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mostin1066

11/6/2013 at 5:40pm
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Hi all.

We have all seen the prepacked meals you can get from camping shops etc. & no i don't mean pot noodles

But does anyone make their own style of instant meals that they take away with them on thier travels? The sort of lines im thinking on is they have to be quick to prep plus one pot to make or better still just warm up if possible? Plus how long do you think thay would keep?

The idea is to do all the prep before someone goes away for a week or so.

Don't forget not everyone has a fridge or deep frezzer to pull along with them

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minicamper2001

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Yep, it's called chocolate.

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Quote: Originally posted by minicamper2001 on 11/6/2013
Yep, it's called chocolate.

Here here!!!

Static Caravan - We sometimes take a frozen casserole or pasta bake with us. By the time we are there its ready to put as individual servings and microwave.

Dandy camping - we take enough tinned food to make a bit of a stew and take a loaf of bread, cereals and frozen milk for next morning then shop.

I gave up doing a weeks shop at the start of the holiday because we usually end up bringing it back as no one wants to eat after beach/pasty/chips. Just do three days at a time now.

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franbee

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We always carry a bag of dried noodles, a tin of tuna, and a jar of pasta sauce. Easy to put together to make a meal.

mostin1066

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Quote: Originally posted by minicamper2001 on 11/6/2013
Yep, it's called chocolate.

LOL not quite what im looking for.....

We have a tin of mushrooms that have done miles.

I'm trying to tap into your brains for your tips & ideas.

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Campernic

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I have a cool box. It's supposed to be electric but it's pretty ineffectual so I just use it with iceblocks. The main thing that keeps it cold is the stock of frozen food I put in it prior to leaving. Heating up a casserole, you don't get much quicker than that!

Brown stew, Spag Bol, chilli, chorizo and butterbean casserole and Irish stew are all ideal. I use either the cartons you get with 'fresh soups' or the cartons with lids that you get from the chinese takeaway. The Chinese cartons make better use of space in a coolbox. The frozen food makes the cool box cold for quite a few days so there's no need to replenish the ice packs.

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Peanut butter sandwiches.... its now LAW that you must eat peanut butter sandwiches when you go camping

mmmmmmmmmmm peeeeaanut buuutttterrr saaanndwiiichesss mmmmmmmmmm

mmmm hungry now!!

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Depends on your taste and what you like to eat at home. No end of things can be cooked and frozen. If you cook at home do double the amount you need and freeze half for the next trip. If you haven't got a freezer on board a cool box will keep things fresh for days ready to be heated when you need it.

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seafood Pasta with salad
Pasta,
prawns, crabsticks,
spring onions,
salad,
in lots of mayo.
cooked the night before places in those Chinese takeaway tubs. then on the morning ice packs in a cool box/bag.
dinner when we got to the site after all in sorted.
My Kids love it. o and very little washing up after wards.

Julie + Steven

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We always found tins a great way to cater when camping/caravanning especially when we didn't have a fridge or freezer.

But if you have somewhere to keep things cold a frozen lasagne or shepherds pie can easily be transported and will be ready to heat up when you want it. Also a cooked chicken or ham can be kept in the fridge for a couple of days and served with salad or veg.
Used to make a large pie too that would last two days just need salad with that too.

doggerdave

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A pot casserole enough for two very greedy or 4 ordinary people, 50 /50 meat and veg, with lid,precooked and then frozen solid will take three full days to thaw out if kept in the caravan fridge, perhaps longer if the fridge is switched on. and cook very quickly. We have casserole pots that fit sealable plastic boxes.(asda) three of these fit the dark bag off an old shopping trolley(with the handles and wheels chopped fallen off.easy to handle /transport). These will also last three days or more, something to do with the bulk/temperatures, if kept sensibly. Blue ice packs can also help. Infact ifyou fill up the spare space in your home freezer with them its supposed to be more economical.

sallymorgan

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When we camped as children my mum always took a cooked chicken for the first night. Now we buy one, salad & couscous - simple

We also take a prepared one pot that has been frozen for another night.

edited for typo

Post last edited on 14/06/2013 22:11:55

robnchar

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Buy a food Dehydrator and and a vacum sealer and you can take all most anything for up to a fortnight . You can make pre cooked meals and Dehydrate them then add water to rehydrated before cooking . Or just Dehydrate ingredients such as peppers mushrooms onion etc and just buy fresh meat as required .

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I prefer to cook when I go camping.

However, for the first night after setting up, I am usually too tired to cook, and would bring one of my homemade soup frozen in a tub from the freezer with me, so that I can just heat it up.

I cook in bulk at home and freeze what I do not eat in tubs for lunch at work. Just need to add some veg and starch such as rice/pasta/cous cous/instant mash, and a homemade meal is ready in a few minutes in the microwave.

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