COURTESY OF DARREN MCGRADY
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with sticky notes marking the exact number of minutes she should
leave the dishes in the microwave
(yes, Her Royal Highness nuked her
food). “It was just that basic cooking with the princess,” he said.
Even though Diana couldn’t
cook, she had an appreciation for
good food. She loved McGrady’s
bread and butter pudding, a British dessert with raisins across
the top that’s a cross between the
bread pudding we eat in America
and crème brûlée. She would often
sneak into the kitchen while McGrady prepared the dish, unconsciously picking off the raisins for a
snack while they were chatting.
Diana may have had the family’s signature sweet tooth, but she
was also focused on eating healthy.
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After overcoming her bulimia, she
started working out and shifting
to a fat-free diet, telling McGrady,
“I want you to take care of all of
the fat. I’ll take care of the carbs
at the gym.” Stuffed bell peppers
and stuffed eggplant were common dishes McGrady would prepare for her, but Diana also asked
him to make fat-free versions of
British comfort food staples. Instead of eating the same roasted
chicken and potatoes that her sons
ate (“the kind that you bite into
and oil just runs down your chin”),
the princess would have McGrady
poach chicken and dry bake potatoes so that William and Harry
wouldn’t have to follow the same
dietary re