Prom food?
So tomorrow is my prom and today I'm making uhm.. last minute arrangements haha. (aka buying my bra and other not so ahem.. important things...) and I realized I'm going to be there for 5 hours. And there's a buffet so I'm worried about what I'll do about dinner and food and such.
Pretty much I need ideas as to what I can bring to munch on throughout the night that won't take up too much space as my purse is obviously limited and I'm not goign to bring like.. a cooler haha. I was thinking I'd bring like a luna bar but I'll need something of substance. I'll most likely eat at my best friend's house before we leave but other than that? Any ideas?
any help would be AWESOME! Or any testimonies about your proms and food would be incredibly helpful.
What about some almonds or seeds? Mrs. Mays makes a really yummy almond snack which is vegan.
mm I was thinking that I would bring some almonds with me and before hand I'm planning on eating a grain based meal such as one with beans and couscous in it which should hold me over for a while.
nuts are definitely a good idea. so is a protein bar, like you suggested with the luna bar. if you want, nut butter sandwiches are easy to make and stow in a purse, and that would hold you if you got hungry- it's got substance. eating a grain based meal beforehand is a good idea, though. will there be anything at the prom for you? i can't remember what they served at mine...at that point i still ate chicken, so i wasn't really paying attention to the meal. the food wasn't worth remembering anyway.
You guys actually eat at your prom? NO ONE ate the food at ours; not because it was notoriously disgusting, but we ALWAYS went to a restaurant before hand, you were too busy dancing to eat when you got there! The food pretty much just sat untouched on the buffet. Have a great night darling, enjoy feeling like a princess!
some kind of bar would be your best bet. its calorie dense so it shouldnt be a problem. is there anyway to contact the caterer about a vegan alternative. I just had a formal and I was able, through the girl who planned it, get a vegan meal made just for me. it was very good too. otherwise i would bring a littl ebag of nuts or a trail mix. 5 hours isnt too long. youll have sush a good time the 5 hours will go by soo fast.
I never went to the prom. I had a boyfriend at the time, and neither one of us were interested whatsoever in going--apparently I shunned tradition and convention with ease even when I was a kid! But that's just me and I'm strange. :D
And that doesn't mean you won't have a blast at the prom! Whenever I go somewhere where I think there won't be food to my liking, I take a big bag/container of trail mix. On the road, at the movies, etc.--it's almost always a bag of trail mix for me. However, some sort of nutrition bar might fit better in your purse.
You're eating before you go (make sure there's adequate protein), so unless you're like my sister who needs to eat every few hours you'll probably be fine with a Luna bar and some almonds - at most. You could also leave something like extra almonds in your date's car. It's going to be a fast five hours (if you stay the whole time), so you'll likely not get hungry.
thanks for all the replies guys! I ended up having a meal with quinoa before I left and at the place I ate some salad (with an amazing balsamic vinegrette dressing) and a roll. I was fine!
and yes, we did actually eat. The way it was set up was so that there were two sets of tables on the ends of the room and the buffet was in the middle. They just served it from like 7-8:30 or so and there was no room to dance while the buffet was up.
I think I need new glasses. I read the subject as Porn food until I took a closer look!!!!
I think I need new glasses. I read the subject as Porn food until I took a closer look!!!!
I couldn't help but lmao at this Wendie! Imagine porn food? I wonder what that would be like??? I have days liike that in class where my vision is so bad even with my glasses on that I would just sit there and squint at the board for so long and still not see whats really there! I think I need new glasses too... HEHEH!!!!!!
LoL... let's see... strawberries, bananas perhaps, peaches, chocolate, Hip Whip... :P
Ok, that was bad of me, I'll stop. :P
LOL!!!!!
I think I need new glasses. I read the subject as Porn food until I took a closer look!!!!
I couldn't help but lmao at this Wendie! Imagine porn food? I wonder what that would be like??? I have days liike that in class where my vision is so bad even with my glasses on that I would just sit there and squint at the board for so long and still not see whats really there! I think I need new glasses too... HEHEH!!!!!!
We have a bakery here that does "porn food"--curiously shaped cream filled pastries, or cakes to order. Custard filled--uh, phalli--and things of that nature.
Times have certainly changed...when I went to the prom it was after supper, your date was expected to treat you and all we were offered was strange blue punch (frappe, they called it. Disgusting I called it) and little cookies and things. And of course someone spiked the punch from a hip flask and got caught and called on the carpet the next Monday and they threatened him with not letting him graduate. I basically shanghaied the guy I liked into inviting me, he was 6.4 and I discovered he had absolutely no relationship with his feet and could not dance.
Although that was better than the one and only "Ladies' Choice" dance I went to in college, I invited my best male friend's roommate because I thought he was the strong silent type. Discovered it was because he had nothing to say. Later his roomie fessed up--he was getting his teaching certificate, sure--and he was also training to be a priest!
Ah, those were not the days.
Times have certainly changed...when I went to the prom it was after supper, your date was expected to treat you and all we were offered was strange blue punch (frappe, they called it. Disgusting I called it) and little cookies and things. And of course someone spiked the punch from a hip flask and got caught and called on the carpet the next Monday and they threatened him with not letting him graduate. I basically shanghaied the guy I liked into inviting me, he was 6.4 and I discovered he had absolutely no relationship with his feet and could not dance.
Although that was better than the one and only "Ladies' Choice" dance I went to in college, I invited my best male friend's roommate because I thought he was the strong silent type. Discovered it was because he had nothing to say. Later his roomie fessed up--he was getting his teaching certificate, sure--and he was also training to be a priest!
Ah, those were not the days.
;D Yabbit, I always enjoy reading your posts. :) You lighten up my day...
Okay, now everytime I see this thread come up, I'm reading it, "Porn Food." ::)