Loop through 3 times

I'm trying to automate our patients meal choices for our galley.
When a patient comes in, a nurse will get their meal choice for the next three meals and enter them into the computer.
It will show up like this:

name    Room    meal1   meal2   meal3

What I need help with is if there is only one meal for a person (might be waiting for approval to change diet or they may be going home before the 2nd meal), I need the system to put two blank cells in the table so everything lines up right.

The code I have is this which works great if there are three meals entered.

$today_time = date ("H:i");
$food_query = "SELECT fo.*, me.*, mc.* FROM food AS fo INNER JOIN mealchoice AS mc ON fo.Choice=mc.MCID INNER JOIN meal AS me ON me.MID=fo.Meal WHERE Patient = '$nurse_id' AND FDate >= '$current_date' Order By FDate, MID ASC"; 
							$food_query_result = mysql_query($food_query);

							if (mysql_num_rows($food_query_result) > 0)
							{
                                                           $count = 0;
								while ($food_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($food_query_result))

								{
									$food_id = $food_row['FID'];
							                $Meal = $food_row['MealChoice'];
									$Choice = $food_row['MealChoice1'];
									$Comments = $food_row['Comments'];
							
                                                                             echo"<td>$Choice </td>\n";
							
								$count++;
    if ($count == 3)
      break;
}								
							}

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