LARP Food Recipe Book

Community Larp discussion
#1

With planning a long LARP comes the question; what do you feed to your participants?

Well, that’s something I can’t exactly answer, as I’m no cook. However, maybe you can. What sort of things have been cooked for you at long LARP events (such as Chimera, or any campaign game you wish to name)? If you happen to be able to get a hold of the recipes for these particular foods that are suitable to feed many people, please post them! Of course, credit will be given to any cooks kind enough to donate their recipes!

I hope to compile something of a recipe book for suitable LARP food that can be made to feed a large number of people. I’d really like recipes for food that’s suitable for people without allergies, gluten free food, and vegetarian food that can be made in large amounts!

Once this thread starts getting some recipes, I’ll list them here in the first post and link to them.

#2

I don’t have any actual recipes, just an observation that food at a weekend should be plentiful, nice, and uncomplicated. (Like, it’s quite hard on the picky eaters of the game (and there’s always some) to be confronted with pigs trotters or some other thing that they find ‘weird’, when they’re running around like stink for a couple of days and very very hungry. (Not that there isn’t a place for broadening one’s food horizons, I just figure not at a weekend game.))

#3

I haven’t ever eaten at a LARP before, however I have been at other big things, with many people. And pasta dishes always seem to do good.

#4

Porridge for breakfast!

(We had epic fruit & sultana porridge-of-doom at Teonn … mmmmmmm that was good)

#5

Apple crumble FTW. Breakfast or dessert, or both! I don’t care. Nomnomnomnom. :mrgreen:

#6

Do make sure you give credit to cooks kind enough to offer you their recipes :slight_smile:

#7

Of course, credit where credit is due.

#8

[quote=“Ignifluous”]Porridge for breakfast!

(We had epic fruit & sultana porridge-of-doom at Teonn … mmmmmmm that was good)[/quote]

except for those of us who can’t have porridge due to being gluten intolerant…

My biggest suggestion is if you accomedate to those who are gluten intolerant that you mark this food as such… nothing like having the one type of crackers you can have eaten by everyone else before you can have any and all your stuck with is chocolate while everyone else eat yummy pies and sausage rolls…

#9

[quote=“Tetrajak”]With planning a long LARP comes the question; what do you feed to your participants?

I hope to compile something of a recipe book for suitable LARP food that can be made to feed a large number of people. I’d really like recipes for food that’s suitable for people without allergies, gluten free food, and vegetarian food that can be made in large amounts!

Once this thread starts getting some recipes, I’ll list them here in the first post and link to them.[/quote]

Curry!!!

in hot pan mix oils garlic and curry spices let fry while stirring until aromatic then add lentils to brown, now add water bring to boil and add other vegtables cool till lentils are thoroughly cooked…

make heaps of rice… I tend to stick to rice based meals at big things specifically basmanti rice, ticks nearly every box I can think of, it’s Low GI, good for you, and gluten free.

#10

Having done the cooking for a LARP weekend for 60 people…

You will be catering for several groups of people. For example I had to cook for the non-fussy eaters, for vegetarians, vegans, for a gluten intolerant person and someone that had a sever allergy to rosemary. So for the first night I had to have 4 different dinners cooking and had to alter the recipes that used rosemary as that was totally removed from the venue.

Some basic rules
Vegetarians can eat Vegan food. Some will also eat cheese etc. If in doubt cook vegan for all of them. Check the labels carefully. While vegans are used to picking around meals to see they can eat, if you can make sure that you cook one or two things just for them.
Oven bags allow you to cook Vegan food at the same time as some animal products.

What you cook also very much depends upon what period the LARP is set in. Because I was doing a medieval LARP I tried to have no potatoes or other non-european fare. Thankfully they had rice in Europe at that time.

Breakfasts were
Porridge
Cereal
Toast - two different types of breads
Butter, margarine, jam, honey
Baked beans for those who wanted a more robust start to the day. Plus a little bacon.

Lunch one was a large cold meat platter with bread and vegetarian options
lunch two was soup and left overs

Dinner one was a very meaty stew for the meat eaters and a classic pottage for the vegans

Dinner two was
Course one - Garlic and Herb bread made with home made breads
Course Two - Soups
Course Three - A Salmon fish ball dish
Course Four - First dessert of very rich ice cream with a boysenberry puree
Course Five - A full beef roast course with roasted veges
Course Six - Dessert two: A fresh fruit salad with Chantily cream. It was meant to have a custard with that but that got missed.

Drinks were coffee, tea and lemon cordials
plus I had brewed three different types of beers for consumption with the second dinner.

Total cost for the weekend excluding alcohol was $14/ head. Unfortunately most of this was not cooked from recipes but rather from instinct and the help of an ex-professional chef, which saved my bacon at least once.

Careful planning and looking what is in season to cook with will keep the cost down, but I doubt I could do it for less than $16/head today.

I hope that is of some help. If you have other questions feel free to send me a pm.

#11

Malu’s Back Rice Pudding is to die for. I could quite happily consume that at all 3 meals per day.

Also once someone did hollowed out loaves of bread filled with a cheesy/onion/bacon dip and the inside of the bread had been toasted into soldiers to dip with. That was very scrummy and portable. I remeber sitting under a tree with a group of crew eating a loaf we bought with us while we waited for the pc’s to show up.