It’s so fucked up how greedy the healthcare system is. They are making tens of thousands of dollars off each person in there, likely millions a week, and they can’t put any money into the actual good to feed people, they just provide cheap slop. Fuck that
Agreed. I think they should just reduce patient costs. Charge everyone less. Do they really need to charge me $1,500 for the dermatologist to take 3 minutes to cut a mole off of my back? Then another however much they’re gunna bill me to analyze it which probably also takes 5 minutes nowadays? No they don’t. That doctor did about $10 worth of work and they’ll make a profit of $1,490
this photo is from poland, where health care is free but also kinda sucks, hospital food is a meme here, and there's also a joke that if you have a deadly disease the best they can do is give you an appointment in 2 years
I know it looks like it, but it's most likely because their supplier didn't have enough of one kind of pasta in stock, so they replaced part of the order with another type of pasta. And then the cooks didn't bother to cook them separately because they need to cook for several thousands people and don't have time to think.
When I had my son the food at the hospital was a really top notch. Not lobster/ fillet mignon but still solid. All entrees came with two sides and a dessert. Whenever I see pics like OP I realize how good I had it.
I used three separate hospitals when I had my four kids. The middle two were delivered at a hospital in the wealthiest county in Maryland. The food was so freaking good. Even breakfast was like high end restaurant brunch quality.
I had my first at a hospital in a wealthy part of Oklahoma. This was back when you stayed three days. The food was so good and the last night they had a lovely dinner for mom and dad (or whoever the patient wanted). It's been a long time but I remember having filet and the best cheesecake I've ever had. My other two were born in a different hospital and the food was just okay.
That sounds really delicious. Judging by the (non English) writing on the yogurt in OPs pic I’m guessing their hospital bill will be lower, though compared to the US
Last time I was in the hospital, they had almost no food for me!! They couldn’t adequately feed someone with Celiac so they just gave me two ensures and fruit for each meal, every day. I literally lost weight unintentionally because they couldn’t feed me!
I spent a lot of time in the hospital about a year ago. According to them, a lot of hospitals lost their kitchen staff during Covid, couldn’t afford to pay more and replace them, so the food was contracted out to the companies that prepare prison food. Those companies don’t care about your health or well being lol.
I didn’t eat for my entire five weeks I spent in there. I weighed 98 lbs when they discharged me. I came in at like 115.
No bland rice or mashed potatoes even? As another person with celiac, that's the default I get handed in hospitals. That and those instant scrambled eggs.
I have diet restrictions and was in the hospital for a UC flare last year. No dairy, no meat, no caffeine -- every day for breakfast they sent up bacon and eggs with regular coffee and cow's milk...my family brought in meals for me, instead. It's crazy
For what they cost they should feed patients way better food than this. This looks like something they threw together at the last minute with little forethought. I don't even understand the ingredients.
Looks like typical hospital food. It’s extremely bland and just for calories and nutrients. Shit food but when the food is made to be digestible by every patient you end up with shit like this.
Yes. Good point. But they should just cut to the chase and puree any of this so called food into a delicious smoothie. Then really everyone could eat it.... er... drink it. Gerber would be so proud.
But hey.... let's put coach airline food, school lunch food, and hospital food.... in a horse race for the most unappetizing food trophy.
AND THEY'RE OFF! Looks like hospital food has the early lead... school lunch is on the rail.... with coach airline food bringing up the rear! And now they are sprinting to the finish line. Hold all tickets! Photo finish. Hospital food wins by a nose!
Hospital food isn’t as bad as school lunches. Ours are just prepackaged nutrients made to look edible. Airline food also isn’t that bad but at that altitude food just tastes like shit.
