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Hello,

Planning our first trip away soon and i want a bit of advice!! apart from the OBVIOUS bbq food and alcohol!!! what other food/drink stuff do you all take away with you?

Do you take food and drink or do you just have bbq's or always eat out.

For me with having two young children eating out can get expensive and bbq's can be a pain if it rains so i'm just after suggestions x

Thank you

Lou x

I havent even got a cooker as yet so just take booze lol

That's not strictly true but you know what I mean lol - I'm not a big eater at the best of times and can (for a weekend) survive on the following...

Cream Crackers - butter & chip spice - Fantastic!

Cream Crackers - butter and a plethera of meat past spreads.

Cream Crackers - butter and several types tinned fish (makerel,sardines etc) in tomato.

Cream Crackers - butter and Peanut Butter

A cuecumber, some tomatoes, some mushrooms and a tub of coleslaw or summat - suits me fine but like I say, I'm not fussy and could eat grass - raw or cooked lol 

There's always chipshop or pub grub.

Sorry I was no help, just thought I'd join in lol :-)

We have a portable electric hob that we take and normally cook things that you can fry or boil (such as pasta, curries, stir in sauces etc). You can make a good variety of dishes with a cooking hob, either gas or electric (we just use electric because we pay for an electric hook-up and it seemed pointless paying again to buy gas, but that's just our preference) 

We do like the occasional barbeque as well but personally we don't normally bother with a BBQ, just use disposable ones!

There are some good cook-books for camping also! If you have an iPhone Coleman have an app for campsite recipies, it's free and quite good!

Quote: Originally posted by beefysmum on 16/7/2010Hi Louie ,I take all our food, pretty much the same as what we eat at home.

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Same sort of things as jaynkate said.

sandwiches lunchtime or if its a cold day,

the kids love supernoodles with tinned hotdogs ,(yuk)but they are quick and easy .

sausage and beans on toast for lunch is another of their favourites .

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any tinned meal is always handy, our kids love sausage and beans on toast.

you have tinned currys and so on there all very handy and easy to cook.

i do enjoy a nice piece of stake done on the camp cooker grill too.

BBQ's are good as long as your chef believes it takes more than a minute each side to cook a burger.

as regards alcohol, anything cold with froth does it for me.

I have been using things like polenta as an alternative to pasta or potato as you can grill or fry in a matter of minutes saving on the gas and time too.   With some chicken or ham and a packet sauce it's great. Pesto will liven up any pasta and as you can use cooked meat and basic veg like mushroom and tomato  you can cook really quickly and easy plus the kids will eat it.  Also make my own paella having seen a version on here, using packet golden savory rice and whatever meat or fish I have around in the freezer at home before setting off.  

 It is like cooking at home but you need to think what can be cooked fairly quickly and with few pans, that's the challenge.  I also find myself frying things I would normally grill at home such as bacon, burgers etc   to speed things up.  After all it's not just the gas, the cook is on their hols too.  

Sandwiches and/or soup for lunch or bacon butties on a good day!

I asked a similar thing recently and came away with a few really good ideas from the guys on here.

We went away last week and took pasta (enough for two meals for two people), a jar of four cheese sauce, a small tub of pancetta, grated cheddar. This made a delicious and pretty quick carbonara (fry off pancetta first) . To use the rest of the pasta a couple of nights later we fried onion and garlic, added sliced chorizo and smoked pork sausage (Matteson's or similar), a jar of pasta sauce with chilli (not as hot as it sounds) and stirred it into the cooked pasta, bit of grated cheese on top-lovely!

The bonus with using smoked sausage and chorizo is that it doesn't need a fridge if you're going to use it all.