Oy ya just had to get this one going... Ahahahaaaaaaa
I separate them by color first. Whichever has the most of one color lines up at the top, the next highest files in line in front of them and so forth till I get to the least amount of one color...
example:
R R R R R R
G G G G G
Y Y Y Y Y
B B B B
O O O
B B B
I eat from the least column of all the colors and off them first, eventually working my way to the column that has one of every color... Yeh I know... pretty OCD... oops! There are worse things in life right?