Best Types of Food To Bring To Burning Man
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2017
- Food is always a complicated thing at Burning Man. There's limited ways to store it, limited ways to cook it, and anything that goes bad or is leftover is just going to be sitting in your camp stinking the place up for the rest of the week which is no fun at all.
To try and demystify the types of foods to avoid and what to stock up on I've put together a whole video chatting about food. I hope it's helpful guys! - Jak na to + styl
Just because this isn't a thing people often think about: There is powdered milk, half & half and coffee creamer. There is also powdered versions of sauces and condiments you can get such as powdered tomato sauce, powdered onion dip and powdered mayonnaise.
I recommend Brawndo. It has electrolytes! And it's got what plants crave!! 😆
We use Barilla Pronto no-boil pasta. It cooks like rice and doesn't produce any grey water. And we use a garlic herb sauce mix that comes in a pouch so no glass jar to deal with. Easy and tasty!
Oooo I've never heard of no boil pasta I'm going to have to find some of that because the grey water from pasta is the worst, it's so slimy and gross! Thanks for the tip :)
It's available at Walmart - order online and choose "free in store pickup" in case they're out of stock. Saves a bunch of time vs wandering the aisles
Brilliant! I was planning to do an online order to pickup in store to save all the wandering around. I feel like when you wander round you end up forgetting so much stuff and buying loads of stuff you don't need, or worse you find they're out of stock of the most important stuff and you have to go to a ton of different walmarts to find what you're looking for :)
You can always hit up your local sporting goods/outdoors store. there are several types of foods for camping. MRE's work too.
This is the list of food that I bring each year that I go. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TngAudqHerT9UdfDVEhTrig9BuJCktsdcgRET4jzcck/edit#gid=1
For fresh produce, stop by the More Carrot Farmers Market. Check the guide for when they're open. (Usually 8-10 am, Tue-Fri.)
very good suggestion.
Thanks, Matthew. It's really awesome to see so many people creating resources to help burners and especially first-timers be more prepared. If you know any first-timers, please share my packing nlist with them.
It's such a cross section of experiences and talents coming together many have only lived in dense urban areas barely enough living space for a bed let alone a kitchen of any size. To those in rural areas that have barns and space for all kinds. Some have camped all their lives and many are young with energy and enthusiasm while experiencing off the grid for the first time. I think these video are a great service for burners and help maintain it's principles. They will prove valuable and pass the test of time. With such a memorable personality.
Her videos are awesome, aren't they? I love them. Such a kind thing to do/give to others.
I think the hat should be off for you, I just discover your spread sheet was more than one page. Granted women's clothing is important there is so much more, example the classic hand warmer. I was just going to suggest that heater when you need something like a hot water bottle, or something to spread some heat these work , just have one in your pocket or sleeping bag when your cold it will make the difference. Hope it's shared with all burners please keep adding thanks.
dried figs, nuts and goji berries contain a lot of nutrients, guarana powder keeps you going with its slow digesting coffein
I've watched a few of your videos. Amazing, articulate, concise, fun. Thanks.
I love the tips that you give. I know that when I have gone camping in the past and know that I am going to be really in a rural area I always scrubbed out my coolers really well and made them as sanitary as possible. then, when the ice melted I had additional water to use. a vacuum sealer was always a great way to seal things up and easy to store and carry.
Target and Walmart sometimes sell dry ice which will keep things frozen for a couple days if you add salt to water and freeze it will lower the temperature when frozen again zip lock
I have currently been binge watching all of your videos because all the social media posts from the recent BM has me longing to go. Thx for all the helpful information. 👍🏼✌🏼
Great guides, thanks so much for the invaluable info :D
Who would seek out this incredibly helpful video and dislike it?
Ernest Thompson idiots! I'm going for the first time this year and wow this is so helpful
Probably the length. She could have definitely cut this down to 5-7 minutes if she actually cured the content.
me! i loath "how to's" that are just a person standing in front of a camera rattling off the whole time.
