what’s for dinner mum?
A simple question to stop the site rusting up altogether.
What is for dinner today?
To make things much easier I will even let you see.
.First prize in this amazing competition …….
A whole month free board in St Vincents Hospital for one lucky person.
Liver in gravy, rice carrots and cauliflower. This is to motivate you to get well asap and put some air between you and the hospital.
What the hell is the brown stuff? Why not just liquidise it all and pump it in? That’s about as near to food as Biden is to a President or twotier kier is to a PM.
Second prize: two months?
Reminds me of school dinners. Poor Grandad.
At least you won’t have to worry about putting on weight – I’d be ashamed of offering that to anyone, no matter what it contains or is supposed to be – even pureed/mashed food should look appealing (not appalling).
Thank goodness you’re up to grumbling about it and the glasses cap is working.
PS: I thought of asking “What did it smell like?” but then remembered……(sorry)
That looks like shyte!
I’m just out of hospital (old man problems) and I must say the food was excellent… Each day a menu selection, Pork Chop, Fish Fillet, Pasta, Burgers, etc.
Sorry…
That may not look great but it’s progress. Real food instead of being fed through a tube is good news indeed. Happy to see this post. It may feel like baby steps but you’re getting there. Hang in there.
Good to know 🙂
Is that a maggot on the browney-grey stuff on the left?
“You will eat zee bugs larvae”
(but on the bright side, at least it isn’t the liquidized schlurp through a tube)
If we’re being rational, just a few weeks ago there was a chance you’d never face a plate of food again. On that scale, a plate of dismally dire detritus should be a cause for celebration.
Helleluja.
What’s brown and steamy and comes out of cow(e)s?
The isle of Wight ferry
Let’s see now: A mound of some kind of rice, 3 carrots, a rather mushy looking cauliflower and what looks like 3 layers of “beef blown-apart-smashed back together and ironed flat”–with gravy. Looks like a piece of rice is trying to get away.
Daughter, is he yearning for his beloved pipes?
He told me recently of a fabulous design and shape, which I’d never seen before, and I was very envious!
Please give him my very best wishes when you see him next!
Yum yum.
Almost makes you want to try the vegetarian option. Resist that temptation, you’ll regret it. 🙁
God No!! If the hospital cannot handle meat eaters, are they even likely to know what vegetarian food is? :-0
I was speaking from experience. In my ignorance I thought that an organisation like the NHS that lauds the benefits of a meat free diet would make sure their caterers could provide tasty, nourishing, appetising veggie options. What I received was almost inedible. I didn’t make that mistake again.
I know exactly what you mean. When my wife was in hospital for her cancer treatment (she is vegi), she would have lived almost exclusively on cheese sandwiches if I had not brought food in for her. Frequently the only other option was for the meat to be removed from plates in the ward before meals would have been given to her! This despite her immune system being compromised, and a scare on sandwiches spreading infection in hospitals because of them being out of the fridge for far too long. I too would have expected better. Glad to see that you too survived the NHS Frank. 🙂
I can see you are all jealous of my culinary offerings? I am amazed though that noone saw it for what it actually is. Obviously it is Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding. How can you all have missed that???
Fairly easily I would have thought Grandad. There is nothing on that plate that resembles meat let alone Yorkshire Pudding. You would have my sympathies except for the obvious fact that others have mentioned above. If you are well enough to complain about the food, you are on the mend.
Keep it up, and look after yourselves.
Best wishes to you all,
Cas
Whatever those drugs are they’re giving you, can I have some? Or maybe the glasses problem has returned? But if you want to fantasise about it being Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding, who are we to criticise? Enjoy, you’ve earned it.
Looks quite nice to me. I like your pyjamas too!
Saw something similar on the pavement outside a pub once, almost trod in it. Carrots may have been diced though come to think of it!
Typical boarding school lunch, c.1961…
WHS! (Work, hard and starve)!
(Actually, a reference to a traditional make of a bricklayer’s trowel – WHS being the manufacturer)!
So, you either ate it, or went hungry! The alternative was theft, scavenging in the fields, poaching, stealing sheep, scrumping apples from farmers’ orchards, sucking up to Matron – several times in fact, she was gorgeous; fishing in ponds with safety pins, etc. etc….
(But we ‘ad it tough…’!
What my seriously ill diabetic son gets on NHS is disgusting. My husband in a nursing home, for medical reasons, rarely eats anything served on a plate – granted he has no appetite.
Dear God alive, what are they trying to do – kill you? That mish mash is full of carbs and sugars that will feed any tumours you have left. They don’t want you to get well at all.
That’s not food, that’s cruel and unusual punishment