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Caught up with friends for breakfast/lunch/something after waaaay to long (hey they’d been to Korea and the US in meantime!) at Cafe Newtown near the train station.
I had a delish fruit salad, and a coffee of course.
My friends split olive tapende toast with feta and a burger.
So many cafes in Newtown, so little time!
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The good people of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre were challenged to feed four thousand hungry, sleep deprived, opinionated atheists over the three days of the Global Atheist Convention. And, despite a few grumblings from the vegans, I think they did really really well!
Welcome Reception
Kicking off the weekend, armed with a couple of glasses of wine, or a few beers, a smorgasboard of sushi rolls, oysters, rice paper rolls and mini sausages greeted us. Some struggled to find their vego options, but I just tucked into the sushi. Nom nom nom.
Live sushi making!
And so we merrily went in for an evening of comedy to kick things off!
Morning and Afternoon Teas
Morning and afternoon teas brought the usual dodgy coffee (and thus long queues for the coffee cart for proper soy lattes!), but there was a huge selection of teas on offer, and half-decent sachets of hot chocolate.
I loved the SerendipiTea chai (once they fetched more soy milk because they made the mistake of not labelling the mini soy jugs as soy and I believe many people had their first soy coffees that first morning!), and the peppermint was also as expected.
(The MCEC coffee cart was well priced and good to kick off my morning before the first talk. $4 for a large, no extra soy charge)
The gluten full home-made cookies were devoured by the masses.
Many more apples were consumed by me on the weekend than most months. No wonder I got a tummy ache!
The gluten free and vegan among the group were offered vast amounts of fruit pillows, but also melting moments, choc chip cookies (not vegan) and jam thingies. Pre-packaged, but appreciated!
There was an awesome gluten free caramel slice on the first afternoon! I didn’t eat the jam tarts. Anyone?
Lunches
The separate special needs table provided some delicious gluten free rolls, gluten free foccacia, sushi with gluten free soy sauce, and other gluten free options of awesome:
Ham was provided. You know, cos Atheists aren’t Jewish or Muslim.
Lunchtime entertainment was provided by the Christians on Saturday, and Muslims on Sunday.
If you were at the Convention, what was your foodie highlight? If not, what has been your best and worst conference food experience?
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There are two sites for Raw Cafe in Newcastle. One at the very est end of Hunter street, near the Backpackers’ accommodation, and the other inside the gym I’ve been frequenting while staying up here.
I stopped at the Hunter Street cafe for lunch this week, excited by their promise of a healthy chicken burger (grilled chicken breast fillet, cos lettuce, avocado, tomato and garlic aioli, with gluten free toast rather than a gluten full bun for me), with a side of chats instead of chips!
And a very drinkable so latte.
Well done, boys! :)
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Many others will discuss the content of the Digital Parents Conference. But I know what you want. You want FOOD PHOTOS. So, here we go!
Tea and real coffee on arrival
Gluten and dairy free muffins for morning tea.
The Lunch Spread
Afternoon Tea
Conference Dinner
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Wandering up to the 5th floor food court at the Westfield in the city, in need of lunch, brought me to this ‘Mezze Plate’ – gluten free, including some yummy polenta, rice things, rice paper roll, pickled cabbage and more.
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A quick trip to Newcastle always means lots of food…
A Lunch at the Toronto Workers Club..
Pasta special for the parents
Parmy for Rish
Asian salad for me
Caesar salad for my sister
Dinner with Rish’s family
Coffee at Glee Roasters on Darby Street
Gluten free Sultana Splitz biscuits from Freedom Foods (omg these were really quite yum!)
And lunch at Grind.
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With 211 photos to look through, I’ve decided you can hear about my week away at Solar Springs bit by bit. And of course we start with important things, like the food :D
Breakfasts
There were more fruits on offer in a fruit salad, but I stuck to red fruit faves!
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What does it all mean? :)
Doesn’t matter, I still will walk down for the Olive and Feta Wrap
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Not a great start to the day – spent over half an hour trying to get the ripped left contact out of my eye, while half of it was on th bench. Eventually go it out, but not before turning early to work into late for work.
I did remember to take my lunch… gotta make a dent into my tuna supply. I bought 36 tins of tuna yesterday – $1 each for Greenseas in bulk boxes of 12? Can’t say no to that! (and apparently you can earn points and win stuff with them this month too! Gotta get entering those codes!)
Drank my first diet coke in a fortnight after lunch today (What’s that I said about giving up? Hard when I have a pile of reports to get out before the end of the week and my brain isn’t warmed up yet! Maybe fish oil would better help me concentrate? And help my knees? They kept rambling an about it at the retreat.)
Was going to go do a cardio session this afternoon, but ended up in Pump class, because I forgot my earbuds. Good fun :) But things will hurt in the morning! Better get up for an early walk to warm my joints through!
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