Nice meals from tins!

squelchy69

We also used to go camping and the night before we went Mum would make a big curry or bolognaise which we would eat our first night down there. She'd take it away in the saucepan and just heat it up that night. We always loved Friday night tea and it was full of the veg and good stuff so she didn't worry too much about what we had the rest of the weekend - (That was in the 80's -lol)
Jo x

Tibbie's_mum

As a child, I remember my parents always making spag bol with tinned minced beef and it was just as good as I make with fresh mince.

jollymummy

Squelchy - I love Tenerife stew what a great name tinned ratatouille is very lovely. Tinned ravioli, is ok, mixed bean salad too. When we went to Glastonbury about 100 years ago, the most important stuff - apart from beer obviously was water, loo roll, wet wipes and comfy wellies.

Paulie'sGirl

Hi,

I've done this recently

We had a rotisserie chicken on the first night with nice bread and salad (and a bottle of cheap fizz).

The second night I'd taken a massive tub of HM chilli frozen, had defrosted by the second evening. Served with boil in the bag rice.

I froze EVERYTHING almost. It helps keep the cold box cold I took Tesco's version of Cravendale (Pure?) frozen, that acted like an extra element. I froze sausages for the first breakfast, and vac packed bacon for baps the other days (bacon keeps longer).

Princes tinned steak is lovely, but keep the heat low and don't stir it too much or it turns to inedible pap Any brand of tinned pots and veg will be fine.

If you want to do a little more cooking this is nice http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=813339&highlight=tuscan+bean+stew

But a word of caution, its a heck of a trek from the car parks to the camping fields, and tins are heavy. A sack barrow or wally trolley might be an idea. The crates of lager are weighty too!! I'd take a 5l container of spring water. Once you've used it, you can refill it from the pipes.

Take loo roll, hand gel, sun lotion, wellies and brollies LOL English summer.....

If you want any more info PM me

PGxx

NJW69

Either Stagg tinned chilli, served with french bread or pitta (vacumn packed) or boil in the bag rice. I did see big (probably double sized) tins of chilli in Lidl the other day but haven't tried it.

Vesta meals (paella, beef curry, chicken curry) are 99p in bargain shops at the moment. Add water and boil.

Tinned tuna with peppers mixed with pasta and tomatoes, pasta sauce and grated cheese.

I bought a tinned breakfast the other day for my son, haven't tried it yet. It has beans, mushrooms, bacon, sausage and egg!

I've seen some chunky soups in sachets that don't need refridgerating and also sweet and sour chicken and chicken curry in sachets that just need heating in a pan.

Boil in the bag fish in sauce with tinned potatoes and tinned mushy or garden peas.

Today for lunch I had a tin of spaghetti and sausages on toast, threw some cheese in and melted it. It was lovely. I think you could 'toast' bread in a pan on the heat.

Chopped up corned beef, with either instant mash or chopped tinned potatoes and chopped tinned carrotts and tinned or dried onions add some gravy granules and a squirt of brown sauce. Serve with vacumn packed beetroot and crusty bread.

Breakfasts are the easiest; either fry ups, beans on toast, fried eggs, boiled eggs, tinned tomatoes, creamed mushrooms, omelettes, sachets of porridge, cereals.

P.S. Just reading the Netto flyer in the free paper and they are advertising tins of sweet and sour chicken for £1

oldhector

Mr Mash ( instant mash - unnervingly good )- big box with sachets in from £1land - add tin tuna and tin sweetcorn and some salt and ground pepper - easy, cheap and only need a little gas to heat water for mash - we do this for lunch - never let us down yet.

Puds - peaches and evap milk !

We take frozen mince for first/second day and do a spag bol (tins and jars, dried herbs,pepper, mushrooms) cheese on top - break the spaghetti into the mix whilst cooking (one pot cooking) so less gas used, fewer trips to get water ..... and less washing up too !

syrup sponge pud and custard ! jamaca ginger cake n custard !

really good idea to start collecting little sashets of stuff ( sugar/pepper/salt/mayo/hot choc sachets etc ) - were always collecting these throughout the year and poppint them into a little bag ready for camping - saves lugging the entire bottle of tomato sauce and jar of mayo !!

we take flask and drinks bottles too

Hope that helps - Old Hector ( neither Old nor a Hector );)

Stephen_Leak

This is cheap, quick and easy, and also delicious, warming and filling. Useful as an emergency meal, especially if you have no water supply, as it uses the water in the tins. Also useful for camping or caravanning. Not recommended for backpacking, though.

THREE TIN BEEF STEW

Makes 3 x 250ml bowls

INGREDIENTS

1 tin of new potatoes in water
1 tin of garden peas or sliced carrots in water
1 tin of stewed steak in gravy
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Open the tin of potatoes. Put the potatoes and the water into a saucepan. Cut the potatoes into 2cm (1 inch) pieces.

Open the tin of peas or carrots. Add the peas or carrots and the water.

Open the tin of steak. Add the steak and gravy.

Stir thoroughly.

Put the saucepan on a medium heat. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering). Put the lid on the saucepan and continue to cook for 5 minutes until the potatoes are cooked.

Season with the pepper.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

Add a beef stock cube.

Add a teaspoon of dried parsley.

Use both a tin of garden peas and a tin of carrots.

TIPS

If any of the potatoes are damaged, mash them up and add them to the saucepan. They will help to thicken the stew.

Stephen_Leak

THREE TIN SOUP

Serves 2 – 3

INGREDIENTS

1 tin of meat or fish
1 tin of a vegetable or bean
1 tin of something else
250ml of water
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Open the tins and drain off any brine, oil or water. Wash off any tomato sauce from baked beans or fish as it will dominate all the other flavours.

Put all of the tinned ingredients and the water into a saucepan on a medium heat. Stir thoroughly. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering). Cook until all of the ingredients are thoroughly cooked.

If you have a food processor, put the soup in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the soup and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the soup through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy. If you used a food processor, rinse out the saucepan and put the soup back into the saucepan.

Put the saucepan on a low heat and reheat the soup gently.

Season with the pepper.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

DON’T USE TINNED CHICKEN.

The idea of the third tin is to add an "interesting" flavour and/or texture to the other two ingredients. You could use a different meat, fish, vegetable or bean, but why not try something completely different, like coconut milk, mushrooms, a sauce or even a soup. Maybe even tinned fruit?

The vegetarian option is to substitute the tin of meat or fish for a tin of another vegetable or bean.

Add a suitable stock cube. Add a teaspoon of a suitable herb or spice.

Remove some lumpy ingredients before blending and put them back in afterwards.

TIPS

Tried so far …

Chilli con Carne + red kidney beans + chopped tomatoes + chilli powder = very tasty and very filling.

Minced beef & onion + sliced carrots + sliced mushrooms = OK, but a bit heavy on the onions.

Mrs_Thrify

Hiya, some very useful idea's so not much to add....I would cook with pasta on one night and rice on another
Breakfast I would have said cereal but with 3 men, I would say bacon sandwiches.

jammy_dodger

asda sell squishy sachet type packets of sweet and sour chicken olde oak i think the brand is its by the tinned stewing steak anyway . it really is filling each sachet serves too and its real meaty and tasty . you can either heat it up in sachet or tip in a pan great for camping trips and no can to carry

they also do a chicken korma and a vindaloo as well , usuallly find em on offer 2 for £3 i think at moment

if you are near a sainnsburys they sell a long life breakfast saute . again its in a foil pouch (in a box ) by the dried potatoe isle , it has bacon cheese pots onions eggs in it just fry in a little oil greta for breakfast or serve with good old baked beans for a more filling meal ht h