Supermarket Hiking Menu

[copper_head]

Thought I'd put a thread about trail food you can get at your local supermarket, I don't own a dehydrator (yet!) and specialist hiking meals are a bit on the pricey side. This menu is geared towards hiking in cold conditions so provides 4000 calories per day, and can all be cooked by heating water. Although as we all know chorizo is better fried .
Not going to win any Michelin stars and some of it I wouldn't touch at home, but think of it as body fuel.

Breakfast 1
Porridge Sachet x2
Lunch 1
Wraps x6
Polish Pate (Nasty) x2
Dinner 1
Cous Cous Satchet
Chorizo
Snack
'Cup a Pasta' x2
Snickers
4018 kCal - Including the shared stuff.

Breakfast 2
Porridge sachet x2
Lunch 2
Smash
Smoked Sausage
Dinner 2
Meatballs (Ideally I'd take a 'Look what we Found' pouch but I only buy it when its on offer)
Boil-in-bag rice
Snack
'Cup a Pasta' x2
Snickers
4087 kCal - Including the shared stuff.

Food shared across both days
Enough 3in1 coffee mix for 10 brews
Chocolate
'Cup a soup'
Flapjacky thing

Total weight 2.5kg app.

Cost £6-7 per day.

 

[Man of Tanith]

looks good mate.
and along same lines as what I take

 

[plastic-ninja]

I can see where you are aiming with the OP as not all of us can afford the LWWF type meals but if you are only out for two days/nights you could certainly take some bread to give some nice filling satisfying carbs to go with whatever soup you have got.
Similarly some decent cheese would be a good addition : yes it's heavy but lots of calorific value and lots of flavour.I'm also a big fan of tinned fish for out on the fells.Salmon , sardines and pilchards are all good calories and can be squashed onto bread rather than spreading Polish Nasty Pateski on dry and flavourless wraps.
I am legendary in what I am prepared to carry to ensure that I eat well when out camping.My companions are usually choking with laughter as I set up the stove and get my pan out while they stir candyfloss-like noodles into luke-warm cuppa soups made up from a flask of water which was hot a mere six or seven hours previously.Expressions change as they hear steak hit hot metal and they sniff the air like hounds as I de-glaze the pan with a shot of bourbon and slice some home-made bread for my sandwich.A good home-made loaf should not cost more than £1.
I used to take snickers out on the hills but now make my own flapjacks , including nuts and dried fruits , and dip them in Montezuma chocolate before I wrap them up.They likely have at least twice the calories of either snickers or supermarket flapjack but I won't have to eat hydrogenated palm oil , GM soya lecithin etc.The flapjack is no bother to make and if you keep it in an airtight container it will last for months!Another fun contrast is to try eating snickers at sub-zero temperatures ; then try some home-made flapjack and you will see why I made a big batch for a friend who competed in the Nome marathon a couple of years ago.He said it stayed edible down to -15.
All I'm saying is because it is in the supermarket don't assume it is cheap , and also maybe a little more weight is worth carrying given the pleasure to be had eating it.I would urge everyone to try making some of their own food if they want to save money.
Cheers , Simon

 

[Man of Tanith]

seen the expendable 2? the bit where they are in the Russian training city. one is eating mre the other is preparing a decent meal.
I know which one I would rather be

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Thanks for sharing, I remember rick the van man on YouTube did something similar but vacuum packed a day worth of food.

 

[Shewie]

Are you sure those calories are right CH, they seem quite high for not a lot of food

EDIT:

Forget that last comment, just read it properly

 

[Thenihilist]

I could never afford to spend 6 pound a day on food, 6 pound is 3 days worth of food in my house lol.

Due to a stomach condition i find it difficult to eat solid food so i have to liquidise most of the food i consume so have to make everything before going out or have to mash it up somehow so i can drink it.

My favourite thing to take when its cold out is, 2 tins of fish( tuna, pilchards etc) cooked rice, cashew nuts, 2 eggs, and some milk. Cook it all then stick it all in a blender and turn it into liquid. Pour it into a bottle and your sorted. Drink have for dinner and half for tea, very nutritious. It does sound disgusting but fortunately for me i can barely taste anything anyway. Try it lol you may like it

 

[ebt.]

must admit for weekend/overnight trips where people are carrying water to rehydrate food, I usually carry the water in the food instead.

Dinner: Part cooked pasta, kept in a sealed carton with a tin of tomatoes and some rosemary. Fry off chorizo+garlic+onion, add the contents of the carton. bubble... scoff.

Flapjacks are the panacea of snacks too, which probably comes from having family who are weegies (they approve of its sugar levels... but bemoan the lack of alcohol). Even nicer if you make them up at home with some coconut and dates added.