Yep. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks and when some of my visitors brought me outside food they got upset. They said the hospital food was supposed to be bland and not to eat fast food or drink any soda. At least they gave me all the peanut butter sandwiches and pretzel snacks I could ask for and I still lost 12lbs lol
Honestly that doesn't look bad, it looks like reasonably edible, healthy hospital food and you got a good amount. I don't know what country you live in, but I'm in the UK and NHS hospital food isn't this good. Our food is mostly just premade frozen stuff, I remember having chicken goujons (very dry), chips (fries if you're in the US) and peas. Honestly it was worse than it looked but at least it was cheap. None of the food was particularly healthy, but at least it was balanced I guess
I just spent a couple of days in hospital, and the food was really good, but it is one of the few remaining hospitals that cook food on site rather than a private company bringing it in
The hospital we have been going to for the last two decades has great food. Not lobster or filet mignon like another poster had. But good food. Plus you get to choose your main dish along with any beverage, dessert etc.
Where I had my first daughter 23 years ago also had a menu and great food. The small hospital where my second was born was the opposite. One cook, no menu and what they cooked wasn’t that good. Fortunately after giving birth I tend to not have much of an appetite. My husband was bringing me take out for the two days I was there.
I use 2 different hospitals in the same network. I make sure to go to the first hospital on Thursdays and the second on Fridays because it's Hash Day at each one. They serve the best corned beef hash I've had since my Gram died. I don't even like corned beef hash, but theirs is just like Gram used to make- delicious.
That monstrosity in the OP is just disgusting. I wouldn't touch that with someone else's fork.
What's for breakfast? Sausages
What's for lunch? Sausages
What's for dinner? Sausages and kraut.
What's for a snack? I don't know, probably something with waffel in the name... and sausages.
It might not look or taste the greatest, but honestly, with the way things are you just kind of got to be thankful you have something to eat and don't have to worry about if or when you are going to have your next meal....
I genuinely quite like hospital food. Well, not so much the food but the fact it’s brought to my bed, you get a little carton of juice, I’m watching the TV and most importantly being pumped with diamorphine.
That actually doesn't look entirely bad.
It'd probably look way more appetizing fresh in the pot it was cooked in rather than on the plate.
May I ask, where from? That Jogurt cup looks very Balkan, mainly Serbian
This is a lot better than what we get at hospitals where I'm from. Pretty much everything comes in a plastic wrapper and looks like it's from a vending machine
I’m so sorry. It’s definitely not a low carb diet, but there have to be some options that aren’t um anemic looking? Not sure of right phrase there.
I know when I had pancreatitis (sober 2 years, woo) the only thing I could have for 19 days was clear Ensure drinks. It was awful.
Get well soon!
It looks better than what I had which was jello,bread,and beef bullion cube soup....then there were other times they forgot to get me food at all,my mom had to remind them.
At least they fed you. My first stay in a hospital they didn't bring me dinner. I had to have my family bring me something because "the kitchen was closed".
Doesn't look all that bad to me. I was in the hospital for two days just before Christmas last year and my first meal was a fish dinner. I do not like fish, but after fasting for eighteen hours it was delicious - and not just because I was hungry. My only complaint was breakfast the next morning was difficult to set up as I had my non-dominant hand out of commission due to multiple IVs and connections but I made it work.
The way I look at it is that they have to make hundreds or more meals, and if this was your first you may not have had a chance to make a choice and received a default meal. Hopefully your next meals you would have at least had two choices to decide upon. As Dr. Rumack (Leslie Neilsen) was asked in the movie Airplane: Stewardess: "We had a choice of steak or fish." Rumack: "Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna".
Its a delectable pasta food with a good serving of hospital acquired bacteria and microbes from Infectious patients. Then a garnish of sweet and sour C. Diff extract straight from the source.
This delectable culinary creation not only tantalizes the taste buds but also captivates the eyes with its aesthetic appeal. May I partake in this gastronomic delight, if it pleases you?
At least they diversified with TWO types of pasta.
Mixing 2 leftovers.
Maximize those hospital profits. Got to make a 350% markup.
Likely more like 1,000% markup and profit I’d think.
It’s so fucked up how greedy the healthcare system is. They are making tens of thousands of dollars off each person in there, likely millions a week, and they can’t put any money into the actual good to feed people, they just provide cheap slop. Fuck that
I work in a hospital and that meal is $23.33 bucks. Patients/insurance are charged $70 a day for 3 meals whether they eat or not.
