Caravan, camping and holiday cookery

Pee

The grill means that toast is an option, so before and after meals toast and jam for instance should fill them up.

My OH loves a sort of tinned stew with a tin of mince or stewing steak, tin of potatoes, tin of peas and tin of carrots. I took some convincing, but everything tastes much better out of doors.

I like a pot noodle myself in case I end up starving, packet soup and hot chocolate can also be good if you are feeling cold.

Will you be able to light a fire and have a barbeque? Sausages are always good and cheap.

Seanymph

No to the fires I'm afraid...

Fruball

Is there are supermarket near to where you are going?

It should be easy enough to eat cheaply if there is.

Tinned potatoes are lovely fried up until crispy in a bit of butter with some beans and sausages or eggs.

Omelette is easy and you can brown it off under the grill

A big pot of casserole with rice

Curry & rice

Chilli & rice

Pasta in tomato sauce with a few sausages cut into small pieces

Lentil soup is fairly quick and easy

Leek and potato soup with cheese thrown on top

Bacon sandwiches!

Full English Breakfast (for lunch or dinner too!)

Loads of things you can do Yum! Have a fab time x

heavenleigh

Hot dogs are a must.
boiled bag omelets (put eggs and whatever else (grated cheese, cooked ham, tinned peas etc) in a freezer bag, reseal the bag (pushing out most of the air) then squish together, then drop the sealed bag into boiling water....... doesn't look much like an omelet when it comes out but tastes devine :0)
Foil fish packets work really well on the grill, Wrap whatever fish you have (salmon,cod, pollock....anything goes really) into a foil pocket with a drizzle of oil and a grind of salt and pepper, simple but filling and healthy xx
Cous cous, all you need is some hot water.
I'm sure i can think of more x

M.E.

I used to take Ranger Guides (14-18) back-packing and cycling holidays. We would often stop&scoff, that is buy food in the supermarket that we could eat without heating anything, then have hot drinks. We would then walk or cycle to a quiet spot and pic-nic. As it is warm-ish weather there is no need to have cooked meals more than once or even once every other day, but hot drinks and plenty to drink is essential. Nowadays there is plenty of ready-to-eat food.
As these were teenage girls who could be scathing about what others were eating, I insisted that if anyone was eating bread and jam, absolutely no comments were to be made... bread and jam could be eaten by anyone at anytime... At camp that was true of cereal and milk. They could help themselves at any time.
We had some fussy eaters so I let them choose their food in the shops. Favourie foods.. porridge, chocolate cake, apples, bananas and cucumber and tomatoes. They also had to budget it. There were usually 12 girls and 2 adults and two single burners. Having a hot drink at the end of the pic-nic was easy on the washing up and no-one missed not having a "cooked" meal. Favourite hot meals were rice and tinned bolognaise, hot custard over bought apple pie, tomato soup with frankfurters warmed up in it over instant noodles with a packet of salad and a roll. Teenagers..love 'em

RAS

I recommend cuppa soups for starters.

They can be prepared very quickly. They can be bulked up with a spoon or two of potato purls (cheap mash potato not the expensive stuff), a teaspoon of marg or a drizzle of grated cheese. The also soak up vast amounts of buttered bread if you dunk it. takes the edge of the appetites.

Can you take a heat up casserole or stew for the first night?

Bulk cook some sausages in advance (and perhaps a few rashers of bacon). In a cool box they will keep a couple of days so you can have suasage mash and peas (instant mash made with dried milk and marg - add a bit of mustard if you like).

The next day have pasta with sausage sauce - tomato if you like.

If you can buy decent portions of chips near the site, then fry eggs at camp and maybe a sausage each?

Another simple pasta dish - a rough alla carbonara - cook bacon until crisp and crumble. Cook pasta. drain but retain a couple of spoons of liquid incase. Heat through, add the crumble bacon with the fat, and loads of black pepper (better crushed than ground) then a whisked egg for every two people. The egg should cook in the heat from the pasta. Add a salad.

For puddings - warm a cake, slice and add instant custard. or bananas and custard. Or get cheap instant whip - chocolate with banana is lovely.

Butterfly_Brain

• Take some flour tortillas a jar of mayo a couple of tins of tuna and salad and make tuna wraps.
• Make a tortilla pizza and pop it under the grill
• Make quesilladas
• Pitta breads are handy as well, just fill with plenty of salad add meat or fish and sauce of choice .
• Risotto's
• shish kebabs
• Pasta
• Sweetcorn fritters
• Pancakes either American style or English for breakfast or fill with a tin of mince and mixed veg, pour over a cheese sauce and grated cheese and grill until the cheese is bubbling or you could fill with a tin of chicken in white sauce and some sweetcorn (If you can't get the dish under the grill use a cooks blow torch to melt the cheese)
• Cheats brulee some tinned or fresh fruit ( add a splash of alcohol just to zing it up a bit) a pkt of instant custard, sprinkle some demerara sugar on top and use the blow torch or grill to melt the sugar
• French Toast or eggy bread for breakfast

miss_corerupted

you could get them foraging as well. Today on my walk I picked a tub off wild raspberries, wild strawberries and wynberries.

bound to be something on your travels

Stephen_Leak

Try this ...

THREE TIN BEEF STEW

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.

Makes 4 x 250ml bowls

INGREDIENTS

1 tin of stewed steak in gravy
1 tin of carrots or peas in water
1 tin of new potatoes in water

METHOD

Open the tin of steak. Put the steak and gravy into a saucepan.

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

Open the tin of potatoes. Drain the water into the saucepan. Cut the potatoes into 2cm (1 inch) pieces. Add the potatoes to the saucepan.

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.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

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

Add a beef stock cube.

Add a teaspoon of dried parsley.

TIPS

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

Seanymph

You guys are brilliant - I'd totally forgotten couscous of all things - and I've never used tinned veggies or stews, so that's worth a look too.

I feel a lot better prepared than I did. Still nervous though..