/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

What I've done for the past two years has really worked out well for me. I always book a hotel with an executive floor that does breakfast and has an all-day lounge for free snacks and beverages all day. These places have all sorts of food, you can grab bottles of water and fruits and muffins and bagels all day and often have an epic breakfast. The floor is always usually nice and its great to have a calm, quiet place to start your day and eat in your PJ's with a nice view.

I'll usually grab a few bottles of water, a muffin, and apple and maybe some sort of sweet to have for lunch at the convention because I'm usually not very hungry in costume. Then I'll come back after the con and splurge on a nice dinner every night at one of the local highlights. Not having to buy breakfast, lunch or snacks and coffee every day saves so much money its ridiculous. More than pays for the extra Executive cost.

I've been going to conventions for a long time so I'm a little past the coffee maker ramen point, I need to eat well all day or I'll get cranky.

I eat out at nice restaurants. Sometimes I bring my lunch from home, if it's a one day event.

We feel like we're on holiday and since we're on holiday we may as well eat nice food.

Like anon said, I always book a hotel with free breakfast. I also bring a rice cooker and a bunch of rice/quinoa. It's really easy, you just plug in the rice cooker. I'm incredibly cheap. I'll only go out to eat while at a con if there's a special occasion (my BF and I have the same birthday and it almost always falls on a con weekend)

I've never taken food to cons so I usually live off Subway or whatever fast-food places they have around, and also eat out at a restaurant for one of the nights. If it's a hotel though it's usually better to order from there, even if it is a little expensive.

Kitacon and Amecon were kind enough to provide free breakfast though which was good (aka 'stack as much bacon on the plate as you can to feed you for the rest of the day').

>>6540034
I never knew about that! thats a brilliant idea! I will admit I dont think any of the conventions I go to have that option unfortunately, but you are brilliant for thinking like that!

>>6540039
That is a good feeling~
I usually only pack food if its a hometown convention, or I am trying to keep a diet

If I'm going alone (wich I have) I google map the nearest fast food if not then I get delivery, but if I go with friends then I bring a mini stove and can foods

>>6540074
You would be surprised. I have been to conventions all over Canada and the US and at least one hotel has this option, usually the Crowne Plaza if there is one!

Since its executive suite only it may not be advertised unless you look for it, so I'd call and ask! It just eliminates so much stress and saves a lot of time and money, last breakfast I had was amazing too. Waffles and oatmeal and breakfast sandwiches and all the fruit and pastries you could eat. And lattes.

I bring small snacks. Most cons we've ordered pizza to the hotel room. Some have fast food close within walking distance.

During San Diego Comic Con, the con itself and some of the industries work with local restaurants and have some good deals and promotions that benefit everyone. But there's plenty of food options during that time.

>>6540076
>mini stove
>>6540052
>rice cooker

I wanna room with you guis

>>6540094
A rice cooker was the best money I've ever spent. It's basically my child.

>>6540027
Why would people eat a convention when a lot of the people are overweight?

Unless the con is local or if i am going to a con on a day trip i bring a electric hot plate with me and some stuff that can be easily cooked.Soups and similiar items.It is cheaper.Hell one could do pb&j for the entire weekend(which i have done).

>>6540117
because even if you're overweight not eating at all over an active weekend is unhealthy? lrn2basic health and nutrition. I don't think you want a fatty passing out on you and crushing you to death.

2/10 for making me reply

I usually don't eat when I go to cons, but that's because I'm too distracted to think about food.

But depending on the con I will get dinner (really late at night).
For animazement there's a bunch of restaurants across the street from the convention center.

But I always bring something like poptarts, or crackers with me just in case.

>>6540123
Hey maybe some bananas and bell peppers for snacks instead of eating shit the entire time?

>>6540128
I've never really been in a bind for food at AZ, there's so much food close to the convention center for all tastes and price ranges. Though I mostly just lived on Jimmy johns and Oatmeal, cause that shit is fast and easy

>>6540130
I don't think anyone here is telling anyone what they should eat you stupid twat, the thread isn't 'criticize other potentially fat cosplayers diets'. You can go now.

We usually have a "last meal" on Thursday before we get on the train. We'll splurge on junk food and fill up before we get to the convention and spend the rest of the weekend on packed food or takeout.

Packed food is mostly things we could make in the hotel room: ramen, canned items, trail mix, dried fruit, etc. I've gotten so now I bring my own drink mixes as well and have flavored water to make me hydrate more. I try to eat some what healthy during conventions after one year when I was young and naive and made myself utterly sick surviving the weekend off chocolate chip cookies and water.

