Everything Florence Pugh Eats In A Day | Food Diaries | Harper's BAZAAR
– Hello, I’m Florence Pugh and this is everything I eat in a day. A typical breakfast for me is, first of all, I have to wake up and make myself a tea. I can’t have anything before I’ve had my tea. I have a Yorkshire tea with oat milk and I tend to leave the bag in. I know lots of people are gonna hate me and then I put the milk in and I kind of give it a good brew and that way you get a nice thickness to it so it’s like a bit of a
stew. Only after then can I start thinking about what I want to eat. Usually for breaky I’ll do at least two boiled eggs. They’ll be medium to hard boiled. So I’m thinking like four and a half minutes, five minutes. I want it to be a little bit gooey, not too gooey, not any runny white, and some salt on the side and then a black coffee, I’ll have a black Americana. That will sort me out for a good few hours. I don’t need the egg with anything. Yeah, just egg. Well, it’s simple. I’m gearing up for
lunch. I grab and go, sometimes I’ll make a smoothie, either a protein banana, make it jazzy with some leaves and some spinach stuff or I’ll just
a bowl, pop them with some olive oil, a little bit balsam, salt, pepper, pop it in the microwave for two minutes with some cling film on it, take it out. They’ll be nice and cooked. Smush them up a bit and then dribble it around the eggs with the toast. That’s my dad’s special. Okay, then on my snack, what I’ll usually do throughout the day is I’ll pop into an MNS or a Pret or a Leon or an Itsu and I’ll get one of their little protein pots ’cause they’re amazing and I’ll either get like a
little bit of egg. I’m gonna lead up to a lunch. So, actually if I want a big lunch I won’t go for the little snack bowl. I’ll wait until I’m hungry because eating when you’re hungry is the best thing ever. Ready for lunch. I wait until I’m hungry and then I eat and usually the eating process will be either after an hour of me making it or half an hour of me making it, but I get more excited about designing the thing in my head, executing it and eating it. Typical lunch, I’ll probably have like
a late lunch. I’ll probably do like 3:00, maybe 3:30. I know, I’m blah, blah, blah. I like a bit of sustenance in the afternoon. So if I’m going for like a small but really energizing salad, I’ll go rocket spinach, obviously wash them. Then I’ll go finally chopped pepper in like little cubes and then I’ll do cherry tomatoes, the ones that are on the vine. Obviously, take them off the vine. Don’t put them in the salad and then I’m gonna do cucumber, loads of cucumber, red onion and I’m gonna slice it really finely so that’s all
going in the bowl and then I’m gonna do, depending on what mood I’m in, I always like a bit of feta in my salads. So, I’m gonna crumble the feta olive oil, nice olive oil, not cooking olive oil and then maybe some rice wine vinegar or some white wine vinegar and then if I’m wanting a bit of spice, I’ll chop up a chili, maybe like that much of a chili. Got it? Give it a stir and then just chow down. My nostalgic food lunch items from when I was younger. My mom was against all of
the bad foods that children took into school. We were never allowed the Lunchables. We were never allowed any sweeties. We would get sent in with fruit or you remember those little cathedral cheddar things. It was that or fruit, which I’m grateful for. However, when I was a kid and I don’t wanna touch it now, but as a kid I remember I’d do like a deal with my friend, Kristy, and she would give me a cheese string and I hated it but just kind of like out of rebellion and spite, I remember eating it in the
toilet and being like, ha, ha, ha because I knew that mom would not allow it and so that’s my nostalgia food item. It’d be bartering being like, you want one of my apples for a cheese string? (Florence laughing) Let’s do the deal in the toilets. All right, afternoon snack, just before dinner. Maybe this is, oh, okay. Depending on if I wanted it for dinner, usually I kind of do this for dinner, but if it’s an afternoon snack, I make myself a cheeseboard. I’ll get out a manchego, I’ll get out a crumbly cheddar, I’ll get out
a goat cheese, it doesn’t matter if it’s gooey or hard or even if it has like one of those nice crusts and then I’ll get some nice quince out, I’ll get some chutneys out, maybe a bramble and an apple and an onion or whatever, get all those things out and I’ll make myself a little cheeseboard with some crackers. I don’t like the big stone ground crackers. I tend to like the ones with bits of cheese or I’ll olive or pepper on them. But that’s what I’d do. I’d eat that and then sometimes I eat that
and it’s so mega I don’t have dinner. But I don’t mind. I’ll just have more of the cheese. Whenever my friends come and visit me, wherever it is that I am or I’m working and they open my fridge, they all laugh ’cause they’re like, “This could only be your fridge.” All of the layers have cheese, and then there’s a little box at the bottom with cherry tomatoes and vegetables. It’s just cheese and vegetables. What I fancy for dinner is I’m gonna go home to my parents and my dad has this wonderful ability of looking in
the fridge where there’s nothing and just creating this mega feast and I’m gonna get dad to cook me his famous roast chicken with his potatoes and Chorizo and his vegetables and what he does with the potatoes. I think I’ve cooked them once in my Cooking with Flo, but basically he does, he cubes up a potato with an onion and garlic and puts it in the pan. And then it cooks for about, I’d say like 15, 20 minutes, getting stickier and crispier and that with a roast chicken and some gravy. That’s what I want for din-dins.
I do like a dessert, but it’s not, I’m not, I don’t go for dinner gagging for the dessert. I go for dinner like gagging for the cheese board or the starter. Ooh, I love like a rhubarb tarty thing. I love like something sweet and sour and crispy with a bit of ice cream on the side, but I can kind of go without dessert. Which is a shame, ’cause I love ice cream, but I’m more about the cheese. To start my evening, I would have a vodka martini. It would be either Belvedere or Greg Goose, and
the glass has to be chilled in the freezer beforehand. And then we’re gonna shaky, shaky, shaky, shaky, shaky, and pour that cold, sweet, nectar out and I’d have that. Strange food habits. I tend to put Marmite with a lot of things. Like I feel like if you’re snacking you can just wipe a bit of Marmite on the plate and anything you chop up with Marmite will taste good. If I don’t have anything to dip into peanut butter I’ll chop up a few carrots and carrots and peanut butter is actually quite nice. Basically anything just serves
as a spoon for peanut butter. So it’s fine. I don’t want to eat snails. I say, I love snails. They’re like my friends and I don’t ever want to eat or cook or prepare or have them in my fridge. That’s a no-go. Other than that, I’ll pretty much try anything. Best place for food in the world. Greek cuisine. I love the family style essence of it. I love how it’s like one pot cooking, the vegetables that they’ve grown in their garden, and any animal that they use on the menu, they’ve either grown or they’ve either
sorted out themselves. I love the idea of a very simple salad with a very simple like Stifado or Moussaka or something like that, I really love that it’s the grannys in the kitchen cooking and you can taste all of the love, and the heaven coming down into that meal. Is everybody hungry now? And that’s everything I eat in the day except these three bowls of fruit that I forgot to mention about. I eat these too. Looks like I’m covering my tits. Amazing.
