Good grub: lookwhatwefound meals

[steveR]

Well, I thought so. Not cheap, I agree, but I could not face a Pot Noodle pot!!

Like Wayfarer, but better?

I used this range while I have been camping in Europe with the bike this year. Nice meals, albeit a bit lacking in meat for my personal liking, but with a pasta or rice addition or a bit of fresh salad, they are excellent grub. Perfect if it has been a long day and when I have struggled to get fresh food in a supermarket. The Spag-Bog and the Chilli Con Carne are good value.

Some good deals on at the moment if you are wanting to stock up for next year*, and the HOTPACK heaters are good value too. I am told that one of these will warm a meal and a pack of rice to a good temperature though I have only used them to do a single meal in the past.

* I love the "Student survival kit" and can see fond Mothers packing sprogs off to Uni with one of these kits and it being eaten in a week by their new mates on getting back from the Students Bar!

[tankosl]

I spotted these meals as well.....

I often get stuck in the middle of nowhere when I'm at work, so I carry a gas stove with me. I was just heating up tins of chilli etc and boil in the bag rice or noodles.

I took the plunge and bought the adventurer pack which contains 10 meals for £30.......
They look great, and taste good but I would agree as well that they need bulking out a bit.

A few days after I bought them, I went into Waitrose and saw them on the shelves on special offer, so shop around!!!!

[steveR]

I took the plunge and bought the adventurer pack which contains 10 meals for £30.......
They look great, and taste good but I would agree as well that they need bulking out a bit.

A few days after I bought them, I went into Waitrose and saw them on the shelves on special offer, so shop around!!!!

I wish I could find where to purchase the cook-in bags themselves in small quantities, and be able to do my own meals! Lakeland do something similiar, but apparently they are not that reliable.....

[tankosl]

I wish I could find where to purchase the cook-in bags themselves in small quantities, and be able to do my own meals! Lakeland do something similiar, but apparently they are not that reliable.....

I'm not sure I'd rate my culinary skills high enough to even bother putting it in a bag.........


Actually, some of my meals have ended up in a bag........but never to be tasted again!!!!!!

[steveR]

I'm not sure I'd rate my culinary skills high enough to even bother putting it in a bag.........


Actually, some of my meals have ended up in a bag........but never to be tasted again!!!!!!

I reckon we have all had a few meals like that.....

[davsato]

i sometimes do my own boil in the bag meals with family meal leftovers and a vac sealer, whenever i can think far enough ahead.
to be honest, i prefer to support the nearest fermented beverage and hot sustinence emporium if i can. you should be able to find a pub you can get a meal and a drink for a tenner, unless your in an overpriced touristy area.

[steveR]

i sometimes do my own boil in the bag meals with family meal leftovers and a vac sealer, whenever i can think far enough ahead.
to be honest, i prefer to support the nearest fermented beverage and hot sustinence emporium if i can. you should be able to find a pub you can get a meal and a drink for a tenner, unless your in an overpriced touristy area.

True enough here in the UK, but that tenner is nearer twenty or more when on the Continent!!

Have you managed to suss the storage of non-frozen meals though?

I think I may have located some pukka bags, but I am a leetle unsure of the cooking times/temps at present. After all, the lat thing I need is a dose of the runs on Spanish campsite next Spring!!!

[davsato]

True enough here in the UK, but that tenner is nearer twenty or more when on the Continent!!

Have you managed to suss the storage of non-frozen meals though?

yeah, i really noticed it this year in france and spain, prices to eat out have gone up loads! for the first time in years its cheaper to have a holiday in this country.

for storage, i rarely go out for more than two nights these days, so stuff keeps well in the bags. pre-frozen bags are still cold after two days.

to be honest its a lot of trouble to go to, but when i started doing it the only camping food you could get was either pappy beef "wobbly bits" stew with no flavour, overcooked pasta in thin tasteless tomato "style" sauce or specialist dehydrated mountain expedition stuff with 1000K/cals per mouthful, with instructions that always start "melt a panful of snow". nowerdays theres loads of meals, some of them even sound nice

[steveR]

yeah, i really noticed it this year in france and spain, prices to eat out have gone up loads! for the first time in years its cheaper to have a holiday in this country.

Trouble is the damned weather!! The summer did not arrive until September this year... I did 2 bigger trips and a couple of shorter trips, one with my lad, and I try to keep my costs to under £20/day excl fuel . A trip to the local Auberge screws a weeks budget!!

for storage, i rarely go out for more than two nights these days, so stuff keeps well in the bags. pre-frozen bags are still cold after two days.

Worth knowing they will go for a couple of days OK. I use foil and a jumper as an insulator to keep stuff like this cold.

to be honest its a lot of trouble to go to, but when i started doing it the only camping food you could get was either pappy beef "wobbly bits" stew with no flavour, overcooked pasta in thin tasteless tomato "style" sauce or specialist dehydrated mountain expedition stuff with 1000K/cals per mouthful, with instructions that always start "melt a panful of snow". nowerdays theres loads of meals, some of them even sound nice

Which is where we came in I agree, those nasty expedition "meals" are really for emergencies only! A quick trip round Morrisons will find lots of cheaper and tastier grub and you can soon zip 'em up a bit with some fresh ingredients. Dehydrated pasta can be acceptable with some good salami sausage or similiar in it.

Love the "melt a panful of snow".... Somehow, I do not see my camping in those conditions!

[davsato]

Which is where we came in I agree, those nasty expedition "meals" are really for emergencies only! A quick trip round Morrisons will find lots of cheaper and tastier grub and you can soon zip 'em up a bit with some fresh ingredients. Dehydrated pasta can be acceptable with some good salami sausage or similiar in it.

Love the "melt a panful of snow".... Somehow, I do not see my camping in those conditions!

they must be much better these days, im going back 25yrs i guess, even the army RAT-packs had BISCUITS:BROWNING:INFANTRYMAN,1,FOR THE USE OF to bung your bowels up, and bromide in the tea to stop you getting frisky!!
sainsburys do a flat box containing a foil packet of fried potato cubes and bacon bits and its lovely, just squeeze it out into the frypan and wind up your mates witht the gorgeous smell of frying bacon. called breakfast hash or something. supposed to serve 2/3, 2/3 my arris it does me fine, JUST me!