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of Life
Eating
Breakfast
We had a variety of breakfast foods - everything from cold cereal,
oatmeal, grits, and pancakes to bagels, toast, muffins, and hashbrowns.
Although we had to make milk from powder, quite a few times we were
lucky enough to have fresh eggs to cook up.
Lunch
If we happened to be around the hut for lunch, we often had soup,
sandwiches, or dinner leftovers. When we were out in the field, lunch
typically consisted of energy bars, trail mix, cheese and crackers,
and - of course - chocolate!
Dinner
At F6, people took turns cooking dinner. Sometimes meals were pretty
basic - spaghetti or burritos. Other times our dinners could be downright
gourmet. Some of our more special meals included lasagna, when we
had visitors from a neighboring research group over, and shrimp stir
fry - just because. Yum!
Snacks
We actually ate a lot more than three meals a day. Being in the cold
so much caused our metabolisms to shoot up, and snacks were key. They
pretty much included energy bars and the like. Erin's favorite snack
food though was peanut butter!
"Freshies"
Fresh fruits and vegetables had to be flown out to Antarctica on a
plane from Christchurch, New Zealand and then helicoptered out to
us. So, many times, they were hard to come by. When we did get "freshies,"
as they were known, it was quite a treat, and we really appreciated
them.
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Louise
had the all-important task of getting the team chocolate from
the food room.
Photo by Jenny Baeseman
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Mountain tent at F6
Photo by Karen Cozzetto
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Sleeping
Stream Team members slept in mountain tents situated near the huts
at the base camps. We each had our own tent, sleep kit, and strategies
for keeping warm.
A sleep kit contained a Thermarest,
a foam pad, a pile liner, and an extreme cold weather sleeping bag.
The Thermarest and foam pad separated us from the cold ground. The
pile liner was essentially a sack that went inside the sleeping bag.
It was soft, fuzzy, and nice to get into.