Vegans who are astonished that supposedly woke people at burning Man would eat animals
New Subscriber here! saw your video on RV's....and ended up binging on your BUrning Man vids. LoL... Thanks for all the tips.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying them, and hope the binge was a fun one :)
Protip: buy Mountainhouse freeze dried meal packages. All you need is hot water, and you got a full meal in a bag. easiest clean up, barely any moop. Also if you're driving in, hard boiled eggs are really wonderful. great protein. pasta based meals in vaccum bags are the best for pre-prepped meals that you boil in the vaccum bag in water. that and rice/asian dishes. reason being if you lose all your ice/cooling, the meals are probably still okay to eat and aren't gross when defrosted
I am just wondering if bringing dry ice in cooler would help and how long it might last? Any Ideas? Your videos are great with good tips.
Hey, thanks... some good ideas below. Couple of things I've found in addition to what you have said. Cook rice pasta at home... they take a lot of fuel to boil esp if its windy. Watermelon, prep at home just bring the meat in a 4 way, clasp Locking tupperwear. Veggies will stay fresh all week in a good 4 clasp/lock sealed, tupperwear. waterproof, they are fine in the water of your ice chest. this will keep your ice chest/cooler fresh all week. Pack your eggs well, easy to break if just in an egg carton. Packaged, sliced cheese or shredded! great as a snack or quesadillas. I ALWAYS bring too much food... NOT THIS YEAR. I keep bread i my cooler. only 4 pieces, usually don't want more then that. Flour tortillas for hummus wrap with veggies, and cedillas. Bring a cup with a handle, carabiner. and easy ID. cucumber and hummus.... BACON!!!!
Pre cook stews and curries and vacuum seal in bpa-free bags you can reheat in boiling water (no mess) and freeze these meals ahead
I think your tips are great....a few samples..or visuals would help to make it a little more interesting...but its stilll Great!!!!! Thanks for takin' the time to do this...is a great help to new folks!!
Thanks :) I really wanted to make them more interesting with visuals and pictures and stuff but I didn't realise how long it would take to make all the videos so I ended up with no time to do anything too fancy.
I hope you can up load from BM, I was thinking may be having a monitor where your red and white bag is and still keep but have it hang over the monitor when not used your set is so simple not to much change.
I've recorded some videos and scheduled them to go up while I'm away (and now I'm having a crazy time trying to actually pack and stuff haha!). I'm planning to shuffle my flat around a bit when I get back, my crafty area is starting to take over my bedroom!
You have amazing content and I have been feasting on your videos. On some days - just wanna have some sort of Nourishment without the hassle. I eat some Emergency Food Ration Bars. One Pack bring 6 Bars and they have 17 Vitamins and Minerals. The Apple Cinnamon is pretty good. Vacuum sealed and a 5 Year Shelf life. But would only eat that in between other more healthy food and snacks. You have gained a Subscriber.
Hope to see you at our wonderful new Distrikt, this year, little lady! Come look and ask for me, Scurry, I run the back end. Will get you your drink FAST! See you at home soon!
Thanks so much Scurry! Will try and swing by Distrikt and come say hi. See you there :)
I've seen people just bring larger coolers full of gallon bottles of frozen water with food tucked in too. As long as your not opening it to many times a day and its kept in the shade it, it should keep your food cold for 3/4/5 days and ofcourse you get some lovely ice cold water too as the bottles melt :)
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Good ideas!
I kind of like pringles as a sort of snack-ish junk food. Probably not the best thing for a hot, arid desert but they're tasty, easy to share and you can use the can as a miniature bin when you're done with it! Handy for disposing of bits of paper or card that can easily be squished down into it. For water, those little concentrated juice squashes are an absolute godsend (like the Robinson's squash'd stuff) for when you need a bit of variety in your beverages.
Salt and fat are great when you are in the desert. Seriously.
Well one guy mentioned cucumber water and the same with orange, lemon, any fruits! Freezing things also mean less freezer bags, maybe make various water drinks first (as you said) freeze them and as they thaw you have cold drinks and even mixes. You could make some mixes ahead of time thaw and use and mixes make good drinks for the kids and adults that prefer virgin drinks.
How about this - I challenge people too make the best Virgin drink(s) they can think of for Burning Man Virgins to have! Healthy should be a factor and hydrating as well! To get (hopefully increased) participation, so says the man who cannot have alcohol because he is on a cancer med that will kill him if he does mix the two (no joke, for real)!
I am sorry if any find this worth any sorrow! I have adjusted to my life, but please make it easier for anyone else to obey need, their beliefs, and just people who might need a change from plan water!