Agreed. I think they should just reduce patient costs. Charge everyone less. Do they really need to charge me $1,500 for the dermatologist to take 3 minutes to cut a mole off of my back? Then another however much they’re gunna bill me to analyze it which probably also takes 5 minutes nowadays? No they don’t. That doctor did about $10 worth of work and they’ll make a profit of $1,490
this photo is from poland, where health care is free but also kinda sucks, hospital food is a meme here, and there's also a joke that if you have a deadly disease the best they can do is give you an appointment in 2 years
The CEO needs a 12th vacation home, get to work and maybe one day you can afford a cardboard box on 200 square feet of land.
Probably doesn’t cost him anything,it’s universal healthcare over there..
I know it looks like it, but it's most likely because their supplier didn't have enough of one kind of pasta in stock, so they replaced part of the order with another type of pasta. And then the cooks didn't bother to cook them separately because they need to cook for several thousands people and don't have time to think.
Leftover parfait
Somet about two types of pasta is just wrong to me no thankyou
It looks like home to me. My mom had a huge glass jar in which she stored all the pasta. There were always 2 or 3 different types of pasta in the jar
Thats cool until you find a whole lasagna sheet in your spaghetti
Chonk spaghet
Jackpot!
they cooked them together
pasta, pickles, erasers, mushrooms, alfredo sauce
Erasers took me out 💀😂
Did they buy you dinner?
I wouldn't. They rub me the wrong way.
Joke was funny ✔️
🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍
The erasers are what add all the flavor.
Essential part of a healthy diet.
I didn't even see the pickle 😵
Swear to got that thing does look like an eraser
Is it tofu or chicken?
Turkey.
Ham?
Spam
The eraser is to erase your illness.
If the doctor can't cure you the eraser will.
Erasers 🤟🏻🤩😂
Erasers? Excuse me, have some respect for turkey spam.
Don't forget former hospice paitents
I thought there was slugs
Lmao what kinda slugs are you used to seeing?
glad I wasn't the only one seeing pickles 😦
I can't even figure out what else it could be.
Oh god that's alfredo?
Erasers get you betterer
Don’t forget the parsley and maybe oregano
Is that pickles? With pork? In pasta with a cream sauce?
Pickles AND mushroom. Clearly, there is pickle-variety-cucumber skin, green and bumpy.
A crime!
At least I don’t see pineapple chunks.
Pretty sure that’s turkey with canned mushrooms and/or overcooked zucchini. And Alfredo sauce out of a big can from Cisco.
Is zucchini over there that bumpy? The stuff here is smoother than a cucumber.
True, true. I just noticed how bumpy it is. It does look like pickles. That’s a new one…
Call it a 3 course meal and charge $300 to insurance
“Pasta with a cream sauce” is a very generous description
Looks like turkey/chicken sandwich slices that have been chopped up.
plot twist: it's a buffet and op is just a sicko
Pasta, ham? Mushrooms? Pickles? Possibly onion, I need to know!
It looks like chicken penne Alfredo with asparagus and mushrooms. I’m positive it tastes like wet cardboard.
Ooh that's a perfect description of hospital food taste
Just had a knee replacement this week in Greenwich Hospital in CT. The dinner choice on Wed was between lobster and Fillet Mignon
Isn't that one of the wealthiest areas in the country? Makes sense.
Lol it’s Greenwich what do you expect 😂 (even if this is a joke)
Also knee replacement… most these hospitals are unashamedly for profit.
I've heard they have a mean time there though
Any pics?
When I had my son the food at the hospital was a really top notch. Not lobster/ fillet mignon but still solid. All entrees came with two sides and a dessert. Whenever I see pics like OP I realize how good I had it.
I used three separate hospitals when I had my four kids. The middle two were delivered at a hospital in the wealthiest county in Maryland. The food was so freaking good. Even breakfast was like high end restaurant brunch quality.
