instant miso soup! Every morning first thing!
Frozen potato latkes from TJ's with applesauce
Morning Star fake sausages
Gatorade slushies
smoked salmon on crackers with cream cheese
instant mashed potatoes from TJ's
salty corn chips with salsa

couscous, makes up quickly with hot water and you can add all sorts of extras easliy, dried cranberries, raisins, canned chicken

frozen raspberries, they grow outside my kitchen door, takes some preplanning but are wonderful when our fellow villagers make pancakes

tin foil meals, you cook up whatever and seal it in packets aad freeze it, double bag it so it doesn't leak into your cooler, then just pop on a heat source for one hot meal. (I like teriyaki chicken)

turkey jerky aka pocket protein, no nitrates and is good long-burning fuel when running around

tuna packets, also in slamon and fillets and seasoned, less messy than cans

Simply Naked pita chips, salty and substantial

crystalized ginger, great tummy settler

not healthy: frozen cream puffs and shelf-stable bacon

I'm allergic to nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes) and I'm not supposed to have soy protein, so many vegan foods are bad for me. Go figure.

Canned/jarred stuffed grape leaves (holy cow these are playariffically delicious).
Hummus.
Just Veggies dried veggies mixed with BBQ flavored soy nuts.
V-8.
Parmalat individual milk boxes. I prefer them over soy/rice/almond because they can be frozen without seperating.

This year I'm going to try:
My homemade protein gunk.
Trader Joe's thai curried tuna in a pouch.

TASTY BITES!!!
Fresh Sushi ;)
Lara Bars
Nori
Cucumbers & Humus
Rice Milk
Snow Cones
Iced Chai + Kaluha
Tuna... tons and tons of tuna...

Funny how camp neighbors acquire similar taste ;)

ok y'all are makin me hungery!!! : )

I like dried fruit and nuts
cliff bars
tortilla w/ peanut butter
tuna w/ sundried tomatoes

oh, couscous - such a good idea, i gotta try it this year.

and does anybody has a recomendation for a good canned chicken soup? i tried campbells - it's too greesy.

i always get so tired of food that i bring at the end of the week, but these are my favorites:

- canned peaches! sooo refreshing when they're cold.
- hummus
- dolmas
- miso soup!
- persian cucumbers, or those small ones for pickling and cherry tomoatoes (last year our frend got tons of both from a farmers market - they were soooo goood.)
- dried apples from Tr. joes.
- boiled red/white potatoes - only last 1st couple days.
- boild eggs - 1st couple days as well.
- black TEA with lemon and sugar
- russian cheese spread Viola with dark bread (german rye/russian wheat). i think you can get Viola only at russian stores.

i also make a big thing (from costco) of roast pork (sorry veagans :)) slice it at home, and put into tupperware - lasts for a few days, just don't forget to refill ice in your cooler, but it's usually eaten faster than it would go bad :)

Pre-cooked breakfast burritos (wrap in foil, wrap in individual ziplocks.....just throw in a pan to re-heat on the playa!)

Cup o'noodles taste like HEAVEN

Goldfishfishfish crackers

Turkey breast (pre cooked) with couscous (pre-cooked)....chop turkey up into couscous, add spices or whatever strikes your fancy-- heat in pot

Pre-cooked belgian waffles (these keep amazingly well if in ziplocks!) with fresh strawberry goo on them

beef jerkey. We run out every year, no matter how much we buy. I'm bringing a whole cow this year!

Fruit in those new plastic jars, chill and just eat as much as you like and reseal.

peanut butter, but you have to be choosy or it melts. Skippy natural so far so good.

My friends found some shelf-stable hummus to try, no preservatives, oddly the name brand fresh hummus has sodium benzoate in it.

Honest T in plastic bottles, usually pricey but we found it for 20 cents a bottle at our local salvage grocery store. Ditto ViatminWater, much nicer than Gatorade.

Juice in boxes, nice for a quick cold swig at breakfast.

We freeze caprisun sports or all juice packs and toss them in the coolers. Drinkable ice packs!

Babybell cheeses in the little wax packs with crackers. Smiling cow wedges with granola bars, yum.

my favorite food on the playa is the gourmet fancy stuff some of you fine folks like to cook up and share with us lazy-ass eat-out-of-a-can folks. like bacon, or that deep fried turkey the amazing solar guy did one year. if it's actually hot, i think it's manna from heaven.

i'm lazier than that. for a treat, i like to bring crackers, caviar and smoked salmon, and cream cheese -- i eat that in the first couple of days when the cream cheese is still good.

but normally, i eat raw cashews and almonds, good olives, salami, hard cheese, tuna or salmon from those foil packs, chili from the can, peanut butter and crackers, cookies, and fruit or applesauce in those little plastic one-serving packages. oh and bushmills whiskey. and bourbon and coke. i stopped trying to pretend i was going to make real food on the playa years ago.

and i can't stomach tasty bites, sadly -- i think i o.d.'d on them in my first year, 96, and since then, they really taste bad to me.

one year, when i was vegan, i found a great meal that i always liked -- a box of thawed-out frozen spinach (just keep it in the cooler like ice and it'll melt enough to each soon enough), with a box of tofu cut up on top of it and a couple of packages of soy sauce sprinkled over top.

We took a whole case of cup o'noodles last year and never opened them. we still have half of them. maybe one or two will return. We didn't eat much out there, but got by well on:
-summer sausage, cheese and crackers
-Dinty Moore stew in a can (usually nasty, but the best thing I had out there)
-pancakes and bacon from our neighbors with a camp stove
-cereal with soy milk
-cold peaches and cottage cheese (don't freeze!!!)
-M&Ms and skittles :)

We're not the most health conscious anyway, but out there I go for quick and easy.

Meat Sticks (NOT jerky and NOT the cheap ones.)
Cheese Sticks
Cucumbers
Raw zuchini
TJoe's Strawberry Lemonade (one quart a day)
Plain salty chips
Licorice
Black Olives
Bread with oil and balsemic vinegar
Other People's Food

Frozen bottles of vitamin water
Frozen nalgene containers of sweet hibiscus tea
tuna curry in foil packets
those frozen pb and j pockets they make for kids
baby carrots
fruit leather
chocolate covered dried cherries
dried unsweetened pineapple
teriyaki turkey jerky
hummus
naan

Sparks and Bacon!!!

...and string cheese.


Convenience is key.

Pre-boiled Rice/Quinoa
Canned/Boiled Beans
Liquid Ammino Acid to Flavor

Cured Meats

Pre-cooked veggies -
Hard Squashes

Salted Nuts/Dried Fruits
Hard Cheese / Parma

ice cold tropical carrot juice.

Hot dog, white bun and lot's of mustard !!!

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