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Re: Cooking for Stage Management
« Reply #75 on: May 06, 2008, 01:29 pm »
I make smoothies at home for breakfast before tech; I use a stick blender to blend chunks of frozen bananas, strawberries and pineapple (or whatever fruit looked good at the store) and I mix that with organic vanilla soy milk and whole milk French vanilla yogurt. A great boost of power and it keeps me going and not feeling overly full. I also love salads during tech, (Love, love, LOVE tabbouleh, too!). I will grill up some chicken breasts and toss those with red and yellow peppers, edamame, spinach, mixed greens, tomatoes and broccoli. Put some bleu cheese crumbles on top and add balsamic vinagrette. Or I go the spinach salad route with red onion, bacon, hardboiled eggs, baby cremini mushrooms and tomatoes. This gets the classsic honey mustard dressing. I'm walking my dog at the dinner breaks so I usually avoid the heavy dinners with the rest of the tech staff. We go out every now and then but it saves money and a little bit of my waistline. :D

For snacking at the tech table I try to keep it to nuts, fruits and dried fruits, but I don't deny myself the chocolate else I feel like I'm going to go insane. I'm an ice water junkie, too, so I always have a glass of ice water with me. It's a comfort thing as well as a good for hydration.

If I feel gnoshy after I get home from a 10/12, I will often have a few slices of baguette with cheese and hard salami, if I've got it in the house.  I think the French are on to something there...


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Re: Cooking for Stage Management
« Reply #76 on: May 06, 2008, 02:09 pm »
I make smoothies at home for breakfast before tech; I use a stick blender to blend chunks of frozen bananas, strawberries and pineapple (or whatever fruit looked good at the store) and I mix that with organic vanilla soy milk and whole milk French vanilla yogurt. A great boost of power and it keeps me going and not feeling overly full.

If I feel gnoshy after I get home from a 10/12, I will often have a few slices of baguette with cheese and hard salami, if I've got it in the house.  I think the French are on to something there...



What proportions are the soy milk/yogurt to get a a single sized smoothie or do you eyeball it?

Amen to cheese and hard salami! Have you tried sharp provolone with Genoa salami? My favorite! I rarely eat huge servings of meat, but there's something about this combination!
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Re: Cooking for Stage Management
« Reply #77 on: May 06, 2008, 02:17 pm »
I try to make a spinach mushroom lasagne the day before tech week begins. It's easy, and it tastes good after sitting in the fridge for four days.

Usually I go off the healthy wagon during tech week. I tend to eat all the dark chocolate off the tech table, so much that my assistant would grab some for me for later. I also go out to eat if I can. Sometimes its good to get out of the building to see how the real world is doing.

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Re: Cooking for Stage Management
« Reply #78 on: May 06, 2008, 08:34 pm »
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What proportions are the soy milk/yogurt to get a a single sized smoothie or do you eyeball it?

Marcie...I usually use between 4-5 oz bananas, 2-3 each of strawberries and pineapple and 4-5 of soy milk to 4-5 ounces yogurt. All of this is by weight, so you end up with anything from a 12 to 15 ounce smoothie. It's a big smoothie, but it's good energy and you get alot of your dairy and fruit servings for the day in a healthy, easy to make meal. Using the stick blender means I don't have to wash the blender pitcher.

And another holla out to hard salami and cheese! There aren't many cheese/salami combos I don't like.


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Re: Cooking for Stage Management
« Reply #79 on: May 06, 2008, 10:47 pm »
Usually I go off the healthy wagon during tech week.


I used to be like this until I started working for a rep company and have tech every 2 weeks.  Now I try really hard to have healthy snacks (fruit, nuts, yogurt, carrots/celery sticks) ready so I don't end up eating junk every time.  However, sometimes you just need to have chocolate... :-)

One of my favorite tech foods is brown rice with dried cranberries and walnuts (throw it all in the rice cooker together with some dill weed).  I usually add some grilled chicken and broccoli and then freeze it in single portion containers.  I also will put left overs in individual servings in the freezer so when it gets to tech I am not eating the same thing the entire week.  It makes it easy in the morning to just grab something out of the freezer and go, and not have to worry about trying to find the container to put it in.


Sometimes its good to get out of the building to see how the real world is doing.

