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:
- Non-dairy milk
- Coffee
- Tea
- Squash
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)
- Malt loaf (healthy option)
Snacks are served with your mid-morning, mid-afternoon and supper drink.
Breakfast
- Apple or Orange Juice (healthy option)
- Soya Fruit Yogurt (healthy option, easy chew)
- Apple (healthy option, renal)
- Banana (healthy option, easy chew)
- Satsuma (healthy option, renal)
- Weetabix with soya milk (easy chew, renal)
- Bread or Toast (renal)
Available with sunflower spread and apricot jam, blackcurrant jam, strawberry jam and marmalade.
Starter
- Lentil Soup
- Chunky Vegetable Soup (high energy)
- Alternative option of an apple or orange juice (healthy option)
Main meals
- Spicy Bean casserole with potato wedges, broccoli, peas and sweetcorn (healthy option)
- Butternut Squash and butterbean stew with roast potatoes and green vegetables (healthy option, renal)
- Provençale vegetable bake with green vegetables(healthy option)
- Penne pasta in a tomato and basil sauce with a side salad (healthy option)
- Cauliflower and spinach curry with rice and bombay potatoes (healthy option, easy chew, renal)
- Lentil and vegetable flaky topped pie with a side salad (high energy, vegetarian)
- Tomato, lentil and sweet potato crumble with a side salad (high energy, vegetarian)
- Vegetable Curry with yellow basmati rice (easy chew, renal)
- Jacket Potato with sunflower spread and/or baked beans (healthy option). All jacket potatoes are served with or without side salad
- Five Bean Salad Bowl with lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes (healthy option)
Please wash your hands or use wipes provided before each meal.
Desserts
- Apple Crumble (high energy, renal)
- Plum and Cherry Crumble (high energy, renal)
- Soya Custard (easy chew, renal)
- Soya Fruit Yogurt (easy chew, renal)
- Tinned Fruit in Juice (healthy option, renal)
- Fresh Fruit (healthy option)
Additional menus
We have the following alternative menus available should you require them:
- Allergy Aware
- Gluten Free
- Low Fibre
- Modified Texture
- Finger Foods
- standard menu
- 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 host 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.
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.