DofE award weekend - what will your son/daughter be eating?

neveranymoney

My daughter is doing her silver award and basically had a field day eating exactly what you posted. Plus Mars bars and chocolate digestives.

Sachets of porridge are a good idea and pre cooked bacon went down well too.

Jagraf

Wraps with marmite and all the usual trashy bits.

Pasta and pesto for dinner. Hot choc sachets for the whole group.

This was DD last year. Glad it's over

Gloomendoom

There is a whole load of advice on the D of E website...

http://www.dofeshopping.org/expedition-kit/food-and-expedition-meals

shoe*diva79

My daughter did her silver practice expedition on Dartmoor a few weeks ago and ended up being admitted to hospital due to lack of calories going in and how much walking they do. She was worried about carrying the extra weight but they ate as a group. She was in charge of breakfast and I got them hotdog sausages in tins, ready made pancakes (bread aisle) and baked beans. She said they had pasta for lunch and dinner. I also got her a multipack of the mini haribo packs for sugar hits. She has her final expedition in August and weight to carry or not, she will be taking more then she wants!

TeaCake

I lived off Kendal Mint Cake, Supernoodles and tinned hot dogs when I did mine in the 90's. Teens today are lucky there's so much information available to them now about expedition food. Good luck to all those doing it soon.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The local supermarkets ran out of tubs of mini flapjacks when DD's lot went.

They were very much welcome. More so than biscuits.

butterflymum

There's also 'an app for that' (via iTunes), you can read about it at:

http://www.magazine.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/magazine/tscontent/editorials/outdoor-skills/2012/dofe-eating-app.html

m1kjm

It was Beanfeasts and kendal mint cake for me in the 80s. The temperatures were 30 degrees plus so our fresh foods cooked in the luggage compartment of the coach on the loooong journey down to Dartmoor.

Suets

Hi my DS did his silver practise walk a few weeks ago, thumbs up to microwaveable rice- it can be stir fried in minutes, chorizo to eat on the move, fruit in jelly/juice, yoghurt pot size custard, lots of snack bars, trail mix, dried fruit and oat cakes, Pasta and stir in sauces. He didn't rate the mug shots I'd given him so won't take them next time.
I think on the next walk he wants to take bacon!

S

sheramber

multi packs of Mars bars and packets of dates.