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Hospital Cafe

georgie

By georgie
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georgie Enthusiast
georgie
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Not happy ! <_< For the second time I have tried to eat at a large city hospital cafe and have found they had no Gluten Free food. Not even a cake. I had to wait 2 hours at the hosp today for results and I was hungry and they had NOTHING. I would have thought a hospital would have gluten-free food.

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Sweetfudge Community Regular
Sweetfudge
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That is such a bummer! I have found it's very difficult to go out depending on a place to be gluten-free. So I like to do research before going...calling the place, looking things up online, etc. Good luck!

blueeyedmanda Community Regular
blueeyedmanda
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I work in a large hospital and it is very depressing that they don't serve anything gluten free. I bring my own lunch anyway, since it saves a ton of money.

Too bad though, in my gluten days I ate a lot of hospital meals since they were actually very good. I think they should provide more options. I know they provide gluten free meals for inpatients.

grantschoep Contributor
grantschoep
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This is one that always surprises me, some of you have seen my posts on here before. I basically had to live in the hospital for almost 2 months last year while recovering from heart surgery. As a patient, they sent a dietition up to me, and she had a full menu of everything they made in the kitchen that was gluten free. When my food was brought to me, a number of the nurses were very knowledgable and made sure they didn't get me the wrong thing. I was told I could order anything the kitchen made at anytime, not just what they served that day. But that was probably because I was a patient.

There was even a heath food/organic store across the street that a couple of nurses even picked me up some gluten free cookies from time to time. They actually expensed it to the hospital.

Though I'm sure it all depends on the hospital and staff.

FYI, I was at the Boulder Community Hospital on Broadway in Boulder, CO

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