Nice meals from tins!

CoconutQueen

Hi guys,

Please point me in the right direction and any tips you may have.

Four of us are going to the Isle of Wight Festival in june so excited!

Anyway, I have two camping stoves to use for this time. £80 to buy all food as food there is so expensive we want to take our own.

I DONT want to live of beans and spaghetti the whole time only for breakfast!

Has anyone tried Princes stewed steak? Thought that with some veg could make a nice stew.

I need ideas for

lunch x 4
brekkie x 4
Dinner x 4
supper x 4

To feed 3 vvv hungry men and me a v hungry girl!

Thanks in advance

Of course I am aiming for best chef in the camp 2010!

artydoll

I like the stewed steak ,makes a nice meal add a tin of potatoes to bulk it out with some tinned veg.

lisa26_2

I used to use tinned tewed steak all the time at uni and I loved it. I used to sautee some mushrooms and onions. Add the steak, some extra water, some veg and warm through then thicken with some extra gravy granules as adding the water makes it a bit runny

CoconutQueen

Mmm yes! Thanks I didn't want to buy it and it be fatty or just plain nasty.

Badger_Lady

I am veggie so perhaps I'm biased, but this is truly awesome:
http://www.veggiestuff.com/acatalog/textured_soya_protein_chunks_savoury.html

It works like stewing steak (my carnivorous boyfriend says "it's like meat with all the fat and gristle taken out)... but it's dirt cheap and doesn't weigh a thing for transporting to your tent and back.

It's dried, so you just need to pop it in hot water or mix into a stew to rehydrate... and it quadruples in size, so one bag would easily feed you all weekend

Little_Vics

Something we do when we go to festivals is to take a couple of frozen meals with us (chilli for example) which will defrost slowly in a cooler bag. We reheat on the stove, and eat them first. Been doing it for years and it hasn't killed us yet..... we also take a couple of frozen pints of milk which do the same. Very necessary for that early morning coffee!! Thermos flask is a good idea to make a huge pot of coffee in the morning to save hassle later in the day every time you want a brew. HTH.

SailorSam

As well as tinned stuff could you look at dried foods, these maybe easier to carry, or they do dehydrated packets that heat up when you open them.

For Brekkie, i'd take a bottle of 5pts to go on the cereal .

Frugal_Mouse

what about instant mash to go with the stewed steak?

ubamother

cook some pasta, when cooked add a tin of condensed tomato soup and a tin of tuna. grate in some hard cheese and herbs and you're done. If you do this on the first day, the cheese would be fine without refrigeration.
Also for breakfasts, muesli mixed with dried milk and then just add water, a good mix and you're done.
Most tinned/packet meals taste a lot better with one fresh ingredient to go with them - boiled potatoes, carrots etc. can be done quite easily as long as you have access to water.

Pink.

Hi CoconutQueen,

I would recommend Little Vic's suggestion of taking at least one meal frozen so that all you'll need to do is heat it up. Another idea is to freeze all liquids (milk water etc) and use them to act as freezer blocks for other food you need to keep cool.

There are more ideas that may help on this thread:

music festival food. Old Style?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

oystercatcher

Morrisons do a lovely chick pea dahl I've not found anywhere else or if you prefer tinned curry. Serve with boil in the bag rice, really easy and filling. You could even take some naan bread if you liked.