Meal times
- Breakfast served 7am to 8.30am
- Lunch served 12pm to 1pm
- Evening meal served 5pm to 6pm
Drinks
Drinks will be offered to you throughout the day:
- Milk
- Coffee
- Tea
- Squash
- Hot chocolate
- Malted milk
Decaffeinated and non-dairy milk options are available on request.
Hydration is essential to your well-being. Your water jug will be refreshed twice a day; if you need a top up or new jug please ask your housekeeper or Nurse for assistance.
Snacks
- Fresh Fruit (healthy option, vegetarian)
- Biscuits (healthy option, vegetarian)
- Yoghurt (easy chew, healthy option, vegetarian)
- Hi-cal jelly (easy chew, high energy)
- Malt loaf (healthy option, vegan)
- Flapjack (healthy option, vegetarian)
- Complan mousse (high energy, easy chew, healthy option)
- Rice pudding (healthy option, easy chew, vegetarian)
- Custard pot (healthy option, easy chew, vegetarian)
- Cheese and Crackers (high energy, vegetarian) (supper only)
- Cake Slice
Snacks are served with your mid-morning, mid-afternoon and supper drink.
Breakfast menu
Fruit juices
- Orange
- Apple
All these juices are vegetarian and made without milk
Cereals
With regular or alternative milk available:
- Cornflakes
- Rice Krispies
- Weetabix (easy chew)
- Porridge (easy chew)
All cereal options are vegetarian
Bread, toast or pancakes
With butter or sunflower spread and a selection of jams and marmalade:
- White Bread
- Wholemeal Bread
- Pancakes
All options are vegetarian
Yogurt
- Thick and creamy yogurt (easy chew, Vegetarian)
Fruit
- Fresh Fruit (vegetarian)
Starter
- Chicken Soup (high energy, easy chew)
- Lentil and tomato soup (high energy, easy chew, vegetarian)
- Soft Roll (vegetarian)
- Pea and Ham Soup (high energy)
- Cheesy Leek and Potato Soup (high energy, easy chew, vegetarian)
Alternative option of an apple or orange juice
Main meals
- Sausage roll (high energy)
- Chicken curry (healthy option, easy chew)
- Roast chicken in gravy (healthy option)
- Potato topped chicken pie (high energy, easy chew)
- Baked steak and mushroom pie (high energy)
- Shepherd’s pie (easy chew)
- Cheese and tomato omelette (vegetarian)
- Cheese and mushroom omelette (vegetarian)
- Fish cakes (healthy option, easy chew)
- Pasta in tomato basil sauce (vegetarian)
- Vegetarian tikka masala (healthy option, vegetarian, easy chew)
- Potato, cheese and leek bake (vegetarian)
- Chana masala (vegetarian, healthy option)
- Vegetarian tikka masala (vegetarian, healthy option, easy chew)
Selections of daily sides available please ask your host
Mini Extra meals
- Beef stroganoff (high energy, easy chew)
- Pasta carbonara (high energy)
- Salmon Bake (high energy)
- Macaroni Cheese (high energy, easy chew, vegetarian)
Lighter options
- Sandwiches. A daily selection of sandwiches is available on white bread or wholemeal bread. Please ask your Ward housekeeper for details.
- Tuna Mayo (high energy)
- Baked Beans (vegetarian)
- Cheese (high energy, vegetarian)
Desserts
Hot desserts
- Stewed apple and custard (healthy option, easy chew)
- Custard (healthy option, easy chew)
- Rice pudding (healthy option, easy chew)
- Hot dessert – please ask your housekeeper for information
All the above options are vegetarian
Cold desserts
- Strawberry Trifle (easy chew, vegetarian)
- Mini chocolate eclairs (high energy)
- Jam doughnut (vegetarian)
- Chocolate Cake (high energy, easy chew, vegetarian)
- Thick and Creamy Yogurt (healthy option, easy chew, vegetarian)
- Ice Cream (healthy option, easy chew, vegetarian)
- Tinned Fruit in Juice (healthy option, vegetarian)
- Banana (healthy option, easy chew, vegetarian)
- HiCal Jelly (high energy, easy chew)
Additional menus
We have the following alternative menus available should you require them:
- Allergy Aware
- Gluten Free
- Low Fibre
- Modified Texture
- Finger Foods
- Vegan
- Renal
- World Food and Halal
Missing a meal?
If you have been admitted to the ward after lunch or evening meal orders have been taken, we can still offer you a range of hot meals or snacks. Please speak to your ward housekeeper or nurse.
Allergy information
If you have a food allergy or intolerance, please advise your nurse on admission and always inform your ward catering team before you place a meal order. Our catering team will check the ingredients of the food item or meal to allow you to make an informed choice. We also have an Allergy Aware Menu which
contains dishes prepared free from: cereals containing gluten, celery, egg, fish, milk (and other dairy products), molluscs, mustard, nuts, peanuts, crustaceans, lupins, soya, sulphites and sesame.
Fish bones
Although every care has been taken to remove fish bones from our fish dishes, some may
remain. Therefore, please take care when consuming fish dishes.
Your feedback is important to us
We will ask if you would like to complete a short survey about your experience, to help us review and improve our patient catering services. If you have any feedback or queries during your stay, please speak to a nurse or your housekeeper.