This liquid tried to pass itself off as leek soup when it was quite clearly green wallpaper paste...
Call it Stockholm Syndrome if you like, but this ham salad was fresh, tasty and more importantly... produced in the hospital rather than in an NHS Slop Factory!
The 'soup' leaves a lot to be desired but the salad looks alright! Could have done with a mixed leaf salad in there as well with a nice Balsamic dressing but it is better than most of the stuff you have had on a plate!
ReplyDeleteAt least it had some fresh veggies in there! A bonus for sure!
Why, when the NHS CAN produce food like this do they use the cook/chill slops? IT makes no sense to me at all!
Not a smoked Salmon Bagle but it will provide some much needed nutrition!
Stockholm Calling......
Fresh vegetables, a reasonable-looking slice of ham and could that white mixture be coleslaw (more vegetables); it actually looks quite tempting. Maybe you need to go for the salad option more often.
ReplyDeleteApparently half the ward chose the salad this evening despite the chilly weather. Obviously the patients are voting with their feet, if they could actually walk on them!
ReplyDeleteOh that salad looks lovely TM, I could eat that.
ReplyDeleteDid you have bread and butter with it.
The salad looks good! And if your stomach stomached it, then it was just protesting against lunch (you told us earlier that you had a bit of stomach ache after it) - it seems reasonable enough people prefer a plate like this maybe with some bread and a cup of tea to the usual bingo foodstuffs!
ReplyDeleteI would have loved some nice bread and butter but there was only a wholemeal roll on offer. The last time I had one of those I thought I had accidentally picked up my rolled-up socks and eaten them by mistake.
ReplyDeleteI could save the NHS thousands. Simply admit the overweight. The only reason people don't die of starvation with the food being so awful is that many are immobile and therefore require few calories. That soup and the salad can't be more than 550 calories.
ReplyDeleteI CAN RECOGNISE WHAT YOU'RE EATING!!!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting. x
This is no fun!
ReplyDeleteI can't eat slop for you every day or I will die. I'm supposed to be here to get well rather than martyr myself to hospital food. :-)
ReplyDeleteFor god's sake, grow up. If you were one of my kids I'd give you a slap for whining and moaning all the time. On what I earn I'd be damn grateful to eat as well as you are. Out here in the real world life is tough, and some of us have to struggle on the basics. It's years since I ate food that looks as pleasant and nutritious as those meals being given to you free of charge. Grow up and stop complaining. It's clear you're only doing this for the attention, and as with any pathetic kid, you could do with being taught a lesson.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous (the latest Anonymous). Do you, perchance, work for the company that produces this rubbish? I have to assume this, because no one in their right minds seriously considers this to be QUOTE pleasant and nutritious UNQUOTE. Nor are these meals free of charge. Traction Man has paid for these over the years in his tax and National Insurance. You are the one who should grow up. You are defending the indefensible. And I - and I am sure most other readers of this blog - can only think of one reason why you should do that. Because you have been instructed to do so.
ReplyDeleteAw TM! Just keep counting the days till the next smoked salmon delight!
ReplyDeleteYou are right, you can't eat slop every day. How can your body heal without the correct nutrition?
Save the NHS money, give patients DECENT food and they will get better quicker so saving money! QED!
I showed your latest offerings to son who is frequently a patient, he was most unimpressed with most. He really was not keen on the baked potato yesterday! The salad, well, he liked the look of it! LOL!
Gosh thanks for the reality check. I'm such an ungrateful bastard. You're absolutely right. All that free food. I suppose you'd better come round and give me a slap. A few more weeks in hospital as a result of your violence won't make much difference since I've been in hospital most of the year. I don't know what came over me. Who wouldn't want to be stuck in hospital for nine months on the same food with visitors popping in just once a week? All it needed was someone like you to set me straight. I'm enormously grateful. Thanks. X
ReplyDeleteTurner Prize 2009:
ReplyDelete"A whale's skull, a heap of dust made up of the remains of a jet engine and a workman's naked backside are among the artworks featuring in a display by this year's shortlisted Turner Prize artists.
Roger Hiorns, Enrico David, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright are the artists in the running for the award, which is worth £25,000 to the prize winner and £5,000 for each of those shortlisted.
Among the exhibits at Tate Britain is a heap of metal dust from an atomised passenger jet engine by Hiorns.
Helen Little, assistant curator, said the engine had been melted down and sprayed through nozzles at high speed, to create fine granules. She said his work was about "giving new life to objects. It's a test of faith in technology."
Turner Prize 2010:
Food Bingo.
Why not?
might as well admit it , a decent meal at this point is almost better then sex isnt it ?
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...am off for a week's R&R down at my local monkhouse, so eat well while I'm away. I know I shall.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't know, Rhonda. My memory's not that long :-)
ReplyDeleteTo anonymous telling TM to grow up, thank God we are not one of your kids or we would all be mentally scared for life from your slappings.
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned .... Quote.."It's years since I ate food that looks as pleasant and nutritious as those meals being given to you free of charge"... unquote.
My God, either you cannot cook or you are frequenting the wrong dumpster at the back of the local caff.
As for NHS food being free of charge, you poor deluded person.... Why do you think we all pay National Insurance contributions ?
Grow up and get your facts right before posting such a venemous attack.... By the way, don`t scavange from a MacDonalds dumpster, their scraps are so vile i have seen fly`s vomiting.
Ness ..xx
Thanks Anonymous, with you around life must be such fun. You are not the only person who has a very limited budget and mouths to feed, but God almighty nothing excuses the muck being presented here. And if you try and tell me there is any nutritional value in it then I think you must be the screwball you are presenting yourself as. Are you always this cheerful or do you have to try hard at it. Someone like you should work for the Samaritans! Take Care, TM and just think what tomorrow could bring.
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FYI (try not to be too jealous) http://hummingbirdappetite.blogspot.com/2009/10/hospital-food-is-always-better-in-korea.html
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 22.25: If TM had been given decent nutrition - which is what this blog is about - he would have healed faster and be out of hospital. He's been in hospital for nine frigging months. I don't know if you've been following this blog but if you had you would have realised what the point of it was.
ReplyDeleteAs for suggesting physical violence against someone you haven't even met (let alone against your own kids), it sounds as though you need some listening skills and anger management.
Mr Anonymous (Above, not me) obviously eats at McDonalds a lot. Tends to fry the brain...
ReplyDeleteSay, Anonymous 22:25, I think you need a proper meal. It looks like you've really suffered from lack of proper food. But don't a attack our friend TM, he's got quite a lot to put up with as it is. Thanks.
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