The 'yellow pucks of sadness' – a phrase used to describe the eggs served to patients at the Ottawa Hospital – will soon be seeing an improvement as hospital officials work to revamp the menu.

After the hospital's managers, including CEO Dr. Jack Kitts, ate nothing but hospital food one week, it was decided that the menu needed a makeover.

"Eggs are on the list," Kevin Peters, Ottawa Hospital's director of food and logistics, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday. "There are things we have to keep working on, that's for sure."

The week-long experiment follows years of complaints about the meals patients are served at the hospital.

Speaking to CTV Ottawa, hospital patients described the food in the facility as "gross," "plain," and "bland."

Peters said the hospital managers and patients ate the same eggs and bagels for breakfast, and the same chicken a la king for dinner.

"Let's say we have room for improvement," he said when asked about the calibre of the meals.

Peters said, over the next year, the hospital will work towards a fresher, more ethnically diverse menu.

He said the hospital plans to introduce quinoa and other ancient grains to the menu, offer fresh salads instead of soup and sandwiches for lunch, and swap the tried and true chicken a la king with butter chicken.

The hospital prepares food for 1,000 patients every day – so changing up the menu won't happen overnight.

But Peters said new desserts will be rolling out this week, and changes will keep coming over the next year.

"We're working with other hospitals in the region, our vendors and our suppliers, in trying to create a menu the entire region can be proud of," he said.

With a report from CTV Ottawa