No More Crap Camp Food!

Food has become an integral part of Australia's festival culture. We've gone from hot dogs and tinnies to raw cheesecake and boutique brews made by hipsters with beards. So when we say Splendour's festival goods will make you drool, we're not talking chips on a stick — vegan, raw, paleo, gluten free, organic, you name it, it's on the expansive list of food vendors they're rolling in. The best bit? They're available in the campground.

Yep, you read that right. No more hunger pains at midnight when you're craving carbs after a long day running around on the sauce. "It's a long haul, you'll need your energy and the foodies in the campground are open before and after the music has happened. Food staves off hangovers, allows you to dance longer and impress people," says Splendour Camping Manager Jeremy Sheaffe.

"It's very hard to beat a strong coffee and B&E Roll with relish."

So hop over in your sleeping bag to the 'Food Pods' dotted around the campsite. "'Food Pod' is the name we give to the assemblage of individual stalls in a variety of easily accessible locations throughout the campgrounds. They are lined up adjacent to a tent for shade, because it's not going to rain, obviously, and serve as a meeting point, landmark and a chill out zone when required," Sheaffe enthuses.

As for the morning after, they've got you covered on the hangover front. "It's very hard to beat a strong coffee and B&E Roll with relish — however this is subjective, punters may prefer a curry, a pizza or fresh yoghurt," Sheaffe suggests.

For those health conscious, with dietary requirements or just feeling the effects of morning yoga and wanting to continue that glow, they're catering for you too: "There will even be standard festival fare presented in a vegan/vego/raw style. Chia pudding anyone? Cold-pressed turmeric latte?" As intriguing as a cold turmeric coffee sounds, what's even more interesting is a particular method of waste disposal involving pigs. They're implementing multiple waste disposal methods, "From the bins to the trucks to the pigs to the staff to the signs to the garbage bags — there are so many systems in place to ensure that not only are the campgrounds kept spotless, but once the waste is cleared it is sorted, recycled, reused, fed to the pigs, turned into Barbie dolls in China or used to generate electricity in Ipswich." Well, we're sold — where can we buy a garbage pig?