Comment on Hospitals In England Serving Meat Products Thought To Cause Cancer, Report Finds
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 11 months agoAdmittedly I’ve not eaten meat in 17 odd years so I may be way off with prices, but aren’t pulses generally much cheaper than meat? Surely cooking a lentil dish for hundreds of patients is cheaper than a meat one?
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The lentils would likely be cheap if you bought it by by the sack but you’d like want onions, carrots, peas and the like to go with it. It does make me want daal now though.
That said, I was talking about the first step being to add more veg to existing dishes, which would need more money. What I had in hospital would probably have counted as a low fibre diet, with the obvious knock-on effects for my innards (although I was also on IV antibiotics which did my gut biome no favours too).
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It could be done cheaply if they sourced properly, but they’ll use some over priced meal provider that is owned by a mate of someone in charge.
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Oh definitely. I was just thinking they could scoop up all the unwanted wonky veg that’s left to rot and make some really nice veggie stews or currys or stir fries. Better than mystery meat, blop of mash, gravy with no onions in it and peas if you are lucky with tinned fruit and the lightest ice cream I have ever experienced.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 11 months ago
To give tesco their due, they now sell that wonky veg and I usually buy it since it all looks the same once cooked.