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B&Q Fully fitted Kitchen - just throw the flysheet over the lot, peg down and plug in to the 16 amp hookup.

2 ring gas stove, small trangia (good for brewing a cuppa or heating beans) and bucket BBQ.

Weekend camping and just got one of those single burner picnic thingies that use aerosols. Can't believe how quick they are! Plus small trangia & bucket BBQ. I did buy a travel kettle for emergencies that runs off the car but it took so long it's not worth the bother.

Don't think we could fit much else in the car.

Brekkie and both kids like their cheese toasties but I dry fry them in a frying pan and come out perfect  Not a bad way of getting toast either, does a better job that the one slice toaster that came with the stove. Tend to do one pot meals when camping.

EHU's a must... can't camp without my fridge and george forman grill. Also take 2 ring gas stove. 

Thought we might try this as its different and happens to be on offer:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=99760&TabID=1&source=1&doy=16m7

for non EHU camping... might be a slight problem thou' ... we need sunshine, trying to remember when we had that last... any clues????  lol

Happy camping!!

Ye gods you people take a lot of stuff with you......!

Our current cooking facilities are 2 alpine stoves although I might invest in a table-top 2-ring burner with grill now that we'll be camping with kids.

me, just the single suitcase stove, think of getting a trangia though, keeps it simple, then I won't worry forgetting the pans!!!  My camping buddy though has eh, she has kettle mini cooker, toaster and Q Grill as well as disposable bbq.  Never thought about the george foreman.

With the trailer tent, we had a two ring stove and grill and we added a slow cooker, veg steamer & mini oven (all run from the EHU).

(For no reason I understand, the mrs didn't think we should take a microwave.)

Then when we were trying to work out if we should upgrade to a cheap folding camper, she saw a nearly new Pathfinder that had a proper oven, and suddenly nothing else would do!

(So now we have 3 rings, grill, oven AND we'll still take the slow cooker, steamer and mini oven.  I'm going to get a microwave and hide it in there when she's not looking...) 

It depends what sort of camping we're doing.

1) Re-enactment: firebox (wood and charcoal) with a cauldron over, and a grill to BBQ on. Kelly kettle for a quick brew in the morning before the public arrive.

2) Festivals / hiking: trangia (meths)

3) 'Proper' camping (i.e. sites with real loos and showers!): 2 ring stove with a grill(gas) and we've just bought one of the £10 homebase bucket BBQs.

If we have an EHU - Kettle, Toaster,  portable camping cooker (the one with 2 rings and a grill that runs on gas) and a gas barbie.

If no EHU - just the cooker and  gas barbie.