What foods work well for having at the gaming table?
1 - I am talking Real Food. Snacks are rarely balanced enough to keep people happy, focused, and energized.
2 - For snacks, go light on the sugar. Do not doubt the dangers that a collective sugar crash! Low glycemic and high protein snacks are your best friends.
3 - Greasy or messy food is a bad idea. Believe me, that stuff will get all over maps, miniatures, notes, characters sheets, etc.
As we are slowly moving back to real F2F gaming (Yay Vaccines!), what have people had success with?
In the past we had cases of overabundance of carrots, celery, or watermelons.
And an occasional cake or pie.
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In upcoming games I am going to try to have the players eat as the characters eat. Cooking tavern style food if they stay at an inn, having dried fruits and nuts if they are on the road, etc.
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One of my groups does a 2 day gaming event every year, and I've had good success with making chili. It works well because I can make it a day or two prior to our event, and then I just have to warm it up for our meal. All the hard work was done before.
Plus, a stew (like chili) can be pretty affordable. For $30 I can provide a good, basic meal for 8-10 people. For another $15 I can include lots of toppings and cornbread.
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I make chili or some other big protein-heavy thing (a couple of the guys are trying to avoid excess carbs) every so often for my players. Sometimes I'll grill before they get there (I just moved to a place that has a gas grill hooked into the house gas, which is AMAZING). And every so often as a treat, we'll order sushi and have one of the group pick it up on their way over.
Nearly every year (except last year) I do a Nerdsgiving, the day after Thanksgiving where everyone brings over their leftovers and we run a day-long one-shot. Fort saves vs. food-sloth by mid-afternoon!
It's funny--I really don't do junk food snacks any more. When I'm GMing it's too easy to over-indulge and then I feel like crud. And as a player I'm too focused on being obnoxious to the GM to eat (NOTE: that's a joke, I'm a delight. A DELIGHT!)
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In upcoming games I am going to try to have the players eat as the characters eat. Cooking tavern style food if they stay at an inn, having dried fruits and nuts if they are on the road, etc.
"Mmm... you can really taste the botulism in this grilled trout! So authentic!"
:p
It varies a lot here. Some nights it's all healthy stuff and another it's almost as bad as free-basing hummingbird food because of all the sugar.
There's a fast-food chain called Taco Bueno that has a restaurant here in my town. One of my players comes to my games from Memphis, where they don't have them there. He ALWAYS eats there before the game and then brings me one of their burritos (It's called The Big Freakin' Burrito).
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I hide all the food before gaming, except for a gallon of milk. Which I put a "Do not touch" sign on.
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This is why everyone needs to game at Nobody's Home's table at least once.
That man feeds his players well.
His curries are the stuff of legend.
He also barbecues ribs better than anyone west of the Rockies has a right to.
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Ooopssie...
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I hide all the food before gaming, except for a gallon of milk. Which I put a "Do not touch" sign on.
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When I was in college and sharing a house, I switched from orange juice to grapefruit juice. Signs on the OJ didn't work, but no one wanted my grapefruit juice.
When I was in college and sharing a house, I switched from orange juice to grapefruit juice. Signs on the OJ didn't work, but no one wanted my grapefruit juice.
OMG I did the same thing in college. And in the cafeteria--they'd run out of every kind of juice but there was always grapefruit juice. Same reason I ate a lot of cottage cheese.
Grapefruit and cottage cheese - two things I absolutely cannot eat, and believe me, that's saying a lot because I'll eat damned near anything you put in front of me.
When I was in college and sharing a house, I switched from orange juice to grapefruit juice. Signs on the OJ didn't work, but no one wanted my grapefruit juice.
was it pink grapefruit?
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When I was in college and sharing a house, I switched from orange juice to grapefruit juice. Signs on the OJ didn't work, but no one wanted my grapefruit juice.
I wouldn't want it either.
Yuck.