King Charles has started eating lunch for the first time and The Mail on Sunday can reveal his favorite food is millennial favourite, avocado.
The 75-year-old monarch has spent his entire life skipping lunch, and a source said he considered it a “luxury” and there was not enough time in his busy schedule to afford the luxury.
Now, at the behest of his wife, assistants and doctors, he has reluctantly begun eating in the middle of the day to maintain his strength.
But the King, who is recovering from cancer, insists on eating only the healthiest (and trendiest) snack there is. A source said: ‘With some reluctance, he now has something to eat at lunchtime – a snack, really. Now he eats half an avocado to sustain him during the day. It is important, especially if you have an illness.
Charles eats healthily and insists on organic products. Eggs are a favorite. Three years ago he told the BBC that he abstains from eating meat and fish two days a week, and that he also avoids dairy products on one of those days.
The 75-year-old monarch (pictured) has spent his entire life skipping lunch, and a source said he considered it a “luxury”.
The love of avocado on toast has somehow become synonymous with millennials and, by extension, workers. (File photo)
Last week, the king’s stepson Tom Parker Bowles, a food critic, gave insight into Charles’ thrifty approach to meals.
Charles prefers avocados plain, without toast, and they are only eaten for utilitarian purposes.
Avocados are so-called superfoods, known for being high in calories and a healthy way to incorporate “good fats” that provide energy to the diet. They are now practically part of the nation’s culture wars after becoming hugely popular among that much-maligned generational cohort, millennials, born between 1981 and 1996.
Nigella Lawson and London restaurant The River Cafe are widely blamed for the ubiquitous snack of choice: avocado on toast. But the mastermind behind the phenomenon appears to have been Australian restaurateur Bill Granger. He served his first plate of smashed avocado on toast three decades ago in a Sydney cafe, unaware that he was sparking a global revolution.
The love of avocado on toast has somehow become synonymous with millennials and, by extension, workers. There was even an unlikely controversy about how millennials would be in a much better position to buy the homes they felt were being shortchanged by older boomers if they only controlled their prodigious outlays on snacks in hipster cafes.
But Charles’ addition to his diet doesn’t include any of the carbs that come with toast. They are preferred alone and are eaten only for utilitarian purposes.
Last week, the king’s stepson Tom Parker Bowles, a food critic, gave insight into Charles’ thrifty approach to meals. “Everything is recycled,” he said. ‘If anything is left, it will become something else or appear the next day. Nothing is thrown away. Her latest book, Cooking And The Crown, details the history of food in the royal family. He revealed that in the colder months, his mother, Queen Camilla, eats porridge every day and keeps her lunches light (chicken broth or smoked salmon), while Charles eats nuts and honey for breakfast and prefers tea. the afternoon at lunch.
Parker Bowles said: “Tea has always been a spectacle – and an important and substantial meal in itself – for royalty. Everyone gathers for tea.
And it’s not just about cakes, cookies, buns and sandwiches. You could even get poached eggs. If you stay in Scotland, it’s quite dangerous, because you have breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
‘He eats them only for utilitarian purposes’