music festival food. Old Style?

chrisfh

Hi,
I think I'd rather have a reasonable sized non-stick pan with me, that I could use as a saucepan or frying pan. That way I could cook one pot meals. Also, take some flavour things - mixed herbs, garlic, etc that don't weigh much but really improve a meal. The pan could be packed with clothes inside so that it only took up the space of the metal.
'Fraid I'm not a lightweight camper - definately take everything but the kitchen sink. However, you seem to have the basics covered.
I like the above post by Lesley - makes a lot of sense.

Chris

vivw_2

dronid wrote: »

We're off to a festival on the bank holiday weekend and I'm looking for some food and living related help, hence why I'm coming here rather than the Travel board.

We're train and walking so we're limited in how much we can carry.

We have a tent, stove (single gas ring), light etc. I was wondering if anyone knew of anything else that would make life easier there that could be carried easily.

Also I want to cook - actually cook - while we're there. I have a pressure cooker but it's a little heavy but I could cook more than one thing in there at a time. Would it be useful enough?

Any help or advice would be welcome.:D

A lot depends on the festival you are going to and how near it is to shops. Maybe if you say what festival , someone will know

Purple_Sparkles

Baby wipes! waterproofs, wellies & a hat.

Dehydrated foods are great, lightweight and quick to cook. I wouldn't take a pressure cooker a medium sized pan should be fine. Small cartons of long life milk & tea bags (I need my cups of tea).

Pink.

Hi dronid,

There's an earlier thread with lots of tips for camping at a festival that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

frugalswan

Whenever we go to rallies, I make a batch of chilli con carne and put it in a freezer bag. I then freeze it until the day we travel down, and take it out. Usually, by the time we arrive at the bike rally, it has defrosted (if not, keep it somewhere dark and cool, and it's usually fine until the next day ). When Tesco had an offer on camping gear, we found a lovely big and light aluminium pot with a lid (you can carry other stuff in there, too) for £5, but camping shops should sell those no problems.

Matches (to light the fire with - I don't know how many times we've nearly forgotten them!) and a torch for finding your way at night would be my essentials. Oh, and definitely a loo roll!

Chell

Poundland has some camping things in just now including some cooking bits like saucepans, lightweight mugs, etc.

lindadykes

We go to a lot of motorbike rallies throughout the year, and being "two up" means I have got used to packing in as small a space as possible.

One standard thing foodwise that I often do is take a packet of tortilla wraps, a pack of cooked chicken tikka, a bag of washed salad and some mayo decanted into a small plastic container. I then make up tikka wraps by spreading a wrap with mayo, then adding salad and chicken and rolling up - better than the usual overpriced greasy rally food thats generally available.

When we haven't had too far to travel I have been known to manage to pack a wok, althouth they aren't small they are light, the following two recipes are the two staples I have used at these times:

Singapore Fried Noodles
Pack of flame grilled chicken pieces
Pack of straight to wok noodles
Pack of stir fry veggies
2 Tbsp of Amoy Singapore Fried Noodle Sauce decanted into a small plastic container. (This comes in a jar and is available from oriental grocers, but if you can't find it any sachet of stir fry sauce would probably work.)
Spray oil
Spray wok with oil, add stir fry veg and stir fry for about 5 mins, add noodles and heat through. Add the chicken and sauce, combine and heat through - serve.

Provencal Potatoes
Tinned new potatoes
Pack of cooked tikka chicken
Can of petit pois and baby carrots
One of those stir through pasta sauces - I used a sundried tomato and garlic one.
Spray oil
Spray wok with oil, add drained potatoes, peas and carrots and stir fry till well heated. Add Chicken and sauce and stir until heated - serve.

And finally if I can't be bothered to be pre organised or when we are travelling a greater distance (I don't like to have to take a back back on longer journeys as it's more comfortable without one.) We usually pitch up then do a run to the nearest supermarket to buy pate, cheese, butter, cooked chicken and french bread, which will usually last the weekend.

Just thought one final final thing! if you like cereal for breakfast and can get access to milk (some rallies have a stall that sells newspapers and milk) take a couple of those little boxes of cereal from a variety pack and a plastic spoon, just open the box and the top of the inner plastic bag and pour the milk straight into the bag and eat direct from the pack.

dronid

The Festival is the Small World Festival and is, as you might expect, small.
Very small. And a very long walk from the nearest shop. The nearest village is Headcorn which is a couple of miles away. There is only limited food on site and after last years veggi sausage in a bun with a sausage the size of your thumb, I think we'll need to cook. I’m happy enough to walk to the village but not on a daily basis (I'm at a festival and want to enjoy that!), particularly when the only shower facilities are a wood walled, unroofed cube with a plastic bag overhead to (cold) shower under. I’m really not a fan of dried all-in-the-bag meals and Pot Noodle I only make once every 7 years just so the aroma will remind me of why I never buy it. This is very Oldstyle living and I want to enjoy the food I cook. I also want others to join us, hence the idea of the pressure cooker. I can cook up a good sized casserole in that in about 20 mins which would be a good idea, but as you say the pressure cooker is a bit heavy.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

vivw_2

Can you get yourself a folding bag on wheels. you'd get loads in that

champys

When we go cycle-touring the lack of refrigeration can be a problem in summer on top of the need to remain as light-weight as possible. We rarely travel without a packet of 'vache qui rit' cheese (can be melted or just eaten on bread) and some dry salami or chorizo. That takes care of the sandwiches - a packet of pita breads if no bakery available. Making salads like a nicoise (tinned tuna, hard boiled eggs, tomato, cucumber, black olives, mayonnaise in a tube) can be handy if you don't want to bring cooking equipment. Otherwise a deep, light-weight frying pan (or wok as lindadykes suggests) is good for cooking lots of things in decent quantities. Pressure cooker, sadly, is simply too heavy!