First time, this is my food plan.

we brought soy milk last year, you don't have to refridgerate it until its opened, if you bring small enough containers it should be okay...

the ice lines aren't always that long... they are always expensive though... freeze your water bottles for ice

bring lots of granola bars, protein bars, energy bars, etc... get all different kinds. throw some oranges, apples, etc in the cooler

the question i have....

How do you keep your meat fresh? i don't want to put ground beef for hamburgers in the cooler with my beer. just bring an extra cooler for meat?

I'd say only bring the lunchmeat and other such perishable sandwich items if you plan on eating them BEFORE you leave your campsite for centeroo. that stuff will not stay yummy for long in that TN heat in your backpack (unless you bring some sort of cooling device, which isn't really even worth the trouble), and you most likely won't want to walk back to your campsite to eat in the middle of the day.

I've heard so many stories on these boards about people throwing food away after roo. for that reason, I'd only bring things that are EXTREMELY convenient to eat and/or take with you into centeroo, otherwise they'll most likely be tossed out as you leave.

that sounds like a good plan! eat it before anything has a chance to get yucked!

there is sooooooooooo much good food at roo (and pretty reasonably priced, especially out on shakedown!), i'd be sad if i had every meal already planned out and couldn't explore! then again i love food, probably more than the average person ;D

me too! (even more way off topic to reply to the off-topic topic)

i love giada

also back on topic! i brought very little food, since i flew in, just snacky things like dried fruit and granola bars etc... i found that i wasn't very hungry at all, probably because of the heat, but when the hunger DID finally strike (and oh, it struck with a VENGEANCE) i was surrounded by a plethora of yummy food choices, more than i could even comprehend! so yeah, i'm kind of biased in leaning toward the ease and variety of buying food there. plus, where else can you get fried alligator! ;D

I found out my first year that bringing a bunch of food turned out to be a waste. My tip is to make everything before you leave home, if you going to have sandwiches make them and put them in ziploc baggies and then put that in a tupperware container just to safe guard it against water. Prepartion for food isn't what you want to do while your AT Bonnaroo, besides it will be hot and you'll be hung over, so don't forget the Emergen-C powder too.

lol poopy I love you I swear we would be BFF in real life, I cant wait to meet you! Karma for being badass.
anyways i met Bobby at his restaurant Bar Americain here in NYC. I went there for a bday party and he was there, me and my best friend went up to him and told him we loved him and that we love when hes on Iron Chef, and we asked how we could get tickets to see Iron Chef and he said it was invite only - stupid us should have asked him to invite us!!!!!
anyway that restaurant while being expensive (not ridic tho) was SERIOUSLY some good eating

Hola from NY! ;D

For foodstuffs I am going strictly non perishables. Lots of energy bars and a few MREs. I intend on eating roo food for dinner and MREs/bars for lunch/brekkie

omg. the bagels out here in ohio are all wrong and i can't find a decent slice anywhere
will you please bring me 8 thousand bagels? haha!

i plan on eating my friend at bonnaroo... that way there'll be more room in the car on the drive back.
ew. jk. peanut butter sandwiches and some power bars will be alright... last year we brought food to make and we just ended up buying stuff from shakedown & centeroo

one day we had these things that were like corncakes with cheese on top. oh man. ace! wish i could remember what they were called

haha ;D



those were AREPAS! really good, i had one too

I keep hearing about arepas, they are DEFINITELY on my to-eat list for this year...

On topic, I am going to be packing a HUGE bag of home made trail mix, and lots of fresh fruit, the rest, I will leave to Bonnaroo

Karma to all who participated in this thread. Its reminded me of last year, I used dry Ice,regular ice,and frozen water jugs/bottles, but still on the first day my meat was already thawing out, so I had to grill most of it, and throw away some. luckily I was VIP last year, but not this year,the humidity is a real killer, so this year I plan to grill the first day, but for the rest of the time I will be eating peanuts, peanut butter,crackers,Beef Jerky,carrots, celery, apples,oranges,granola Bars,pringles,doritos, I am on a much tighter budget this year, so I welcome all suggestions.

I way overplanned the food situation when i went in '05, which was my first time. I was pretty far from centeroo, and most of the food I had planned didn't get eaten. i made quesadillas at one point and had burgers, hot dogs, pasta salad (a specialty of mine), and really, we came home with more than we cared to, and hadn't even opened the pasta salad we had carefully prepared.

i forgot one key thing and should have known better about it. hot weather pretty much kills my appetite for normal food. fruit and snacks I'm better with, and a larger meal towards the end of the day (when it cools and I'm very hungry). Plus it's already hot and cooking and heating things up is not a pleasant thought.

So, this year, my grill just may only get used Thursday afternoon / night and Friday morning breakfast. I spent the extra money for VIP, which includes a lot of food, and other comforts, so I won't have to worry about lunch and dinner so much. Our food will be easy snacks like granola bars, trail mix, fruit snacks (there's a great organic fruit leather yum), and other things like that. quick and easy and no refrigeration required.

For those that are not in VIP, i'd recommend you bring as little as possible that requires refrigeration in terms of food, and purchase your meals in centeroo or shakedown. Cooking just seems like way too much work on top of hiking from BFE and just keeping yourself together.