music festival food. Old Style?

shoppergal · 20 July 2006 at 11:20PM

A lurker here looking for some advice.

Am going to a music festival next month(Friday morning until Sunday night). Went last year and ended up spending about €150(about 100 pounds) on food(basically breakfast, lunch dinner and snacks from various food stalls for 2 people)

There are no cooking facilities and you can't bring any camping stoves etc with you so it's not an option to cook/heat up food. Can any of you suggest what sort of food we could bring so that we can avoid paying a tenner for a burger and chips.

Thanks,

gerretl · 20 July 2006 at 11:24PM

What kind of festival is that?
Are you veggie?
Are you camping?

shoppergal · 20 July 2006 at 11:26PM

yes am camping. it's a music festival here in ireland.
not veggie

gerretl · 20 July 2006 at 11:42PM

Staggered they won't let you take in cooking equipment/ portable BBQs. Stuff that keeps well that can be cooked beforehand:
Bacon rolls
Poached salmon
Sausages (decent ones, not the supermarket crap).
Tubs of coleslaw, and rice
Drinks: Freeze some grapefruit juice. It should thaw by the saturday night, and is great with Vodka.
Sneaking in alcohol cheaply: Get a six pack of water bottles (.5 litre) in the shrink wrap pack. Carefully open the shrink wrap, and open a couple of bottles. Drink or pour away the contents. Fill with vodka, and replace cap. Carefully put back the bottles, and use a lighter to seal the plastic shrink wrap. This may or may not work, since I have never tried it, but will when I go to a festival next month. Tubes of pringles are also great for sneaking in wine etc. Just be careful sealing it up.
The trick with festivals is not to fall into temptation, cos those falafels smell sooooooooooo good at one in the morning.

shoppergal · 20 July 2006 at 11:51PM

sounds like you've done this before!!

all great ideas thanks. especially like the idea of wine in the pringle tub :beer:

yeah it stinks that you can't bring cooking equipment in. friends tried sneaking in a small camping stove last year and it got taken off them so not even worth trying.

the temptation is the biggest problem. got totalled seduced by a stand doing crepes last year and ended up spending €15(10 pounds) on 2 crepes with chocolate spread on them. nearly cried the next morning when i remembered.
thanks for all the tips xx

bobsa1 · 20 July 2006 at 11:52PM

cornish pasties, just seen a thread on how to make proper ones that sound yummy.

Cous cous (various flavours in a container) pitta bread and salad stuff, stick salad stuff in with the cous cous and fill pittas.

Have a look on threads dealing with picnic food, eg cooked chicken, you'll have to get a good cool box and pack it well and even then I'd be doubtful how long stuff would last.

If you can get boiling water it's got to be pot noodles and the like.

bobsa1 · 20 July 2006 at 11:53PM

Just seen your crepes post, you can buy ready made crepes in sealed bags and take your own chocolate spread- that must be cheaper than £10!!

Kazonline · 20 July 2006 at 11:58PM

Breakfast bars
Pasties/sausage rolls
Cooked sausages
Any kind of sandwich/roll (eg egg mayo, bacon and sausage for brekkie - yum!).
Don't forget if there's going to be a long period between making the food/eating you could always freeze it first. That way if stored with your other stuff it'll also help to keep that cold.
Hope that's along the right lines?
Kaz x

piglet6 · 21 July 2006 at 12:15AM

Cereal bars for easy breakfasts. Or a pint of milk in a coolbox with some freezer packs and some cereal. You could always freeze the milk, but be sure to shake it up well before using it, as sometimes it can separate (not in a bad way - just in a "frozen" way!;) ).

Obviously, given the current weather situation, any "fresh food" has to be considered carefully, but I would probably take something from frozen which can be eaten cold when it defrosts (like a homemade frozen lasagne - veggie if you worry about the meat content in the heat). This would certainly defrost and serve as dinner on Friday night - if you were able to take a coolbox with plenty of ice packs and added it frozen last thing before you leave on Friday morning, I think it would last until Saturday... Frozen things also act as extra "freezer packs" to help keep other things cold.:D

Not very old style, but have you considered the tins of "ready-made" tuna, mayo and sweetcorn, etc, etc. These can either be put into a roll for a sandwich (and bread rolls bought fresh on Friday morning should keep at least until Saturday if they are not put in direct sunlight to cook in their plastic wrapping!) or added to a jacket potato - presuming you can buy just a plain one from one of the food stalls which should work out cheaper than a filled jacket. Similarly, could you take a thermos flask (not very hip, I realise, but it might work) filled with chilli or curry or something similar - it would at least keep warm until the Friday night for dinner and could be added to bought jacket potato, or even a portion of chips...!! Failing that, a "stew" type dish which includes chunks of potato and veggies is a filling meal in itself (with bread if you want it as a side). Remember also, in this heat, thermos flasks can also be used to keep cold things cold... (rice/pasta salads, etc) - just make sure that the thermos is "chilled" nicely before adding things.

Loving the ideas for sneaking in the alcohol.:beer: A trick I have used in the past is also to just carry in my alcohol in the "already open" bottle from which it seems I am already drinking - a bit brazen maybe, but although people tend to check the "food parcels" being taken in, in my experience they rarely check the open "bottle of water" which you are already drinking...:p :rotfl:

Have a great time whatever you decide to do!

Piglet

dolly_day_dream · 21 July 2006 at 7:18AM

What a con! making you buy all your food there - which is what they are trying to do. Have been to lots of festivals but have never had that before. Suggest you take some baked goods such as fruit cakes and flapjacks. The ready made crepes are a good idea. How about eating cold from a tin? Not very elegant I know but when needs must! Couldron do a pack of falafels that you can keep away from a fridge. As for smuggling booze in I had my innocent bottle of water emptied in front of my at the Isle of Wight Festival the other year. :mad: Re sealing the plastic might work. Have hidden bottles within the tent (rolled up in the pack) before now. :rolleyes: You could always do what many teenagers do which is survive on fresh air and adrenaline for the weekend. :cool: But whatever enjoy yourself.:j

V.Lucky · 21 July 2006 at 8:55PM

The small packets of cereals and long life milk for brekkies?

Also, could you take a portable fridge? We have one that runs off the car battery? It can be used to heat things as well as cool them. Doesn't hold much, but could save you a fortune.

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