Message Forums

Have a look at the "Look what we found" range and also the "Striped  Box Foods" company.

http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/Page/Index.aspx

http://www.stripedboxfoods.com/home.html

Boil in the bag/stir to warm through type foods which don't actually taste too bad for instant meals!

Also as mentioned already, things like packet rice, pasta and cous cous are quick and easy and you can get some lovely soups in pouches from all the major supermarkets.

What we usually do is plan a barbeque for the 2nd night and freexe this food.  It therefore acts as added iceblocks in the coolbox and will defrost slowly in time for tea on the 2nd night.  This also works for milk.  Infact, if you are camping in the North of Scotland for the bank holiday weekend at the beginning of May it can take up to 4 days for a pint of milk to defrost lol!

Bachelors savory rices.  Boiled or fried first for a risotto.   Vesta's,  which already has the meat lumps in it. Eggs lots of them.   From dippy at breakfast, boiled for a butty,  Omelette's for tea.  Eggy bread for supper.   

and never mentioned fried with your bacon 

Not all on the same day though 

I helped out at a scout camp a few weeks ago. What their leader had done was to pre-prepare two lots of brown stew and spag bol (with pasta already in). Then she put two ladel fulls into 'boil in the bag' type bags and sealed with a twist. These bags were boiled until hot in a saucepan full of water. She explained that sometimes you get cook in bags that have small holes all over (designed for roasting) but the ones you need are the boil in the bag ones. To go one further, she got the kids to eat out of the bag, using a plate only as a support not as a dish. Hey presto - no dishes. She said that she was getting the kids to practice expedition camping for an upcoming D of E weekend.

She fed 16 children using that method, and amazed me when I saw her eating pud. You know those little microwave steam puddings you get? Well they boil in a pot of water just as well as the boil in the bag stews.

You could pre-prepare a batch of boil in the bags, and freeze a few of them for further on in the holiday. If you take a soft cool bag the frozen ones would act as icepacks for the other items.