Midweek - Still Rubbish Food

The one thing about working away from home is that unless you are staying in a hotel in a city centre your diet tends to be pretty rubbish. They have changed the menu (and possibly chef) at the hotel and I am going to have to work my way around and see what is best, because so far I am not impressed with the food in 2013.

Anyway, as breakfast costs £8.95 at the hotel and I can get a bacon roll and OJ for £2.69 in the office it's a no brainer. Also, as I have brought one of my Xmas presents with me (BODUM Travel Press) along with some ground coffee I am saving a fortune on coffee and having something that tastes a damn sight nicer. Suitably fuelled by the roll, Wednesday brought a fun filled day of emails, drafting new documents and conference calls in the morning with a break for a (bad) ham salad baguette at lunchtime. The afternoon was taken up by a 2 hour workshop with one of our suppliers to discuss our proposed approach for the desktop/laptop deployment of approx 10,000 machines over 5-6 months to 182 educational establishments - boy do I get the fun jobs ;o)

Finally knocked off at 18:00 and headed back to the hotel for an hour's read (The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel by Ian M. Banks) before dinner of prawn cocktail and steak with potatoes and salad. At least they managed to cook the steak right tonight but they have definitely changed supplier as the steak was pretty tasteless, not a patch on what they used to serve up last year. Anyway, headed off to room early so I could have a chat with Nic before another night's sleep constantly broken by coughing fits.

Nic meantime was in charge of her own destiny and cooked an adaptation of the prawn and coconut curry from the Hairy Dieters cookbook.  She added extra veggies to bump up her 5 a day.  It was good, but not great.  So far the Hairy Dieters' recipes seem to fall a wee bit short on the flavour front.