Caravan, camping and holiday cookery

Bogof_Babe

If you wedge it in well with your other luggage around it I'm sure it would be fine. Perhaps pad it with a couple of sleeping bags, if you're taking those.

Are you sure you'll want the faff of mixing bread ingredients when you're on holiday though? I think I'd try to find a decent bakers shop nearby and buy a nice fresh crusty loaf every day - hang the expense, you're on your hols! :j

money-magnet_3

I have a "thermal cooking pot". It is an insulated container with a stainless steel cooking pot that goes inside. You heat the metal pot (with uncooked casserole, soup etc inside) for a fraction of the normal cooking time and then place it in the outer container to cook in its own heat. It works like a slow cooker, but doesn't need to be connected to any power (so can be left unattended, or carried in the boot of the car with tonight's dinner inside etc).

Trouble is I bought it in Australia (https://www.dreampot.com.au), not sure if something similar is available in the UK ?

Greenwellies_2

money-magnet wrote:

Trouble is I bought it in Australia (https://www.dreampot.com.au), not sure if something similar is available in the UK ?

I looked at the price. I haven't checked out the exchange rate but it looks mighty expensive!

GW

Thistle-down

These sorts of pans are really handy as well for camping or caravanning - these are split in three (not my auction!!) but they also come split into two.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/set-of-3-vintage-space-saver-pans-for-rayburn-aga_W0QQitemZ190000907848QQcategoryZ122946QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

~Lynn

here's a picture of the double ones:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=98846&item=4465577012

Grumpysally

we're going camping next month and are trying out an electric hook up for the first time. Do you think we would be able to use a 'george' or similar? (BTW our local co-op is selling breville grills for £20. is this a good price?)

Gingham_Ribbon

Bogof_Babe wrote:

If you wedge it in well with your other luggage around it I'm sure it would be fine. Perhaps pad it with a couple of sleeping bags, if you're taking those.

Are you sure you'll want the faff of mixing bread ingredients when you're on holiday though? I think I'd try to find a decent bakers shop nearby and buy a nice fresh crusty loaf every day - hang the expense, you're on your hols! :j

Thanks. I think we'll manage. We're definitely taking it now. We go to the same place every year and there isn't a little bakers. We are so into our breadmaker we don't want to eat any other kind of bread. And heaven forbid we actually eat a pizza that we didn't make ourselves. :rolleyes: :rotfl: (DH's words. He was a total Dominos-aholic a year ago!)

KayofH

Anne_Marie wrote:

Am sure that a George is just the much newer version of my old Rima grill, sadly long gone, but how I miss it, great for cooking toasties, doing grills, and it also had a roasting pan which I used to do various casserole dishes in. From what I remember you could use the roasting pan for fried eggs. Does the George come with a wee roasting pan? Or could it accomodate a little one? Might be tempted to get one if it could, when I've saved enough.
Getting back to original topic. With a coolbox, I always freeze cartons of fresh fruit juice, or bottles of diluted juice, (not fizzy drinks) to keep the food cold, rather than the icepacks. Obviously bigger cartons defrost slower than little ones, but a few of the little ones on top, never go amiss for a cool drink. Save a few of those little plastic bottles the kids use for their drinks, and re-use them, again and again. The fruit juice when defrosted goes into them for using during the day. A small coolbag is another good wee thing to have, to carry drinks about, few sandwiches, whatever you need to stave off the hunger pangs. (Wish I had taken one to Edinburgh last weekend - can't believe I forgot! Won't again, cost me a fortune in food!)

I am so glad someone else remembers the Rima grill. I used to have one (lost it in the divorce!) but was beginning to think I'd dreamed it. When the George came out no-one seemed to know what I was talking about!

Agapanthus

Keep it simple. You CAN cook quite elaborate stuff on a campsite ( my daughter, at Guides, received instruction on how to cook a sponge cake over a camp fire, but on the whole I'd recommend cooking the sponge cake before you go!) Fruit cake's particularly good to take, as it'll keep a while before going stale.

We used to take a bolognese sauce (made the night before) and some grated cheese for the first night - just needed heating up on one ring and pasta cooking on the other. We never aspired to an electric hookup - we cooked over gas.

The second night, DH would be sent outside with the barbecue - issued with a woolly hat (if required) and unlimited beer. :beer: The inside cook(s) would deal with potatoes and a veg and would have the run of a wine box (if old enough!) or lemonade and coca cola (not normally allowed at home) if not.

Dessert was normally tinned fruit and evaporated milk or fresh fruit, if available. If the barbecue was going, the kids would sometimes do:

Baked apples : an eating apple (because it doesn't matter if it isn't cooked through) cored, stuffed with sultanas and a small nob of butter on top, wrapped in foil. Place on barbecue when the meat is taken off. By the time you've eaten the first course it'll be at least hot through. Good with evaporated milk, ready made custard or cream if you've got it.

Chocolate bananas: Slit a banana and push a square of chocolate into the slit. Wrap in foil and cook as above.

Toasted marshmallows: give each child (or even some adults!) a handful of marshmallows, a wooden kebab skewer (for older children, obviously) and some ready-made chocolate sauce squeezed into a bowl. They toast the marshmallows over the glowing embers of the barbecue and dip into the sauce. Sickly sweet to my taste, but the kids loved it!

The bit about camping that our children loved best was after the evening meal. No phone, no TV, no internet, they got our undivided attention for an hour or two. We played games together - we taught them whist - and talked about what we wanted to do the next day.

Breakfast was a feature: Sometimes it was bacon and eggs (which we never have for breakfast at home)I can remember our three kids arriving shivering from their little tent into the main one on a September morning when there had been an unexpected frost. They demanded hot chocolate and porridge - which they got, at high speed. They still remember that - and they're in their twenties now - and so do I. It was fun!

Grumpysally

Ah yes a rima, I had one for years, don't know what happened to it. Probably died from overwork.
Who made them? Can't we start a campaign to get them back : )

i_wanna_save_money!

Hi All,

We are off on a weeks holiday to Haven ( marton mere ) in the easter break and it's going to be quite low budget so I was wondering if anyone could help me plan a menu for a week for 2 adults 2 children.


We are travelling by train, so won't be able to take much with us. We are hoping there is a tesco or asda nearby so we won't have to spend much at the shop on site.

Breakfasts will be cereal / toast, but am not really sure what else to be making for lunch and dinner. As I am on holiday, I don't want to be cooking for ages, and also don't want lots of washing up.

Any ideas gratefuly received