Catering staff at West Suffolk Hospital are preparing for the mammoth task of cooking Christmas dinner for all the hospital's patients and workers on Christmas day.
The award-winning team will be starting up the ovens in the early hours to cook:
- 25 turkeys
- 480 pigs in blankets
- 450 portions of stuffing
- 100kg of roast potatoes
- 80kg of carrots
- 60kg of sprouts
- 400 Christmas puddings
The catering team also cooked a Christmas dinner for 300 staff members earlier in December, which included making more than 5,000 mince pies by hand.
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust head chef Luke Nobbs said: "Being in hospital is a very stressful time for any patient but especially at Christmas.
"We want to make people's time here as nice as possible throughout the festive period and serving a delicious Christmas dinner can go a long way in doing that."
Find out more about the behind-the-scenes Christmas dinner preparations at West Suffolk Hospital here.
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