When i go touring or fishing i generaly just take lots of pot noodels, pot rite, spagetti hoops with sausages, soup, sausages and bacon, fue eggs, fue hash browns. Bread, water, diet coke with a secret stash of scotch. Thats about my limit. When we had a caravan the meals were good but i find my options faily limited in a fishing bivy portable stove and bbq.

What food + drink do you all carry when touring or overlanding?


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TJ

Yuk, Yuk YUK!

Where is the throwing up icon?

Diet coke, only use is cleaning metal. Pot noodles? Probably more goodness in the cardboard packet. Spagetti hoops? Yuk


If you want easy cooking and reasonable food ex military ration packs.

For really good home cook food when I am travelling it is simple.


























I take Barbara with me




Brendan

HaHa thats good.

I have seen the ex army food rations but i thought they would be fairly dry and flavorless like in the film tremmors if any of you have seen it. But i might see if i can get a fue "demo" sashets and give them ago.

When in France I always bring back some tins of Cassoulet. It's a real winter warmer but equally as good in the summer. In case you haven't heard of it, it's a bean casserole with pork, sausages, goose (best quality brands only) and it's mmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!

Ex military rations comes in boxes of about a dozen day packs which includes tea/coffee/soup/chocolate/paper tissues. About 20 different packs. Find a decent supplier and they will do a mixed box for you.

Cassoulet is good as Tom says


Brendan

Military rations are good, and the main meals are boil in the bag. So you can use the water for tea/coffee just by cooking on one ring.

I usually have tins of all day breakfast that I buy in France (Carrfour) and fresh eggsfor breakfast (unless I'm in Scotland in which case it is tattie scones, black pudding, square slice etc).

For lunch bread,cheese,tinned fish etc with a cold beer.

Usualy bbq or a stew at night.

no excuse to not eat "proper food" when traveling if you have an Engel.
i've even cooked steak and chips at 7,000 feet up a mountain...local meat and potatos
Ration packs? wheres the YUK smiley? but thats just my personal taste.
I also carry pasta/rice, tinned veg and believe it or not tinned steak and kidney puddings which only take 10 minutes to boil.
Another tip if you have an Engel is to pre freeze meat or indeed preprepared meals ..these will last a good week, then you can replace with fresh meats when passing a supermarket.
HTH?

Why carry rubbish when you can do good food with a little preperation, Tom and Brendan have offered a few options with a little preparation, i am no Gordon or Jamie but i like cooking and have just improved with many years practise.

By preparing ahead you can make some fantastic meals using fresh food, you can vacuum pack or freeze them and take them with you.

Take tomatoes fresh from the greenhouse, cut in half and put them into a saucepan, just cover with water and boil for 10 minutes, this will remove the skins, then force through a strainer, this will remove the pips and any remaining skins, and leave you with fresh tomato sauce diluted, return to the pan and reduce. This will leave you with fresh tomato sauce.
Make a bain marie, put cleaned jars into this and add the hot tomato sauce straight from the hot pan, fill to the top and screw on the caps, as they cool it will vacuum seal them.

If you like salsa then add some raw chopped chilli, chopped spring onion, chopped mushroom, and a selection of herbs as you bottle.

Just add a variety of herbs for a tomato and herb base, the variations are endless.

All you need to do is add the base to a pan and cook a variety of meat and vegetables for a fresh and nutritious meal.

How about a simple sausage strogonoff for two:

Place six good sausages in a pan and part cook, add one medium onion coarsely chopped and continue frying, once they are nearly cooked add a cup of mushrooms coarsely chopped, and fry until they are cooked. Cut the sausages into quarters then add one tin of condensed mushroom soup, and half the can of water and simmer until it thickens up.
When nearly cooked add pasta to another pan until it is cooked, serve the pasta and pour over the strogonoff.

You can replace the sausages with any meat, pork works well, as does chicken or lamb.

If you cook it for two and there is only one, then place the remaining in a plastic ealable food container and keep it, it will only want warming through, and some more pasta cooking.

How about a simple corned beef hash:

Save some mashed potato and put it into plastic sealable containers, finely chop a medium onion and fry until softened, add a small tin of corned beef and warm through until it breaks down into a fine mush, add the cold potato and cook through, delicious with tomato sauce, particularly your fresh tomato sauce.

I don't actually tend to take much with me at all except oil, spices etc or dried goods like rice and pasta. I'll try and get as much fresh stuff as I can to last a few days and adjust the menu accordingly.
I'm quite satisfied with a one pot meal where loads of things are chucked in it either with bought or made bread. It's rare I've ever been in a place where I couldn't get a few veg and stuff every few days. I'll carry a couple of tins as a 'just in case' thing but I normally just bring them back again.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with both Hillbilly and Assassin about fresh food, but after Terracan's initial post about Pot Noodles and spag hoops & sausages washed down by Diet Coke we were trying to open up Terracan's horizons by suggesting a halfway house of ration packs and cassoulet - 'cause it's obvious he doesn't like too much washing up!

Best steak I ever ate was in a campsite on the last night of Landy Rally. My co-driver and I hadn't used the stove all week as every time we pulled into campsites the caferteria/restaurant had such good, cheap food that it just wasn't worth the effort of doing it ourselves. That last day we saw the most gorgeous fat steaks sitting in a French supermarket, we just had to buy them. Washed down with a local red, they were sooooo tender and tasty. Mmmmmmm ... time for dinner methinks!

if im away for the weekend i put two 1ltr frozen bottles of water in the cool box that keeps it cool for two days then put in fresh meat,,sausage bacon burgers chops steak,, , take some fresh veg,, ,,and the BBQ,,,and another cool box with cold beer,, ,,,then find a beach and camp,,,,,,now thats a good recipie,,,,

TJ...that's just what a lot of men eat when camping.....over here they love jaffles coz they are easy.

Me? I eat whatever I eat at home. I guess if you never cook at home, and aren't taking the little lady with you, then you are at your own mercy

It helps to have a fridge. With that, a BBQ plate & a stove you can do anything you do at home out on the road

Tom and I were trying to give TJ a different idea to Pot Yuk.

Steak and chips is a very easy meal to cook

There are also so semi decent sauces available as well

Military rations gives everything from chocolate/paper tissues/soup/tea/coffee/sweets/biscuits/3 meals etc. As Mac says they are boil in bag and gives you hot water for tea. Great for a quick stop/when travelling solo and you are cream cracker. Yes they are short of fresh fruit etc but for about a fiver a day great value.

Fridges are useful but are not cheap! The ARB fridge has several advantages over the Engel

Fresh fruit and veg are important when travelling. Grapes are great as you can nibble them as you drive rather then boiled sweets etc

Brendan

Dam not one other person had a Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle King?! Get the bread, dip it in?!

On a healthier side - has anyone cooked fish out camping/overland? Can it be done on a bbq? Maybe Fillets in a pan on the bbq?

TJ

I use one of these to cook fish:



Also useful for cooking meat. I have even cooked slices of potato and pumpkin with it.

Cheers
KarlB

I have here two pics showing what you will need:



1x cup, 1x tea spoon coffiee, 2x tea spoon of sugar. Fill cup 2/5 with water, 2/5 of your selected scotch. 1\5 milk. Enjoy.

Or



1x cup, 1x tea spoon coffiee, 2x tea spoon of sugar. Fill cup 2/5 with water, 2/5 of your selected Vodka. 1\5 milk. Enjoy.


Both are great for warming you up in cold conditions. I prefer the scotch version myself, if you use vodka it must be a true russian version like Stolichnaya or it will taste poor, fishing, camping, overland. Great at warming you up, tastes great.

TJ

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