Please use this menu to select your main meal. You can select your starter and dessert from the standard menu. Kosher dishes are available on request, if you require a kosher meal please ask the Ward Host.
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)
- Malt loaf (healthy option, vegan)
- Cheese and crackers (high energy, vegetarian) (supper only)
Snacks are served with your mid-morning, mid-afternoon and supper drink.
Breakfast menu
Fruit juices
- Orange
- Apple
All these juices are vegetarian.
Cereals
With regular or alternative milk available:
- Cornflakes
- Rice Krispies
- Weetabix (easy chew)
- Porridge (easy chew)
All cereal options are vegetarian
Bread or toast
With butter or sunflower spread and a selection of jams and marmalade:
- White Bread
- Wholemeal Bread
All options are vegetarian
Yogurt
- Thick and creamy yogurt (easy chew, Vegetarian)
Fruit
- Fresh fruit (vegetarian)
Lunch and evening meal options
Halal (spicy)
- Beef curry with tarka daal and rice (healthy, renal)
- Chicken korma with masoor daal and rice (renal)
- Lamb biryani with moong daal and vegetable masala (healthy option, renal)
- Minced lamb and peas with vegetable masala and rice (healthy option, renal)
- Chicken tikka masala with chana daal and rice (healthy option, renal)
- Chicken and saag with moong daal and rice (easy chew, renal, healthy option)
Halal (western)
- Roast beef with yorkshire pudding, creamed potatoes, carrots and broccoli
- Chicken casserole with parmentier potatoes, green beans and cauliflower (healthy option, renal)
- Shepherd’s pie with roast potatoes, green beans and cauliflower (healthy option, renal)
- Chilli con carne with rice (healthy option, renal)
- Sweet and sour chicken with rice (healthy option, renal)
African Carribbean
- Beef Curry with rice (renal)
- Fried red snapper fish with yam and sweet potato (healthy option)
- Jerk chicken with rice and peas
Chinese
- Chicken in black bean sauce with egg noodles
- Sweet and sour chicken with egg noodles (healthy option, renal)
Asian vegetarian
- Mixed vegetable curry with masoor daal and rice (healthy option, vegetarian, renal)
- Cauliflower and aubergine masala with masoor daal and rice (healthy option, easy chew, vegetarian, renal)
- Aloo gobi with moong daal and rice (healthy option,renal, vegetarian)
- Chickpea masala with toor daal and rice (vegetarian)
- Aloo saag with black-eyed bean daal and rice (vegetarian, renal)
- Mutter paneer with chickpea daal and rice (healthy option, vegetarian, renal)
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
- Standard menu
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.