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Food for Camping
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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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!
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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Cream Puffs, Fairy Cakes and Faggots. It doesn't get much more camp than that!!
Oh.... and a bottle of Chilled Babycham.
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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. |
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chocolate and crisps LOl
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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 |
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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. |
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glad you enjoyed your food on your camping trip back in 2008
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