Roleplaying, Miniature Wargames, Console, or Computer, or whatever... you know your gonna be there all day( or night) and you don't want grabbing food to take too much time away. So what do you bring with you? If you do take a break for a meal, what do you typically get?
This can be at home gaming, or in the shop gaming...
It would have to depend on the players in the group, but I'd probably start by eating any Munchkins at the table.
What? No, don't be silly... these Munchkins.
If I have time for breakfast, I'm eating at least 4 eggs, scrambled with several strips of bacon(although I usually avoid meat, breakfast is the most important meal of the day) for the protein boost. It got me through that hard first day of comic-con, and I will be enjoying it again in the future.
If I'm bringing vittles with me, I'll cook a full meal for myself. Usually some type of rice with beans(sofrito must be added) or curry(very hot, preferrably), steamed buns filled with veggies, or yogurt with several hard boiled eggs and toast.
If I'm ordering food, depending on what's available, I'll get general tso's tofu(sooper hawt) with veggie fried rice(extra veggies), and hot and sour soup; pizza with mushrooms and/or pineapple; or fish sandwiches from one of the big three along with fries and a watered down lemonade/fruit punch/orange drink.
It depends on the situation. If it's outside the home, usually my on-the-go meal comes in the form of a Sushi Bento. The individual pieces make it easy enough to stuff my face with chopsticks and the carbs from the Japanese rice keeps me going.
Drink of choice is Coke Zero.
When this is unavailable, usually I grab whatever is currently available. I'm personally fond of Won Ton Mee (Won Ton Noodles) or Ban Mian (an egg noodle dish) which I get pack into a thermos container.
Snackage comes in the form of curry puffs or tapioca chips (which I find are less likely to leave grease stains than their potato counterparts).
We've seem some really outrageous foods dished out at gaming sessions before though, ranging from deviled eggs to lobster bisque. The group is crazy.
Well, it depends. If game time runs through a meal I'll usually plan something that doesn't take a lot of time and attention to cook...roast chicken, anything in the crockpot, that sort of thing. Normally we don't do that anymore though.
Since I'm hypoglycemic snacks are important. Passing out at the gaming table is a no-no. :) For a while I did cut up veggies with dip, but that got too expensive so now I usually grab something small like peanut butter pretzels or sunflower seends or make some delicious baked goods ahead of time.
I guess I'm really lucky to have so amny fast food joints quite litteraly right in front of my condo.
I round robin chinese,italian,mexican, subs or dairy queen.
If I feel like driveing I hit the all you can eat buffets either Golden corral or the indian or the mexican buffet or the all you can eat seafood joint.
Sometimes when I'm really bored with those I'll fire up the crockpot.
I alsways keep sugar free diabetic friendly sodas on hand and snacks.
copious quantities of coffee.
Sweetened coffee with whole milk. Sounds watered down but there's biochemistry behind it.
Something fattening. I can do fat metabolism better than many people I know and it makes for better biochemical interaction with the caffeine.
Mr. Fishy eats the weak.
During the game Mr. Fishy noms on the DM's nerve with a side of elf sniping.
Sometimes the elf makes a cake to appease Mr. Fishy. Thank you...elf.
It all depends...
We usually game at a strip mall that contains a hot dog/barbecue place and a chinese restaurant as well as a dollar store for snacks.
But, especially at times when there is a game day or something at the store I will cook and bring in food for the whole store:
homemade chile with nachos for those who might want it...
or
homemade ziti
or
Fazoli's with lots of breadsticks
or
meatballs in barbecue saucr
or
homemade blueberry (or strawberry) cheesecake dip with graham crackers
or
homemade pepperoni dip
I think you get the idea...
Black Iced Tea, no sugar/no milk
Protein bars
An actual meal, either something like lasagna made the day before, pizza, etc.
NO DIET SODAS...I've had aspartame poisoning, never again will that crap pass my lips.
Survived GenCon with pub mix, cheese crackers, sandwiches and bananas stolen from my hotel's continental breakfast.
Home games, someone usually cooks something. Like, we usually do a "bring a single ingredient" and our resident trained chef whips up something. Otherwise, my entire group thrives on pistachios. They are crack.
Roleplaying, Miniature Wargames, Console, or Computer, or whatever... you know your gonna be there all day( or night) and you don't want grabbing food to take too much time away. So what do you bring with you? If you do take a break for a meal, what do you typically get?
This can be at home gaming, or in the shop gaming...
For Home Gaming, my crockpot has saved the world on numerous occasions. (I will set it up, and leave it cooking as we game, and it is then ready when we are.)
ham, cheese, salted peanuts and raisins or dried cranberries, drinks are usually gingerbeer or dandylion & burdock
Nice...
It all depends...
We usually game at a strip mall that contains a hot dog/barbecue place and a chinese restaurant as well as a dollar store for snacks.
But, especially at times when there is a game day or something at the store I will cook and bring in food for the whole store:
homemade chile with nachos for those who might want it...
or
homemade ziti
or
Fazoli's with lots of breadsticks
or
meatballs in barbecue saucr
or
homemade blueberry (or strawberry) cheesecake dip with graham crackers
or
homemade pepperoni dipI think you get the idea...
VERY nice...
