Billy Can recipes and safer food ideas feeding 4 people

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I bought yellows tone Billy cans in the Range for £19.99
6.5 and 3.5 ltr, so far I have only washed and boiled water on my tent stove - they are cheap and drips round handle rivets, which I intend to address.
I can reliably boil both on relatively little wood on my tent stove.
I'm off with a group of people for a living history event soon, now I prefer stews etc with meat and also recognise that camping isn't an ideal situation.

So far I have come up with.

Hotdogs in jars as easy to store and quick to reheat

Hotdog sausage stew as the meat element is already ready to eat from jar.

Pasta or in my case gluten free pasta or rice, tuna and unopened mayonnaise jar

Vegetarian chickpea dishes
Eggs
I'm thinking canned goods soups and such are simply easier to not have fridge issue, high salt concerns me and gluten an issue for me personally.

Any suggestions please
 
We can buy cans of haggis here.
We can buy vegetarian canned haggis too.
I know folks who camp and just take both...meat and veg sorted :)

If you buy cans of chicken in white sauce, then it's very easily made into a decent curry just by adding curry powder and whatever tinned veggies you fancy.
Saag Aloo is good that way too, done using tinned potatoes.

It all makes rather heavy packing though, but it works.

Honestly ? if you can boil up water then you can make gnocchi just using dried potato and flour (gluten free works fine, just you really find it better if you can use an egg to bind or CMC powder ) or take along dried tortellini
 

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