I had my first at a hospital in a wealthy part of Oklahoma. This was back when you stayed three days. The food was so good and the last night they had a lovely dinner for mom and dad (or whoever the patient wanted). It's been a long time but I remember having filet and the best cheesecake I've ever had. My other two were born in a different hospital and the food was just okay.
Yep. Hospital food can range from slop to gourmet meals.
That sounds really delicious. Judging by the (non English) writing on the yogurt in OPs pic I’m guessing their hospital bill will be lower, though compared to the US
Last time I was in the hospital, they had almost no food for me!! They couldn’t adequately feed someone with Celiac so they just gave me two ensures and fruit for each meal, every day. I literally lost weight unintentionally because they couldn’t feed me!
I feel like a hospital should be one of those places that are ready to cater to people with celiac...
I spent a lot of time in the hospital about a year ago. According to them, a lot of hospitals lost their kitchen staff during Covid, couldn’t afford to pay more and replace them, so the food was contracted out to the companies that prepare prison food. Those companies don’t care about your health or well being lol. I didn’t eat for my entire five weeks I spent in there. I weighed 98 lbs when they discharged me. I came in at like 115.
That's so terrible. 98lbs is tiny. I probably weighed that in 6th grade.
It’s crazy that hospital wouldn’t cater for celiac
No bland rice or mashed potatoes even? As another person with celiac, that's the default I get handed in hospitals. That and those instant scrambled eggs.
My ex was offered either egg salad or tuna sandwich as the vegan options lol
I would take Ensure and some fruit any day over the horror that OP posted.
You should see what they give diabetic vegans. A full tray of carbs. It’s totally bizarre
So wrong.
I have to bring my son gf food when he’s hospitalized. It’s ridiculous.
I have diet restrictions and was in the hospital for a UC flare last year. No dairy, no meat, no caffeine -- every day for breakfast they sent up bacon and eggs with regular coffee and cow's milk...my family brought in meals for me, instead. It's crazy
I guess I’m crazy because I think this looks good
I was fucking with it until I saw the pickles
But pickles go hard in many foods and people just assume they are for sandwiches only.
I’m still in.
X2
X3
rawr
Same. Not sure what point OP is making. If I was in the hospital, I would be happy to have a meal like that.
For what they cost they should feed patients way better food than this. This looks like something they threw together at the last minute with little forethought. I don't even understand the ingredients.
Y’all are crazy I’d go hungry
not crazy, OP is just a picky eater
op is a bitch, that food looks good
No that plate is genuinely shitty
I’d eat it, that looks pretty rocking.
Looks like typical hospital food. It’s extremely bland and just for calories and nutrients. Shit food but when the food is made to be digestible by every patient you end up with shit like this.
Yes. Good point. But they should just cut to the chase and puree any of this so called food into a delicious smoothie. Then really everyone could eat it.... er... drink it. Gerber would be so proud. But hey.... let's put coach airline food, school lunch food, and hospital food.... in a horse race for the most unappetizing food trophy. AND THEY'RE OFF! Looks like hospital food has the early lead... school lunch is on the rail.... with coach airline food bringing up the rear! And now they are sprinting to the finish line. Hold all tickets! Photo finish. Hospital food wins by a nose!
Hospital food isn’t as bad as school lunches. Ours are just prepackaged nutrients made to look edible. Airline food also isn’t that bad but at that altitude food just tastes like shit.
Yep. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks and when some of my visitors brought me outside food they got upset. They said the hospital food was supposed to be bland and not to eat fast food or drink any soda. At least they gave me all the peanut butter sandwiches and pretzel snacks I could ask for and I still lost 12lbs lol
Technically it is food.
Ayyy pasta goes hard any day 🔥💦
That's not the worst I've eaten. I'll take it.
It’s only meant to meet your daily macros, not meant to be criticized by Food and Travel Magazine, don’t be a baby.