This is so true!!  I am amazed at how much better I feel after going outside even if it is just for 5 mins.
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Re: Food, Tech Dinners, etc (Merged Topics)
« Reply #80 on: May 07, 2008, 12:49 am »
This topic has been discussed at length previously and has therefore been merged with the established thread.
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Re: Food, Tech Dinners, etc (Merged Topics)
« Reply #81 on: May 07, 2008, 01:50 am »
I've never been much of a cook, but I do have one specialty: roasted chick peas.  I like to make three or four cans at a time and snack on them throughout the week.  I get sick of the texture of hummus sometimes and these are always a welcome replacement.

I also love to make my own guacamole.  Usually I dispense with chips and just eat it with a fork...mmm.  (Also, something I learned from Alton Brown that's ridiculously good: adding pomegranate seeds to guacamole.  Who knew?)

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Re: Food, Tech Dinners, etc (Merged Topics)
« Reply #82 on: Jan 23, 2009, 05:24 pm »
I feel this topic needs a rousing and add a recipe of my own. When I was interning (no pay, lots of work and living in a dorm all summer without a real kitchen) I would stock up on cans of black beans (or any bean), corn, and jars of salsa. Every morning I would dump a can of corn, beans, and a couple tablespoons of salsa into a tupperware container. If I had time/the facilities I would microwave it, but it can also been eaten as a cold salad.
It's an easy meal that ends up costing about $1.75. Which on no money utterly rocks.

Now that I am actually working for money, I still find I go back to this. Now I tend to add chopped onions, basil, cheese, green olives, and anything else I have handy. Also, it is rare that I don't have a microwave so I almost always microwave it.

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Re: Food, Tech Dinners, etc (Merged Topics)
« Reply #83 on: Aug 25, 2010, 03:07 am »
I'm going to revive this topic, because I've been looking for tips like this, and I found them, so I'm not going to start a new topic. Is this cool?

Anyway, I'm in high school, and I'm interning with a Shakespeare company that does outdoors shows (not fridge or microwave). I've basically been living off three things: 100 calorie packs of dried cranberries, Nature Valley granola bars (though I really should find something softer and less noisy), and tupperware containers of frozen tortellini with basil and fresh cherry tomatoes (my family has a garden). Also, my friends have recently introduced me to the wonders of carrots-and-hummus, which is *amazing*. I'm trying to get my mom to phase it in to our shopping list.

The cranberries are great quick snacks, the granola bars (with water) are very filling when you have a 5 or a 10, and the tortellini is really good for meal breaks and is great room temperature.




These are also good for me because I tend to graze (eat constantly) rather than take meals.
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Re: Food, Tech Dinners, etc (Merged Topics)
« Reply #84 on: Aug 25, 2010, 08:50 pm »
I'm going to revive this topic, because I've been looking for tips like this, and I found them, so I'm not going to start a new topic. Is this cool?

Anyway, I'm in high school, and I'm interning with a Shakespeare company that does outdoors shows (not fridge or microwave). I've basically been living off three things: 100 calorie packs of dried cranberries, Nature Valley granola bars (though I really should find something softer and less noisy), and tupperware containers of frozen tortellini with basil and fresh cherry tomatoes (my family has a garden). Also, my friends have recently introduced me to the wonders of carrots-and-hummus, which is *amazing*. I'm trying to get my mom to phase it in to our shopping list.

The cranberries are great quick snacks, the granola bars (with water) are very filling when you have a 5 or a 10, and the tortellini is really good for meal breaks and is great room temperature.




These are also good for me because I tend to graze (eat constantly) rather than take meals.

One of the theaters I worked in didn't have a microwave either. Some other suggestions for non-microwaveable meals:

tomato/mozzarella/olive salad...marinate in olive oil, vinegar, and a little salt and pepper
sandwiches/wraps, obviously
chicken or tuna salad
hummus and veggies
hamburger patties
cold soups
"cowboy caviar"- a dish my mom used to make....corn, black beans, chopped onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and vinegar
apples and peanut butter
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. -Ionesco

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Re: Food, Tech Dinners, etc (Merged Topics)
« Reply #85 on: Aug 25, 2010, 09:12 pm »
There are many pasta dishes that are great cold as well if you don't have microwave access.

I'm one of those people who are actually quite happy eating a lot of my leftovers cold.  Even at home where the microwave is right next to the fridge I'll often eat a lot of cold dishes.