Menus

Patient Menus

Patients are offered 3 meals a day and a range of biscuits are available on the ward to offer as snacks with the beverage service's between meals.

Breakfast

Items are available on the ward consisting of a selection of porridge, cereals, white and wholemeal bread with spread and a selection of preserves. (View Allergen information)

Lunch

We provide a three course ‘bistro’ style service offering a starter of fruit juice or soup, followed by a selection of individual meals with hot and cold options such as jacket potato with fillings, side salads selections, sandwiches, complete salad meals, omelettes and daily hot options such as fish cake, pies and vegan slices. Dessert at lunch includes a selection of ice cream, cakes with or without custard, fresh fruit, yogurt and cheese and crackers.

Evening Meal

The evening meal is a two course meal with a choice of four hot options (including a vegetarian or vegan choice) with a selection of potatoes and vegetables to accompany the meal. The desserts offer a hot pudding with custard, a hot milk pudding, fresh fruit and yogurts or scones.

The menu includes a fish and chips supper on Friday and a ‘take away’ theme on Saturday evening which alternates between curry and oriental styles and a Sunday roast.

Please refer to the Dietary Coding document to view the symbols used on the menus to identify the products suitable to meet the needs of most patients.

Adult Menus

We have a Core Menu which has a 2 week cycle:

To see what weekly cycle is running during your stay, please check the calendar and refer to the appropriate week - Menu Calendar

Children's Alternative Menu

We have a children’s a la carté menu which is offered as an alternative to the main daily core menu. This menu has choices that have been selected by children on the wards as being staple home favourites.

Finger Food Menu

There is a finger foods menu which is aimed at supporting patients in the short & longer term who have dexterity issues in using cutlery but would benefit from being empowered to be able to self feed. All items on this menu are intended to be able to be consumed without needing to use cutlery. There are hot and cold options and the hot items have been selected to still be palatable even if cooled with slower eaters. Although most suitable for patients with dementia, it is also highly suitable for adults and children with a range of other clinical needs.

Texture Modified Menu

We have a range of Texture Modified Menus for patients with clinically diagnosed Dysphagia. These meet the International Descriptors for Dysphagia diets.

The following flowchart describes the process used for the Texture Modified Menus:

Additional Menus

We also have menus to meet certain cultural or religious requirements:

And also menus to meet the needs of some specific medical conditions and preferences:

    
Renal / Low Potassium Menus as follows:

Higher Energy Snack Menus

There is a Red Tray Higher Energy Snack Menu for afternoon and evening snacks available for patients who have a MUST score of 1 or above and require additional nutritional intake, these patients will also have their meals served on a Red Tray. The flowchart for the procedure for using the Red Tray Higher Energy Snack Menu and ordering snacks for identified patients can also be accessed by clicking the link below:

Patients on the Older Adult wards are all offered two higher energy snacks per day. Patients can also choose a mid afternoon and evening snack of their choice from the appropriate menu if indicated (eg. textured modified, finger foods) or from the Higher Energy snack menu. The flowchart for this procedure can be accessed below:

Patients on the Finger food or Texture Modified menus are also offered two higher energy snacks per day. Patients can also choose a mid afternoon and evening snack of their choice from the appropriate menu.

The flowchart for this procedure can be accessed below:

Additional snacks with beverages

For those patients who are not on clinically indicated higher energy snack requirements, snacks are provided in the form of a variety of biscuits which are offered with the mid morning, mid afternoon and evening beverage services.

Missed Meal Menus

A missed meal comprising of orange juice, a choice of meat, fish or cheese sandwich and a fromage frais, fruit and cake is available as a meal replacement and can be ordered for a patient (adult or child) who has been admitted to a ward but missed a meal as a result of a late admission or as consequence of clinical treatment.

Other Special Dietary Requests

Additional special meals or snacks which are required to meet an individual patient’s clinical needs and which are in addition to items on the full range of Patient Menus can be ordered on a Special Diet Request Form (D1) for general items or on a specific Special Request form for certain conditions.

These items are identified by the Dietitian as part of the nutritional assessment in order to meet an individual patient’s needs.

The Special Diet Request Form should be completed by the Dietitian or Ward Nursing staff and emailed to the RADU (leedsth-tr.patientcateringordersradu@nhs.net) by 11.30am each day for evening meal and the next day’s lunch.

The Flowchart on the link below shows this process.

The following special menus and request forms are available to meet specific patient needs and are to be used only for individually identified patients: