Making three meals each day just makes everybody crabby.  I refuse.

Two meals tops, whiners.

Screw Cooking Option 1: Luckily, walking right through the campsite gets you to Tuolumne Meadows Grill, a breakfast and lunch place where you can get ham, eggs, potatoes and toast and coffee for @ $10. Same price for a hamburger and French fries. There are vegetarian options and salads as well. Tables for outside dining. Counter, no waitresses.

Screw Cooking Option 2:  Tuolumne Meadows Lodge makes breakfast and dinner only, NO LUNCH. You usually have to make reservations for dinner as the facilities aren’t as Lodge-like as you might expect. In fact, they have NO ELECTRICITY! The dining room is a screened in deal with red gingham tablecloths and what looked to us like folding chairs. They call it “rustic.” I call it a far cry from the other lodge I like—the Torrey Pines Lodge in La Jolla. (Frank Lloyd right; arts & crafts style; you get the picture).

Those looking for grilled Tuscan artichokes in basil aioli and the like may have to go to the Valley at the Ahwahnee or down to the Wawona.

And that’s it folks; that’s all she wrote when it comes to having someone else cook for you while camping at Tuolumne Meadows. I’ve heard that at the trailheads, food stands sometimes appear. Anyone have any experience with this?