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Chopped cooked fresh potatoes. Chopped cooked fresh carrots. Or use tins to make it easier. Tin minced beef and onions. Tin baked beans and sausages. Mix all together and heat well. Serve with bread to mop up gravy.

Packet savoury rice cooked to instructions but while still slightly moist stir in tin chopped corned beef and small cubes of cheddar cheese.

Tried these recipes out on grandchildren aged 12,11,7 and they asked to have them again. Most surprised they all liked the same thing.

Banana Pancakes - cut bananas in half lengthways then each half across, brown off in a frying pan with some butter, take out the bananas and wrap in pancakes, (shop bought ones are fine if you don't want to make your own) add some brown sugar and cream to the pan (add some vanilla extract if you've got some) and boil until the sugar dissolves, pour over the pancakes and hey presto!

Mmmmmm!  I just dribbled down me t shirt!

We took a steamer and I came up with this sponge recipe on our last trip:

• 1 pack of supermarket own brand sponge mix
• An egg and water as directed on the packet
• Two grated carrots
• Some mixed spice to taste
• Raisins or other dried fruit

Follow the instructions on the sponge mix, then mix in the other ingredients.

Split it between a a couple of food bags and tie with a food tie, making sure the bag is a loose enough fit to allow the sponge to expand.

Pop the bags in a steamer for half an hour. I think it would also work boil-in-the-bag if you haven't got one, but I haven't tried doing it that way.

Chopped up crystallized ginger works well instead of the carrot, and mixed nuts can be popped into the mix.  If you're feeling adventurous you could explore other flavours of sponge (coco might be good).

Patrick