As you've probably read elsewhere, everybody eats way less on the playa due to the heat.

I go to several grocery stores without any list, walk the aisles looking for things that don't require much prep time (we are all lazy on the playa, and everything seems to take twice as long to do compared to home), buy stuff that seems interesting and put it into a big box at home. After the box seems about full, I dump it out and divide it into meals on the floor, for the number of days I'm gonna be on playa. Then I make a list of things I am missing or want to buy more of, and the stuff I am not gonna take goes into my cupboard for food at home. This casual approach works for me as I am not too picky what I eat at the burn. For me simplicity is the key, and the most I want to do is boil some water or heat something up in a pan without much clean-up.

Plus, any packaged food you have left over from your week on playa, you can gift to the DPW to use for the few weeks of clean-up.

Spork- thanks for the grid idea....that's a good one, and maybe part of the planning that I'm missing. (It just seems overwhelming to stare at a huge list of STUFF).

This will be my 6th year on the playa, I should have this down to a science every year....it's always fine and I never go hungry, but I'm trying to figure out how to dial this in so I'm not always like "AAAAHHH FOOD LISTS SUCK".

cannned bacon??!!! Whaaat??!! Where?