Planning our first trip away soon and i want a bit of advice!! apart from the OBVIOUS bbq food and alcohol!!! what other food/drink stuff do you all take away with you?
Do you take food and drink or do you just have bbq's or always eat out.
For me with having two young children eating out can get expensive and bbq's can be a pain if it rains so i'm just after suggestions x
Hi Louise. I have 4 children so hardly ever eat out! We do most of our cooking at the tent and bbq's can get boring. We do normal foods like sausage and mash, curry and rice, spag bol ect.we might buy a couple of cooked chickens and do some boiled potatoes and a bit of veg. For lunch we either have sandwiches or maybe soup with crusty rolls. We buy bottles of pop and juice mixed with bottled water.Breakfast is usually cereal and toast or bacon and eggs.
I havent even got a cooker as yet so just take booze lol
That's not strictly true but you know what I mean lol - I'm not a big eater at the best of times and can (for a weekend) survive on the following...
Cream Crackers - butter & chip spice - Fantastic!
Cream Crackers - butter and a plethera of meat past spreads.
Cream Crackers - butter and several types tinned fish (makerel,sardines etc) in tomato.
Cream Crackers - butter and Peanut Butter
A cuecumber, some tomatoes, some mushrooms and a tub of coleslaw or summat - suits me fine but like I say, I'm not fussy and could eat grass - raw or cooked lol
There's always chipshop or pub grub.
Sorry I was no help, just thought I'd join in lol :-)
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We have a portable electric hob that we take and normally cook things that you can fry or boil (such as pasta, curries, stir in sauces etc). You can make a good variety of dishes with a cooking hob, either gas or electric (we just use electric because we pay for an electric hook-up and it seemed pointless paying again to buy gas, but that's just our preference)
We do like the occasional barbeque as well but personally we don't normally bother with a BBQ, just use disposable ones!
There are some good cook-books for camping also! If you have an iPhone Coleman have an app for campsite recipies, it's free and quite good!
Quote: Originally posted by beefysmum on 16/7/2010Hi Louie ,I take all our food, pretty much the same as what we eat at home.
Same sort of things as jaynkate said.
sandwiches lunchtime or if its a cold day,
the kids love supernoodles with tinned hotdogs ,(yuk)but they are quick and easy .
sausage and beans on toast for lunch is another of their favourites .
Everytime this subject comes up I always want to reply with exactly what Debbie has said.
There's no difference to wat you would make at home - apart from not having an oven - unless you have a Cadac or Cob or have an oven
If you doo a search in this section under cooking or food or recipies then you will come up with hundreds of threads.
I once took Stew and Dump's cooked the night before and heated back up to bubbling point and added the meat in a preasure cooker the morning I left - it was still hot enough to call it a hot meal hours later - and very nice it was too! I swapped the rest with next door for a cuppa lol
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I have been using things like polenta as an alternative to pasta or potato as you can grill or fry in a matter of minutes saving on the gas and time too. With some chicken or ham and a packet sauce it's great. Pesto will liven up any pasta and as you can use cooked meat and basic veg like mushroom and tomato you can cook really quickly and easy plus the kids will eat it. Also make my own paella having seen a version on here, using packet golden savory rice and whatever meat or fish I have around in the freezer at home before setting off.
It is like cooking at home but you need to think what can be cooked fairly quickly and with few pans, that's the challenge. I also find myself frying things I would normally grill at home such as bacon, burgers etc to speed things up. After all it's not just the gas, the cook is on their hols too.
Sandwiches and/or soup for lunch or bacon butties on a good day!
I asked a similar thing recently and came away with a few really good ideas from the guys on here.
We went away last week and took pasta (enough for two meals for two people), a jar of four cheese sauce, a small tub of pancetta, grated cheddar. This made a delicious and pretty quick carbonara (fry off pancetta first) . To use the rest of the pasta a couple of nights later we fried onion and garlic, added sliced chorizo and smoked pork sausage (Matteson's or similar), a jar of pasta sauce with chilli (not as hot as it sounds) and stirred it into the cooked pasta, bit of grated cheese on top-lovely!
The bonus with using smoked sausage and chorizo is that it doesn't need a fridge if you're going to use it all.
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