One bowl ONLY

The Winter festivities are over, but here in McMurdo it feels like they're just beginning  Why?  We finished packing yesterday, so can finally have a more relaxed time of it, working from town rather than LDB and even the possibility of later starts!  So with all this free time suddenly on my hands, what to do?!  Win my deal with Jo of course (or at least not lose it) - I have to lose some weight out here or I promised that I'd cook for her every day for a month.

The problem is, with there being relatively few activities, the temptation to just eat your way out of boredom is pretty strong.  The food at LDB was really good too, so 2 cooked meals a day plus many coffee breaks with cake was the norm.  Luckily, the food in McMurdo galley is usually not so great, after all they are trying to cater for 1000 people with very few fresh ingredients.

So we come to the one bowl diet - as recommended by LDB camp manager Rich.  You can have one bowl and one bowl only of food at each meal.  Stack it as high as you like, with whatever you like, but second helpings are out of the question.  How long until I crack and eat the McMurdo crack (aka Frosty Boy) for every meal?  Who knows.....