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Food was amazing on holiday. I can't over-emphasise how big and good the buffet was in the Hotel Turquoise. We had breakfast there every day and were faced a buffet inside that was the length of about forty work desks (I'm looking around the room now trying to work it out) covering things like fruit and cereals and bread and so on, plus odd things like olives and pickles and things, and hot buffet including ham, various types of eggs, sausage type things, some unusual foreign hot things that I didn't even investigate too closely, then my own favourites of tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and potatoes. NOT CHIPS, the trays did say "french fries" but they were fried potatoes, this is a perfectly normal thing to have for breakfast. Then outside in the "show" bit there were crepes and omelettes cooked to order, and a place where you could cook your own eggs the way you liked them. This was a big breakfast.
Lunch we mostly had in the "snack bar" which was a nice covered area outdoors, with a long bar offering kebab type treats. These were the same every day, various kebab meats, burgers, chips, pide (Turkish pizza) and so on, then a big salad bar too, then a baked potato bar on top of that. Not actually on top, but as well.
Dinner was equally massive, there was a theme each evening, but lots of standards. It's the same place as the breakfast buffet, but slightly bigger, more different things on in the show buffet. So not for me, but impressive looking, whole spit roast animals, bread and pizza ovens on the go, traditional Turkish bread making staks, grills, and various other food demonstrations.
As a vegan I was well served by there just being so much choice, I could have some of this veg, some of that salad and so on, I did well. Here is a sample plate, I probably had two of these per meal. That was from the only time I accidentally had a meat dish I think, I picked up some innocuous looking courgette fritters - shredded courgette shallow fried in batter. Actually shredded courgette wrapped around a meat patty... why would you do that?
There were masses of puddings too, but I don't eat puddings. They looked very impressive but mostly tasted the same apparently.
Man we ate a lot. I weighed myself at various times, I think I went up about three kilos but worked some of it of with walking and things. I have not come back too much fatter.
