Vegetarian trekking lunches

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Crackers and Peanut butter travel well, don't go off and are pretty filling. If you had a small flask you could use the boiling water available in the evenings to make up something like a 'Mugshot' (pasta in tomato sauce) in the flask, it won't stay boiling hot but would still be warm at lunchtime the next day and that with perhaps a cheese string or babybel would be a nice change.

melanzana

I'm confused.

You will have breakfast and dinner every day. Where is that coming from?

Could you not boil a few eggs every day with access to boiling water and pack some cereal bars as well, but then again fresh eggs might not travel well in a rucksack!

upoiupou

When I've travelled having to take all my food with me I've relied a lot on pumpernickel bread bought in a vacuum pack, six or eight slices to a pack. I don't like the taste or texture - it's really strong and dense - but it's filling, healthy, compact and practical. I don't know if you can buy it in a sealed pack here (I bought it when I was living abroad) but I expect you can if you look around.

I also used to take dried seaweed salad, which you can get from a health food shop. It takes up hardly any room. You just add water to rehydrate it then it really expands. If you're eating anything else you can add it to, fine, but I would just eat some on it's own if needed. If you're fussy about taste you could maybe take some gomashio or other seasoning to sprinkle on it. Without something green, I start feeling really grotty living on carbs for a week.

I would also take nuts and some dried fruit bars (health food shop again).

Also, what Tiddlywinks said - mushroom pate or other pate in a tube.

Gosh, this brings back memories! Vegetarian, travelling in China, and eating only what I took with me for three meals a day.

THIRZAH

Are you moving from place to place and carrying all your belongings with you or will you have a base such as a hostel and be going out each day?

We've done a few walking holidays but have always stayed in the same place each night or been on organised holidays where our luggage was transported from place to place while we walked.

Sweet stuff is never a problem but it's hard to think of savoury food that doesn't need a fridge . I'm sure I've seen tubes of savoury pate or spread in wholefood shops and you could take crispbreads . Bread would keep for a few days. I like those cheese sandwich biscuits although DH hates them. You can get the small packs of Pringles in some shops and they don't get crushed like ordinary crisps.

We were walking in Crete last year . It was in the high 30s most days. Some people had bought packets of mixed salted nuts which were filling and gave them the salt they needed while walking in the heat.

Doom_and_Gloom

Tinned braised tofu is nice. My OH and I eat it straight out of the can on it's own but it's nice with tinned sweet corn too. If you have mayo (you can buy little packets) and wraps you could make wraps out of that easily - I've done a vegan version of this before and it's yum.
Nakd bars, trek bars etc.
Rice cakes/crackers/crisp breads with peanut butter (you can get portion sachets of this if need be).
I have to admit I eat beans right out of the can when I'm being very lazy or my disability makes even microwaving too much. Things can be eaten out of cans as is. It might not be as tasty but it works which is why a lot of people have them in their stock for 'doomsday.'

juliesname

While I wouldn't normally recommend anyone who doesn't have to eats gluten-free stuff, the Schar ciabatta rolls (available at Tesco etc) come in a thick plastic pack and live for a couple of months out of the fridge unopened. And they don't disintegrate even when knocked around in my work bag for a day.

Julie.

Lizling

melanzana wrote: »

I'm confused.

You will have breakfast and dinner every day. Where is that coming from?

Could you not boil a few eggs every day with access to boiling water and pack some cereal bars as well, but then again fresh eggs might not travel well in a rucksack!

We'll be staying at mountain refuges where some basic food is provided, for a high price, at breakfast and dinner but not lunch. At breakfast, I can eat porridge, but there's nothing vegetarian on the menu in the evenings. They offered to make something specially for me in the evenings, but fellow veggies will understand what a risk relying on that would be, and anyway, I'd rather keep costs down. Guests aren't allowed in the kitchen and camp fires, BBQs etc aren't allowed in the national park during summer. There is hot water available but intended for making hot drinks so it's probably not possible to boil eggs/boil in the bag etc. Hope that explains it!

thirzah wrote:

Are you moving from place to place and carrying all your belongings with you or will you have a base such as a hostel and be going out each day?

Generally we'll be moving from one refuge to the next by boat, so I won't have to carry everything with me. There'll be one day when I've got to carry enough for 2 days.

Doom_and_Gloom wrote:

Tinned braised tofu is nice. My OH and I eat it straight out of the can on it's own but it's nice with tinned sweet corn too. If you have mayo (you can buy little packets) and wraps you could make wraps out of that easily - I've done a vegan version of this before and it's yum

Some brilliant ideas there. I never even knew tinned braised tofu existed! The extra protein will be very welcome. I'll try to get some of those little sachets of mayo as well.

upoiupou wrote:

I also used to take dried seaweed salad, which you can get from a health food shop. It takes up hardly any room. You just add water to rehydrate it then it really expands. If you're eating anything else you can add it to, fine, but I would just eat some on it's own if needed. If you're fussy about taste you could maybe take some gomashio or other seasoning to sprinkle on it. Without something green, I start feeling really grotty living on carbs for a week.

I'd never have thought of that! Clearly I need to spend more time in healthfood shops I was pretty worried about how I'd be feeling after a week with so many carbs and so little veg, so this would be ideal :T



I've just done the supermarket shopping bit - health food shop still to come - and it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be.

I found some pouches of ready to eat bean, lentil and bulgar/quinoa mixes, which I can eat cold. There's the selection of mini cheeses, the crackerbread and the oatcakes that people suggested, and a little tub of olive paste to go with them (couldn't see mushroom, but olive will be fine). Lots of muesli bar type things and already got dried fruit and nuts. Couldn't find pumpernickel unfortunately, but I think I've seen it in Lidl so I might get that later.

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Would you like a recipe for a home made Nakd Bar lookalike? I make these and store them in the fridge and my daughter who runs D of E makes them to take on expeditions and so do many of the pupils she teaches for Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. Will post you the recipe if you'd like it. It survives very happily out of the fridge wrapped in cling film.

Spendless

What my Dad does when eh goes out, is takes a flask of hot boiled water and then the sachets to go with them, so it is his choice if he makes himself a cup a soup, coffee, mugshot etc with the water. Is this an option taking hot water on a morning?

Lizling

That Nakd bar recipe would be great, please MrsLurcherwalker! Thank you

Soups in a thermos are just too heavy and bulky to take, unfortunately, but thank you all the same to the people who've suggested them.