What Daniel Craig (58) Eats Now That He’s Done Playing Bond

For fifteen years and five films, Daniel Craig ran one of the most physically demanding diets in Hollywood. The rye bread. The kimchi. The turmeric shots before sunrise. The six meals a day timed around stunt sequences. And then, when the last Bond film wrapped, he walked away from all of it.

What he eats now tells a completely different story.

What the Bond Diet Actually Looked Like

To play 007 in ‘No Time to Die’, Craig began preparation more than a year before cameras rolled. His trainer Simon Waterson built a daily eating structure around six meals, rotating between plant-based days, fish, white meat, and red meat throughout the week.

Mornings on set started with rye bread, poached eggs, avocado, kimchi, turmeric shots, lemon and ginger shots, and black coffee. Nothing about it was casual. Everything was calculated.

The Trainer’s One Rule

Waterson was known for being disciplined without being cruel about it. His philosophy was that nothing should be eliminated entirely, only managed, with the focus kept on maximum energy, constant hydration, and a steady flow of food throughout the day rather than restriction.

It worked. But it also cost Craig something. He later admitted to the Sunday Times that the end of a Bond film left him so emotionally drained it would take six months to fully recover.

The Eggs He Actually Wanted

Even during filming, glimpses of the real Craig kept breaking through. He has been open about his love of greasy fried eggs at least once a week, always on toast with Worcestershire sauce, his description of them as an unmistakable act of personal pleasure inside a regime built entirely for function.

And his post-Bond diet ambition? He joked it was simply “just Guinness.”

A Holiday That Says It All

The clearest window into his real food life came when he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and declared Thanksgiving his favorite holiday. The naturalized American citizen celebrates it every year, roast turkey and all, though he does have one firm condition: the stuffing, which he called “an abomination,” should never go near the bird.

It is not the diet of a man preparing to outrun anyone. It is the diet of someone who has finally earned the right to eat what he likes.

Since walking away from Bond, Craig has leaned into exactly that freedom, choosing the eccentric Southern detective Benoit Blanc in the ‘Knives Out’ films and the emotionally raw lead in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’. The body no longer has to look like a weapon. And apparently, the breakfast no longer has to either.