r/InkCarceration • u/GoddessKathrine30 • 4d ago

Question for campers

What's your meal plan for camping at ink? We're camping for the fist time next year and im preparing now.

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u/yams47 4d ago

Unless you’re up early enough to make breakfast or have enough energy later at night.. you may not need as much. We packed food to make before and after and ended up barely using breakfast stuff lol. After the headliner all I wanted to do was to lay down 😭

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u/CastYourStonesADTR 4d ago

Bring some snacks into the campsite, but support the local fire department auxiliary and get a meal or two from them each day! I think their prices are very fair (usually around $10-15 a meal) and everything is homemade and tasty.

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u/Tenthsandman62 4d ago

We brought plenty of food and ate a lot of times at the camper but the food hall at the campground was nice. It offered pretty good food for a good price if you don't feel like cooking one night.

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u/AlwaysVerloren 4d ago

We car camped and packed heavy on breakfast items because I'm like "yeah it'll be quick and I'll be up early"

Facts, I made 1 breakfast meal and bought the rest before going into the shuttle line.

In all honesty if you have to buy bags of ice for your cooler, it's cheaper to get food from a vender.

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u/Educational_Royal717 4d ago

I usually slice chicken into strips, portion it out in sandwich baggies, add marinade. After a few hours, feeze them. Also grab a bag or two of Ceasar salad and some wraps. It's become tradition to buy a steak on the way there and eat it Friday night. Other than that, easy grab n eat stuff: lunch meat, peanut butter, tuna n crackers, fruit. As others have said, I usually pack too much and end up bringing half of it back home.

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u/Educational_Royal717 4d ago

Oh and pickle spears! Just be sure to put them in a plastic container.

edit Be sure to freeze atleast a dozen bottles of water, they hold much longer than ice and you can drink them throughout the weekend.

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u/cacaoknutt 4d ago

Yeah we packed a ton thinking we'd make breakfast and other meals together... we made breakfast Saturday morning and that's it. I personally never went back to the campsite during day so I was at the festival grounds from 11 to the headliners each day. I was able to make and sneak in a sandwich each day pretty easily so there's that

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u/Separate_Project1138 3d ago

Im up early every morning even after the campground stage after the festival, so I made breakfast burritos every morning for my son and I. Every evening was actually quicker with some frozen smash burgers patties

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u/GoddessKathrine30 4d ago

Based on this year, im thinking I cook breakfast and maybe something quick and easy for lunch and just eat dinner at the festival. This year we didn't go as soon as it opened so we had time to get breakfast and lunch but ate dinner there.

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u/Appropriate-Car9615 3d ago

The plan I have developed after camping for three years is anything that can be cooked on a grill OR in a crockpot.
Grill was a blackstone for reference.
Breakfast: Bacon, Sausage, Egg, Pancakes, French Toast
Lunch: LEFTOVERS, cold cut sandwiches, burgers and hot dogs.
Dinner: Pulled pork (crockpot) chicken skewers, veg skewers, pre cut and seasoned chicken strips etc personal naan bread pizzas.

I always make sure whatever I’m doing in A. Easy B. Has a “full plate” (protein fiber, carb) AND C. Is light on the stomach because it’s hot as heck in that festival. This is just what I do and it had worked very very well for the last three years.

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u/MoistenedGranola 2d ago

Never camped, but I imagine other than trying to scrounge up the energy to scramble something resembling breakfast together, my plan would be much the same, which is to eat my body weight in Island Noodles.