This booklet gives brief details about some aspects of the diets of Asian people in Britain. It considers religious and cultural traditions; fasting; regional diets; diet and nutrition through pregnancy; and the serving of food in institutions.
This manual aims to familiarise readers with the general details of the diets of the main Asian groups in Britain, that is, people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and of Indian and Pakistani origin from East Africa. It outlines religious and cultural aspects of food; the basic diets of the ...
This is a report proposing how a frozen meals service could be provided at one particular hospital site. The report gives basic data about the hospital, followed by suggested organisation of the catering department, standard of feeding, equipment, staff hierarchy and staffing requirements, depot kitchens, floor finishing kitchens, staff restaurants ...
This report looks at proven catering service systems, primarily distribution systems based on conventional cooking, although reference is also made to frozen and chilled meals. Three systems are considered to provide a good standard of feeding if correctly operated and well managed: central tray service; central plate service; and peripheral ...
This publication is a catalogue accompanying an exhibition of hospital catering equipment and supplies. The aim of the exhibition was to show how the drop in the number of hospital staff taking meals and the rise in the cost of these meals per head could be tackled and overcome.
This fourth edition of General Hospital Diets reflects progressive trends in hospital catering. Since publication of the earlier editions which indicated the need for three standards of menu and suggested possible menus for each week of the year, the King's Fund has been encouraging hospitals and helping catering officers to ...
This booklet aims to give the hospital caterer a simple nutritional guide to menu planning and to show modifications necessary for the usual therapeutic diets.
The object of this booklet is to explain in simple terms what it is that special diets set out to do and to explain the ways and means of providing them. It is hoped that it will prove useful to ward sisters and all concerned with catering in hospitals where ...
This circular updates the one entitled 'General Hospital Diets' which indicated the costs of three grades of dietary for patients in general hospitals. Following the end of rationing these costs have been revised. The same recipes and menus have been used as in the original circular, and in addition, information ...