Eats

I previously mentioned that the schedules all revolve around when food is served and some people wondered what the food is like and it varies daily.  Breakfasts are all pretty much the same there's a selection of small boxes of cereal, different (usually canned) fruits, various toasts or breads, eggs and sausages, a make your own waffle station and luckily there's coffee all day. 

 

This is an old picture from one of the other volunteers of Nik getting coffee but you can see the cereal/ fruit bar  behind him.  At lunch and dinner that becomes a salad bar.  Then there's another buffet line of hot food which varies daily and they post a weekly menu so you can look forward to certain things like veggie burger day. :)  If they don't have a vegetarian option they make a separate vegetarian dish (usually a vegetable tofu noodle dish) for those of us non meat eaters. 

The food here is all pretty good.  The kitchen are all Thai guys so there are always good Thai dishes.  They tried to do Mexican yesterday and it was close.  There's an unnecessary amount of desserts too.  One of the volunteers, RJ, is so funny when it comes to meals because he'll first sit down with a very sparse plate but he'll go back at least 4 times for more things and pile up a stack of dirty plates.  I don't know why he doesn't get it all in the first pass.  I think he was tying to be sneaky about it and he had a few people fooled thinking he didn't eat much until I pointed out that he made 4-7 trips back to the buffet and so his cover was blown.  On his 2nd trip back he usually gets cookies as part of his meal for every meal and then at the end he has a real dessert as well.  He's funny.  Good thing his hobby is exercise.