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<blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 115262" data-attributes="member: 11712"><p>And what was wrong with what they offered, apart from not complying with what you’ve determined that diabetics should eat? I’m also a diabetic and would not have any problems with what they offered...</p><p>I don’t believe in a specialist diabetic diet, an healthy diet yes, but I have no wish to be tagged by my diabetes, having my basic rights of choosing what foods/diet taken off me, to be replaced by some muppet who has deemed that only certain foods are allowed... More so if the muppet is taking advices from a very small section of the diabetic community to what they want...</p><p>There isn’t a need to created a specialist diabetic diet, however there is a need when menu designing that there are enough options and detail on the menu so that the individual can mix and match to suit their individual tastes and requirements of their personal chosen diet plan...</p><p>Believe me, I have been subjected to weeks of hospitalisation when as a diabetic patient I lost the control of what I could eat, this was determined by the hospital kitchen, which sent it on the main food trolley, dished in separate containers/bags with my name written on it. Many meals times the I ate dishes completely different from the other patients, because they hadn’t been given my dish as an option on their menu...Total humiliation and soul destroying that anybody walking onto the ward at meal time, could indentify me as a diabetic purely by what I was eating... I have no wish to return to these days at all, if I have to have another hospital stay...</p><p>Visiting my father last week while he was in hospital, I did look at their menu, and I must say I was impressed with what was on offer, plenty of choice pretty well detailed, and would suit most dietary requirements and taste... Being a cottage hospital food is freshly cooked on site and has a good reputation of being of a lot higher standard than the main hospital.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jopar, post: 115262, member: 11712"] And what was wrong with what they offered, apart from not complying with what you’ve determined that diabetics should eat? I’m also a diabetic and would not have any problems with what they offered... I don’t believe in a specialist diabetic diet, an healthy diet yes, but I have no wish to be tagged by my diabetes, having my basic rights of choosing what foods/diet taken off me, to be replaced by some muppet who has deemed that only certain foods are allowed... More so if the muppet is taking advices from a very small section of the diabetic community to what they want... There isn’t a need to created a specialist diabetic diet, however there is a need when menu designing that there are enough options and detail on the menu so that the individual can mix and match to suit their individual tastes and requirements of their personal chosen diet plan... Believe me, I have been subjected to weeks of hospitalisation when as a diabetic patient I lost the control of what I could eat, this was determined by the hospital kitchen, which sent it on the main food trolley, dished in separate containers/bags with my name written on it. Many meals times the I ate dishes completely different from the other patients, because they hadn’t been given my dish as an option on their menu...Total humiliation and soul destroying that anybody walking onto the ward at meal time, could indentify me as a diabetic purely by what I was eating... I have no wish to return to these days at all, if I have to have another hospital stay... Visiting my father last week while he was in hospital, I did look at their menu, and I must say I was impressed with what was on offer, plenty of choice pretty well detailed, and would suit most dietary requirements and taste... Being a cottage hospital food is freshly cooked on site and has a good reputation of being of a lot higher standard than the main hospital. [/QUOTE]
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