'Big Soup'......always take them, always bring them home......we actually used our Pot Noodles on our last trip.....they'd been on several before that though
I tend to take what I am likely to cook while camping. Apart from a pack of 3 sieved tomatoes that I have yet to use, I believe I have used/eaten everything else I carry.
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A bag of roti mix - always intend to have time to make them, fry them, and fill with something akin to goat curry, but never do. The packet is beginning to fall apart at the seams.
The tin of ham seems to have a few outings as well.
I always take too much - 'just in case'...
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We bought a packet of Goulash soup in Hungary and carried it half way round the world thats two years stuck in the bottom of a cycle pannier funnily we never got round to eating it . We allso have a box for food under the stove in our land rover and some of its done quite a few miles but i tend to do a rotation of canned packets etc.
There was a thread a while ago about packet mash and I though it would be a goood idea to tray some and bought 2 packets of the thing but I just couldn't bring myself to mix it up let alone eat it, so it's stuck in the cupboard in the caravan
Every year I take a little bottle of basil dipping oil with every intention of getting crusty bread and sharing it with the friends we go with,I love it but nobody else wants to try it ,so I always bring it home,because if I started on my own I would not stop......Not good for the waistline a full bottle of oil
A tin of new potatoes , god knows how many miles that tin has travellled with us, and I know it's been through two van changes too.
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The road can be tough and rough,but what you put in you get back 10 x more.
Packets of 'cup-a-soup' they seem like a good idea, a nice warming drink/food if it gets cold etc etc... The boxes come and go, getting more squashed and damp.
My mum and dad had a caravan, the first time they used it they took all the their food and did eat it, the following year they took all their food, realised how good european foodstuffs were, brought it ALL back... along with groceries from, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.. But we weren't ALLOWED to eat it, it was special occasions only.. The adults in the 70's we a weird bunch. They learned and never took anything again and always filled the 'van for coming home. But I do recall Findus dried peas.
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Oh I am weeping with laughter reading this! I'm sooooo glad its not just us! I have a a tin of rice pudding that's just been all the way to the Pyrenees and back, as well as pots of rice and lentils. And a packet of ground almonds we bought in France 2 years ago that has been to Scotland 4 times, Cornwall and Herefordshire and back to France!
We always take food that needs cooking, then whilst we are away, the wife cant be bothered, so we just eat snacks and have the occaisional meal out, so the cookable stuff comes home.
I do wonder sometimes how much extra fuel we all use carrying all these tins etc around with us.
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From the very first time (5 yrs ago) we went out in our van we have carried a fray bentos pie, used to be a chicken and mushroom one that came home with us, went back to the van, came home with us again and went back to the van, came home with us..........you get the picture.
At the beginning of our trips out this year I noticed OH had changed it for a fray bentos steak and ale pie, so I asked why?? the answer was, 'I fancied a change' 'but we never ate the last one' I said. 'Thats because I forgot it was there' OH said.
'So do you want one tonight for dinner' I asked, 'God no, cant stand the stuff' was the answer.
Guess what I noticed is in the box to take down to the van ready for our trip out next weekend.
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Topic: Foods you never get round to eating
