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Camping Food
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:24 pm
by yarney
I'm going away camping in a 3 weeks for two weeks
The topic of food came up so i thought what do people bring when they go camping, that is fast but tastes good, Packet food, fresh food give me your thoughts or recipes
Jan
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:29 pm
by Green_eyed_liberty
usally we will make our meals before-hand and vac-freeze them. that way its a simple thing to just re-heat
spag bol
stews
etc
easy to prepare, and a good solid meal in your belly
Food, Glorious Food ...
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:48 pm
by Bantum
I'd take some Dry foods that don't need refrigeration :
- Potatoes / Flour
- Rice / Noodles
- Biscuits / Crackers
- Dried fruit ( apricot / pears etc ... )
- Beef Jerky / chewy stuff
+ Some wet stuff :
- Water ( you can't ever take enough )
- Long life milk
- Tin can meals
- Alcohol
Also handy are the ration packs you can get from defence ( which despite appearance, are quite tasty ) among other essentials ...
- Hmmm ... Chocolate ...
& If you do have access to a portable fridge / freezer :
- Meat
- Veggies
- Ice-cream
Might come back to this as I rember what else ...
Cheers, Bantum ...
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:14 pm
by Silverbullet
I've never been away for more than about 5 days at a time, but we always used to just have tinned stews, stroganoff, rice meals, pasta sauce pouches. And for dessert a tin of rice cream heated up with some tinned fruit thrown in is always a winner
Breakfast was toast and cereals and long life milk, for lunches we usually took plenty of bread, metwurst, some sturdy cheese, a cucumber, punnet of cherry tomatoes and of course a big bag of chips.
What you take also depends alot on where you are going and if re-supplies are easily available or are you going into the middle of nowhere for 2 weeks straight. In that case WATER! MRE's as Bantum suggests, dried fruit, nuts (scroggin
) 2 minute noodle type stuff, dehydrated etc etc.
And if you have one, don't forget to take the camping fridge!. I remember after putting up a big tent in the hot sun, sitting down with an ice cold fizzy drink seemed like an incredible luxury
But then that was years ago when camping fridges weren't an every day necessity. And that time it was summer not winter like it is now.
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:03 pm
by vincentvega
old el paso soft tacos / fajitas
1 frypan meal. delicious
chop the ingredients before you go and its even easier.
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:03 pm
by yarney
Silverbullet wrote:
What you take also depends alot on where you are going and if re-supplies are easily available or are you going into the middle of nowhere for 2 weeks straight. In that case WATER! MRE's as Bantum suggests, dried fruit, nuts (scroggin
) 2 minute noodle type stuff, dehydrated etc etc.
Yes we will be re supplying every couple of days and have fridges
Thanks for all the suggestions keep them coming
Jan
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:57 pm
by TOONGA
Tinned beef or fish, for that matter anything in a can
long life milk, cereal, Nuts.
Lollies and lots of them
Potatoes and aluminium foil.
flour for damper.
have fun
TOONGA