DS Forums

 
 

Food for Camping


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 02-08-2008, 20:22
Elanor
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 13,041

Aargh! I'm going camping for a week tomorrow morning, and I have realised that it's so long since I've been that I have entirely forgotten what to eat and cook!

I am going in a small tent, on my own, and will probably be moving from campsite to campsite every couple of days. I have a car, but no coolbox or anything, so whatever I take will have to be ok out of the fridge, or I'll have to be able to buy it there and eat it all myself that day/next day. I've got a small cooking stove and two smallish saucepans, a knife, a chopping board, a wooden spoon... and no food apart from some cereal bars and a box of wine!

Does anyone have any ideas please? I expect I will eat in pubs etc a couple of times, but I would like to cook most of my meals.
Elanor is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 02-08-2008, 20:32
bowland37
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,230
Hot dogs are good camping food. Tinned sausages and finger rolls. heinz Big soup is nice as well. UHT milk is handy to have for with cereal/tea/coffee.

I would take a few loaves of bread, a small tub of margerine and some sandwich fillings like jars of paste that will stay fresh until you open them. Plenty of crisps as well and fruit.
bowland37 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-08-2008, 20:35
Elanor
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 13,041
Ooh, that's a good idea. I haven't had hot dog sausages for years; I'm drooling at the thought though! I've got couscous too, and ketchup, I think that would all work together.
Elanor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-08-2008, 21:08
smudgy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 842
From my experience, lots of pasta and dry packet soups - mix them together to create a sauce. Or buy veg that can keep without a cool box - like onions and peppers, courgettes and aubergines and fry them and then add to the pasta. Tins of tuna and sweetcorn are always handy too!
smudgy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-08-2008, 02:44
Specktater
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Scotland
Posts: 7,801
We always take loads of instant noodles (nice and light!) and usually a fair few cans of various fish. We had some dried veg burger mixes (that just take water) last time we went and they were v.tasty (they can double up to make 'meatballs' as well). Oh and Cup-a-soups are great backups (and instant relief!) and you can use them as sauces for your noodles as well.

Have a great time
Specktater is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-08-2008, 19:43
Mark in Essex
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,646
Here are a couple of things we like:

Marks and Spencers tinned beef curry (hot) - it's very nice even for a tin!

Vesta beef rissotto (quite nice as well even though it's dried).

We also make pasta etc.

Also BBQ's are great as well - just get a cheap disposable BBQ.
Mark in Essex is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-08-2008, 21:41
dodgygeeza
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Manchester
Posts: 6,151
Spam!
dodgygeeza is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-08-2008, 09:50
DaisyBumbleroot
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 23,456
pot noodles and lager - what more do you need?

OP, you really could do with a cool bag. you can freeze milk and juice and that keeps the contents cool (the lager), you can take the wine out of its box and that will also wrap round items if you have cooled it before hand as well. then you can take meat for BBQs and bacon for in the morning (mmmm - cant beat a bacon butty on the morning!).

ten you can buy stuff for a few days and not have to worry about driving offsite every day, and its nice to eat fresh rather than constant dried. or even better is a small ice chest, or polystyrene box - ice will last a couple of days in one of those if the lid is down securly.


Warm beer and off meat - not good.
DaisyBumbleroot is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-08-2008, 19:40
Elanor
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 13,041
In the end I took a wine box (well, the new kind of wine bags actually) and cous cous and pasta, lots of tomatoes and apples and some hot dog sausages, some avocados, some tuna... and I baked a batch of spinach and cheese muffins before I left too, and took those - they keep really well in an airtight box.
Elanor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-08-2008, 14:50
Madridista23
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Calle Embajadores 28010
Posts: 7,692
Cream Puffs, Fairy Cakes and Faggots. It doesn't get much more camp than that!!


Oh.... and a bottle of Chilled Babycham.
Madridista23 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 13-08-2008, 14:08
catering-guy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 98
Baked beans, cans may be heavy though.
Instant noodles are light, quick and easy.
Soup cans or packets can be good too.
Corned beef cans.
catering-guy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 13-08-2008, 14:15
DrPepper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,608
chocolate and crisps LOl
DrPepper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-01-2015, 00:28
alcockell
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 23,357
If you want to save on washing up, try boil in the bag meals from look what we found
Or other ratpack suppliers. There are quite a lot of reviews of military style meals up on YouTube
alcockell is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 10-01-2015, 12:15
alan29
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 20,499
I take a couple of these - supermarkets sell the pouches, They are really good quality and delicious.
http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/about/our_story
and instant rice or tinned veg or potatoes to throw in. Do it all in one pan. Do a tin of rice pudding in the other pan.
alan29 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-01-2015, 16:28
ChoccyCarole
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: NZ♥Sydney-UK-CYBERDAZZLE
Posts: 5,686
glad you enjoyed your food on your camping trip back in 2008
ChoccyCarole is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 17:46.