>>6540128
>>6540133
>>6540136
...what are the odds of three Animazements goers at the same time in one thread.

>>6540130
As much as I'd like to agree on that, I'm pretty sure most people don't do it just to avoid opening their bag to to find smashed fruits and veggies all over everything.

>>6540133
Yeah, that's pretty much what me and my friends did last year. Was actually the first time I ate at Jimmy johns, we always choose that pizza place beside it until it got really crowded.

>>6540134
All I see in this thread is a poor diet and a road to obesity and diabetes. Remember Soni? Thats going to happen to you if dont change things now

When it comes to cons, I usually just drink lots of water and small, not too messy snacks during the day, and when its not as busy I usually go get a proper meal with some friends.

>>6540140
>smashed fruits and veggies

Maybe one day they will invent this durable container that can store these nutritional foods without bruising them. I think that sort of technological break through wont happen until 20 years.

>>6540142
>four day event
>most hotel rooms don't have fridges
>food must be had without spoiling

It's either go out, order food, or eat whatever you've brought that won't go bad. Not exactly a lot of options and even if you ate crap food you'd still probably walk enough that day around the convention to burn it off.

>>6540150
This.

Every time i go to a con, i usually loose about 15lb or so just from walking around the entire weekend.

>>6540150
>2013
>still replying to anything libra says

>>6540150
Because an Apple/Orange/nuts are going to going to blow up?

>around the convention to burn it off
Walking requires little to no effort

>>6540142
My diet is fine. Just because I eat out at cons doesn't mean I gorge or eat unhealthily. You must be American.

>>6540151
Doubt unless you violent diarrhea

>>6540152
>encouraging poor eating habits

>>6540160
> I eat out at cons doesn't mean I gorge or eat unhealthily

I find it very hard to believe when cgl has always had an eating problem. what country are you from?

I love rooming with this one friend because this girl comes 110% prepared. It takes at least two trips from her car to the room just to cart in all the food and supplies she brings after a stop at the wholesale food place.

>rice cooker
>2-3 boxes of rice
>some sort of canned meat (usually chicken)
>juice boxes or mini bottles (2-3 kinds)
>fruit cups
>some sort of snack (Little Debbie)
>those little cereal bowls (milk at the hotel shop)

>>6540169
France.

>>6540175
Don't tell me you are the same person from that other thread saying you are not fat?

>>6540180
No?

well, i typed out this text wall of tips then I apparently mis-typed captcha....
so, I'll be brief
eat a healthy breakfast (or even just a piece of fruit..), it helps soo much. you feel so less dead at the end of the con.
if you want to avoid con flu, take LOTS of vitamin C.

Oh no I didnt mean for this thread to take a wrong turn ><. And with conventions with no fridge, I would bring a collapse able cooler, and just fill it with ice and replace it every night. I remember before I got use to eating out I had to do this to bring my own baked chicken and dried cranberries. Its a good thing I can still eat food cold :x
>>6540190
I actually need to start doing this. I mean before cons I try and eat some bananas and drink some OJ, now that the Tropicana drinks I usually get have no high fructose corn syrup I have been starting to drink them more and it helped so much with my immune system!

You can tell the chocolate chips in those cookies are shit-tier because chocolate is not meant to gleam like that and when exposed to heat (as in, a fucking fresh pizza) it should melt.

American chocolate.
Not even once.

Just FYI, Libra is a hyprocritical piece of shit, she's a fucking landwhale with greasy hair. Don't listen to any of the "advice" she doles out. She's kind of person who doesn't practice what she preaches.

>>6540216
Technically they are melted, if you were to touch them they'd come off on your hand and squish because they are melted. You've got heat up chocolate a lot more for it to totally liquefy and even you have to mix it

>learn2chocolate

>>6540219
I said I was a naked fat hairy guy

I've started buying hotel rooms when I can, but we still almost always end up eating out. The past AWA, a few of my friends were taking up money, and ordered a bunch of pizzas to the con area, and gave those out, so that was my dinner, and the hotel I was staying at the first night had a breakfast bar. The last day, I stayed at a friend's house, and we got tacos before going to the con.
There's one con I go to, Seishun, that's just surrounded by food. I usually end up spending more money on food than anything else when I go there, since it's just so close.

I used to just bring water and a few granola bars, when I would drive to and from the con every day, but my metabolism is too fast for such small food, and I ended up with terrible headaches halfway through the day.

