Can you bring your own food into the hospital and eat it there?

Asking for a friend.

Stheno

Yes. Strange company you keep, I used bring in a latte for my physio appointments and ask them if I could put the empty cup in the bin

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Zorya

Only if you wrap your sangwiches in cement bag wrapper like a real man.

Uncharted

Omackeral wrote: »

Asking for a friend.

Sligo hospital? :pac:

iamwhoiam

Only if you bring a big box of Quality Street for the staff in your lunch box as well I believe

Stheno

Uncharted wrote: »

Sligo hospital? :pac:

Ah no. They sell stewed tea and home made fairy cakes

FTA69

Yep absolutely. Staff often eat their own grub in the public canteen, some will even have microwaves for this reason.

Uncharted

Uncharted wrote: »

Sligo hospital? :pac:

It's the most 'andy to get to!

Berserker

Omackeral wrote: »

Asking for a friend.

Only if your name begins with a vowel.

Stanford

You will find resistance to this if you are an inpatient as the Hospital will argue that it cannot control your nutrition and dietary requirements..!!

McMurphy

The last time I had a reason to visit a hospital (birth of my youngest son) there was a family up from the country, who not only brought in chipper/Chinese and other takeaway's when visiting their heavily pregnant friend (who was in with complications) but also bags of cans and bottles of WKD, which the heavily pregnant mother to be gorged on. I shît you not.

The staff of the Coombe (not knocking the place, we got extremely good care from the staff and it's facilities) seemed to turn a blind eye to it, though I suspect they didn't any rowdiness from the family if you get my drift ( and no, they weren't travellers)

So seems you can.

Atlantic Dawn

Yes but you couldn't bring in say 3 steaks and want them cooked as they would say their inshurdance wouldn't cover them so to speak.

fryup

you can bring in your own "pear"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Vj_SnIarc

Stanford

Yes but they can argue that they are not responsible for food eaten by inpatients prepared off the premises, I mean food generally not the odd apple or yoghurt

Stanford

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Yes but you couldn't bring in say 3 steaks and want them cooked as they would say their inshurdance wouldn't cover them so to speak.

Nice one but most hospital food is prepared hours before it is cooked and then reheated

Atlantic Dawn

Stanford wrote: »

Nice one but most hospital food is prepared hours before it is cooked and then reheated

Exactly, I wouldn't feed it to a dog.

Filmer Paradise

If not, millions of bunches of grapes have gone to waste.

Graces7

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Exactly, I wouldn't feed it to a dog.

Try Kerry. Excellent food..

Outlaw Pete

Going through St James on the Luas I often see Deliveroo / Ubereats deliverers (is that a word) cycling in.

I'd say staff might object to having food delivered to a ward but if the person was capable of walking about I doubt there'd be an issue with having food delivered to near the exit or wherever. Just transfer it to a backpack and sure then it's no different to buying some of the food they sell in many hospital lobbies these days.

If I was in for a spell again I certainly consider doing it. Maybe nothing too odorous, like some Five Guys, but some healthy wraps and soups for sure.

Badly Drunk Boy

I've been visiting a family member for the past few weeks in hospital and on my most recent visit, at reception I noticed leaflets for a local Italian chipper that does deliveries, so it's possible.

Regarding the patient's diet, with the amount of rubbish visitors bring in (chocolate, crisps, etc) so the Hospital mustn't be overly concerned unless it directly and immediately affects the patient's condition.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Exactly, I wouldn't feed it to a dog.

Have you had hospital food lately or are you just going by the old stereotype? It might not be fine dining and I wouldn't book myself into hospital just to try it, but it's usually good quality (although portions would be a bit stingy for a savage like me).

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

Try Kerry. Excellent food..

Definitely on my list of places to try anyway. Gonna go to one hospital a month to try all the different dinners.

maxsmum

Rotunda wouldn't allow hot food or takeaways to be brought up. Husband smuggled in a few things for me under nappies etc!

maxsmum

maxsmum wrote: »

Rotunda wouldn't allow hot food or takeaways to be brought up. Husband smuggled in a few things for me under nappies etc!

Would there not be sh*te all over the chips?

heretothere

As far as I know you can. I brought most of my mams food into her when she was in hospital last year. The nurses let me use the microwave and I brought in lots of salads etc. Just don't bring in anything too smelly!

