Eating our fill...

Celebrating in our family is always fun! 

We have over the last few years tended to do for experiences, especially those we can share. That was sorely missed during the lockdowns, but now we're up and running again.

My birthday this year meant afternoon tea with my mum and sister at a local hotel, overlooking the sea.

As you can see the plates were groaning and even we can't put away that much...

 Month 4 - Bite 30

Many years ago when we were both based around London, my sister and I used to meet up with a friend of hers and go to a Dance Studio once a week. We quite often followed that up with a trip to an American Pizza Company - just to replace the lost energy you understand.

It was one of those 'here's your plate, help yourself' salad bar places and it was incredible to see how many students could eat from one small plate! One of the best examples of maximising was a group of four who had obviously worked it all out beforehand. The plate's size was massively increased by placing celery sticks out like spokes in a wheel until it was at least twice the diameter of the original. This based they then filled in layers until it resembled a food mountain. They then ordered one giant pizza between them and shared their meal until they could eat no more.

Now comes the best part. The establishment automatically brought a food box for leftovers. We'd always been chuffed with taking home enough leftover pizza for the following day, but the delight of the mountain builders at taking both some pizza and the salad was a joy to behold.....

We were talking about this while enjoying our tea when the ladies at the next table told the waitress that they could eat no more and it was a shame they had to leave it. 

'You don't' she said and produced boxes for them to pack and take away the surplus, bringing us boxes to do the same. We just had to sign a form to acknowledge that we'd done so just in case we kept it too long and gave ourselves food poisoning by not looking after properly!

From now on it's away with the embarassment of asking and in with the request for a doggie bag! Oh and no, we didn't store it incorrectly - the leftovers were eaten far too quickly for that...