I recently gave up caffeine and mainly drink water so I've been using lots of those "jazz up your water" type recipes where you add fruits or dried leaves to water and they are delicious. I really like mint and lemon water, it's nice a refreshing and is great for when plain old water gets a bit boring.
I love your challenge! I'm definitely going to be trying to come up with some cool virgin concoctions for some virgins haha! What's you favourite virgin drink?
Hope you feel better soon and best of luck to you!
Thanks for continuing to make these videos! I've been camping with friends to get to experience and work all the kinks out with my gear before going for the first time this year. One thing that worked really well were these breakfast wraps we made in the morning. It was a pouch of freeze dried eggs and bacon from mountain house prepared and then split into 3 small tortillas (about 6 inch diameter) with some shredded cheese sprinkled on top and rolled up. Put those in the pan and cooked on the camp stove - which I learned cooks very hot and fast. They were perfect! One each was nice as it was an experiment, but they were a bit small to make a full breakfast out of so 2 per person is probably just about right. A modification for burning man though may be to substitute the shredded cheese with a few small wax sealed cheese wheels to help with keeping it preserved. A little hot sauce inside wouldn't hurt either. Again, thanks for sharing your experience!
That sounds delicious! Good idea with the little wax sealed cheese as well, I've never thought to try those but don't they still need to be refrigerated? I guess they'd stand up pretty well being in a cooler full of ice so seeing as the ice would protect the cheese from getting soggy if any ice water got to them.
Wax sealed cheese doesn't need to be refrigerated, as long as its kept between 35-55 degrees Fahrenheit it'll keep for 25 years, even if its a bit warmer than that it'll be more than sufficient for the week and a half I'll need to keep it. Toss a few little wheels in the cooler and I'll be set!
Wow I never knew that! I found out the other day that honey doesn't ever go bad, archaeologists found honey in ancient Egyptian tombs (I think) that'd been there for ages and it was still good. I might treat myself to some wax sealed cheese to bring along this year. That'll definitely help liven up meals, I blooming love cheese and having pasta without it is such a bummer!
Yeah, a little cheese can probably pick up a lot of basic recipes. The honey part I've heard of before, wax sealed cheese was something I learned researching what foods can be preserved for burning man. One thing I've been wanting to experiment with is pemmican but I don't know if I'll have the time to nail that down in the next 6 weeks.
I just had to google what pemmican is, I've never heard of it before. It sounds really cool and definitely looks like something that would be really good for Burning Man! When I was googling I saw a couple of places in America that sell it so if you can't nail it before then you could always just pick up some ready made stuff!
I am planning my very first burn this year! So excited and ready to embrace everything that burning man will bring my way! Your tips and tricks and guides are really helping me to build my very first 'BURN KIT' ,.....Which camp are you normally with out there? Would love to meet you in person and thank you for helping this Mississippi gay guy how to burn for the first time! Love and peace!.......G
Year 15 for me and just as excited as the first time! Have an awesome burn! My fav bar is Celestial Bodies--check it out. They are a wonderful group.
Porridges, pastas, rice, couscous and other meals with sauces or add ons in plastic cups where you can only add water and close the lid for 3 minutes and it's done. And the meal sizes are small.
Another camp food, my wife introduced me to. Noodle Roni [TM] or similar boxed pasta meal, augmented with a can of chicken or tuna, and some vegetables. In our climate, fresh garden beans or pod peas last a few days. In a hot climate, dried; we have a home dehydrator. My wife gets UTI's when she eats canned veggies, so that's not something we use.
if you are going to Wal-Mart try looking in the camping isle at the foods there.
So you're saying I should my famous watermelon sandwiches then gift them by day 3? :)
Mountain House Freeze Dried meals would seem the obvious choice to me. There's plenty of variety and they've had decades to get their flavour tasty. Eat it right out of the bag for minimum clean up and lick your spoon clean. All you'll need is water and some method to heat it. That for hot meals anyway. For walk around food and snack, "gorp", mixed nuts and fruit in a bag.
My wife Faye and I have this 40 acre piece of land on a mt. top in Maine where we lived off the grid for a short while. Food was an ordeal to keep fresh anything with water in it froze and went bad. Although gray water was not an issue we still had to lug water in and that made you not want to waste water. Some of what we would eat were spam macaroni and cheese, spam pie, spam and eggs sandwidges spam all kinds, canned corn beef from Argentina , Tuna, Salmon all kind canned food. We would buy fresh eggs that had not been washed so they would not go bad like the store bought that had not had the natural coating wash off kept them from going bad. I would recommend thing in boiling bags that you save water and reuse. Any way I am hoping to bring a small chest freezer and gift popsicles just got to rig up solar to power it.
