What do you do for food?

[Ready_Mix]

What is this food you speak of?

[Denman]

Pot noodles tend to make us survive in the build period, as all we need is a kettle....
If we get extra peckish, someone has to drive and get some chips or something..
did you say subway donates you food?!
if we ever build anything at college i think we will have to go visit them .... (its about 10 m from college)... however in the local cinema magazine you can get a 6inch sub for free if you buy a medium drink... so thats effectivly £1 ....
Otherwise in meetings we just let everyone go hungry , (we start at 4:30 and rarely end later than 8pm...)

[Sakura141]

to add to my last post since I JUST thought of this. The Robotics team eats more food in a 6 week period then the whole city of Holland, Michigan in a year according to one of our mentors >.> we get tons of discounts to because we have at least 1 robotics person at each pizza place in the city as well.

[JamizzleHavok13]

Originally Posted by Dorienne Plait

We ask our parents to make a meal for a night. They sign up for at least one meal during the six weeks, and are obliged for that day to provide one meal that will feed all of the students, mentors and advisors. Some sign up for two even! It is a big success. On the days we don't have a meal being brought in, we carpool and go out to get food on our own. We make sure we have money just in case anything happens.

Yeah, what Dori forgot to mention is that we meet every weekday from 4:00 pm till about 8:00 pm so most of us just stay at school from the time school gets out till 4, so we don't get to go home for food. It's a great relief on the team when parents provide the food for us so that we don't end up spending loads of money to eat.

[fred]

this year, we are planning on having meetings from 3-8 for much of the build season (finally, another excuse not to do homework), most of the time, we just sort of pool our money, a store near us does pizzas that will feed about 4 people for only 5 dollars each, so if we do that, we shouldn't have to end up paying too much. sometimes people just bring in food as well.

[adventrx327]

My team used to work non-stop so..


we hooked up a glucose solution and fed ourselves via IV to not damage any components (laptops, victors, command interfaces, etc.)

We had one person dedicated to rationing out the sugar and mixing the soluition (in huge gallon-drum barrels)... You'd be surprised at how quickly a 50 lb bag can run out.

[ngreen]

My team meets from 5:30-9:30 weeknights; 9-5 Saturday; and 1-5 Sunday

There are 24 students on the team and a parent volunteers for each weeknight to feed us --- with mentors it is close to 40. We have a set dinner time of 6 and it has been a good bonding period for the team.

For weekends we have 2 refridgerators and a microwave and leftovers from the week. Or we will send someone out to get something.

We drink a lot of soda. Last year we had 6 full garbage bags of crushed cans. We are trying to wean back on to water though and there is a endless supply. We actually have a food section to our shop.

[ductape_man]

Last few years it was basically free-for-all....Now were smarter, everyone was/is required to pay a $5 Team Entry Fee, which goes towards pizza. Also, a bunch of us work at various pizza places around town, so that helps too. Oh, and Ramen noodles.....so many times have they have saved us from certain hungryness

[Ready_Mix]

jk about the post earlier. Normally, parents take turns bringing meals to us at the shop. If students need food before about 6:30 - 7:00pm, then we normally go on a jack in the box run or something.

Awwwww.... You guys have fridges and microwaves? last year all we had was a mini-fridge..... No microwaves....

Maybe FIRST will give out microwaves and fridges for winning this year.... XD

[greencactus3]

Originally Posted by ngreen

For weekends we have 2 refridgerators and a microwave and leftovers from the week.

Awwwww.... You guys have fridges and microwaves? last year all we had was a mini-fridge..... No microwaves....

Maybe FIRST will give out microwaves and fridges for winning this year.... XD

i understand the need for fridges someplaces, but here in michigan we open the door to some snowy landscape. and for microwaves, pffft. we roast our marshmallows over a hot motor.

[artic_raven]

for the two competions that we have been to we have always been close by to numerous restuantes and fast food. so what happens is that everyone brings their own money and buyus whatever they want to eat for that meal. simple but it does cost the team member a bit

[igrowrobots]

Are we allowed to bring food into the regionals? i.e. Portland Regional?

[tiffany34990]

food= good lol-- we feed our team spam jk no we just during the weeks everyone has dinner before the meeting @ 6:30 but Saturdays kids bring lunches or we buy pizza -- $1 a slice which includes a drink-- take about an hr to get all of the pizza and well yeah. very simple i guess but it works. make a deal w/ pizza places and it works to get the team fed.

competitions of course are different-take the package or we let them on their own for food-for competitions though we try to get a hotel w/ continental breakfast

[russell]

Our team doesnt really have set meeting times, we just come in after school, and leave when we all happen to be done with our various tasks. Last year there was a pizza place nearby that sold large pizzas (enough for like three people) for six dollars, and with only 7 of us only six of whom would show up on a given day we could usually get by with two pizzas which cost just 12 dollars total. Then someone would go to k-mart or wal mart or one of those places (I never went so I forget where) and get about a hundred cans of those funny brand sodas called like mountain lightning and dr thunder. It seemed like we could get a load of soda for about ten bucks. Then occasionally someones parents would bring in some stew or chili, or once a guys dad brought in these really good cajun chicken wings he makes. This year we got sponsored by Hostess, so we have a cabinet full of twinkies, and fruit pies, and other generally unhealthy preservative filled goodness. Then just for good measure we got sponsored by another local bread company so we have all sorts of bagels and healthier stuff. We have yet to get any soda yet this year, we we are just making a container of lemonade every day.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by igrowrobots

Are we allowed to bring food into the regionals? i.e. Portland Regional?

A few regionals allow this, but in general the answer is no. See the Rules section 7.4.

Wetzel