music festival food. Old Style?

blue_cat_4

We haven't been for a couple of years but we always tried to take as much food as possible as there was 4 of us. We always take pasta, boil in the bag rice, sachets of pasta sauce and curry (lighter to carry than tins as it is fair way to get your stuff from the car parks to the camping areas). Cereal is good for breakfast as they bring fresh milk around camp sites in the morning. Fresh bread also is available daily from the bakery stall. Green fields is always a good place for relatively cheap food there, although it is vegetarian (which suits me just fine!). Also tend to take lots of snacky stuff like crisps and nuts etc. Hope this helps and you have a great time.

Pink.

Hi shashwoo,

This earlier thread should give you more ideas

music festival food. Old Style?

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

Pink

Shashwoo

Thanks to all your relplies

We usually make sure we take the fried brekki style stuff to atleast have one cooked breakfast (wouldn't be camping without making a cooked breakfast)

This is only the 2nd time I've been to Glastonbury the last time in 2008 but I am used to going camping but only for a night or two so any stuff we take gets used up with no wastage.

We were thinking of them tins of beans with meat in them full monty I think they are called.

I know some places are cheap to buy food from when we are there however I found last time alot of the food was not really very nice for the price.

I'll keep an eye out for the place you suggested Seehar.

I didn't really think of taking pasta sauces, cous cous or anything like that so that has given me (drumroll please) food for thought! hahahahahaha :rotfl:budum tish!

I just think the more we save the more we can spend at the festival and as people who have been will know there is so much to see and do and spend your money on

Sharon x

Marco_Panettone

Having just returned from the Isle of Wight festival I'd recommend taking a thermos flask with you. Boil your water in the morning and fill it up = instant hot water nearly all day.

You should be able to get a free (or cheap) feed from the Hare Krishna tent too. Don't forget your bin bags, baby wipes and loo roll!

Enjoy!

kate_pixie

Make sure you take some Wotsits. A festival is the only place you can get away with having wotsits and lager for breakfast!:rotfl:

Much festival envy xxx

Reverbe

Thanks Pink I was about to say there was a thread on this before..

23rdspiral

hi, i hope you really enjoy glastonbury... it's such a fabulous place. this will be my 8th time i think and i still can't wait!

please dont think i've gone all overkill on this... i've just cut and copied from a list i keep on facebook which i've been adding to for a few years. thought it might help someone.

This is my general yet extensive camping kit list, not all things will be suitable for each trip. I've typed it to save me writing it out several times a year. I've tagged you if you've expressed interest in my list of have asked me if xxx would be needed. The food bit is lifted from a forum post I wrote.
If anyone reads this, please let me know if I’ve forgotten anything or if you’ve a good tip.
Cooking kit:
Camping gas stove or equivalent
2 pans (we use the square army style mess tins, and can eat out of them too)
Kettle
Plastic / enamel plates + paper plates for on top if the washing up facilities aren’t great
Plastic cupMug – I prefer china
Horn – for mead
Cutlery set
Tupperware or takeaway food tubs – for lunches on the go
Wooden spatula
Washing up liquid + sponge
Tea towel
Clothes pegs
Tin opener (if you're taking tins)
Corkscrew
Cool bag, + blocks if there’s somewhere to freeze them (Isle of Avalon campsite has a freezer)
Lidded plastic crate - all of the above tat is contained in this and it gives us a little table too.

Food:
Food:
(the festivals I go to all have awesome food; Glastonbury Festival has some fab food stalls... generally the further from the pyramid stage the better i like them!) But saving money or eating quickly is important too!)

