Raoul ate a hearty meal filling his stomach well as he had not eaten much on the trip though he wouldn't tell Josephine.  He had eaten what the hands had.  Strips of dried salted meat with a few hearty roots cooked over a fire.  There was no way he would eat a lavish meal in front of them when they could not afford it and he could not spend the money for all of them to eat that way in case something went wrong and they needed to buy a new horse or wagon.