Food for camping

BlackSpur

I'm doing a DofE expedition this weekend Friday-Sunday, got all the kit sorted apart from food! Not really sure what to take - we will have gas stoves to take and ideally it should be very quick/easy to prepare. I'm thinking of 'add hot water' pasta/noodle packs for evening meals but any ideas for breakfast and lunch? It needs to be able to withstand the heat - set to be about 26 degrees :shock:
Unfortunately military ration packs are out, not sure why but it just sayd that in the 'rules'!

Torres

I found the batchelors instand pastas pretty good, pasta carbonara was pretty tasty, and you cant go wrong with just pasta in tomato sauce. Couple of lads i went with had a bag with a slef heating element in them, just add cold water to the outer bag, reacts and warms the dinner; they we're tasty too, but jesus they were expensive.

For breakfast i took something granola esque (big clusters are easyer to eat) and just had them dry , or take some instant porridge and make it with water.

Lunch is always tricky... but i found tortiallas to fit nicely in a big rucksack, insidently paninis, naans and pitas have all worked equally as well. I filled them with a shachet of tune. John West branded, don't need refridgerating, in the canned food section at asda. Dried meat also works well too, sausages etc... or even squeezy cheese if you're in to that kinda thing :shock: ...

angry_bird

Well when i did my gold i took 3kgs of pasta for myself, 1kg each night, and yes i did eat it all some of those dolmio sauce packets, i think i had the ones with mince in because they had more good stuff in than the plain old tomato ones, took ryvitas for breakfasts and loads of pitta breads for lunch, just ended up eating lots of plain food seeing as sandwich fillings don't last too well in a rucksack in summer. oh and a lot of fruit, and salt, because salt is good

while i was in africa we ate loads and loads of these, it's not military rations so its allowed and it's supprisingly nice to eat if you can find some before you go, easy to cook too

http://www.britishfooddirect.com/index. ... ts_id=1034

I think in our group about 60% of our bags were filled with food and the rest was tents and sleeping bags, although we needed it, we seemed to charge around everywhere at a stupid pace so we could spend ages sitting around on top of the mountains working on our tans

RupertCommunicator

When I did my gold final exped we took tins of beans, a loaf of bread and a litre of vodka. Walking the next day with a stinking hangover was not fun. At all. You sound far more organised than I was!

cooldad

Plenty of squirrel in the woods. MTFU.

RupertCommunicator

It's only M-ingTFU if you kill the squirrel with you bare hands though...

And eat it raw. With the fur still on.

Thread8

Dont take too much just add water stuff, it makes you a bit "bunged up" if you get what Im saying :shock:

RupertCommunicator

Try and factor a village into your walk and get some fresh on route.

Gazlar

asda do some nice pot pasta's or instabt batchelors pasta and sauce whack in herta frankfurters, or packet rice and mix in tinned tuna is a good one too. I definately agree on instant porridge for brekky though, nice slow release food. Marks and sparks do a pot version too. Tinned stewing steak and tinned pots and veg are always a fave for me on camping trips but are quite weighty

VWsurfbum

am i missing something? surely the idea would be to live off the land? ala Bear Grilles? or is that something completly different?

The Northern Monkey

campbells meatbals + rice.

omnomnomnomnomnom.
If you go camping without them.... its not camping!

projectsome

http://hikingbackpacking.suite101.com/a ... food_ideas

Chaz.Harding

I'd suggest staying well away from tins - they are too heavy, too bulky and the rubbish (the tin itself) is the same size as the full version...

Boil-in-the-bag foods FTW!!!

And supernoodles. If you can't be arsed to cook them-they make awesome replacement for crisps. Leave your mouth a bit dry though...

asdfhjkl

Quakers instant oatmeal and Smash instant mash potato. Both take up hardly any space and are cooked by mixing them into a little bit of boiling water. Sachets of tuna work well too because you can eat them straight from the packet, no cooking needed. I can't remember the brand, but you get this cooked pasta in a green and white packet which you just heat up by boiling a couple of tablespoons of water and adding the pasta to it for a couple of minutes.

Learn from my mistake - do not try Beanfeast dried bolognese. You'll, er... make heavy use of your trowel.

chris_sw

The main things I remember eating on DoE expeditions were tracker bars, pork pies, and pasta in the evening. One guy in our group thought it would be a good idea to bring all the water he would need for the whole trip with him, adding an extra 10kg to his pack! Luckily for him, someone informed him he was being a retard before we left

Anonymous

i always take bean feast and pasta and boil in the obvious rice too.

ben speaks the truth reference meatballs, buti only take them when im not carrying them fom place to place.

breakfast is always flapjack of some variety if i am carrying it or beans and bread if not.

Anonymous

Jon_sillito wrote:

It's only M-ingTFU if you kill the squirrel with you bare hands though...

And eat it raw. With the fur still on.

Kill it? you mean eat it whilst it's still alive, surely?

whyamihere

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Jon_sillito wrote:

It's only M-ingTFU if you kill the squirrel with you bare hands though...

And eat it raw. With the fur still on.

Kill it? you mean eat it whilst it's still alive, surely?

There tends to be ladies present on a D of E thing, certain sacrifices must be made in order to maintain a gentlemanly decorum.

Anonymous

yeah, like sacrificing a squirrel?

kaytronika

Friday to Sunday?

I'd probably pack about 48 cans and a bottle of vodka.

Depends if there's a local...

IcarusGreen

Beef Jerky, bratwürste, schinkengriller, super noodles,

BlackSpur

I'm off out in a couple of hours, cheers for the suggestions! Ended up with a couple of dehydrated pasta/noodle things, a sachet of tomato risotto, a couple of tuna steaks in sachets, a pack of granola bar things as well as the usual biscuits and fruit etc.

Weather over here is liable to hit 30 :shock: