overall id say the free food (ie. wristbands and astroworld) sorta sucked taste wise, and wasnt cooked very good

however, purchased food was expensive but good(ie dip n dots, popcorn

Aww, someone beat me to it... now I don't feel like raging about it......... meh

Well, to add to that... $6.50 for nachos?? no, wait, for CHIPS & CHEESE???????

Maybe we can e-mail FIRST about it..........

Note: Yes, I am a vegetarian... just helping those who didn't figure that out......

Hmm..
 

Actually, I thought the food was good for an event of this size. The pizza was good on the first day, the chicken/fish sandwiches weren't very tasty but at least they had some nutrition, and the hamburgers/hotdogs were just fine.

Breakfast at the Radisson, on the other hand, was consistently awful.

I didn't go to the team party (c'mon...when has the food there ever been good???) so I can't comment on that, but all in all I found the arrangements to be more than adequate.

Plus, my team bought and filled a cooler with soda and water so we didn't have to pay ridiculous prices ($3.25 for a 20oz coke?) to stay hydrated.

the food did suck at the comp and the park, I also though it was outrageous that it was $3.75 for a coke the only good thing was the fact that if by some chance you didn't loose you wrist band and the tabs you got some kind of free food and a drink. the food at the team party sucked, i didn't touch the hot dogs and once i was able to break up the chicken i lost my desire to eat. I think the only good thing that came out of the prices is I will never complain about a $1.25 drink again or $9.99 for a large pizza.

The vegetarian thing was definitely a problem for some. Our coach is vegetarian, and so she had to eat just a bag of chips two days in a row because the stadium people were inconsiderate. I felt really sorry for her...

best food-

lots of stuff from the autodesk meeting.. like 15 cans of soda, and like 20 bags of chips and stuff 4 the hotel!!

food
 

my team definetly got screwed on the whole food situation
we stayed at the Holiday in Astrodome, which as said before, had the same thing every morning and it was gross in my opinion, from not eating the breakfast at the hotel, i went to the pits and proceeded to drink the masses of mountain dew [my team bought about 100 leiters at the local "Fiesta"] and either stayed on that till dinner or ate some krispy kreme in despiration for food
i actually couldn't find the pre-paid concessions on thursday, so i bought some pizza, then decided it was WAY to much, luckily mp parents were great and knowing food prices from disney last year [they went] they gave me plenty of food money plus some spending money, although by the end i didn't have much spending money, our team's papa john's & dew habit got the best of me
also, the dinners were kinda of gross, my team generally ended up going back to the hotel and ordering papa john's, no matter what the time [dew + pizza @ 11PM=up until 3 30 AM, esp not good when you wake up at 6 30 AM]
the food at astroworld, the stuff your paid for, was considerably better than anything available in Reliant Park, except the free meal on saturday night
my friend is a vegetarian along with some of you guys, and had GREAT difficulty finding something to eat, i think he ended up eating ice cream sandwiches and doritos, but then he found out that the baked bean had no meat and chowed down on those in a hot dog bun
i didn't eat the meat there either, it just looked bad, and what was the other stuff, egg salad? i couldn't tell and just opted not to eat that was well
overall i think it was possibly the most unhealthy competition for my team ever, especially considering the large amounts of mountain dew consumed [we were the team with the GIANT mt. dew bottle that was full at the begining of the say and empty by 9 AM and we took our lunch break to go get more bottles
i have to say, by about 7 PM friday, i had the most odd desire for a piece of fruit, and i didn't really get some until i got home.....

I agree with many of you. The lunches and overall food in the stadium is something i wouldn't feed livestock with. The pizza on the first days was disgusting. It felt like bread covered with some pepperoni and a 1 inch layer of generic cheese. I hate Papa John for doing that to us. The chicken sandwich the next day was pretty horrible as well. I ate half of it and felt like throwing the other half in someone's face (probably Papa John's). The hot dog on the saturday was something i managed to finish without throwing up. The only good thing were the drinks that came with the lunches. The rest of the food in the dome was too expensive and unattractive to even consider buying.

About the hotel. We stayed at the Hyatt downtown and the food there was OK. We went to Hard Rock Cafe one night and ate a good meal there, but that's about it.

I disliked the lack of a vegetarian option, both at the team thing, and at the stadium. A good vegetarian option should have been provided.

As a side note, two teammates, and myself went to the local Fiesta (meeting Team 25, coincidentally) and bought $52.00 worth of soda, and Hot Pockets. I wound up drinking about 7 sodas a night - our mini-fridge had a total of 36 soda cans and bottles. :D It served as a substitute for lunch, which was terrible. The FIRST water was a plus, though.:D

Hmm...pop was $4.75 for a bottle...eek! :ahh:

24 cans for 5 bucks at Fiesta. We also loaded up on 20 oz bottles of Pipp, which wakes you up in the morning better than an ice cold shower. Too bad they don't sell it in Jersey though.

Our team didn't pay for the FIRST package and definitely didn't want to pay for the outragous park prices. Instead, we had one of our adult mentors travel to a local grocery store each day and buy some lunch. This worked out great and only cost each person around $1.50 per meal. (That is if you don't mind Mt. Dew and Ham and Cheese Sandwiches.)

Yea.. This really beat me up, since I'm what you would call a Eater.


I mean, comeon.. At Disney you could get a delicious breakfast and then eat at any restaraunt you wanted in Epcot.. Then back at the hotels there was ample food sources.


But at Houston I basically starved myself the first few days cuz I'm not going to pay 15 bucks for a real meal. Heck, I couldn't even go to a nearby restaraunt at the hotel. I lived on Doritos and Capri-Sun for three days. My suitcase was considerably lighter by the end of nat's. Epcot, which I had become bored of, (can you believe that) now seems like heaven to me..

The biggest problem we had was not with food at the Reliant center, but at our hotel (the Doubletree). A large chunk of the team arrived Thursday night at around 8:00, and went to try and find food. While there were several restaurants withing walking distance of the hotel, they all had closed at 8:00. According to the concierge, there was a McDonalds a few miles away that didn't close until 8:30, so we took a van there, only to find it closed at 8:20. We cruised around a bit before returning to the hotel hungry. Finally, we asked the concierge if there was any food place open past 8, and he told us that only the Hard Rock Cafe was. I didn't personally go, but from what I heard, the food there was very overpriced and undertasty. At Disney, there were literally dozens of good restaurants open late within a couple of blocks of the Hotel, but apparently Houston shuts down at 8pm.

Breakfast at the Radisson
 

As the more than 20 teams that stayed at the Radission know, the breakfast package there sucked. It consisted of runny scrambled eggs and badly cooked poor cut bacon. The biscuit and gravy was good for the first two days but they got stale after that. One day they added cereal which was a good move, the pancake addition was not. I should have just chugged the syrup instead of eating it off of cardboard disks. UD Dining Hall seems like the Four Seasons after that crap.

The Prepaid lunches were also bad. What was worse was the $4.75 soda. I just kept a first water bottle on me and filled it up at the stadium. At that soda price they should at least allow u to bring ur own sodas like in the picnic area at Epcot.