In the past my partner and i have gone with lots of pasta,camping food, trail mix, lots of pBnj sandwhiches and anything that you dont need a plate or a lot of prep time for.

Things I highly reccomend:
Tuna in the pouch,
rice in the boil in a bag
Trail Mix
pbnj makings (squeezable stuff works well because you dont need utentsils)
Cous Cous
The Indian Food pouches you get from Trader Joes or any ethnic grocery store
Taboule (you can make it before you go and put it in your cooler and it is ready by the time you get to the playa espicially if you are comming from somwhere like AZ.. or from the same distance but elsewhere).
Beef Jerky
Turkey Jerky
Spaghetti sauce/Pasta sauce in the jar..
Noodles (top rahmen gooks the fastest... water has a hard time boiling on the playa)
Furit cups work well as long as they are well sealed and kept out of the sun (we put ours under the truck)
Crackers are your friend
Some people like the Cheese in a can a sardines gourmet treat
Getting a food saver, vaccum packing some of your favorite meals from your favorite resturants, then freezing them.
The mac n cheese like velveta stuff that already has the cheese in a gel state rather than powder
Lot of Tequilla for your cereal (instead of milk)
Fresh Veggis will last a little while there but can be quite gross when the do go bad.
Canned corn
Canned Green Beans
Soup is your friend (as long as it isnt dinty moore beef or chicken stew..)most of the campbells soups you can eat right out of the can the clam chowder is good right out of the can, so are most of the chunky soups... Dinty Moore CAN NOT be eaten right out of the can you have to heat it up because there are goobules of fat and other nast crap that is in the beef stew (Trust me Naked Mike and I figured this out at TOAST this year)
Spaghetti O's
Pop Tarts
Breakfast bars (Luna Bars, OOKie bars, Cliff Bars, ATkins bars, granola bars)
There is this pasta stuff in the rice a roni, tuna helper, noodle roni, mac n cheese isle of your grocers store that is pasta and sauce ready to go.. has two flavors mac n cheese and redsauce with spirals.. you can microwave it OR drop it in the pan of boiling water in the pouches and you have still clean water, easy clean up (because they provide a little plate for you) and low energy usage... It gets dark quick on the playa.
Some people swear by back packing foods but I find them disgusting and salty....
there are also MRE's (Meals Read to Eat) that you can get at any army surplus store. some of the things are good but they are also purposly salty and will also purposly constipate you...
Premeasured/ Pre cooked servings for one or two.
Pitas and Tortillas work better on the playa than white bread.. leave the white bread at home for the birds and go with nice hearty wheat.. it will fare better.



Things I wouldnt reccomend taking to the playa:
Some thing that takes a lot of prep time.. NO one wants to spend half the night cooking and cleaning up for dinner.. there are way too many shiny blinky things that will distract you which will make your dishes disgusting.
Avoid macaroni type noodles as they take for ever to soften
Spaghetti, angel hair, Rice noodles, work better.
Fruit does not do so well on the playa .. (at least in my experience)

Things to avoid at all cost onthe playa (in my opinion of course) unless you have full blown refridgerator and genni on the playa:
Milk (I know people who take it but I wouldnt even go there)
Raw Eggs (egg goo that sits for a week in the hot air... mmmmm can you salmonella and e. choli? )
Raw Chicken.. Have you ever accidently left a tiny piece of chicken in garbage disposal all day while your at work and come home to the most disgusting smell you have ever smelled in your life? Multiply that smell times 1000....
Actually I would stay away from all raw meat onthe playa.. It is not that the meat get bad it is that you are stuck with meat goo that has to sit in the heat for a week. Last year we took a couple of steaks on the play to give to people who helped erect the pyramid. We cooked it there on Monday (I think either Monday or Tuesday ) and all was good.. He had frozen and marinated it.. the problem was with the left over stuff that was part of our liquid trash.. every morning I had to fight with my stomach to spit out my tooth paste water in the same container of liquid meat goo.. I wont be making that mistake ever again.


I am sure I will think of more but that is all I can think of.

Good luck with Planning.. Really a food saver is the way to go.. This year Naked Mike andI will be eating like royalty on the playa thanks to our food saver..

YAY Hajji Babbas Chicken
Pita Jungle Chicken
Garlic dip from Pita jungle (if I can get it home, frozen, food savered BEFORE it dissapears down my throat!

Kat who is depressed beyond all means that she cant eat hummus anymore :( :( :(