That sound so amazing! I can definitely imagine that if you've got to lug your own water around it makes it a much more precious resource. I never knew that about eggs! I have chicken so I get my eggs from them but I never realised that the coating was washed off from the shop bought ones. I don't really know how long eggs straight from the chicken last so I tend to eat them or cook them up into a quiche or something the day I collect them. Canned food is def one of my faves as there's so little waste and they don't need to be stored in a cooler or anything special, plus there's the recycle camp for the cans so you're not even left with those filling up your bin :)
Bringing a chest freezer for popsicles will definitely be a gift people appreciate. Popsicles are like magic out there!!!
Next year you will have to let me cook you a meal and use our shower if you want.
That sounds amazing, thanks so much! Fingers crossed we all end up with tickets next year, I always get the ticket fear around sale time. My groups still one ticket short so we're all hoping to get lucky in the OMG sale but there's so few tickets in it it's a real lottery.
I like how you say yoghurt :)
Would you recommend bringing a cooler and refilling it with ice??I've heard ice can be found
Better is relative, often I feel like I gave up something for something else! Often I feel like a pressure valve needs to be installed on top of my head it gets so crowed in there.
Her Flightness has given us mint and lemon as a good example but it also means mint, lemon and water cannot be used alone but only in combination with something like cucumbers (also given as an example not to be used alone.)!
Thanks for the suggestion like I said very good! I do not think I would have thought of the challenge without the cancer, taking the good with the bad! Thanks also for the vote of confidence regarding the Challenge if you would not have said anything but just thought it was a good idea I don't think many would think as much of it.
I know it is close to the Burn but can you spread the Challenge around to others who offer advice. Coming from you it many carry more wheight.
PS. Please notice there is no 'y' between the 't' and the 'n'. You have been ordained Queen of the large flying lizards (do not ask me to spell the word I know it begins with a 'P')!
I can imagine a pressure valve would be useful!
I will definitely try and spread the word about the challenge! I'm going to bring along some extra bits and pieces to try and gift some virgin drinks for virgins (and non virgins haha) there's some really cool combinations to make. I want to try and think of cool snacks that would match the drink too because having a drink and a snack is always amazing.
Being the queen of large flying lizards seems quite fitting seeing as I have a garden full of chickens and I'm pretty sure that historically they used to be some kind of lizards (some of them certainly look pretty prehistorically lizardish!) :) thanks!
Just FYI, no more center cab café, no coffee!
How do you heat up/cook your food? What heat source do you use?
I was thinking maybe mung beans or alfalfa sprouts in zip lock bags they only take a few days. You should add a tiny bit bleach to the water to prevent salmonella and things. It's fresh green good sandwiches and salads and things.
Wats ur opinion on bringing a crockpot? I have a Volvo wagon w an inverter. And a solar panel. I’m wondering if that might be a pain in the ass but it seems reasonable, but I have never been to burning man..........
That last part🤌🏽🤌🏽 prepping a meal vaccum sealing and keeping a dry ice bin or fridge means you can reuse water to boil those bags in and eat it straight out the bag. Keeps moop and grey water down.
No fridge but tons of garbage bags?The military makes MREs that come with tons of calories and an excessive amount of very "compactable" moop these meals keep for months no refrigeration needed and have a variety of menu options. A few vegetarian ones and even some halal meals.
I take it you live in the uk? If so how do you take the food to burning man? Or do you do the shop once you're in the states?
Fruit works out if you're _really thirsty_. When I was a kid we went to Death Valley on Spring vacation. We ate all the melon rinds except the actual skin, apples all but the seeds and stems. And in the arid heat, what was left dried quickly and left little smell. When backpacking (trekking to you) we would have corn on the cob, baked potato, and grilled steaks as our trailhead dinner; the corn and potatoes wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals. We lived on dehydrated food on the trail, freeze dried was in the distant future. Regarding tinned meats, many of them are now available in foil or plastic foil packets. The cost used to be higher than tinned, but I have found a few (pink salmon) the same or less. Less bulk to pack out, and squeezing the last bit our of the packets is easier for me than scrapping a can; and no sharp edges.