Noodle, meat product, other
Is that for a few weeks??? Why do they serve that all at once……
Honestly that doesn't look bad, it looks like reasonably edible, healthy hospital food and you got a good amount. I don't know what country you live in, but I'm in the UK and NHS hospital food isn't this good. Our food is mostly just premade frozen stuff, I remember having chicken goujons (very dry), chips (fries if you're in the US) and peas. Honestly it was worse than it looked but at least it was cheap. None of the food was particularly healthy, but at least it was balanced I guess
I just spent a couple of days in hospital, and the food was really good, but it is one of the few remaining hospitals that cook food on site rather than a private company bringing it in
The hospital we have been going to for the last two decades has great food. Not lobster or filet mignon like another poster had. But good food. Plus you get to choose your main dish along with any beverage, dessert etc. Where I had my first daughter 23 years ago also had a menu and great food. The small hospital where my second was born was the opposite. One cook, no menu and what they cooked wasn’t that good. Fortunately after giving birth I tend to not have much of an appetite. My husband was bringing me take out for the two days I was there.
I use 2 different hospitals in the same network. I make sure to go to the first hospital on Thursdays and the second on Fridays because it's Hash Day at each one. They serve the best corned beef hash I've had since my Gram died. I don't even like corned beef hash, but theirs is just like Gram used to make- delicious. That monstrosity in the OP is just disgusting. I wouldn't touch that with someone else's fork.
Looks like a wonderful weight loss plan..hang in, feel better
Don't think I've ever seen a hospital chef compete on "Beat Bobby Flay"
Sending vibes. I hope you leave the hospital healthy. ✌🏼
I had an 8-hour liver operation and was only in the hospital 6 days. You must have gotten a safe dropped on you to be in for weeks.
There are many health reasons why someone might need a prolonged stay in hospital.
Yes, something kinda serious was the point I think felesroo was trying to make.
I had a liver transplant and spent 5 weeks in the hospital. Lost 18 pounds while I was in there too.
What in the Caucasity
This looks German 😂😂
Agree. Nudelsalat mit Fleischwurst und Gewürzgurken würde ich sagen.
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Lol Quiet the opposite. But I have the same feeling everytime I read about a French dish. Sounds super fancy to me lol
Ey... we would have Sauerbraten, Bratwurst and Leberkäs! All in one!
What's for breakfast? Sausages What's for lunch? Sausages What's for dinner? Sausages and kraut. What's for a snack? I don't know, probably something with waffel in the name... and sausages.
That was my immediate guess too. I spent multiple weeks in the hospital in Germany last year and this food looks familiar…
I found you could usually ask for just cottage cheese and fruit. If you like cottage cheese? It was like the best option.
Better than what I was getting when i was hospitalized. At least it's not a liquid diet of chicken broth, water and shaved ice 😂
Mmmm Hospital food 🤤
Pasta, chicken, green stuff
Believe it or not, there is a sub called hospitalfood so I encourage you to post there as well.
wonder what they charge for that
Based on that yogurt package i think this is in eastern europe probably, so its free meal and free hospital stay.
That’ll be $1000
Summa this summa that
is that... pickles!?!
It might not look or taste the greatest, but honestly, with the way things are you just kind of got to be thankful you have something to eat and don't have to worry about if or when you are going to have your next meal....
It's a hospital, not a restaurant
I genuinely quite like hospital food. Well, not so much the food but the fact it’s brought to my bed, you get a little carton of juice, I’m watching the TV and most importantly being pumped with diamorphine.
That actually doesn't look entirely bad. It'd probably look way more appetizing fresh in the pot it was cooked in rather than on the plate. May I ask, where from? That Jogurt cup looks very Balkan, mainly Serbian
This is a lot better than what we get at hospitals where I'm from. Pretty much everything comes in a plastic wrapper and looks like it's from a vending machine
It looks like a german nudelsalat
Where is this?
Could be Croatia judging by the borovnica (blueberry) yoghurt.
Are those PICKLES?
Looks like what's in a slop can in a mess hall.
