Testimonials

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Philip Shelley

Past Chair of The HCA

Creating a balanced meal choice for the wide range of patients that we serve in a General Acute Hospital is an on-going challenge.

Since Musgrove Park Hospital moved to a catering option of cook freeze for our patients in 2004, we have continually added and adjusted our menu selections to ensure that we give our patients a variety of choice. Fresh soups, sandwiches and salads are vital parts of the menu that can make a real difference to each and every patient. Over the past few months, we have added new meal selections from The Healthy Food Company; the planning and procuring for the selection of these choices has deliberately been a careful arrangement. We have started the choices on the children’s menus which has been received very favourably and we plan to roll out choices to our care and elderly patients in the coming months.

“Ensuring that our Trust Board, Dietitians and Clinical Teams understand the importance of our supplier selection needs involvement. To help do this, Sarah and Kay liaised with us to provide a suitable launch with tasting and questions helping to push our standards to the highest level possible. Enthusiasm and a willingness to have a product that is nutritionally superior as well as being tasty and presentable is something that Sarah and Kay are working incredibly hard to achieve.

Musgrove Park Hospital is proud to be in partnership with such a company; proving that working together, with complete focus on the patient, will provide results that bring pride to the NHS.

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David Keith & Ann Sharples

We have been working with The Healthy Food Company for almost 3 years and launched their products on our Children’s ward in July 2019. They were instrumental in developing the Children’s ward menu with us and took into account local preferences whilst continuing to maintain the ‘Healthy’ ethic.

We have found them to be very responsive to our needs and able to make changes at development stage and beyond whenever required. Having used their products over a period of 20 months we have found them to be of consistent high quality.

We have recently decided to offer some of their dishes on our standard adult menu and we are working with them on new product lines. Another area we are looking at is their grab boxes for our retail outlets as we are keen to offer healthier options in this setting. We are particularly impressed with the wide range of choices available for such a young company.

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Howard Cartledge

Past Chair of The HCA, Head of catering Northern Alliance

The transition from the old menu to the new menu has been extremely smooth and since we have changed to using The Healthy Food Company dishes we have received no complaints. Staff and children all seem very happy!”

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Head of Hospital Catering

The Healthy Food Company has taken children’s food to a whole new level.

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Peter Madel

Hospital Catering Manager

Great value for money, great product and a great team behind the scenes.

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Steve Fair

Nursery Director

We have been trying to supply hot meals for years now, but either the price was too high, or the food was not good enough. The Healthy Food Company gets the balance completely right!

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Anna Lexcross

Mum and Nursery Client

The Healthy Food Company supplies the food at my children’s nursery. I had to contact them as my son doesn’t eat at all, tiny bites of toast or grapes but not really a meal, but in nursery he will eat chicken curry and fish pie for lunch and dinner. Kay has made sure that these meals are available for him every day, which she didn’t have to do, and has even supplied me food for at home. A very happy mummy here!

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