Pre-breakfast snack as we packup tent and leave campsite (e.g. banana and fruit juice)
Breakfast, normally after 15 to 20 km and a visit to the boulangerie. This is usually a fairly elaborate affair often entailing an hour’s stop. Eg baguette, croissants, pain au chocolat/pain raisin, and normally a fairly decadent fancy pastry; fruit juice and coffee from a caffetier.
Lunchtime snack. In France this was normally pretty minimal e.g. frites, if we could find somewhere that was open, or a cafe stop, or possibly a snack on the road. However, it was not essential because breakfast normally took us through to our afternoon stop at the campsite.
Evening meal cooked on the camping gaz burners. This would mean buying provisions either before reaching the campsite or in the local town if it was close by. When I first started touring I was a vegetarian (and still don't eat much meat) and we’ve stuck with that when camping for simplicity. Virtually all the meals are based on the following with countless permutations of the "variations". It's a simple matter of frying onions and then adding the other ingredients. It might not sound that appetising but we find it very agreeable (in fact the thought of it provides motivation at the end of a hard day). Incredibly satisfying especially after two platefuls.
Visit to a local bar either before or after eating or both.
It was my intention to try and adopt this pattern of eating on this trip although I knew I would have to make some compromises. For example, Tesco's bakery is not a boulangerie (nor, unfortunately, are local bakeries). I thought I'd be on the road for longer periods each day and therefore I’d probably need a more substantial mid-day meal. I was also looking forward to sampling some decent regional beers and regional food..
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