 

[rik_uk3]

Good stuff but I'd look at tuna or pilchards (pilchard curry ), long life pita bread (50p for six in Iceland stores) heated over a fire stuffed with cheese or sausage sort of thing (I recommend Chorizo) or high fat salami. Nice slab of fruit cake smothered in Tesco's finest 7p custard is nice too. Small 200g tin of spam/corned beef/ham works too added to rice or noodles. Don't forget curry powder.

 

[tartanferret]

Another consumer of the polish pate eh? I bought some spam type stuff that is from the same range, handy small pack but I've yet to try it out.

Here's another snack idea for you, just empty the croutons into the pouch.



I'm looking forward to some fresh ideas for supermarket ration packs from this thread, thanks for starting it mate

 

[copper_head]

I totally agree with everyone about the proper cooking thing its cheaper, tastes better and is more rewarding. I think my Tesco rat pack here is the result of a need for quick easy food. Probably more geared towards hiking and camping where for me at least I'm willing to forgo flavour for convenience and a smaller pack size.

For my normal bushcraft (read only a couple of miles walk the camp site) jaunts, with time and a good fire I do this kind of food

 

[copper_head]

Another consumer of the polish pate eh? I bought some spam type stuff that is from the same range, handy small pack but I've yet to try it out.

Here's another snack idea for you, just empty the croutons into the pouch.

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I'm looking forward to some fresh ideas for supermarket ration packs from this thread, thanks for starting it mate

Looks like a good lunch option

 

[Tracker NTS-054]

Sorry, old thread.. Copperhead, can you share your ingredients and method for this... It got me drooling
ATB

 

[copper_head]

Hi Tracker, its garlic and sage bannock.

2 cups of plain flour, 1 cup of milk powder, big pinch of salt, 1 heaped tsp of baking powder, 1 tsp of dried sage and 2 tsp garlic granules.
Although the bannock in the picture doesn't contain it I now add a couple of table spoons of suet to my bannock mix (that was a top tip I picked up on here).

Bung all your dry ingredients in a zip lock bag then add water when your ready to cook, you can mix it all together in the zip lock. Heat up your billy and then give it a good greasing and add your mix into it. Cook in the embers of your fire, takes around 30 mins to cook but depends on your fire. A good thing to do is invert the lid of your billy and fill with embers to cook the top of the bannock.

Personally I prefer using a big steel frying pan to cook my bannock now as it's easier to keep an eye on.

 

[Tracker NTS-054]

Hi Tracker, its garlic and sage bannock.

2 cups of plain flour, 1 cup of milk powder, big pinch of salt, 1 heaped tsp of baking powder, 1 tsp of dried sage and 2 tsp garlic granules.
Although the bannock in the picture doesn't contain it I now add a couple of table spoons of suet to my bannock mix (that was a top tip I picked up on here).

Bung all your dry ingredients in a zip lock bag then add water when your ready to cook, you can mix it all together in the zip lock. Heat up your billy and then give it a good greasing and add your mix into it. Cook in the embers of your fire, takes around 30 mins to cook but depends on your fire. A good thing to do is invert the lid of your billy and fill with embers to cook the top of the bannock.

Personally I prefer using a big steel frying pan to cook my bannock now as it's easier to keep an eye on.

When adding water, what consistency would you be aiming for?
Cheers-

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Hi Tracker, its garlic and sage bannock.

2 cups of plain flour, 1 cup of milk powder, big pinch of salt, 1 heaped tsp of baking powder, 1 tsp of dried sage and 2 tsp garlic granules.
Although the bannock in the picture doesn't contain it I now add a couple of table spoons of suet to my bannock mix (that was a top tip I picked up on here).

Bung all your dry ingredients in a zip lock bag then add water when your ready to cook, you can mix it all together in the zip lock. Heat up your billy and then give it a good greasing and add your mix into it. Cook in the embers of your fire, takes around 30 mins to cook but depends on your fire. A good thing to do is invert the lid of your billy and fill with embers to cook the top of the bannock.

Personally I prefer using a big steel frying pan to cook my bannock now as it's easier to keep an eye on.

Thanks for that

 

[copper_head]

When adding water, what consistency would you be aiming for?
Cheers-

Think cake mix and you won't go far wrong

 

[Tracker NTS-054]

Lovely stuff. Thanks!

 

[Lister]

cheap noodles
dried broad beans
squeezy or cuppa soup
chorizo
mozzerella sticks

whack it all in pan with some hot water and stir till the soup goes thick and the cheese melts, nice filling rather thick gloop.

 

[xylaria]

breakfast
Coffee satchets x2 [99p packet 10]
one tin rice pudding [29p]

lunch
digestive biscuits 35p
cheese triangles

tea
vacuum packed chana dahl 69p
nan breads 49p

All from home bargins the coffee is only thing that needs a cooker.