Festival Foods?

dceire

Any suggestions for food to bring to festivals instead of the endless queuing and extortionate prices they charge!

marvin2k

well it depends how long the festival is , think about the cost of investing in a small camping cooker plus gas and noodles and tins and think about the hassle involved and trying to cook all this while your absolutely lashed and of how much youll be fed up of noodles after your 4th pot ,**** that **** , maybe bring some bread , cheese , dry meats , biscuits and tinned fruit and be willing to buy at least one meal in the festival .put it all in plastic lunch boxage .

Mossy Monk

Tinned food, tin opener, sorted.

Fly High

Cereal bars...

PrivateEye

Louise~ wrote: »

Cereal bars...

^Wise advice.

Give you a kick, small and easy to carry around, don't feel like a gob****e.

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Remember the price of grub at the Leonard Cohen concert and was suddenly grateful I wasn't spending three days in the venue in a small tent :rolleyes:

Clank

I bring extra Subway sandwiches with me...but I love Subway a little too much.

marvin2k

Clank wrote: »

I bring extra Subway sandwiches with me...but I love Subway a little too much.

seriously!!!!! I find that a subway that isnt eaten straight away or at most half an hour after buying it turns into a nasty gooey sog

festival eats is very important , i think id rather pay for the expensive food at the fests rather than risk food poisoning cooking with a stove . theres nothing worse than having the ****s at a festival .

I think kellogs sell little packets with cereal and milk ready to mix , im sure milk would be ok outside a fridge for a day or two

Aspiration

I just lived on crisps for EP last year. I went prepared - cheese & onion, salt and vinegar, sour cream & onion, prawn cocktail, sweet chilli, hot n spicy, cheesey...

I also bought some bacon butties in the morning and had a decent meal in the evenings (chips). It was very healthy!

robinph

Pot Noodles and breakfast in a tin with baked beans do us for food on crawling out of the campervan in the "mornings". Just tend to live off what is on offer at the rest of the food stalls then for the rest of the day, but then they do have an excellent selection of food available at Glastonbury.

run_Forrest_run

I've noticed lately that the stalls at festivals are beginning to vary their offerings, I saw pasta on sale once, a great idea, plenty of carbs and not your usual deep dried junk.
maybe cook some pasta at home and fling it into a lunchbox with some dressing and eat it cold when at the festival, OK doesn't sound too tasty now but when one is starving after 20 cans you will be glad of it!

Oral Slang

really depends on which festival you're going to. You don't really need to worry at a lot of European festivals. We were at Graspop in Belgium 2 weeks ago & variety of food is great - Spaghetti Bolognaise, Veg Wraps, Fruit Cups, Pizza, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Vegetarian Noodles, Crepes etc., etc.
They even have a breakfast tent in the campsite where they sell yoghurt, fruit juice, scrambled eggs & bacon, with rolls and this year they had a shop selling all the essentials - food & otherwise.

The only things I buy when I go to festivals is a few tins of ring pull tuna, pack of bread rolls, a few bananas, carton of fruit juice, water, pringles & cereal bars.

Fly High

Yeah it's not just chips and burgers these days, I was at an independant punk fest up in Letterkenny recently and they had a vegan stall everyone consented that the food was savage and reasonabley priced but if you're going to something more mainstream/profit driven it'll probably be different...

CiaranK

A vegan stall, thats cool, Me being a Veggie. I was in Northside Last week and they had Disposable BBQs for 2 for 2euro they would be very handy instead of buying a big cooker.

JohnJoeLeJuene

Is anyone aware of a Baked Potato Mobile Catering place that goes to festivals.

I'm nearly sure this exists, any info would be appreciated.

jimmay

JohnJoeLeJuene wrote: »

Is anyone aware of a Baked Potato Mobile Catering place that goes to festivals.

I'm nearly sure this exists, any info would be appreciated.

Can't say I've seen that particular stall but at electric picnic I'm sure whatever you wanted to eat you could get somewhere. They had so many different types of foods and stalls it really was great there was so much choice. Noodles, currys, paella, mexican, pizza, smoothies,organic burgers, pies, pig haha. I was at kraftwerk yesterday and had a falafel (amazing)
i swear I've actually seen foods I've never even seen!
There was the official bagel bar in 1 of the campsites I stumbled upon although tbh after waiting about 20 min in line it wasn't nearly as good as the normal shops i dont think they toasted the bagel. It's a bit hit and miss with some of these foods some can be a bit dodgy but thats part of the fun but when you discover a peach it's good!:D

hmmm i'm hungry now *goes off to root in the fridge*