Not me!! It tasted very fake like it wasn't even real food. I've never understood this.. If its a hospital where people go when they're sick to get better why wouldn't you be serving high quality nutrient dense foods?!?
Anyway 
I only had one meal there and definitely none after that.
pomelo / 5178 posts
My hospital had pretty good food. And I got to order off a menu, so it helped that I got to choose my meals.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
It wasn't bad.... but it wasn't good. The stuff they serve in the cafeteria is good. My parents work across the street and go for lunch there daily, I go visit sometimes and we will go there for lunch too. But what they serve to the patients is just bleh.
persimmon / 1479 posts
Ours is pretty good. I like most of the things I ordered with DD #2. they do a really nice dinner for both parents one night, with steak and cheesecake. They let you order as much as you want through out the day when the kitchen is open.
coconut / 8279 posts
LOVED it! They had so many choices on the menu - I remember getting great Greek and Caprese salads, eggs florentine, excellent pastas.
I even ate at their cafe when I was in for ultrasounds and non-stress tests.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Yup. My hospital had great food. I had a menu to choose from and everything I received tasted great.
eggplant / 11824 posts
Yes, the food was actually pretty good! They made homemade soups which were really good, and homemade oreo pudding which was so freaking delicious. The rest of the stuff was pretty run of the mill and fine. All our food was free while I was in the hospital, and adding "free" always makes food taste a little bit better.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
@rachiecakes: yum that sound awesome!!
@Honeybee: we had menus too. I didn't realize that wasn't standard!!
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
The DH has been in the hospital a bunch of times and I don't mind hospital food.
I work near a hospital and sometimes they have good meals.
honeydew / 7235 posts
i'm guessing the food won't be good, but we'll see.... there is a giant whole foods (with tons of prepared food) right next to the hospital where I imagine DH will be running over to to get us stuff to eat!
coconut / 8305 posts
YES!!!! I used to work at the hospital I birthed at and they have the BEST burgers! I ate one for both lunch and dinner for the 3 days we were there b/c I missed them so much! lol
nectarine / 2797 posts
The breakfast I got an hour after giving birth might have been the best meal of my entire life. But overall, the lunches and dinners were meh. I did get to choose for the second day there, but the first day I wasn't in my postpartum room for breakfast, which is when you order for lunch/dinner, so I just got the standard meals. One of them I couldn't even eat it was so gross. The second day when I ordered it was slightly better, but I was still thrilled to leave the third day.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
@hellobeeboston: Oooh that's awesome!! I love WF!
@runsyellowlites: haha funny!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
We had a bacon-wrapped filet mignon "celebration meal" that they gave to my husband and I and it was pretty good, but the portion size was small. I actually enjoyed the 3 daily meals I got at the hospital. But I'm also one of those that like airplane food...
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
I've heard mine has good food! And homemade chocolate chip cookies in the evening
eggplant / 11287 posts
Oh mine was delicious! My first meal after baby (and not eating for like 36 hours) was spaghetti and garlic bread. Oh, yummy!
And the italian shaved ice in the hospital was to die for too!
cantaloupe / 6751 posts
I did! Ours was soooo good I had filet mignon, roasted potatoes and veggies, and chocolate cake for my first post-delivery meal. So yum! Breakfast and lunch was just as delicious - waffles, pancakes, potatoes, burgers, etc. They had a huge menu selection and you could order as much as you want - I went a little crazy and tried almost everything on the menu 
pomelo / 5789 posts
Interesting! I havent given birth yet, so not sure what it's like at the hospital but I know they have menu's there.
I'm worried there will be no vegetarian choices.
apricot / 370 posts
wow! some of you ladies have some fancy meals at the hospital!! filet mignon?? mines had the standard fare of grilled chicken, pasta, soup, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, salad, but i thought overall it was pretty good, and always felt satisfied. Plus getting to eat in bed and being catered to was rather nice. The only meal i didn't care for was a chicken dish that was pretty bland. DH had to go find his own food.
pomegranate / 3053 posts
I didn't love it but it was decent. I was there for 4 days so I was able to figure out which ones were good. I had the luxury of ordering extras for my husband which I found out that I am not suppose to. 
I was ordering like two meals and a bunch of sides and desserts. One person taking my order told us on the 3rd day that I can only order one main dish. So instead I ordered a main meal and bunch of sides which was enough for both of us. By then my husband was done with hospital food anyway. But I remember the burger and cheese steak the best. And I always ordered a hot soy milk every morning that they remembered who I was b/c no one else orders hot soy milk. But I would say the hospital menu was pretty good considering hospital food sucks in general.
squash / 13199 posts
Ours was pretty good but they never gave me what I ordered. They also kept bringing me soda even though I wasnt supposed to have soda. But the actual food tasted great especially my last dinner which was for both me and DH
grapefruit / 4669 posts
I haven't had the baby yet but I have been in the same hospital recently for something else, and I didn't hate the food but it wasn't very good. There are a few options though, and once I'm not pregnant a deli sandwich may hit the spot.
coconut / 8475 posts
@Coco Bee: same. I've never actually been a patient at the hospital i'm delivering at but I worked there....and I remember the poor people (women on the L&D unit) always complaining about the sad excuse of a meal they'd get. So, I'm preparing for now.....my husband and my brothers already know they better bring me some grub!
grapefruit / 4800 posts
Ours wasn't bad. I was so hungry that anything probably would have tasted good.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
I loved it but they were small meals and I was starving! Plus, a new nursing mom needs to eat a lot and every 2-3 hours. I remember wanting snacks!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Eh, it was edible...except for the breakfasts, those were good!
They had awesome food in their cafe, though. I wasn't allowed to eat until dinner (he was born early afternoon) and I was really sick all through labor and delivery, so by the time dinner came I just ate applesauce. I sent DH out to get me a sandwich several hours later, when my appetite had returned, and he brought up the most delicious roasted turkey sandwich...fancy wheat bread, crisp lettuce and tomato, Muenster cheese...I dream about that sandwich sometimes.
clementine / 814 posts
I got a menu and my order would get taken every morning. I liked everything :-).
I even got a bottle of apple cider with two toasting flutes on the day DD was born :-).
pomegranate / 3872 posts
We got a packet from our hospital and my husband and I were cracking up because they described their menu as '5 star' but judging by some of your descriptions maybe it'll actually be good!
kiwi / 551 posts
The meals weren't very good BUT they had the best chocolate chip cookies. You could order one with your meal if you wanted and every other day they would just bring one in the afternoon with a small carton of milk as an afternoon snack. I had GD so that was a big treat for me when I finally had my baby.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
We ate at the hospital cafe when we were there for our childbirth class and it was really yummy. But, I don't think it's the food they serve new moms! 
coconut / 8475 posts
@mrsjyw: If you're delivering at Henry Ford then: No its not the same food. Consider yourself warned......:)
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
Ours wasn't horrible, but wasn't the best food I've ever had either. My first meal sucked because I didn't order it, but my next few were good because I chose them!
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