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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Ellen Kirwin

Christmas menus prisoners will be having this year from cheeseburgers to spicy pizza

At Christmas time prisoners in Merseyside are given different meals than usual which include turkey with all the trimmings, pizza and pasties.

The ECHO submitted a Freedom of Information request to HMP Liverpool, HMP Altcourse and HMP Berwyn asking for their menus over the festive period. The menus for each facility are different and include options for vegetarian, vegan and Halal diets.

Prisoners are given the menus ahead of Christmas week and can pre-select the meals they wish to have. Those in HMP Liverpool have some festive favourites including mince pies, Christmas pudding and roast chicken with stuffing to choose from.

While HMP Berwyn has some special extras such as, chocolate doughnuts, brunch and spicy five bean and rice wrap, alongside the traditional roast turkey dinner.

HMP Liverpool

HMP Liverpool, a category B/C prison in Walton, has a similar Christmas menu to previous years. The Ministry of Justice responded to the ECHO's Freedom of Information request by providing the menu and an approximate cost per head.

In their response they said: "The approximate cost of these menus is £2.45 per prisoner per day. It is not possible to provide a definitive answer on the cost of food on any specific day due to the cost of purchasing and supplying prison food being spread over a longer time period.”

In 2020, the cost for each prisoner’s meal per day was £2.35. That daily allowance had gone up from £2.15 per day in 2019.

Christmas Eve tea

  • Cheeseburger in a bun

  • Meat and potato pie and gravy

  • Halal battered chicken burger in a bun

  • Vegetable pasty

  • Vegetable grill in a bun

All served with chips, beans and fresh fruit or a chocolate muffin.

Christmas Day breakfast

  • Bacon (two pieces) barmcake

  • Veg sausage (two pieces) barmcake

With boiled egg, cereal

Christmas Day lunch

  • Roast turkey, chipolata sausage, bacon roll sage and onion stuffing and gravy

  • Halal roast chicken, small sausage sage and onion stuffing and gravy

  • Poached white fish with cheese sauce

  • Mushroom & spinach wellington & gravy

Served with roast potatoes, carrots, Brussels sprouts, and Christmas pudding with vanilla sauce and mince pie

Christmas Day tea

  • Sliced ham salad ciabatta

  • Tuna mayonnaise baguette

  • Cheese barmcake

With individual fruit cheesecake and Christmas cake, a satsuma and a packet of crisps

Boxing Day breakfast

Weetabix, milk, bread roll, butter and jam, cereal bar

Boxing Day lunch

  • Roast chicken portion with chasseur sauce

  • Baked pork chop with peppered sauce

  • White fish portion with mornay sauce

  • Toasted nut loaf with Quorn veg burger

With roast potatoes, garden peas and sweetcorn, and raspberry ripple mousse

Boxing Day tea

  • Spicy chilli chicken ciabatta (halal)

  • Corned beef and pickle baguette

  • Egg mayonnaise and cress barmcake

With royal gala apple, fruit trifle, packet of crisps, and chocolate snowball

New Year's Eve tea

  • Spicy chilli chicken ciabatta (halal)

  • Corned beef and pickle baguette

  • Egg mayonnaise and cress barmcake

With royal gala apple, fruit trifle and packet of crisps and chocolate snowball

New Year’s Eve tea

  • Cheese and ham pizza

  • Halal burger in a bun with onions

  • Spicy chicken pitta pizza (halal)

  • Vegetable burger in a bun

With chips, spaghetti, fresh fruit with cake slice and custard

New Year's Day breakfast

  • Sausage barmcake (halal suitable)

  • Veg sausage barmcake

With boiled egg and cereal

New Year's Day lunch

  • Roast chicken leg, sage and onion stuffing, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

  • Traditional roast pork with apple sauce, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

  • Oven roasted white fish with tomato sauce

  • Italian pasta bake with sweet pepper and savoury crumble

Served with roast potatoes, carrots, green beans, bread roll and margarine and Christmas fruit muffin custard (vegans: fruit cocktail)

New Year's Eve tea

  • Chicken mayo and lettuce ciabatta (halal)

  • Chopped pork and tomato baguette

  • Savoury cheese and lettuce barmcake

With a banana, chocolate and orange cookie and packet of crisps and chocolate biscuit

HMP Berwyn

HMP Berwyn, Wrexham (Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)

HMP Berwyn is a Category C prison in Wrexham, North Wales, with a number of Merseyside offenders sent to this 'super-prison' to serve their sentences. Christmas meals are paid for within the existing budget for prisoner meals in the financial year.

The approximate cost of these menus listed below is £3.14 per prisoner per day. The Ministry of Justice said it is not possible to provide a definitive answer on the cost of food on any specific day.

This is due to the cost of purchasing and supplying prison food being spread over a longer time period. Below we have listed the special Christmas menus prisoners can choose from.

Christmas Eve tea

  • Vegetable noodle salad

  • Chicken mayonnaise roll

  • Tuna salad box

  • Cheese and onion quiche salad

  • Luncheon meat roll

Prisoners pick one of the above to be served with fruit, crisps and a biscuit.

Christmas Day breakfast

Vegan sausage , halal sausage or bacon, served on a roll.

Christmas Day lunch

  • Roast turkey, chipolata roll, sage and onion stuffing and gravy

  • Halal roast chicken, mini chicken sausage, sage and onion stuffing and gravy

  • Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and gravy

  • Grilled white fish with cheese and tomato

  • Sweet potato and spinach wellington and gravy

All served with roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts and Christmas pudding with white sauce.

Christmas Day tea

  • Cheddar cheese (vegan cheese) and red onion baguette,

  • Halal chicken mayonnaise baguette,

  • Ham and tomato baguette,

Served with can of Coke, Mars Bar, Christmas cake, satsuma, packet of crisps and mince pie

Boxing Day lunch

  • Halal roast chicken portion with creamy mushroom sauce

  • Baked pork chop with creamy mushroom sauce

  • White fish portion with cheese and herb crumb

  • Toasted nut loaf

  • Roast chicken portion with creamy mushroom sauce

Served with roast potatoes, garden peas and chocolate doughnut

Boxing Day tea

  • Egg and cress baguette

  • Tuna and sweetcorn baguette

  • Chicken and stuffing baguette

Served with a carton of apple juice, snickers, packet of crisps and genoa cake.

New Year's Eve lunch

  • Vegan brunch

  • Halal brunch

  • Fish finger roll

  • Traditional bunch

  • Vegetable curry pasty

Served with spaghetti, hash browns, orange and lemon drizzle cake

New Year's Eve tea

  • Spicy five bean and rice wrap

  • Cheese roll

  • Tuna and onion barmcake

  • Turkey barmcake

  • Chicken rice salad

Served with crisp , fruit and biscuit.

New Year's Day breakfast

Halal sausage, veggie sausage or pork sausage on a roll.

New Year's Day lunch

  • Half roast chicken, sage and onion stuffing and gravy

  • Halal roast chicken leg and breast sage and onion stuffing and gravy

  • Traditional roast pork with apple sauce, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

  • Oven roasted haddock with a herb crumb

  • Italian pasta bake with sweet pepper and savoury crumble

Served with roast potatoes, carrots, bread roll and apple or Christmas cookie.

New Year's Day tea

  • Cheese and tomato baguette

  • Halal chicken and sweetcorn baguette

  • Roast pork and salad baguette

All served with can of Vimto, Dairy Milk, packet of crisps, a chocolate chip muffin

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