>>6540225

>an American telling me to L2chocolate

Although seriously, no offence or anything but American chocolate is extremely foul. My sister brought some home from her last trip to New York and it was... I can't even describe it. I don't understand why people would willingly put it into their mouths but I guess if you've never tasted anything different you wouldn't know how bad it is.

British chocolate isn't far off though. Ever since Kraft took over Cadbury's it's gone completey tits up.

Do you get Aero bars in America? Aero bars used to be nice as fuck but over the last 3-4 years they've started tasting like American shit. Seems like the only nice chocolate left is Galaxy, Kinder and Lindt.

>>6540316
Mainstream chocolate in the US is pretty shit, but there's plenty of gourmet chocolate that's really nice.

Looked up Aero bars, Hershey tried to do something like that but they tasted like utter shit.

The only Cadbury I've ever had was the Easter eggs with the cream inside, but I would live on those shits, so good.

>>6540316
We can get Aero here, but you have to go to special shops to get it (the ones that sell fancier foods.) It's decent, but obviously I'm used to American chocolate.
I got to try Galaxy when I was visiting the UK. It's pretty good. Actually all the food seems better over there, but maybe I'm just tired of America.

>>6540316
Lindt is awesome! Their salted caramel chocolate is heavenly.
Kraft is kind of a hit/miss game... some (Milka) stuff is really nice (like the little star cookies, their cake choc, milkatender etc.).

Aero taste awful now. Kraft has a similar choc called Lufee which tastes a lot better.

tl;dr KitKat is the best

>>6540340
>Milka
Oh god Swedish chocolate is so god-tier
Hershey chocolate is pretty terrible, so I try and send some Cadburys to people overseas and it's generally well favoured. Canada seems to stock it in places too but it tastes a little off.

>>6540316
I've not really noticed a difference in the quality after Kraft took over. What do you think changed?

>>6540359

I'm the kind of person who doesn't eat chocolate a lot, it's very much a special treat for me to get it so I always notice when the ingredients have changed.

Cadburys atm, the change is subtle but I can guarantee it's going to get worse and worse as they slowly begin to introduce more cheaper substitutes for the original ingredients. At the moment one of the biggest changes is that Cadburys chocolate not has a waxier, blander taste to it which is a direct sign of them having pumped the mixture full of vegetable fats to substitute... I can't remember what the vegetable fat substitutes, but it's one of the key ingredients.

Kraft are such fucking assholes. Why take something that's been around for generations that taste great, and turn it into something that tastes fucking nasty, all to save a few pennies?

I'm super into cooking and healthy crap, so I make my own kale chips and beef jerky (I own a dehydrator), and bring fresh veggies and fruit in a cooler that I can replace the ice in through the weekend. If I'm feeling it, I'll bring a tin of cashews too.

>>6540372
>Why take something that's been around for generations that taste great, and turn it into something that tastes fucking nasty, all to save a few pennies?
Because AMERICA!

I usually travel to the city a day before the con and tend to do a trip to a local grocery store. If the hotel room offers a small fridge, I buy a stuff like a bottle of chocolate milk, grapes (since they are easy to eat and make no mess), Karelian pasties (a traditional Finnish food, I fucking love those) and those really teeny tiny boxes of butter. Also chocolate. And at the morning of the con I warm the pastries, slap on some butter and drink chocolate milk. I take grapes and chocolate (and sometimes the pastries) with me to go and grab a bottle of water.

When I'm part of the staff at a con I usually eat breakfast at the green room/staff room and grab some sandwiches/fruit with me for a lunch. If I can, I eat at the cafeteria if the con has such.

Since I keep forgetting to eat a proper meal when I'm working through the whole weekend, so I have always chocolate or some healthier snacks with me. After the con's closed however: junk food.

>>6540385
It's a well-known fact that britfags can't stand the taste of liberty.

American here, I eat our chocolate and European chocolate in equal amounts, and to be honest I can't really taste the difference. Most of the variation between brands has more to do with texture than anything else.
Of course I apparently have only half the normal number of tastebuds so YMMV

>>6540447
what kind of European chocolates are you eating?

There is a significant difference in the creaminess and flavor of American chocolate versus chocolate you get in Europe. The aftertaste of American chocolate leaves my tongue feeling waxy and just overall not good.

>>6540455
They all import the cocobeans

>>6540447
Troll post...?

four.

Since this post has turned into chocolate general, here's my absolute favorite American chocolate brand:
http://www.tazachocolate.com//

Pic related.

