Camp Grub!

[Geobloke]

After the bread thread (http://forum.landrovernet.com/showthread.php?t=106965), I have begun thinking of other things to take camping with me.

What provisions do you usually take and can recommend when space and weight are an issue?

I like the bread mix, simple, easy, good grub.

Am going to try other stuff now, such as cous cous...

[PinkSeriesIII]

After the bread thread (http://forum.landrovernet.com/showthread.php?t=106965), I have begun thinking of other things to take camping with me.

What provisions do you usually take and can recommend when space and weight are an issue?

I like the bread mix, simple, easy, good grub.

Am going to try other stuff now, such as cous cous...
I have varying menus for hike vs truck camp. Some items may be...

Sweet Bannok mix with dried figs(recipe below). Noodles. Beefy Jerky. Drinking chocolate. Decanted creamed rice pudding. Dried figs, dates, nuts.
I like plain buttered cous cous as an extremely satisfying belly filler. Curry decanted into resealable bag designed for fluids (from tescos). For the jet boil in the truck as a quick greenlaning ration meal I carry a few packets of Uncle-Bens Microwave rice range (read back, it only needs couple tablespoon of water and heated thru in pot, lots of flavors).
Bannock Recipe

Bannock: A backpackers pan cooked flat bread where the ingredients are usually carried dry and premixed in plastic bags.
12 oz (cup n half) self raising flour
12 oz (cup n half) wholemeal plain flour
4 oz (half cup) dried skimmed milk
4 oz (half cup) vegetable suet
2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 heaped teaspoon unrefined sugar
Optional: Add 2 oz of dried fruit, nut or seeds to the mix. My current favorite is torn dates and sunflower seeds.
METHOD:
Mix well and divide into zip-lock bags. I find the quantity in the above recipe will make 4 portions of 8inch diameter by 1 inch thick cooked bannock, one of which is more enough as a one man meal.
To cook:
Slowly add water to the dry mix bag. Lightly kneading together from outside the bag until a rough but even textured dough ball can formed that holds it shape. It is important not to knead the dough to death as it will then not rise.
Tip and flatten the ball onto a bake stone or pan above the embers of a campfire. Cook each side until both sides are golden brown.

[goldypurple]

24 hr army ration packs

[PinkSeriesIII]

ooo I forgot one of favorite camp or hiking foods is smoked/dried mackerel and/or kippers. I can eat the mackerel cold as it comes but love the kippers cooked up with butter over fire. Stinks the area out but sets me up for the day especially if scrambled eggs are available. The fish is light, flat and packs well.

Fresh Trout bought locally is nice to cook in pan or over fire. Simple food.

There's Salami sausage too, eaten as is or as an ingredient to 'chuck everything into a pot' meal. I find salami not so good in hot weather as it sweats horribly but I bivvy mostly in winter.

[Madoobri]

cous cous

Add boiling water, stir well & serve ;)

[Alane]

24 hr army ration packs

Yeah, can't go wrong with them!!!

Boil in the bag stuff, see if you can find an MOD rat box list, we had stuff like cornbeef hash (my fav) & chicken caserole.
Also porridge oats and some drinking chocolate powder go very well together for breaky.

Or if you're feeling "well hard" (& brave) just take a few snares and some fishing line & hooks.

Probably best to take some cash for a 24hr garage if the above fails, lol

Ade

[Auto Culto]

definatly take army rations and a silenced air rifle ;)

[Satancom]

bacon and a hot manifold.. alternatively the misses :D

[BigJim]

Sweet Bannok mix with dried figs(recipe below).
Optional: Add 2 oz of dried fruit, nut or seeds to the mix. My current favorite is torn dates and sunflower seeds.


I regularly make bread at home, and add all sorts of seeds, pumpkin, sunflower, linseed, sometimes even hemp, all very good for you, as well as covering in sesame seed or poppy seed. (Hemp?, Poppy?, who's that knockking at the door, or are they braeking it in:D:D)
i also add millet flakes, gives a different texture.
Rolled oats (or oatmeal) would also add a different texture to the bannock, and must be an ingredient of a genuine bannock, hoots mon.

[steve@offroadin]

camp grub :D