 Poster: A snowHead
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bladeskier,
We've got two children who could eat for England, so Hotel breakfast is hearty, followed by lots of sandwich making - bread rolls, cheese, ham, croissants, fruit etc etc.
Anyway - its not lunch - its a deferred breakfast!
I'm surprised you're surprised. Doesn't everyone do this?!!!!!
Mountain rest' at 12.00, Coffees / chocolat chaud, 'home' made sandwiches, story swapping, then back out there. Can't wait!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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shockingmoment, you are the one then !!! Whenever I have a late breakfast due to a lively and extended apres someone has scoffed all the tucker and there is nothing left. by all means take an apple or slice of cake for a quick nibble prior to heading off but please do not steal the entire scoff pile in the form of a packed lunch ! It is always the quiet ones eh.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Cannot tell a lie...t'was I. Early bird and all that.
We'll leave you a piece of curled up ham and some mouldy cheese, next to the dried out bagettes.
BWY whats a 'lively and and extended apres' - you forget we have children....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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i did once have a nice carvery buffet lunch with my granny, and thought that as we might be a bit peckish come tea time, why not take the nice side of roast beef for a late afternoon snack, I was shocked to find the waitress chasing after me saying that I had no right to take the beef. I thought that was a right liberty because I had my poor hungry granny would be sitting at home at tea time and did not fancy spending her pension, but the waitress was having none of it and said that I was stealing, shocking I know, and also said that other people had paid for lunch and that my granny would have to go without. So, i bought my granny a nice meal that evening and we all lived happily ever after.
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rayscoops, 
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shockingmoment, the hotel we stayed at in Chamonix didn't have it's own restuarant, they had a cafe-bar type place which was attached, but owned and run separately.
We were charged 7 euros for the breakfast and paid the hotel direct, I'm guessing the cafe-bar place saw say 5 euros of this.
If everyone ate their breakfast and then helped themselves to the buffet to refuel at lunchtime, all of a sudden that 5 euros per person becomes 2.5 euros per person. Cafe-bar can't make a margin on that and goes bust.
No idea what you do for a living but if someone asked you to provide double for no extra money I'm sure you'd tell them where to go.
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debbi, they never found the plump breasted chicken I swiped away in my grannies hand bag though !
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Kaiser, if you ever fly first class always open and have a little bit of each cheese on the cheese board, I am told that they can not then serve this cheese again and the trolly lads/lasses tend to be allowed to take them home in a doggy bag too. I think it must be bit of a cheese thing and of course if there is a bit of the old smelly stuff going free there is no need to turn your nose up to it 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Will do this the very next time it happens. Probably in the next couple of minutes I expect... 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Blimey, I don't know how you can all eat so much and then go skiing....!
My typical day here in Notre Dame de Bellecombe (when not working): Go to local boulangerie first thing in the morning and pick up a lovely fresh baguette and a couple of croissants, eat croissants on returning home with a nice cup of coffee in front of the TV, start the day gently and chilled out.... then when the mood takes me, wander 50 metres across the road to the nearest ski lift, say hi to my mates in the lift pass office and to whichever lifty happens to be on duty that day (they are all colleagues of mine!), put skis on, grab a perch and start gliding up the summit...
Ski for several hours until I start to feel hungry again, then descend down my local red run that finishes up "chez moi"... chat to lifties again for a few minutes, leave skis in the lifty hut and wander back across the road to my apartment to make myself a delicious reblochon+ham baguette, to be eaten at a calm pace in front of the TV while also watching the snow fall outside... When ready, make way back across the road to aforementioned lifty hut, listen to the lifties' latest humorous tales of whoever happened to fall off the draglift that morning (it's one of those dodgy ancient lifts that launches you into the air when you first get onto it - always amusing to watch the tourists go flying when they're not expecting it)... put skis back on whilst wondering what kind of stunt to pull in the air for when the lift yanks me upwards... take a perch and head back up to the top of the mountain.
