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Instead of using versions of standard, pre-processed food service dishes, hospital kitchens are making food from scratch, using fresh, local and organic ingredients. Instead of jello and mystery meat, meals include meats like wild salmon and lean buffalo, paired with fresh vegetables, pasta and fruits. At some locations, hospitals are hosting farmers markets in their parking lots that bring local foods directly to the hospital for nearby residents, staff members, patients and visitors. It goes without saying that these changes are also good for hospital employees, who often take their meals in the building's cafeteria while on break.
All the changes mean that the food is good enough to make you actually want to eat there - which is something you probably thought you would never think about hospital food.
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9-26-2006 @10:34AM Dan said... The purer and cleaner the food is, the better the ability of that food to improve the health of people.
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9-26-2006 @10:22AM MJ said... this is a great thing! Just make sure its hot!!! That was my complaint in times that i have been in hospital. The pain is so great you dont care about it not tasting like anything,just so what is suppoes to be hot is. I gave up, and ordered juices and jello.
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9-26-2006 @2:00PM Foodie Pam said...
I can't remember how any of the food I've eaten in hospitals has tasted but I do remember how it looked and it was awful. Often while sick you don't feel like eating and/or can't taste the food that much but if they could at least make it look good that would be a great step forward.
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9-26-2006 @9:25PM kaitlin Hess said... I guess i am the only one who kinda likes institutionalized food.
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9-30-2006 @7:12PM Marc said... The Kaiser-Permanente health company has been doing some innovative things with food recently. They host Farmers' Markets outside 30 of their health centers. They collaborate with a local food company to run a food store across the street from the health center (the "Food Farm'acy"). And now they are starting to source local ingredients for their hospital meals in Northern California.
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Food store article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/03/MNGJUD33P61.DTL&hw=kaiser+food+mill&sn=001&sc=1000 Local buying article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/06/MNG43KC7751.DTL&hw=Aurelia+kaiser&sn=001&sc=1000
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