Dessert on a saturday night – sticky toffee pudding… yummy

We have a great view from the cafeteria out over hanger cove and the icebergs in a northerly get all packed in the bay. Normally you can eat dinner while watching seals and penguins go about their business. Last week a pod of Orcas wondered by.

Breakfast is self serve and is cereal, canned fruit, homemade bread for toast it starts at 06:30 and continues till 08:30.

At 10:30 there is a morning smoko which used to be bacon baps however, everyone was putting on so much weight on station we now just eat what ever is in the fridge by the toasters – cold cuts, cheese etc. I have only managed to make it to one smoko since I got here. Normally I am hard at work and don’t want to stop the momentum I have got going on.

Lunch is between 1300 and 1400 and is normally soup and homemade bread and then a pasta dish like lasagna, mac and cheese etc.

Afternoon smoko is at 16:00 and used to include cakes but doesn’t anymore.

Dinner is at 18:30 till 19:30 except on Saturday nights when there is tablecloths a three course meal served at the table and everyone has to dress up.

Food is pretty good but full of carbs and there is really no fresh fruit or veg. Everything comes to the station canned, frozen or dry so the chefs have a tough job to created good food. As you can imagine if there is a bad chef the mood on base gets quite bad!