Paradise Motel
We gotta eat. And drink.
So at some point we'll need food and beverage. Here are some ideas on what we might need/like.If you have any severe food aversions, now's the time to let us know!
- Mark is allergic to legumes (beans) and doesn't eat wheat / grains / sugar
Food-Meals (Who will buy/make/transport)
We're thinking we'll serve 2 communal meals daily, breakfast and dinner. Of course this could vary depending on people's hunger, motivation to eat, etc., but it's a place to start planning.
At other times everyone can fend for themselves as they wish. We'll try to have enough non-perishable food out and available for snackies.
Breakfast Menu Items
- Eggs (scrambled, fritatta)
- Pancakes (butter, syrup)
- Hash Browns
- Bacon
- Snausages
- Oatmeal (butter, brown sugar?)
- Toast (butter)
- Coffee (cream, sugar)
Dinner Menu Items (Mostly made ahead and frozen)
- Beef Stew, Mashed Potatoes
- Thai Yellow Chicken Curry (mild for tender tummies), Rice
- Meatoaf, Mashed Potatoes
- Chicken Adobo, Rice
- Lasagna
- Hot Dogs, Buns (ketchup, mustard, relish)
- Macaroni & Cheese (w/gooey sauce packet)
Other Food-Community Shopping List (add stuff and/or sign up next to what you'd like to bring)
- Fresh stuff (limited by our cold storage capabilities)
- American Cheese Singles
- Bacon
- Salami
- Pickles
- Popsicles/Otter pops for when you are too hung over to make snocones (John contests this one)
- Other Dry/Camping food for backup
- Cheese flavored Triscuits
- Cheez-its, Praise Cheez-its, Cheez-its is Lard
- Licorice for settling upset stomachs (TUMS and playa dust aren't compatible)
- Pretzels
- Sausage sticks, the heavily preserved kind that comprised 50% of my diet the last two years
- Beef jerky
- Canned sausage
- Canned chicken breasts
- Prego Pasta Sauce
- Ramen
- Boxes of Clif Bars
- Pop-Tarts, no strawberry or blueberry
- Trail Mix, without chocolate in it this year, that got disgusting...
- Gum
- Gummy worms
- Skittles, the candy, not the person (have)
- Mints/hardcandy, lifesavers
- Dried fruit
- Wasabi almonds
- Almonds
- Salted nuts (sort of have)
- Candied nuts
- Nutella
- Jelly, raspberry
- Mac & Cheese
- Hot dog buns
- Hot dogs
- White bread
- Oatmeal
- Tortilla
- Condiments
- Ketchup
- Mustard
- BBQ sauce
- Horse Radish
- Black truffles
- Escargot
- Caviar
- Iodized Salt
- Black Pepper
Drink
- Water. Lots of it.
- 2.5 gallons per person, per day. Important: see water use notes below.
- Powdered electrolyte drink (have)
- Gatorade
- Booze, of course.
- Vodka and more vodka (4 x 1.75 L.)
- Beer: PBR, motherfuckers (36 cans Tecata)
- Champagne (for Mimosas)
- Wine (4 boxes, equivalent to 16 bottles)
- Curaçao
- Green Tea
- Soy Milk
- Mixers & Bullshit
- Orange juice concentrate
- Lime-aid concentrate
- Pineapple juice
- Raspberry Cranberry Juice
- 100% Vegetable Juice
- Bloody Mary mix w/fresh horseradish (and micro-plane). Celery sticks and olives will count as our "vegetable" dishes for the duration of the encampment. (4 x 1.75 L.)
Mark's Diet food
- 9 X Turkey Jerky 240 cal
- 9 x Frozen snap peas / snow peas 60 cal
- Grass Fed steaks
- Bacon
- 4 peaches 66 cal
- 5 apples, medium 72 cals
- frozen strawberries for smoothie 52 cals (have)
- smoothie protein and jank
- yerba mate for smoothie
- twigs
- dirt
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Comments
Mark Brown
Jul 26, 2008
Water is going to be a resource we need to control, tightly, this time.
The RV has a 30 gallon fresh water tank and a 55 gallon gray water catch tank. To illustrate how closely we need to manage this resource while out on the playa:
A normal desert water budget (with a small personal hygiene allowance) requires 2.5 gallons per person, per day.
6 people * 6 days * 2.5 gallons per day = 90 gallons. Meaning we're going to have to haul an additional 24 2.5 gallon containers of water to make up the 60 gallon deficit. That's close to 500 lbs. in water alone.
We're also going to run out of gray water storage on day three or day four, necessitating flagging down a pump truck, or using an evap pond.
This means:
- Use the porta-pottys instead of the RV's toilet for nature's business except in emergencies.
- Never leaving a tap open.
- Using the shower carefully: Turn it on. Get wet. Turn it off. Lather. Rinse as quickly as possible.
- Bringing and using wet wipes instead of RV water for personal hygiene whenever possible.
- Using disposable dinnerware (and only washing things like knives and prep utensils in the sink).
- Carefully segregating products in our coolers, so that melt ice can be re-used (i.e., stuff like meat in a dedicated cooler to prevent contamination).
and, sadly:
- Being kinda nazi-like about allowing others to do things like shower or use our toilet.
This is the same size fresh water tank we had last year -- but with more people spending more time on the playa this year. Out of all the factors that concern me this year... water is the one that worries me the most. We're going to have to be really judicious about our use in order to not run out of fresh water or run out of gray water tank space.
Mark Brown
Jul 26, 2008
How to not be a heat stroke casualty:
You *absolutely* must have a camel-back or canteen with you when you're out on the playa during the 100+ degree heat in the day.
Don't wait until you feel thirsty to begin drinking. Sip water continuously throughout the day. You'll hear the term, "piss clear" while you're at BM. Translation: if your urine has any color to it, you aren't hydrated enough. Peeing yellow? Drink more water.
This may sound crazy, but if you're exerting yourself in this kind of heat in a desert environment (e.g., peddling a bike around in the noon-day sun), your body can go through more than a LITER of water an hour. Plan accordingly before heading out :-)
John Anderson
Aug 9, 2009
Honestly, we can get our water tanks serviced anyway, but we have to catch the sanitation truck when it goes by. Shame they don't play music like ice cream trucks. (what song would they play?)
However, there's little benefit to showers on the playa. Bring wet wipes, they'll get you just as clean.