It’s hard to believe that some of the easiest and best comfort food can be destroyed by improper cooking. I’m not talking about burning it, but I am talking about the recipe.
Now take macaroni and cheese. That’s pretty simple. Cooked elbow pasta, a creamy, cheesy, bechamel, type sauce, and served nice and warm. Oh goodness, one could curl up with a bowl of that and just recover from anything.
The hospital’s version stirred in bread crumbs (whole wheat!) and broiled every last bit of moisture out of it! I wanted to cry.
Likewise, imagine my horror when I ordered a big chocolate chip cookie and it was made with whole wheat flour. Now no person in their right mind, while recovering from major surgery wants a tasteless cookie like that.
I ordered hard cooked eggs and was shocked when they actually arrived in their shells! They were hard cooked, but I was too weak to open them!
I also tried for a blueberry muffin. What could they do to that? Yep, completely whole wheat, almost no blueberries, and dry as burnt toast! Ugh!
The nurses kept harping at me that I needed to eat something, over and over again, and I sure would have, if they had provided me with something, anything, that was edible!
On my last day I ordered french toast and there were four half slices of dried out wheat blandness!
I had tried almost all items and simply lost, at Hospital Food Roulette!
Hospitals should be a place where your tastebuds are thrilled. Shame on them!!
Whole wheat – well, yes, it is supposedly healthier and satisfies hunger longer than normal white flour – but, there are items of food in which whole wheat just does not belong. You mentioned lots of them 🙂
Eat and get well!
My dad was just in the hospital/rehab for a month. He dropped a lot of weight because he hated the food they served. He is home now with assistance and I am going there next Saturday to help him out and fill his freezer with some homemade food.