
I admit, and have often lamented on these pages, that our hospital's cafeteria didn't offer more healthy choices and higher quality food. Everybody I know bitches about observes the same thing. You would think a place where they put the patients on health-restricted diets would have plenty of healthy choices available to the employees and visitors but many hospitals offer the same transfat-laden, grease-heavy, processed food items that you can get at any fast food or diner type outlet. If we're not going to be leaders in healthy eating, we should at least have healthy choices available to those who want them.
Well....
We got a memo today that hopefully proves that those with the power are paying attention to the employee surveys...
As of yesterday, I'm proud to say that my hospital cafeteria is now using only 90/10 lean ground beef, is doing away with hot dogs, doughnuts, pastries, and all but a few fried items (french fries), and will offer at least two entrees a day of higher quality, low processed, healthy meals. They've also added a new cooler that has tons of house-made grab-n-go items like fruit and cheese plates with cottage cheese or yogurt (I get this all the time! Yum!), and be-still-my-heart greek yogurt (and in my favorite: plain! No added sugar!!!), grilled chicken wraps on whole grained tortillas, fruit parfaits, veggie/dip snack plates, etc.
I'M LOVING THIS!!!!! Thank you! This is the kind of food I eat at home, want to eat at work, and am proud to be a part of leading the way in healthy wholesome dine-out food.