Ski until it begins to get dark... then have fun finding an new interesting route down the mountain in order to get back to my apartment. Once back home, take skis off, have a shower and get changed, then head down to one of my local bars which will be guaranteed to be invaded by the Black Jacket Brigade (my colleagues still in their work uniform: lifties, pisteurs, anyone else who happens to work in the lift pass office like me) and the Red Jacket Brigade (the ski instructors) where I will join them to drink the "apéro".... a few beers later, the subject of "have you eaten yet tonight?" starts to work its way around... the conclusion always seems to be "no" and somehow the day always ends up with us all still sitting there in the same bar, this time having moved just 10 metres to the eating section and indulging in various different Savoyard specialities which we all share between us.
Aaaaaahhhh..... village life.... wouldn't change it for the world!
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You know it makes sense.
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bladeskier,
Hey - thanks for contributing to keeping the costs of our lunches down.
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rayscoops,
Just think what you're doing to the price of 1st class flight tickets...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Usually tend to try and have a large lunch at about 11:30 before ski school ends and all the kids come in. Makes for nice empty pistes for an hour or two at lunchtime, then the odd stop in the afternoon for a coffee or hot choccie.
Rosti with Pork Sausage and Onion Gravy in the Fluhalp! Mmmmm 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hmm, depends where I am.
3 valleys last week we were self catering so nice pastries for breakfast then bought bread and stuff from the supermarket and ate away from the crowds. At the edge of a nice slope ESF take beginners is always worth a laugh  Unless its in the 4th valley above Orelle where the restaurant is rather well priced...
Austria has to be goulash for lunch and an 11ocolock beer of course as its affordable.
In canada then an 11oclock beer(stupid licencing laws!) with beef jerky and then a big lunch.
Always have a bottle of water (tap cos I'm tight) and a banana. Maye chocolate too if I remember.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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shockingmoment, do not be so tight, pay for your lunch !
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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rayscoops, me too! 
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| shockingmoment, do not be so tight, pay for your lunch ! |
kids eat so much now - we save money by not taking them with us. we lock them in a cupboard under the stairs for the week
so now we only have to pay for two breakfasts (but we still raid the buffet bar for lunch)
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It's surprising how far one kid will go if you are inventive and don't mind spicy food... 
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| Kaiser wrote: |
| It's surprising how far one kid will go if you are inventive and don't mind spicy food... |
I do love kids.
Not sure if I could eat a whole one though
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| Kaiser wrote: |
| It's surprising how far one kid will go if you ... |
... slice them thinly enough.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Fri 9-02-07 13:24; edited 1 time in total
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Kaiser, bit harsh but funny 
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Perhaps not entirely in the spirit of the thread - One thing I got in my food packs the other year and works very well in a baguette is Pate and carrots rapee. Simply delicious.
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You know it makes sense.
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| shockingmoment, have you tried putting a bit of brandy in warm milk as a nice drink before bed time fro the children, the kids will then sleep untill 10 am, ) |
And miss out on all the lovely soft snow thats fallen overnight to freshen the pistes?
Besides - we like to get to the BB buffet nice and early. If we're there too late - all the nice stuff has disappeared....
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Fri 9-02-07 13:37; edited 1 time in total
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Fri 9-02-07 12:50; edited 1 time in total
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Poster: A snowHead
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shockingmoment
I assume you are referring to the pate/carrot combo - you know you shouldn't knock it until you've tried it 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I did 2 days on my last trip where we just skied all day with only a couple of museli bars and a beer for lunch. But I prefer to have a small lunch somewhere, and as I'm diabetic it can make the blood glucose levels a little easier to predict.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Beer dehydrates and makes skiing unpleasant.
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I find I can cope.... Not in great quantity though, and preferably drunk on the terrace of our apartment, looking at Mont Blanc, because bought in Carrefour beers cost practically nothing.
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