Hospital Food

Surprisingly good

Hospital food is actually very good. You could get really fat here. I can have jelly, ice cream, cheesecake, tart with lunch and dinner. You can order soft drink and juices with every meal too. A hot breakfast, hot lunch and hot dinner. Then you get morning tea with cake, afternoon tea with cake….lots and lots of food. I wonder what Michelle Bridges would think of hospital food? Jamie Oliver wouldn’t be impressed either.

I thought there’d be a few more restrictions given that I am in a health/medical institution…I guess you’re already in the best place though in case you need some kind of life saving medical treatment, because you’ve eaten too much cake and added salt and suffering a hypoglycaemic, sugar induced food coma, or worse a heart attack.

I’m not complaining, but I do tend to eat everything I am given, so I have to be careful not to order all the good stuff. I am being a little dramatic, you can choose to order a small or medium size meal, and usually there is a fresh fruit option, but who orders fruit when you can have panacotta and caramel tart?

This morning I tried the hot breakfast; grilled tomato on toast. I expected some toast with slices of tomato, I got some toast with an entire tomato (the size of your head) plonked on top. I won’t order that if I’m here next Wednesday.

There are tricks you learn from your roomies too once you have been here for more than a day, there is a special menu you can choose more things from, different to the cyclical menu, and I order the little extra treats and entrees to share with Jerry.