Eat like a queen!, Royal chef reveals the Queen's favourite 
May 6 2014, 02:38 PM, updated 13y ago
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Darren McGrady, a former royal chef, has offered a rare glimpse into the normal diet of the Queen when she is not banqueting.
He reveals that Her Majesty eats four modest meals a day, hates potatoes, loves jam pennies, and rounds off the day with a gin and Dubonnet.
For breakfast she likes Cornflakes or Special K, with a spoonful or two of apricots, prunes or some macadamia nuts from a Tupperware box, or, when at Balmoral, woodland strawberries.
Sometimes she will have a boiled egg, or just toast and marmalade, with Darjeeling tea.
The Queen usually eats breakfast alone at 9am because the Duke of Edinburgh prefers to eat a little earlier at 8.30am
A typical lunch, served at 1pm, would be fish, such as a grilled Dover sole, on a bed of wilted spinach or with courgettes.
Then there would be afternoon tea of cakes, scones and sandwiches.
Mr McGrady reveals her favourite cakes were honey and cream sponge, ginger, fruit and the chocolate biscuit cake that Prince William also chose to be served at his wedding reception.
At least two varieties of sandwich were offered, such as cucumber, smoked salmon, egg mayonnaise, ham and mustard. The crusts cut off.
She also had her favourite jam pennies, tiny raspberry jam sandwiches cut into circles the size of an old English penny and washed down with Earl Grey tea.
In the evening "she'd normally have a gin and Dubonnet; one part gin and two parts Dubonnet," revealed Mr McGrady to the Times.
Then for dinner there would be game or fish such as pheasant from Sandringham or venison or salmon from Balmoral.
For pudding, fresh fruit, particularly the white peaches grown in greenhouses at Windsor Castle.
She was so partial to these that she would have them sent up to her when she was at Balmoral.
"She didn't always eat everything," Mr McGrady said.
"She'd maybe have one or two tiny sandwiches, and sometimes the scones she'd actually just crumble on the carpet for the dogs to eat."
But the chef that the Queen hated waste and was "very thrifty"- and once sent back a lemon used as garnish saying it could be used again by the kitchen.
He said it was Prince Charles who introduced organic food to the household but his father was not overly impressed to begin with.
"Even when we travelled to Sandringham he would arrive with all his organic products and things, and Prince Philip was never too impressed with all this organic stuff," he said.
"But I think now its all changed."
He reveals that Her Majesty eats four modest meals a day, hates potatoes, loves jam pennies, and rounds off the day with a gin and Dubonnet.
For breakfast she likes Cornflakes or Special K, with a spoonful or two of apricots, prunes or some macadamia nuts from a Tupperware box, or, when at Balmoral, woodland strawberries.
Sometimes she will have a boiled egg, or just toast and marmalade, with Darjeeling tea.
The Queen usually eats breakfast alone at 9am because the Duke of Edinburgh prefers to eat a little earlier at 8.30am
A typical lunch, served at 1pm, would be fish, such as a grilled Dover sole, on a bed of wilted spinach or with courgettes.
Then there would be afternoon tea of cakes, scones and sandwiches.
Mr McGrady reveals her favourite cakes were honey and cream sponge, ginger, fruit and the chocolate biscuit cake that Prince William also chose to be served at his wedding reception.
At least two varieties of sandwich were offered, such as cucumber, smoked salmon, egg mayonnaise, ham and mustard. The crusts cut off.
She also had her favourite jam pennies, tiny raspberry jam sandwiches cut into circles the size of an old English penny and washed down with Earl Grey tea.
In the evening "she'd normally have a gin and Dubonnet; one part gin and two parts Dubonnet," revealed Mr McGrady to the Times.
Then for dinner there would be game or fish such as pheasant from Sandringham or venison or salmon from Balmoral.
For pudding, fresh fruit, particularly the white peaches grown in greenhouses at Windsor Castle.
She was so partial to these that she would have them sent up to her when she was at Balmoral.
"She didn't always eat everything," Mr McGrady said.
"She'd maybe have one or two tiny sandwiches, and sometimes the scones she'd actually just crumble on the carpet for the dogs to eat."
But the chef that the Queen hated waste and was "very thrifty"- and once sent back a lemon used as garnish saying it could be used again by the kitchen.
He said it was Prince Charles who introduced organic food to the household but his father was not overly impressed to begin with.
"Even when we travelled to Sandringham he would arrive with all his organic products and things, and Prince Philip was never too impressed with all this organic stuff," he said.
"But I think now its all changed."
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