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I know this is a food blog, and that most of the time, food blogs showcase great food. I mean, sure, food blogs will highlight minor mishaps and kitchen blunders here and there, but for the most part, we all expect to see beautiful food, right?

Well, after a slight scare that put me in the hospital for two nights and modified bedrest for the rest of this week, I just couldn’t not do a post on this. I took a picture of every meal that was delivered to my room, because I was in total shock at how disgusting each was!

Last time I checked, a hospital was a place that cared for you physical well-being. One would expect that the food to be healthy, nourishing, complete, no? Here was the menu while I was being monitored for bleeding and pre-term contractions (don’t worry, the IV meds they administered took care of everything—for now at least!):

First meal after coming off of IV meds:

• A very salty chicken broth
• Lemon Jello
• Orange juice
• Coffee

Breakfast:

• White toast
• Rubbery scrambled eggs
• Two cold, fried sausages
• Oatmeal
• 2% milk
• Orange juice
• Coffee

Lunch:

• Mac ‘n’ cheese (topped with breadcrumbs)
• Buttered peas
• White dinner roll
• Lemon bar dusted in powdered sugar
• Salty minestrone soup
• Two packets of saltine crackers
• 2% milk
• Grape juice

Dinner:

• Beef stroganoff over egg noodles
• Buttered carrots
• White dinner roll
• Jello fruit salad
• Peach cobbler with whipped cream
• Coffee

Breakfast:

• Orange muffin
• Rubbery scrambled eggs
• Two slices of ham
• Cream of Wheat
• 2% milk
• Orange juice
• Coffee

The crazy thing is, is that with each meal came a description of the USDA Pyramid, as well as advice on how to eat a well-rounded meal. Sorry, but when you’re being fed fried sausages for breakfast, mac ‘n’ cheese as your lunch entree and two desserts for dinner, I don’t think that qualifies as being a healthful meal. Not to mention what it did to my digestive system (or what it didn’t do, I guess I should say. All the food that went in basically stagnated and refused to come out. I know, I know, that’s a little too much information.)

Oh well. I’m out of the hospital now, and back on my low fat, super high-fiber diet. The bleeding and contractions have stopped…but now I feel like I have to nurse my diet back into shape!

On another note, I did get some R&R while laying in bed the whole time. I spent most of the days reading magazines and checking my BlackBerry. Fun times!