Berserker

Stanford wrote: »

Nice one but most hospital food is prepared hours before it is cooked and then reheated

I'd never have guessed that. My father has the constitution of a ox when it comes to food and he said he'd wouldn't eat the hospital food he sees.

harr

Our lad was in Crumlin for 4 weeks when he was a baby and we were taking in in turns to sleep on floor... we basically lived on takeaways for those few weeks and hospital had no problem with us eating it the parents kitchen but nothing hot was allowed in his room. But I had seen older kids who would be in for a long haul enjoying McDonald’s and stuff so I would imagine staff turn a blind eye a lot of the time.

Samuel Vimes

My OH regularly ends up in St Vincents hospital due to a chronic illness.
The food is totally inedible horrible smelling crap.
I cook things and bring them over or she and some other patients order take away.

rgodard80a

The hospital probably charge a "corkage" fee to the private health insurers when people bring in their own food.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

When my dad was really sick and struggling to eat, his nurses used to tell me
I could make his fav food and bring it in to him.

iamwhoiam

harr wrote: »

Our lad was in Crumlin for 4 weeks when he was a baby and we were taking in in turns to sleep on floor... we basically lived on takeaways for those few weeks and hospital had no problem with us eating it the parents kitchen but nothing hot was allowed in his room. But I had seen older kids who would be in for a long haul enjoying McDonald’s and stuff so I would imagine staff turn a blind eye a lot of the time.

Most people are great and are happy to eat in the kitchen . We had one plonker who got a takeaway and walked into a room of a very sick child ( not one he was visiting ) while we were doing CPR and asked us where the salt was .I kid you not .

branie2

I had food brought to me by family when I was in hospital

Stanford

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I've been visiting a family member for the past few weeks in hospital and on my most recent visit, at reception I noticed leaflets for a local Italian chipper that does deliveries, so it's possible.

Regarding the patient's diet, with the amount of rubbish visitors bring in (chocolate, crisps, etc) so the Hospital mustn't be overly concerned unless it directly and immediately affects the patient's condition.


Have you had hospital food lately or are you just going by the old stereotype? It might not be fine dining and I wouldn't book myself into hospital just to try it, but it's usually good quality (although portions would be a bit stingy for a savage like me).

Preparing food in advance and reheating it is standard practice in catering for large numbers, when you go to your next wedding in a swanky hotel do you really think the Chef is in the kitchen shelling fresh crab claws for 150 portions?

freshpopcorn

I've seen people eat various take aways/foods in hospitals and the staff don't care.

Foweva Awone

A ward I was on in a private hospital had mostly long-term patients, and every Friday almost all of them would order a takeaway. An awful waste of food, because 30ish meals still had to be prepared and were mostly thrown out. Was very decent food too.

I've never seen staff have a problem with it though, in any public or private hospitals I've been in. Obvious exceptions would be where the patient has an eating disorder, or is on a restricted diet.

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I've seen people eat various take aways/foods in hospitals and the staff don't care.

Can you bring fairy cakes though?

honeybear

Having spent a college Summer serving hospital food, I will definitely be bringing my own should the need arise.

Kimbot

I used to get Mc Donalds/Chipper/Chinese etc brought into me in hospital and there was never an issue.

EdgeCase

They don’t seem to mind as long as you don’t cause a major fuss about it or stink the place out when it’s a shared ward and everyone’s asleep.

There’s probably more of an issue on busy shared wards, especially in say maternity where people aren't sick and may be gagging for a take away and a few pints in some cases.

If you've a private ward, I don't think they really kind what you do. I know I've visited people way outside hours when they were bored out of their tree in the Mater Private in Dublin and the Bons in Cork.

As long as you're not getting in the way, communicate with the staff and aren't making a hullabaloo, they're very accomodating.

The main thing is you're not annoying other patients or causing a problem for medical staff or some kind of hygeine risk.

freshpopcorn

Omackeral wrote: »

Can you bring fairy cakes though?

Yes especially if you bring some for the nurses!

heroics

In tallaght one of the nurses gave us a menu for the local pizza place and said they deliver to the lobby up until 2 am I think it was