Her favorite snack, she said, was an old standby: canned peaches. She ate four tins of them during the 19-hour swim.
Other snacks included: chicken soup, avocado toast, chocolate, nougat, peanut-butter balls, dried fruit, bananas, oranges, yogurt, juice, and chocolate milk. She also drank some Rooibos tea with milk and honey from her native South Africa.
"I did quite well with my feeding," Ferguson said.
She also gargled some Listerine every hour, which temporarily helped with the intense saltwater.
"That was for me the most uncomfortable part of the whole swim — the saltiness of it," she said.