Her most sociable meal is afternoon tea PSP Shaped Tin, when many of her lunch tin boxes are solved over scones and sandwiches. 
'Partridges,' Miss Marple said thoughtfully. 'It is very difficult to get partridges nowadays, and they're very expensive. I should enjoy a partridge – a whole partridge – to myself, very much.'

Jane Marple is not a greedy woman, still less a glutton. Her tastes are, on the whole, moderate and she is, we learn (in A Murder Is Announced), 'very thin', slender enough to fit in a broom cupboard to catch a murderer. But she knows what she likes and isn't afraid to ask for it. Her appetite for food is entirely sympathetic.

It was a shame that in the most recent television adaptations – starring the excellent Geraldine McEwan – Miss Marple was given a romantic past, as if a true spinster couldn't command our interest.

There's a terrific description of a room-service breakfast in At Bertram's Hotel. 'A comfortable tray with a big pot-bellied teapot, creamy-looking milk, a silver hot-water jug. Two beautifully poached eggs on toast, poached the proper way, not little round hard bullets shaped in tin cups, a good-sized round of butter stamped with a thistle. Marmalade, honey and strawberry jam.' Miss Marple sips her tea and luxuriates in the solitary delight of a 'real breakfast'.