The Anonymous Widower

Hospital Food

I’ve had a bit of that in the last few years and as a coeliac, it’s general been rather poor.

But perhaps I was lucky compared to the lady with coeliac disease in this story. This is an extract.

When she was in hospital a few years ago, she was shocked by the food she was served.

“I was offered toast, but I can’t eat that. I need gluten-free bread. They didn’t have the porridge oats which I can eat, so I ended up with a boiled egg.”

And the subsequent meals did not improve either, despite the fact Kathleen had confirmed she was coeliac when she was first admitted.

“Lunch was fish fingers, which I couldn’t eat because of the breadcrumbs. They asked me why I couldn’t just pick them off.

“At dinner time they put gravy on my dinner and a Yorkshire pudding on the plate too. Because of the contamination risk, I couldn’t eat any of it.”

A friend, who used to work in a hospital always said that the most likely place to get ill, is a hospital.

October 5, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Food, Health | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Hospitals