Just find the camps with refrigerators and catering and air conditioning and showers
Every morning we have
Steaks Eggs bacon strawberries blueberries watermelon bananas pancakes juice coffee tea salads and lunch and dinners are so huge and different but everyday breakfast was the same huge banquet tables full of foods mostly cold fruit and bacon
How do you store canned foods? Is just a plastic bin good enough or does it need to be a little more insulated from heat?
Should be fine in a plastic bin or something. You don't need to keep tinned stuff chilled so it should be ok.
did she just say coucous ? hahaha tunisian food everywhere
There is the classic army dish shit on a single similar to biscuits and gravy. Stuffe ' makes a good one in a boiling bag along with other bag type meals. Hurmale sales a chipped beef in a small glass jar last for ever make a white gravy. Maybe not be the best for nutrition but sticks to stomach and gets rid old bread and you can reuse the boiling water.
Biscuits and gravy mean a totally different thing here haha, biscuits in england means cookies.
Yes they have different different meanings. it's not as popular in the north as in the south. I once sponsored a K-9 program at juvenile prison with six dog from my kennel the youth sleep with their own dogs. Depending what the prisoner got to eat in the morning would later determine how many fights we would break up and with Biscuit and Gravy we always had less fights.
just think if someone served cookies and gravy.
I was thinking along the line of boiling bag foods, most of your microwave foods come in black plastic dishes with clear plastic tops seal with nitrogen gas and require you to pierce the cellophane to prevent exploding in microwave. You could save and reuse a pot of boiling water and with out pocking a hole in the meal just boil it as you would the bag. You might wan't get a set of tong so you don't burn yourself taking out of hot water.
I'm so going to try biscuits and gravy this year!
Cream of wheat doesn't create grey water
Powdered milk doesn't have to be refrigerator...always good.
My suggestion is that you bring food you can eat!
Are you still active posting? Have you been to any more burning mans?
Multivitamin might be a good idea
What's an apple core
No ice for ice chests?
WiFi is there any my son and I are building for 2018 his job requires him to check in a hour a day is there any?
I've not been there, but from what I hear, WiFi is really spotty if you can find it at all
Nuun has electrolyte tablets and even electrolyte + caffeine tablets!
“Some days you will want to munch on junk food”
What does junk food mean? Like McDonalds?
You could use gray water from the pasta to make rice
I'd make a week's worth of Shakeology in advance and put them in 64oz thermos' that require no refrigeration.
Lol I'm like a horse I even eat the apple core
Do you not use a cooler while at burning man?
lecosmique I imagine it wouldn't stay cool the entire time.
Ice is one of the two things you can buy at Burning Man
Why doesn't she make videos anymore
MREs work
That’s my plan
Aint this the progressive insurance chick
Ha! Lol 😂
eat the damn apple core
Almond milk, no refrigeratedddd
Nikki Hitchcock Regular powdered milk too!
oats???
KiwiBanana Yes! Cooked oats soak up all the water in the pan so no grey water. I usually throw in some raisins. Some people like to add cinnamon.
Tang...
Bring only approved burning man food. Don't be a rule breaker! Don't want to muddle the freedom of expression!
My God, this girl is absolutely beautiful.
I like to just consume mass quantities of mushrooms and cook up beef wellingtons
And....................... bacon.
How could I forget bacon!?! :)
On the playa I never feel like salty things, yet they're the BEST to eat.
Yes, tortured dead animals
Gurl, you just eat the apple core. Duh.
In less than 3 minutes you used a synonym for nasty, dirty, gross, disgusting approximately 3 dozen times. Seriously annoying
Jessie I have always wonders what draws all you stunning beautiful women to spend a week intentionally destroying your hair skin lung etc. Living and trying to sleep in hot and cold constant noise, few comforts, eating tasteless crappy food seasoned with dust. Yet you women count the days till going home and you thrive there. I guess its like why women lust for shoes that look great but cause so much pain and discomfort to ware .
It's really not that bad. Not that it is any of your business anyway. Please don't ever go to burning man. It is clearly not for you or your attitude. And ffs, please learn some spelling, grammar, and punctuation...
Lol this guy Mathew has mommy issues or something...🤪
Sounds like fun to me and I am over 60. Everything is not for everybody.