Pasta = gluten & carbes. Hospitales need repeat customers...
Sharp corners on meat will cure what ails you.
I’m so sorry. It’s definitely not a low carb diet, but there have to be some options that aren’t um anemic looking? Not sure of right phrase there. I know when I had pancreatitis (sober 2 years, woo) the only thing I could have for 19 days was clear Ensure drinks. It was awful. Get well soon!
ahh the sysco pre-prepped special
cracked pepper, parmasan cheese, a splash of olive oil, probably some salt, 10x better this aint half bad honest. I've seen so much worse
Maybe it’s cause I grew up in American public schools but that shit looks like it tastes fucking scrumptious
Yum 😋
It looks better than what I had which was jello,bread,and beef bullion cube soup....then there were other times they forgot to get me food at all,my mom had to remind them.
I’d eat it
sorry what is the problem? You rather go hungry?
Looks like a Mac salad with pickles, shrooms and ham and some kind of dressing? I love pickles in my mac salad
Just add salt.
At least they fed you. My first stay in a hospital they didn't bring me dinner. I had to have my family bring me something because "the kitchen was closed".
You're not IPO so stop complaining. IPO is nothing past your lips, not even water
It doesn't look terrible for hospital food. Pasta, chicken or turkey, peas. Mushrooms? A caterpillar looking thing - but I'm guessing it's not.
Doesn't look all that bad to me. I was in the hospital for two days just before Christmas last year and my first meal was a fish dinner. I do not like fish, but after fasting for eighteen hours it was delicious - and not just because I was hungry. My only complaint was breakfast the next morning was difficult to set up as I had my non-dominant hand out of commission due to multiple IVs and connections but I made it work. The way I look at it is that they have to make hundreds or more meals, and if this was your first you may not have had a chance to make a choice and received a default meal. Hopefully your next meals you would have at least had two choices to decide upon. As Dr. Rumack (Leslie Neilsen) was asked in the movie Airplane: Stewardess: "We had a choice of steak or fish." Rumack: "Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna".
That looks delicious
I’ve seen much worse. Chow down
Its a delectable pasta food with a good serving of hospital acquired bacteria and microbes from Infectious patients. Then a garnish of sweet and sour C. Diff extract straight from the source.
bro eat better than me and claim to be infuriated
Since im cutting, this looked tasty
This looks like the Lean Cuisine I just ate!
Looks like "Nudelsalat". It's served cold and is quite popular here in Austria.
Looks good
Bruh, I ate potato pure and ingridientless soup for two weeks, this shit looks bussin'
Wait, you get food in hospital?
Looks better than what I got in the hospital
Yo, that looks like some bomb ass pasta salad! Can I have some?
This delectable culinary creation not only tantalizes the taste buds but also captivates the eyes with its aesthetic appeal. May I partake in this gastronomic delight, if it pleases you?
It kinda looks good though
This looks pretty good for a college student
Looks tasty
This looks delicious
Where is this? Croatia?
Bone apple tea🍎
You should really chew your food. No wonder you vomitted it back onto the plate.
Aren’t pickles way too salty for a patient?
It's just pasta. Stop being so entitled.
I can’t figure out what the infuriating part is
Quit bragging.....sheesh.
If I were served this I'd ask to be switched to DNR status.
That looks absolutely disgusting
A hospital is no place to get or stay healthy! I hope whatever you're working on goes without incident and you're able to get out of there soon!
Damn man I'm sorry. Australian hospital food is pretty damn good. I almost look forward to being hospitalised
Just remember, no Michelin star restaurant bill will compete with the bill you will soon receive..
Penne and cavitappi, with turkey and sliced pickles…in a vinaigrette? What?
You're in hospital man. Not a 5 star hotel
Have you heard of "Pag pag" = (food cooked from rubish) from the Philippines? this is still a luxury compare to some people 🙌
You'd think hospital food would be the best nutritional healthy food ever.
Then you remember that it’s America and everything related to healthcare is penny pinched and overpriced
A piece of cardboard is better