For Home Gaming, my crockpot has saved the world on numerous occasions. (I will set it up, and leave it cooking as we game, and it is then ready when we are.)Roleplaying, Miniature Wargames, Console, or Computer, or whatever... you know your gonna be there all day( or night) and you don't want grabbing food to take too much time away. So what do you bring with you? If you do take a break for a meal, what do you typically get?
This can be at home gaming, or in the shop gaming...
Perhaps the best idea of all.
Insane as it may sound, or perhaps not so insane, I generally plan a dinner followed by a game done pot luck by the various gamers. The joke among my gamers is that it isn't so much a game as a dinner party followed by a game.
This past Saturday was raining. Plans for the last grilling of the season were turned winterish with the first use of the raclette for the winter.
I invested/splurged a few years ago in a fancy Swissmar raclette with the optional hot stone for the top. I cooked up an overlarge heap of potatoes with prep-work help from early arrivals. Someone brought steak. Someone bought raclette, gouda parano and Ementhaler cheeses for melting over the potatoes. Others brought veggies, or crudites to use the proper Epicurean term. There was also extra regular cheese and a huge bag of chips that needed to be used up so that became nachos.
A couple weeks before, as I was hosting my own game followed by a friend's I'm in a couple days later due to venue troubles? Well, there was a turkey I bought last Thanksgiving when it was absurdly cheap which was lurking in the deep freeze since and I wasn't going to let it go a full year, for that way lies madness. Roasted with lemons and rosemary turned out delicious, and after two gamer feasts, I picked it apart and mixed the meat with the gravy, getting four containers of quick banquet fare as hearty meat filling to use to stuff crepes or top noodles.
Perhaps not traditional gamer grub, but I learned my mother's high German banquet skills, and I find it works well.
If the game is going on a bit of a budget and you need fuel for a large crew, especially of college gamers, the best recipe I've found is hot German potato salad. Made in quantity, it takes care of the starch and protein cheaply and gives everything except for veggies which lots of people skip anyway.
Insane as it may sound, or perhaps not so insane, I generally plan a dinner followed by a game done pot luck by the various gamers. The joke among my gamers is that it isn't so much a game as a dinner party followed by a game.
This past Saturday was raining. Plans for the last grilling of the season were turned winterish with the first use of the raclette for the winter.
I invested/splurged a few years ago in a fancy Swissmar raclette with the optional hot stone for the top. I cooked up an overlarge heap of potatoes with prep-work help from early arrivals. Someone brought steak. Someone bought raclette, gouda parano and Ementhaler cheeses for melting over the potatoes. Others brought veggies, or crudites to use the proper Epicurean term. There was also extra regular cheese and a huge bag of chips that needed to be used up so that became nachos.
A couple weeks before, as I was hosting my own game followed by a friend's I'm in a couple days later due to venue troubles? Well, there was a turkey I bought last Thanksgiving when it was absurdly cheap which was lurking in the deep freeze since and I wasn't going to let it go a full year, for that way lies madness. Roasted with lemons and rosemary turned out delicious, and after two gamer feasts, I picked it apart and mixed the meat with the gravy, getting four containers of quick banquet fare as hearty meat filling to use to stuff crepes or top noodles.
Perhaps not traditional gamer grub, but I learned my mother's high German banquet skills, and I find it works well.
If the game is going on a bit of a budget and you need fuel for a large crew, especially of college gamers, the best recipe I've found is hot German potato salad. Made in quantity, it takes care of the starch and protein cheaply and gives everything except for veggies which lots of people skip anyway.
You are a god.
Diane will be making her green bean and chicken casserole for gaming tonight. It's basically like regular green bean casserole, but with chicken and lots of potatoes. It's a tasty and economical way to feed a lot of guests.
I like her spaghetti for feeding a lot of folks too, but the red sauces give Myka trouble.
I'm predisposed to making Mexican if I'm cooking.
...in town there is the factory-outlet from a high-end chocolate place - sells all the "seconds" (you know ones that don't come out glossy and the like). they do a huge back of normally really expensive, but not visually perfec truffles for £1.99
great for gaming!
Wait, WAIT, WAIT?! You share them?! You are a far better person than I. If I wasn't stuck in the States, I'd move into a cardboard box behind that store. :)
We rotated through dinner duties in my gaming group - somebody would handle the main meal, while everybody else split with snacks and dessert. We ate pretty healthy that way. But for marathon sessions, something in the crockpot - chili, goulash or soup, for example.
at the computer:
Pizza; hot or cold; easy to put down in a hurry and I cut it into smaller pieces sometimes for a quick grab and pop in my mouth.
chicken strips; I make my own already spiced; pop one in the mouth sometimes if things are tense so it hangs out like a cigar; chew pulling it in while still gaming with both hands.
Drinks; whatever; water mostly; or beer or soda or crystal light or tea.
Corn dogs; hot dogs; chile dogs; chicago dogs; the first one is easy; others only when not in combat cause they make a mess in your lap.
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around the table; at my house I cook whatever; going to someones; usually chinese food and a 64 oz soda and some chips;
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snacks: mostly nuts and seeds.
Burgers and dogs on the grill, everyone picks something to bring, but I do the grilling...never a complaint!