• Tins are heavy. Be choosy or you might regret it! Personally I only take tinned tuna or chicken curry/meatballs. (Glastonbury can be a 3 mile muddy walk from the car, so over the years I’ve tatted many cans of food and tins of beer, frying pans, and of course tents, that the punters couldn’t be bothered to take away with them!)
• Foil packet dinners - eg. chicken curry. I'd recommend these over expedition packs any day. Easy to pack, much lighter to carry than tins, quick to heat
• Small foil packets designed for lunches – coronation chicken, tuna mayo. Add bread from the bakery and it’s an easy lunch on the move. Princes make them and Sainsbury’s do their own. (for all intense and purposes they look like Cat
• Microwave rice packs. Pan fry for 2-3 mins and they are hot, safe and used significantly less gas than standard rice. Home Bargains sells them for 50p, other supermarkets can be far pricier.
• Cous-cous instead of pasta - add some herbs, put on the right amount of boiling water, cover with clingfilm or a plate and 10min later it's done, hot, and used significantly less gas than pasta.
• If we want real pasta - break up spaghetti small and put it in the pan with the sauce to cook.
• Custard, tetra pack cartons - practically essential: can be eaten hot or cold both as late night muchy food and hung-over-can't-manage-anything-just-need-sugar food!
• Dried fruit / fruit in jelly – fresh can spoil quickly and get squashed
• Plastic carton of real cider, wine box, mead decanted into pop bottle. (don’t take glass, heavy, could break and banned at festivals).
• Hot chocolate (plus rum!), instant coffee, tea bags & sugar, powered milk, cupasoup, MugShots (60p tescos, 32p HomeBargainss), malt loaf, cereal bars, flapjack and dolly mixtures. Breakfast and sweet treats are amongst the most costly things to buy at festies.
• alchohol decanted in to plastic bottles: cider, mead, rum (possibly red wine box) (they dont need to be chilled, dont need ice or mixers, and dont go off in heat too badly)

Camping Kit
Tent – practice putting it up before leaving if you’ve not done it before
Roll mats
Torch (preferably wind-up, preferably small as you might need to carry it all evening before you actually need to use it to get back in your tent!)
Sleeping bag
Camping chair
Water bottle
Blanket
Hat & gloves for cold nights
Hot water bottle (!) (only if there is a source of hot water on site)
Toilet roll
Some empty carrier bags / bin bags
Personal Kit
Waterproof jacket (propper and pac-a-mac)
At least 2 pairs of footwear – walking boots, wellies, sandals/crocks (I will defend my crocks: waking at 3am desperate for a wee still drunk in the dark is no time to be prattling about trying to put wellies on)
Gaiters
Medication (+ a written note of it’s name and dose in case it gets lost and you need replacements)
First Aid Kit: plasters, meditape, ibuprofen, tiger balm, fizzy make feel good, indegestion pills
Towl / treck towl
Glasses
Camera + memory card + batteries + case
Journal + pen + prit-stick
Ear plugs
Hand sanitizer
Scissors
Sunscreen
Aftersun
Day bag / handbag
Pink feather bower – essential kit for ian

Wash Kit: Shower gel, Shampoo (LUSH soild), Toothbrush & Paste, Soap, razor, deodorant, cleanser, baby wipes, moisturiser, Sparkly make-up

Clothes – include layers
Bras, pants, socks
Tshirts, vests
Skirts: long short layering
Dress (at least for wearing to the showers for ease of changing)
Trousers
Warm jumper
Fleece
Scarf
PJs - old trackie bottoms and long sleeved Tshirt

Shashwoo

Thank you 23rdspiral for your list... I have to ask....

Journal + pen + prit-stick

Why the Pritstick ? LOL

metherer

When hubby and I went to The Big Green Gathering we took lots of packet pasta and sauce, and savoury rice. Light to transport, quick to cook.

Have fun at Glasto.

miecherox

My only additional bit of advice re: food at festivals is avoid anything outside the main arena like the plague, at every festival we found this food to be greasy, cold and over priced. If you just make one hot meal a day have a big brunch type thing at your tent (OH and I have even been known to take a coffee pot:p) And then eat in the arena, it really can be part of the festival experience because as well as your usual burger vans and chips you'll find pizza (proper stone baked) chinese, Indian you name it it's there. I've never been to glasto before but Isle of Wight, V and Leeds have all had some amazing places to eat. I especially loved the oyster and Guinness bar at V last year!!!!! And IOW had an amazing vegetarian village with loads of entertainment too. I'm pretty sure somewhere like glasto would have all that with bells on!

Have A Great Time!!!:j