I pretty much never get to SCA events right now (although our moving plans cause me to contact people in the area I *think* we will move to, and then it changes and we don't get there), and I am not planning on pennsic this year (only went once, actually), but I do have a standby easy recipe that works for me and presumably could be adapted for anyone. I call it some version of 'hobo stew', and it's really just what's on sale/leftover/etc. that week. I make a pan of organic vegetables and grains and quinoa and (vegetarian)meat/protein, and whatever sauce/soup/etc. look tasty that day, and I usually have that for several days in the course of a week. My superlazy format is to eat, let it get cool, put in fridge, reheat (your botulism may vary), although someone more scrupulous about food activity (or sharing a house) might scoop out bits and reheat just that bit each time, which also makes it easier to add that day's random found goodies in there too. Other than that, eh--I eat raw organic carrots and cucumbers and flax seeds to keep my face occupied in ways that will not make me bigger. If I know very well that I just might eat a bag of smartpuffs or pirate booty, i may skip dinner and use those calories instead. It may not be the wisest, but so far it works!

Aloha from Atlantia!

Did anybody go to Pennsic? I don't have enough vacation time to attend so I stayed home but I heard that my cooks guild put on a good spread at the Queen's tea.

How do you deal with feast? I'm a cook so I'm usually in the kitchen and I don't like to eat my own cooking, tired of looking at it by that point, so I manage to avoid eating the equivalent of three dinners in one sitting. When I'm not in the kitchen then I'm usually retaining for Her Excellency of Bright Hills so I rack up the steps on my pedometer following her around to see the various activities at events and I consider it a "cheat day" when I get to feast. STC is my undoing.