A Typical Day in Food

6am: wake-up call with a beverage of your choice (coffee, tea, or juice) delivered to your tent.

6:30am: breakfast. You start with a buffet of yogurt, granola/muesli, fruit, toast/muffin/pancake and oatmeal/porridge, and then a waiter comes and takes your eggs/bacon/sausage order. And, yes, we ate all that every morning. With peanut butter on our toast too. We'd have a full bowl of yogurt with granola and a piece of toast or muffin and still be ordering eggs with bacon.

9:30am: tea/coffee or hot cocoa with cookies.

11:30am: brunch. Usually some sort of casserole or stir-fry with a carb and a vegetable side. A big green salad, a lentil salad, a potato salad, and a fruit salad. Served with cold white wine, and followed up with a cheese platter.

Take a 3-hour nap in here, to allow for maximum weight gain.

3pm: afternoon tea. Your choice of tea, coffee, or juice, with a sweet snack (cake or cream puff) and a savory snack (quiche or a mini-pizza or a spring roll).

6pm: sundowners. A cocktail with a snack that usually involved sausage. Sometimes it was bite-sized pieces of sausage and cheese on toothpicks, or sausage wrapped in puff pastry.

7pm: pre-dinner drinks and snacks. Sometimes snacks were healthy like carrot sticks or popcorn (with great spices on it), and sometimes they were prunes wrapped in bacon or chips. Prunes wrapped in bacon were really big for some reason.

7:30pm: 3-course dinner that included an appetizer, 2 meat entrees, 1 vegetarian entree, 2 vegetable sides, 2 carb sides, of which you ate a little of each (sometimes all the dishes were new to us so we had to try them all), served with rolls and real butter and copious amounts of wine or whatever you were drinking. Wine glasses were never allowed to be less than half full! Followed by dessert. Followed by a cheese plate. Followed by after-dinner drinks around the fire.

10pm: In-room after-dinner drink from the decanter of sherry left in your room every evening for your drinking enjoyment. Complimented by homemade cookies, also left (in an airtight container) in your room, in case you got hungry inbetween meals.

Sleep. Repeat.