Going back to favorite food locations at cons. Where do you eat for Katuscon? Baja Fresh and Potbellys, but I have yet to try any of the restaurants as they are a bit on the expensive side. Any suggestions for this coming Katuscon?

You're not supposed to put the cookies on the pizza. that's disgusting. Stahp.

>>6540569
Looks delicious

> 2013
> Not eating Rittersport chocolate
What is wrong with you people?
This is the only chocolate available in the US that I actually like. And of course, it's not american chocolate.

>>6540594
>american chocolate

The coco beans all come form 3rd world countries

Usually we bring a few items to eat in the hotel room. But not that much, more normally we eat at local restaurants around us.

American candies and chocolates really don't taste as good as even regular Australian chocolate/lollies! I prefer the texture of ours, somehow it's nicer and feels less full of artificial flavours and preservatives or something, and the lollies/candies are usually gummier/chewier here? The only american chocolate I'll willingly eat is Hershey's Cookies and Cream.

I am a chocolate snob though. Lindt is awesome (all that christmas discount stuff!)! Anything made out of chocolate couverture (most fine belgian chocolates) is divinely rich and smooth and creamy. Hot chocolate made out of this shit is the bomb (Melbournites will know what I'm talking about - Koko Black, San Churro, The Hardware Societe!)

>>6540372
Cadbury were trying to do it cheaper by replacing some cocoa butter with vegetable fats, including palm oil. Everyone raged because palm oil is high in saturated fat, doesn't taste good, and it's not really sustainable - lots of deforestation and dead orangutans.

I started going to cons as a young teen with a concerned mom so each friday a con rolled around I would be dutifully lugging a box with sturdy apples, bagels, and other snacks to the event hotel, and I still do that -- it also served to endear oneself to roommates.

I usually eat out at least one night at cons, though, and try to do something semi nice -- last AUSA a few friends and I walked to Adams Morgan for a bite, stuff like that, at wargaming cons where I don't worry about cosplay we go to this great japanese steakhouse because it's right next door.

>>6540623
>I am a chocolate snob though
>no mention of beans or countries

Some just want to watch the world burn

>>6540027
I buy an entire box of Clif Bars and eat one every time I go back to the hotel room. If there's a grocery store within walking distance I'll go buy a box of cereal or somehting.

I eat a protein bar or protein shake for breakfast, whole grain pasta/rice microwave meal for lunch at the hotel, and go out somewhere sit down for dinner. Almonds for snacks during the day.

>>6540563
The fancy looking chinese food place is actually really good, and they have a happy hour and most of the stuff is like, half off

>>6540556
MA fag?? Between them and Fluff, I have no idea how Somerville isn't like, an oasis of obesity

>>6540722
as in marshmallow fluff?
i make a fantastically unhealthy sandwich with that and nutella

What I love about the places I stayed at so far is that they had a kitchenette, so I can cook simple breakfasts/lunches/snacks with groceries instead of blowing a lot of money on eating out. So things I usually buy for my friends and I whenever there is a kitchenette:
- granola bars
- orange juice
- milk
- eggs
- bread
- jam
- yogurt

I even bring several ziploc bags so we can pack things to go, and we have our water bottles. The food usually last us for the breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. It is pretty usual to eat out for dinner.

>>6540766
Not sure why I typed up about the breakfast/lunch/snack thing twice. Anyway you get my point.

it falls into one of two categories:

1)if i'm at a con near my house, I usually eat something healthy before leaving the house. Usually a fruit and some yogurt before leaving the house and eat something afterwords.

2)if i'm away from the house, i'll ask for something at the Con suite that will give fill me up somewhat and give me energy at the con. Usually some fruit and i'm set before going to dinner.

also, it helps to drink lots, and LOTS of water. I think I loose like 5 pounds every con I go to from all the walking around to burn fat.

>>6540027
>cookies on pizza

why ruin the pizza or cookie?

you monster =[

i try to eat healthy, but when i go out sometimes i relax and get something for myself. i like too much kinds of food.

>>6540610
And I did say american chocolate, not "american cocoa beans". The recipe to make the refined product FROM cocoa beans is called 'chocolate', and the recipes I was referring to were created, mixed, and sold in the US.

Fuck, even if I DID say 'american cocoa beans', there's a possibility that said beans were grown in South America. Therefore it would still be correct since 'American' in it's most base definition is someone or something from the Americas.

You want to argue semantics, I can argue some fucking semantics.

>>6540858
I like you already and yes you are very correct.

