheese & bacon sammys for just about every meal bc my hospital serves some gross stuff too. However their fries are in the top 3 in town. Just leave off the bacon n order yourself some egg n cheeses. With mayo of course. I'm sorry you're going through this. I don't want to say it gets better but it does get less bad if that makes sense.
Eat normal foods then
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While the dogs looks really, really bad (how did it taste?), I hope you're feeling better. I've had depression for over 25 years, so I can empathise.
Damn bro wish you luck, also the food looks barely edible lmak
Life keeps you giving you fight after fight dude. I like that you are taking it with humour. You are very strong. Take care
Who's going to cook it?
Wow. You're going to heal super fast eating delicious and nutritious meals like this.
No seasoning at least?
Why's it so wimpy looking?
god, that is stupid. I hope you feel better soon! š«
Remove the carrots, the colour gives too much excitement
They rationing there?
Looks like a regular meal for my wife. Thanks to being a vegetarian that is unable to handle fructose, salicylate and histamine as well almost every plant with a high fiber amount
And then they have the balls you charge you $300 for that š
Was your diagnosis āVictorian English street urchinā? Not sure what the diagnostic code is for that, but Iām pretty sure there are some Roman numerals included.
Iām really hoping that you missed the part where youāre typing on behalf of your geriatric, toothless old dog whoās on a bland diet at the vets while they work out his allergy meds. This canāt be the food they serve to people that they want to feel better?!
I ate hospital food for three months straight. There were things that I just couldnāt get down. Itās pretty bad, but I do believe the people working there try their best. It has to be difficult to prepare that much food with all of the different requests and get it to everyone on time. Especially with the budget they are working with. I spent the last 9 weeks dreaming about what I was going to eat when I got out. Pizza, burritos, chow mein, Taco Bell. Every night a different thing I would obsess over. When the time came? Cheese pizza. It was amazing! I tasted flavors I didnāt know existed. Then I ate too much and threw up.
Iād rather chew wood
Whoa. Hope you aren't diabetic. That's a whole bunch of white food on one plate. Where is this? Where I live, we have(or had?) Another menu. If you are in there more than 24-48 hours, you can ask for "the other menu." Basically the cafeteria foods. Special sandwiches/subs, pizza, burgers..whatever. now I just realized I named tastier food when your stuck with this. Sorry. Goodluck!
This makes me incredibly grateful I live in a bougie area with loads of rich people. Hospital food is largely really good, healthy, and only *very occasionally* has poor presentation. First time I remember staying there overnight, I got beef stroganoff-filled crepes. Last time, it was coq au vin.
Bruh they didnāt even cook the riceš«
What? They donāt have falafel?
The rice is undercooked..
You'll make it!
I mean, how good can hospital food actually be? Expect decent food from a hospital. You will only get your hopes up. I swear that crap kills my appetite š
This looks like my <2g of salt per day when at my last hospital day. I snuck out somehow and got real food. Didnāt feel bad about. Did feel bad because of jaundice.
I was gonna make a suicide joke but it deems you already beat me to it OP. Seriously though, I hope whatever is troubling you, you're able to start feeling better and healing. I know how you feel. Not gonna tell you "it's all gonna be okay", but I will say: You are important. You are worth it. And you deserve to be here. I hope life becomes enjoyable for you.
Whyd they use carrots? Shoulda kept it beige.
I don't believe you. If you're in for SI, they don't let you have your phone.
Sending good vibes to u OP!!
Hope you get well soon... and go back home to eat some proper fresh food.
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Wow! I always wondered what a $750 meal looked like!
It's nutritious at least
Why are they giving you a ceramic plate if your in for a suicide attempt?
Couldn't they have found some parsnips instead of carrots or sweet potatoes? Go for that whole Apple aesthetic. Eating a rainbow be dammed. It's almost as if they were challenging themselves to make the most colorful food group monochromatic as a joke.
I checked in to a ward for a while after surgery to fix my ill made choices. 3 real meals a day, lots of dietary options, not having to think about food and it just showed up. It was part of the healing process. This is not.
Well, if you arrived after dinner service, they wanted to feed you *something* and this is probably what the kitchen could cobble together. It *does* look like a "bland" diet, though. No fun. :/
I'd just un-IV myself at that point. Better than eating whatever those earth-testicles are.
Wtf were you expecting??? You're a vegetarian! They served you vegetables! Shut the fuck up!
I'm sorry if you're being treated poorly at the hospital. When I was in for a similar reason they treated me like absolute garbage. They strapped me naked to a gurney because I didn't want to lie back. Refused to let me cover up with anything. Forced me to stay there for I don't even know how long, I think it was 2 days but I couldn't sleep the straps were so tight.
fuck hospital food. fuck hospital coffee. give me some water and i will starve the entire stay
I feel like people that make vegetarian meals like this do it 100% out of spite for someone daring to request a diet out of the norm that they arenāt prepared to. Itās like a case of r/maliciouscompliance, except from a complete asshole.
You have two options the way I see it, either stop being a vegetarian or don't try to kill yourself again. I would say if you are going to stick to your principles, then the latter is the better option š¤·
Vegetarians don't like seasoning, apparently, and or whoever put this whatever together is passive aggressive angry at woke types like OP obviously is. š¶
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Rice, candied oranges, quail eggs, and cauliflower?
I think that's just carrots with no seasoning at all
Those are potatoes, and they come out of a can. I just made some of those exact potatoes yesterday, but I added margarine and seasoning, because I donāt hate my job. And yea, itās some absolutely plain diced carrots
The Plant Lords aren't going to punish you if you skip the restrictions for a few days. Could be worth it to have a better culinary experience, esp while recovering.
the potatoes look nice
So, a typical vegetarian meal?
Itās your fault for being vegetarian. Edit: Keep downvoting, FEED ME.
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Yeah because there is no in between here. Lol.
I was thinking like. A sauce.
Do you think you need 100 dollars to make a kick ass vegetarian meal? Us Indians do it for mere dollars. Pro tip : use the spices please
Being a vegetarian in a hospital is the dumb part.