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| May 31, 2012 | Royal chef reveals Queen Elizabeth’s daily diet and fav meals | |
London: A former royal chef has offered a rare glimpse into the normal diet of
the Queen when she is not banqueting. Darren McGrady revealed that Her Majesty
eats four modest meals a day, hates potatoes, loves jam pennies, and rounds off
the day with a gin and Dubonnet. For breakfast she likes Cornflakes or Special
K, with a spoonful or two of apricots, prunes or some macadamia nuts from a Tupperware
box, or, when at Balmoral, woodland strawberries. Sometimes she has a boiled egg,
or just toast and marmalade, with Darjeeling tea. The monarch usually eats breakfast
alone at 9am because the Duke of Edinburgh prefers to eat a little earlier at
8.30am A typical lunch, served at 1pm, would be fish, such as a grilled Dover
sole, on a bed of wilted spinach or with courgettes. Then there would be afternoon
tea of cakes, scones and sandwiches. McGrady said that he favourite cakes were
honey and cream sponge, ginger, fruit and the chocolate biscuit cake – that Prince
William also chose to be served at his wedding reception. At least two varieties
of sandwich were offered, such as cucumber, smoked salmon, egg mayonnaise, ham
and mustard. The crusts cut off. She also had her favourite jam pennies, tiny
raspberry jam sandwiches cut into circles the size of an old English penny and
washed down with Earl Grey tea. In the evening “she’d normally have a gin and
Dubonnet; one part gin and two parts Dubonnet,” McGrady told the Times. Then for
dinner there would be game or fish such as pheasant from Sandringham or venison
or salmon from Balmoral. For pudding, fresh fruit, particularly the white peaches
grown in greenhouses at Windsor Castle . She was so partial to these that she
would have them sent up to her when she was at Balmoral. “She didn’t always eat
everything,” the Telegraph quoted McGrady as saying. “She’d maybe have one or
two tiny sandwiches, and sometimes the scones she’d actually just crumble on the
carpet for the dogs to eat,” he said. The chef also added that the Queen hated
waste and was “very thrifty”- and once sent back a lemon used as garnish saying
it could be used again by the kitchen.
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