Inpatient dining at Friarage Hospital
week one standard menu Friarage
Meal times
- Breakfast served 8am to 9am
- Lunch served 12pm to 1pm
- Evening meal served 5pm to 6pm
Drinks
Drinks will be offered to you throughout the day:
- Milk (semi-skimmed, whole or soya available)
- Decaffeinated Tea
- Decaffeinated coffee
- Squash
- Hot chocolate
- Malted milk
- Fruit juice
Decaffeinated 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 ward host or nurse for assistance.
Snacks
- Fresh fruit
- Biscuits
- Yoghurt (easy chew)
- Cheese and crackers (high protein)
- Cake slice
All these snack options are vegetarian
Breakfast menu (all vegetarian and renal suitable)
Fruit juices
- Orange
- Apple
Cereals
With regular or alternative milk available:
- Cornflakes (low fibre)
- Branflakes
- Rice Krispies (low fibre)
- Weetabix (easy chew)
- Porridge (easy chew)
Bread and toast (bread is easy chew)
With butter or sunflower spread and a selection of jams and marmalade:
- White bread
- Wholemeal bread
Yogurt
- Thick and creamy yogurt (easy chew, gluten free)
Fruit
- Fresh Fruit (gluten free)
Lunch and evening meal
Sandwiches
A daily selection of sandwiches are available on white or wholemeal bread. (vegetarian, renal suitable and easy chew available)
Salad (healthy option) –a daily selection of salads are available.
- Ham
- Egg (vegetarian)
- Tuna
- Cheese (vegetarian)
Lunch
Starters
- Soup of the day (high energy, easy chew and vegetarian options available).
- Bread roll (vegetarian, vegan)
Hot daily options
All served with a selection of sides
- Monday
- Spinach and ricotta pasta (vegetarian, easy chew, high energy, healthy option)
- Sweet chilli chicken served with vegetable rice (high energy, gluten free, low fibre, renal suitable)
- Tuesday
- Vegetable lasagne (healthy option, vegetarian, easy chew)
- Chicken curry served with rice (healthy option, easy chew, low fibre, renal suitable)
- Wednesday
- Cheese and onion quiche (vegetarian, low fibre, renal suitable)
- Cottage pie (healthy option, easy chew, gluten free, renal suitable)
- Thursday
- Cauliflower cheese (vegetarian, healthy option, renal suitable)
- Braised sausage and onions (renal suitable)
- Friday
- Cheese omelette (healthy option, vegetarian, gluten free, renal suitable)
- Cod in parsley sauce (healthy option, easy chew, low fibre, renal suitable)
- Saturday
- Jacket potato with beans and salad (healthy option, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free)
- Beef Lasagne with Salad (high energy, renal suitable)
- Sunday
- Cheese and onion potato bake (vegetarian, high energy)
- All day breakfast (high energy)
Daily Hot dessert options
(all vegetarian and high energy) – all served with optional custard (easy chew)
- Monday: Apple crumble (renal suitable)
- Tuesday: Lemon sponge (easy chew, renal suitable, low fibre)
- Wednesday: Chocolate sponge (easy chew, low fibre)
- Thursday: Red cherry crumble
- Friday: Apple pie (renal suitable, low fibre)
- Saturday: Plum crumble
- Sunday: Syrup sponge (easy chew, renal suitable, low fibre)
Evening meal
Hot daily options All served with a selection of sides.
- Macaroni cheese (vegetarian, healthy option, renal suitable)
- Vegetable curry served with rice (vegetarian, healthy option, easy chew, gluten free, low fibre, renal suitable)
- Roast turkey and stuffing (healthy option, renal suitable)
- Shepherd’s pie (healthy option, easy chew, gluten free, renal suitable)
- Minced beef and Yorkshire pudding (healthy option, renal suitable)
- Sausage casserole (high energy, renal suitable)
- Cod in cheese sauce (healthy option, easy chew, gluten free, renal suitable)
Daily evening hot dessert – Milk pudding of the day (easy chew, vegetarian). Please ask your housekeeper for the daily option.
Daily evening meal cold dessert options (all vegetarian)
- Monday: Strawberry cheesecake
- Tuesday: Black forrest gateau (easy chew)
- Wednesday: Fruit trifle (easy chew)
- Thursday: Blackcurrant cheesecake
- Friday: strawberry gateau (easy chew)
- Saturday: Caramel apple tart
- Sunday: Lemon meringue pie (renal suitable)
Lunch and evening meal cold desserts All (vegetarian, renal suitable, low fibre)
- Fruit yoghurt (healthy option, easy chew)
- Fruit cocktail (healthy option)
- Fruit jelly (healthy option)
- Ice cream (high energy, easy chew)
- Cheese and biscuits (high energy)
Your housekeeping team
Your housekeeping team is here to help. Please let them know if you have any special requirements. Your housekeeper will take your lunch order after breakfast and your evening meal order after lunch.
Hot and cold drinks are served with your breakfast and include the additional option of apple or orange juice.
Out of hours dining
If you have been admitted to the ward after lunch or supper orders have been taken, we can still offer you a range of hot meals, sandwiches or snacks. Please speak to your housekeeper or nurse.
Allergy information
If you have a food allergy, please advise your nurse on admission and always inform the housekeeper each time you place your meal order. We have Allergen Free Meals which contains dishes prepared free from: cereals containing gluten, lupin, milk, egg, fish, celery, crustaceans, molluscs, nuts, peanuts, sesame, sulphites, mustard and soya.
Feedback
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.