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Crappy Camping Cuisine

We've all been there — it's day three of the festival, you can't be arsed going into town for supplies (and let's face it, you're too hungover to get the shuttle) and you're left in need of sustenance with minimal ingredients.

We asked around the office and found out what weird, wacky and quite frankly, inedible creations have been consumed in festival campgrounds.

Brad: "Someone used all the milk for coffee, so I had coffee with fruit loops... was odd."

Leigh: "I ate two cigarette butts thinking they were beer nuts. Needed more salt."

Felicity: "Not necessarily weird but I drank six Up & Gos in a row so they wouldn't go to waste."

Zoe: "My last resort is more beer... beer is greater squashed stale camping food."

Leigh: "Jerky, jerky and more jerky and Melbourne Bitter — the diet of a camping festival veteran."

Brynn: "I had a mate eat beer and weetbix in the absence of milk or juice. I myself had three-day-old stale bread with tinned tuna. Yuech."

Georgie: "I caught a fish with my bare hands and ate it raw. Psych!"