Love Island meal secrets including meat free day every week and 3am snacks

2022-07-19

Love Island contestants' meal times aren't televised and they are rarely seen making or eating food, which has left viewers wondering what happens when they all sit down to eat together.

Islanders are occasionally seen preparing breakfast or late night snacks, with Ekin-Su and Davide recently whipping up a Carbonara for their fellow co-stars in the evening.

It's now been revealed that while contestants don't make their own meals during the day, any snacks they want at night they make themselves.

"We eat catering off camera separated to save the chat, but we love to snack. 3am toasties every night," Casa Amor bombshell Coco Lodge, 27, who was recently dumped from the island, told The Sun.

It was also recently revealed that Love Island's head chef Ferenc prepares meals for the Islanders in addition to the production team, which all happens from a tent kitchen located in the wider villa compound.

Ferenc explained: "We do lunch and dinner for them, every single day. They always eat the food, but they really like the burger and the ribs as well. We always get feedback from the contestants and production, every single day."

There was one complaint however, as last year's Islanders weren't so impressed with a 'meat free day' that was introduced.

"Monday we just do vegetarian and vegan food, so lots of options. Every week, every single week. We started this last year – and last year the people weren't really happy with that – but this year they are.

"It's just one day, one day without meat. It's a message for the people – you don't need to eat meat every single day," he explained.

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Callum Jones, who starred in the first Winter Love Island series, has also opened up about meal times in the villa and told how the Islanders only make breakfast for themselves.

In a chat with OK!, Callum, 25, said: "The only thing we made for ourselves was breakfast and for that there was limited choice. There were always things like eggs, avocado, toast and cereal, though – your typical breakfast foods.

“Lunch and dinner are catered for and you’d get something different every day. As we filmed our series in South Africa, it was quite different to what I was used to eating at home."

Revealing what he enjoyed, he added: “There were a lot of fish and meat choices in the buffet. I remember that they used to throw fruit into a lot of the dishes, too.

“Even though I like cooking, I didn’t find it hard to have someone else cook for me. I’d rather be relaxing in the sun than cooking in the sun!”

Callum went on to explain how contestants can request what snacks they want and could even order a takeaway on a Saturday.

“Our larder, fridge and freezer were topped up with hummus, biscuits, cereal and ice lollies. The crew would ask us what food we wanted in the fridge and then everyone got a say on what snacks we could have.

My main request was hummus and pitta bread because it’s my favourite snack," Callum revealed.

The villa had to agree on a takeaway however, with Callum telling OK!: “We’d get a choice of what we wanted, whether that was pizza or something like a burger, and then we had to decide as a group what to get.

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