I should be there around lunch time. That reminds me, what grub will you be taking? Just thinking about what to take along!
Arr, spam, do they still sell the kids 'smiley face' ones, with eggs for eyes! (or was that lunchon meat?) I Used to love that in my school pack lunch!!
I've never stuck to one thing personally, even though it's on a camp site (not far to walk!) I still like to try and stick to items I might take on a long lost treck in the wilds! Ie lightweight but full of energy stuffs!
Rice is a good lightweight food stuff, easily cooked, and with a sprinkling of various spices can be very versatile! Those big German peppered meat saussages (can't remember exact name, there's so many to choose from, you know, the ones like a bear sized pepperarmi, availible on any deli counter!!) They add vercitility too, as a snack or meal!.. full of protein, can be sliced and eaten cold for a munchy snack, fried and diced, then added to rice to buff up, or cooked on a stick over an open fire! Heavenly taste!
At the last Rough Close meet I took a whole trout to cook on the open fire (ok, it was brought at Sainsburys, and transported in my car in a electric cooler box, but I wanted to get into the fresh out doors grove as much as I could.. Anyway.. They had no fishing lake, and even if they did, I probably wouldnt have caught a thing and gone hungry!) .. Added some spices with lemon slices.. The best fish I've ever had!
look at it this way, do what you feel you might be into, you may want to practice survivalism, minimal weight, maximum sell by date!
You might want to try an out doors angle, ie cooking on an open fire with raw ingredences, meets, vegatables, spices!
You might want to just eat what your not allowed to eat at home! Now maybe not a Chinese take-a-way, but what about kebabs on a stick over an open fire! Meat or veg! Yum!
On a personal note, I've tried all the survival meal packs you can get, but I find them pricey for what you get! They have there place, and are convenient buys, with a good eat by date, but after all, they are only food, just in a sealed foil bag! For £4-5, you could make a whole pot of stew, and get about 10 containers worth for that amount!
Harking on about Rough Close meet again (to spark some ideas!).. Twodogs had a large Dutch oven pot and cooked up a communial chilli-con-carni for all to share!.. (I think they split some costs involved though!)
I think you've started a topic to ponder here!.. So let's all have some 'Feed back' guys..
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