"The food served in hospital"

Recently I was admitted via Emergency at POW hospital Randwick.  I had a  lung spontaneous pneumothorax.  All staff I dealt with, from triage to the nurses, to the doctors and orderlies and kitchen staff were wonderful.  I felt completely safe in their hands.  A procedure was done to insert a drain into my side to drain out the excess fluid out of my lung.  I was taken up to the ward at the public Hospital.  All staff were amazing. 

What wasn't amazing, in my opinion, was the food.  I feel I actually would not even serve the food to my dog.  When I woke up one morning I was given two slices of white bread and weetbix.  I believe that white bread has no nutritional substance.  I was not able to eat the food due to the amount of preservatives and food colourings.  That night I was served roast Lamb with vegetables, but the plastic wrap with the ingredients had a page of numbers and not, as I believe, ingredients.  I was lucky to have people bring me substitute food, but I feel many are not that lucky.  If I had eaten the food served to me, I believe I would not have recovered.  I found the mashed potato was dry and inedible as it looked to me like it had been left in the sun for a week.  

In my opinion, the quality of the food served is not fit for people who are ill or trying to recover from operations. I feel the hospital should be ashamed of itself.  I am a Naturopath and understand the importance of food on gut health but also mental health.  Don't you have dieticians, nutritionists etc who you can work with?

We should be trying to encourage healing.  Food is medicine and without proper nutrients, I feel patients will not be able to recover, recuperate.