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More than 1000 Queensland prisoners are on special diets, ordering everything from meals without mushrooms or pineapples to high fibre and gluten-free dishes.
It costs more than $10.5 million a year to feed the state's 6220 prisoners three wholesome meals a day, with food serves that would make a pensioner envious.
Special diets are dished out to 1018 Queensland inmates, 827 of them for medical reasons and 191 on the diets for cultural or religious reasons.