At the quotethe day starts with coffee, milk, bread, biscuits, butter and jam. On Sundays there is a small variation: croissant. It is one of the particularities of the food service of the Penitentiary Centerthat the Government has put it out to competition and that allows you to know in detail what, when and how the inmates eat.
The times are marked. Breakfast is served at 8.45am, lunch at 12.45pm and dinner at 7.15pm. Inmates in closed regime receive all three meals, while those in open regime receive dinner or a sandwich. Currently, the prison has an average of 50 inmatescompared to the 62 recorded monthly during 2025.
The menu in prison changes, but the schedules are strict
The future awardee will have to submit a menu proposal for eight weeks and leave the preparation in the hands of a dietician. The package gives some hints of what may come to the table. For lunch, the first course can be vegetables, legumes, pasta or rice, with examples such as octopus with beans, cannelloni, tripe with chickpeas or paella. The second combines meat or fish with garnish: stew with potatoes, rabbit with pepper or hake with samfaina. To finish, custard, yogurt, ice cream, fruit, syrup or pastry.
Dinner is not short either. You can start with seafood cream, mushroom cream or fish soup. After that can come empanadas, croquettes, beans with bacon or sausages and, as a third course, meat, fish or eggs. Examples include potato omelette, sausage with mash, cod with tomato or hake fillet with lettuce.
The portions must have a minimum of 450 grams per plate and person. The examples, however, are indicative and any final modification must have the prior authorization of the management.
The service will also to adapt to the needs of the inmates. Special diets will be prepared by medical prescription in cases of diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, allergies or intolerances, and also specific menus for religious reasons. Christmas and New Year they will allow you to get out of the routine with more festive meals, invoiced separately.
And so that everything arrives in good condition to the different modules, the successful bidder must provide isothermal carts that maintain the temperature. A requirement that responds to a recommendation of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture on conditions of detention in the Principality.
The quality of food is also regulated in the prison quote. The company will have to take care of the purchase, conservation and control of the products, which they will have to maintain the same level of quality as in any other establishment. In addition, he must guarantee the supply of oil, salt, sugar, vinegar, pepper and other necessary condiments.
