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For short trips away, or for bike rallies, I take the easy option and take pouch meals to save the cooking hassle. Someone posted a link to the site on here last year sometime, and it was a godsend. Not the cheapest option, but still pretty good value considering a pouch is cheaper than something like fish 'n' chips from a chippy.

Take a wee look here Gill, they're definitely a cut above Wayfarer type meals.

There's pouch meals in Waitrose Sainsburys Coop and some Tescos from a company called 'Look What we found'. They're one person meals and they do taste as good as home cooking.

Yup, those ones! They're in supermarkets.

I cook from scratch nearly all the time, and would buy meat in bulk, cut down to single portion size, marinade them, before packing each portion in vacuum bags, then freeze them. I would then take a selection as and when required for BBQs or stir-fries etc...

I make individual breakfast packs too, each with 1 sausage, 6 rashes of smoked streaky bacon, and 2 rounds of black pudding. This way, I don't have to eat everything up as soon as I open a pack etc...

I also cook stews in bulk, such as chilli, spag bog, curries, Chinese stewed pork belly or beef brisket etc.., then pack them into single portions in plastic tubs such as Lok & Lok, and freeze them. Again, I would take a selection as and when I need them, just need to cook some starch such as pasta, rice or cous cous, stir-fry some veg, and I am done.

DK