What's to eat???

What exactly are you going to be eat at high-noon with the sun blazing over heat and the sweat running down the back of your neck and your stomach turning over yet again after six or seven hours on the road already?
Standing there in the isle of Walmart gazing at all your options it hard to figure out just what is going to sit well in your stomach no matter how many ultra-events you've done before.
What exactly is going to meet those hunger pains head on or end up coming back up as fast as it went down.
The year before I went to Badwater I ran two 100-mile races on mainly watermelon.
When the gun went off, so did my stomach on the watermelon. I suffered from severe gas which with the gusting tail winds came right back to me.
Here's what I remember I did eat at Badwater:
4-pounds of smoked chicken
4-pounds of Provolone cheese
12-Boost with extra calories (not the protein one can apparently be difficult to digest while running--or so I've been told).
12 bags of Shot Blocks.
?-containers of apple sauce or fruit cups (I really cannot remember--Just Eat What You Are Handed)
1-bag of beef jerky
several Hammer Gels

Other items that were along but cannot remember whether I ate them or not (bacause much remains a blur even today!)
Gold Fish (those little cheese crackers that are easy to carry in your hand but tough to eat while running)
Pop Tarts-remember those from when you were a kid?
Corn Tortillas-I brought those to make sandwiches with the chicken and cheese but they did not hold up well and I ended up eating Monica Scholz sandwiches (the chicken wrapped in the cheese with nothing else).
Cookies--I like the raspberry Newtons (soft sided cookie with jam filling)
Saltine crackers--they can help settle the stomach.

The rest seems lost.
The best thing is to remember you will go through lots of ups and downs. The heat will affect your appetite.
We did not bring a stove to heat anything along the way. I know lots of people who like chicken soup for the salt content while racing. I used other sources but when the temperatures dipped to 68 degrees F overnight, something hot might have been nice.
Remember there are minimal opportunities along the course to buy things.
One of the things that tasted great going through Stove Pipe Wells was the Freezies the crew purchased and brought out to me.