The Food...

Seafood night

Muffins, biscuits, cakes. Not Jenny Craig approved.

The food at my camp....
The one item that is complained about more than anything else. I never expected gourmet so I am OK with what is on offer. But I guess it will change the longer I remain. I cannot take photos without everyone watching. So I will explain. It is your typical bain-marie arrangement, with food that seems to vary slightly most nights. There tends to be a choice of 3 salads. Most look and taste as if they were made 12+ hours earlier. Everything does not feel fresh. No fresh herbs. But there is a lot of it and plenty of blokes that could lose a few kilos. Plenty of cakes too.

A funny story though. A week ago, 30 personnel from another company were so appalled by the lack of options and poor quality of food for lunchmaking, that they arrived at work without lunch and refused to work. Phone calls were made, inspections done and the head chef (cook) was sacked. Food has improved. One night was seafood night. Lots of fresh seafood (Most was defrosted) and hardly anyone ate it. The typical answer from seasoned FIFO blokes... Eveyone had a bad story about eating uncooked seafood on a camp. My iron guts held up..

Breakfast is cereals, fruit, yoghurt and typical bacon, eggs, mushrooms etc.
Lunch. There are meats, cheeses, salads and bread to make sandwiches, or salads and cooked meats with lots of plastic containers to put them in.
Dinner is all sorts of typical meat and 3 veg configurations, pastas etc and plenty of desert.
I cannot wait to get home to eat.. Sushi, Rice paper rolls, proper coffee.... Yum