>>6540722
Mass indeed, though in the western part. I eat a metric fuckton of Taza chocolate, but a very little bit of a time. A 3-ounce bar lasts me five or six days, but I eat some of it every day.

>>6540563

Elevation Burger. You can compare them to Five Guys except Elevation Burger sells shakes. If you have a car then drive to the IHOP down the street.

For Otakon me and my buddies make it a point to hit several places in Bmore for good food. Lexington Market for a variety of good cheap eats (you gotta walk a bit for it though), Upper Deck Bar and Grill for god tier 24 hour diner food and Fogo De Chao (expensive but well worth it) for the Thursday night classy meal.

Dont be afraid to ask the locals where the good places to eat are.

>>6541021
>Upper Deck Bar and Grill
Damn that sounds nice. What are the prices like there?

>>6540582
>>6540569
Its soooo tasy though. especially if its spicy chicken pizza *..*

>>6540850
It tasty for me. I cant stand america chocolate because it leaves a bad after taste in my mouth so I need dairy to rinse the taste. so cheese does it for me where I can enjoy cookies and be full c:

I love going to conventions its really the few times I get to get potbellys and subway.

>>6541033

It's pretty much a hole in the wall greasy spoon joint. Take $20 and you'll come out stuffed. It's also very close to the con hotels (two blocks north of the Hilton and right next to the Marriott, plus they deliver!)

Be forewarned that its next door to a strip joint and that place gets jam packed after Otakon and the clubs close up for the night.

>>6541021

And although it's on the pricey side, when it comes to Otakon foods, the Pratt Street Ale House (straight across the street and a little east of the convention center's main entrance on Pratt Street). Great food, not terribly priced -- especially considering its location -- and the house brews are delicious. I especially suggest the 3 Lions Ale (I'm not a beer or ale guy, and I love it), pairs well with their southwest burger, their raven burger or their crab cake salad.

For fast food, the obvious one is (aside from McD's and etc) are the the Baja Fresh stores. There's several within a ten - fifteen minute drive, and I've never had a complaint eating there. As for non-standard or fast food, several of the suggestions in 6541021's post are good, and there's a few good places over in the mall across Light Street (conveniently, you can cross the skybridge that goes between the One East Pratt Street building and the Hyatt, or from the parking structure just to the south of the Hyatt).

I don't like eating during cons, I feel that it is a waste of time. I'm just generally horrrrrible to my body during the weekend. For Metrocon, I stay at the Embassy and eat like a pig for the breakfast buffet. But dinner? EL O EL. I don't like to eat. Hell, I HATE going back to the room. I never go there except to change for the rave. With other cons, if there is no free breakfast I literally wake up, get ready and head to the con. I drink some water before I leave. I might munch on some chocolate pocky. That's really it. When my mum drives me to cons (I was in an accident so I'm really sketchy about driving for now), we bring a cooler, soy milk, fried chicken, eggs, fruit, gallons of water (we drink like camels), alfalfa for my hamster, and home made bread. She eats the food, I don't. It just WASTES TIME.

I usually end up going to whatever food court is nearby for lunch or dinner.

One year my friend and I brought a loaf of bread, peanut butter, and jelly, and we made sandwiches for breakfast every morning. It was a good plan.

>>6540090
Lolita's have a deal during SDCC where you can get a drink and some carne asada fries for $5. I remember the other closer restaurants being stupidly overpriced (ex. $8 milkshake). But whatever, usually I just get some food and then drink water. I cannot express this enough, DRINK A LOT OF WATER AND STAY HYDRATED.

Real talk though, honestly if you can't afford to properly feed yourself at a con correctly, don't bother going. Instead of living off salty instant top ramen for a fucking figure, stay home and save money until you could properly feed yourself for a con. Or hell, bring a ton of fruits, breads, and other cheap but healthy foods.

>>6541200
I never want to meet face to face with an alien fear banana.

I'm glad that the con I'll be going to this year is located in an area I'm starting to frequent. I have several locations prorammed in my GPS, ranging from Whole Foods to fast food chains and an awesome sweets store.

I do have to say that for a health-conscious store, Whole Foods does have a pretty greasy pizza. Not Sam's level of greasy, but still a bit greasy than what you would expect.

When I go to cons I see it like a mini vacation so I treat myself and eat nice.
I will usually find a nice restaurant in the area (preferably Japanese, in convention spirit).

>>6540455
>The aftertaste of American chocolate leaves my tongue feeling waxy and just overall not good.
What causes this? I'm American, but I can never eat our cheap plain chocolate because it feels like it just coats my tongue. (I'll fuck up some KitKats and Twix, tho.)
Ferrero Rocher and Lindt are the only two other chocolates I can stand at this point.

