Preparing the daily food bags

As the hotel restaurant was shut today it was a perfect day for us to use the free floor space to unpack the boxes of food.  We broke out the various meals, cereal bars and drinks onto the free tables.  We then used the spreadsheet that Matt had prepared detailing the daily menus and the breakdown of calories to create lines of piles of our daily amount of food - on average one breakfast meal, an evening meal and an assortment of cereal bars, flapjacks, and energy bars to be used for lunch.

Once we had laid out the food we went about bagging and numbering each daily food bag, essentially ending up with a 6-day rotational menu (last day of the week we get a dessert!!!) and 10 bags full of food - a large bag of 12 meals for each of the 6-day periods we anticipate being on the ice for.

The 6 main meals we get to enjoy while on the ice are as follows:

Beef and Potato Hotpot

Fish in Parsley Sauce

Chicken Korma

Spaghetti Bolognese

Chicken Chassuer

Kung Po Chicken

Once our food had been put into some sort of order we continued to scrutinise equipment to best achieve the lightest load possible for the both of us - a continuing dichotomy of comfort and redundancy versus efficiency…..where do you draw the line and at what point do you say we’ll just have to make do?