I always buy food at the con. Granted, I only go to Anime Boston, and theres a crapton of fast food there, as well as the Shaws next door. Saves SO much time.

I did go to AX once, and seeing as the nearest non convenience store was like, an hour walk away, my friends and I just ate a steady diet of Carls Jr, Pizza Hut, Johnny Rockets, and Qdoba.

Twice I've called a hotel and made a decision based on microwave availability. Both times I've brought microwave food. Both times I didn't get a microwave. Shit.

>>6541406
Usually something like shortening leaves something film-like on the tongue, which I assume is what is "waxy" feeling.

>>6540122
As a few others have mentioned bringing a cooler is a great idea.Free ice at the hotel(refill it in the morning and evening hours).This way you can keeps cold food cold and drinks cold.
Plus i like bringing fresh fruit(apples and oranges).
When you bring a hot plate you can easily bring a small soup pan and utensils.Tupperware or rubbermaid containers to eat out of.
Despite what some say MRE's(meals ready to eat) and dehyrated foods(such as mountain man) are actually pretty good.

>>6540594
Oh god Rittersport is amazing I went to world market last week and bought like three packages of the stuff

>>6540136
Ha. Usually my bros and I tend to smoke hookah and cigars on a Thursday before the con but never eat junk food and other shit like a last meal. I should suggest that.

What I usually do at a on in terms of eating is usually order a pizza or got out and get something cheap or get a buffett if I plan on drinking that whole night.

>>6540594
what stores can i find this in?

What do you guys know about cooking sketti in your hotel room? Step it up senpai.

I most times go to the store nearby and buy foodstuffs to prepare at the con. Mostly salads, cold sandwiches and the like, lots and lots of fruit. We usually pool our money and then offer leftovers to other people who stop by our room(this happens often). Though my group of friends always goes to a nice restaurant one of the evenings, so that's always good.

My boyfriend and I go shopping right before!
We start off with a cooler and a bag of ice (most hotels have ice machines so we just refill every night)

We usually bring some sort of cereal (with a 1/2 gal of milk) or breakfast item..
last year we managed to keep eggs and we brought a portable stove top and pan.. Yum Egg and cheese bagels!
we also bring lots of fruits (dehydrated too!) and veggies especially since they don't need to be kept cold.
Then there is lunch meats and cheeses and chips/trailmixes!!

We usually eat out at night unless we are in a hurry for a photoshoot. Did I mention lots and lots of Cliff Bars/ granola bars?
oh and a pack of water

I've been attending Katsucon for several years and have yet to try any of the resturants in the inner harbor area. I know last year certain venues offered discounts for cosplayers.

Does anyone have experiences/suggestions for restaurants in the area or is it best to stick with baja Fresh, Pot Bellys, and Subway?

>>6543038
It IS amazing. Fuck. Now I want some. The hell if I'm going out in the snow and halfway across town for it, though.

>>6547716
I don't know about where you live, but here in Utah, you can get it in Walgreens and (sometimes)Walmart. But Walgreens seems to have a couple basic flavors consistently.

>>6540142
Uhh... Missed thay memo. What happened to soni? Last time I was here soni was in her sexy no jitsu outfit. Hope she is ok.

For actual meals I usually just have something around the con. For snacks jerky and trail mix from costco do the trick. And specifically for cgl gatherings (for ALA and Fanime for instance) there's this bread dip I make that everyone seems to like. Only downside to it is that it'll make your sodium levels skyrocket. Its tasty as hell, though.

To those going to Sakuracon:

There is a crepe stand outside. Don't bother with it. You will have to wait at LEAST an hour in line, and their crepes really aren't worth the wait.

Lesson learned last year.

If you guys think American chocolate is shit tier, you obviously never had Mexican chocolate. That stuff is the worst ever and I'll never understand how they can eat it.

For con food, I usually locate the nearest grocery store in the area and pack it full of ice and some cold cuts and other sandwich fixings to last a day. Then I buy some cookies, crackers, and dried fruits for snacks. We usually have at least one dinner together at a restaurant during our stay.

>>6548421
There isn't a line if you go any time before, I dunno, like 8 AM. The crepes are definitely good, but yeah, probably not worth an hour's wait.

>>6550486
>before 8AM
is it just me or is there a problem here?

>>6550512
If its crepes ... ID DO IT!!
But I have a immense love of sweets. I am sooo surprised im not over 150 pounds