Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
Outdoor Activities => Northern Ireland Camping and Bushcraft => Topic started by: RedLeader on June 09, 2010
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What does everyone like for breakfast when hiking - something light, not easily breakable and full of energy for a day on the hill? Porridge seems to be the general order of the day but what sort and with milk, milk powder or water? Plus lets be honest, it's not the most exciting food.
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Ready made pancake mix from tescos put onto pan and served with sugar and lemon or just syrup
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Certainly not the lightest but The Full Monty or The Big Breakfast decanted into freezer bags. Both are a mix of beans, sausages, bacon and burger pieces. Maybe not the most healthiest thing but mighty tasty, especially on a wet foggy morning. Probably worth the weight/wait?!
What other foodstuffs do you guys carry? I'm looking for options. :P
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I think the food is worth the weight, it's the pots and pans needed to cook it all plus the cleaning afterwards. When you're on a peak with no water around it can be a hassle.
Certainly not the lightest but The Full Monty or The Big Breakfast decanted into freezer bags. Both are a mix of beans, sausages, bacon and burger pieces. Maybe not the most healthiest thing but mighty tasty, especially on a wet foggy morning. Probably worth the weight/wait?!
What other foodstuffs do you guys carry? I'm looking for options. :P
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@J: When solo normally porridge with water (I'm funny about milk unless it's icy old)...leave it to cool and thicken...and it's not too bad. Thinking about using condensed milk, I'm told it comes in tubes a well as (heavier) tins.
Also has breakfast slices (reformed pork stuff) on my last overnight...forgot the oil....just used water (so it was hot spam rather than fired bacon). Couple of brown sauce sachets tea leafed from Sainsburys restaurant, stick the whole lot in a bap. Very little clean up needed since it seems to have a low fat content.
Ready made pancake mix
I'm soo doing that next time (haven't had 'proper' pancakes in ages, let alone up the mountain)....
What other foodstuffs do you guys carry? I'm looking for options. :P
My stable for dinner is Microwave rice and microwave chilli/rice pouches (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4632315901/in/set-72157624120317708/), fits perfect in a crusader cup. Takes about 10 minutes in boiling water (rice first then meat) Using microwave rice rather than boil in the bag means you have water for tea/coffee ready to be used straight away.
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Condensed milk in tubes sounds like the job. I eat porridge most mornings. I have the microwave stuff that you just add milk to but I assumed it would be foul with water instead of milk. I like the idea of breakfast slices too - used to eat them lots when I was young. What did you cook the slices in - did you take a pan as well as a pot?
@J: When solo normally porridge with water (I'm funny about milk unless it's icy old)...leave it to cool and thicken...and it's not too bad. Thinking about using condensed milk, I'm told it comes in tubes a well as (heavier) tins.
Also has breakfast slices (reformed pork stuff) on my last overnight...forgot the oil....just used water (so it was hot spam rather than fired bacon). Couple of brown sauce sachets tea leafed from Sainsburys restaurant, stick the whole lot in a bap. Very little clean up needed since it seems to have a low fat content.
Ready made pancake mix
I'm soo doing that next time (haven't had 'proper' pancakes in ages, let alone up the mountain)....
What other foodstuffs do you guys carry? I'm looking for options. :P
My stable for dinner is Microwave rice and microwave chilli/rice pouches (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4632315901/in/set-72157624120317708/), fits perfect in a crusader cup. Takes about 10 minutes in boiling water (rice first then meat) Using microwave rice rather than boil in the bag means you have water for tea/coffee ready to be used straight away.
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I found the secret to tasty porridge on the WHW! On the penultimate day I was well and truly sick of porridge made with water, and my food bag was running a bit low. What I did have left was a sachet of instant hot chocolate. So I added the hot chocolate powder to the porridge oats and cooked up with water as usual. It tasted great, bit like chocolate Ready Brek. Actually Ready Brek could be a tasty alternative, might give it a try on Saturday morning :)
When it comes to the porridge oats I measure out individual portions and pop them in to a zip lock bag. Usually add a tea spoon of sugar or two to the mix as well. I also usually make sure that the portion I measure out has an easy to remember amount of water to go with it, like 250ml or 500ml. That way when I dump the oats in my pot I know a mug of water will make the perfect porridge without being too sloppy or too thick. I'm telling ya, Goldie Locks would approve of my porridge ;D
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So is this just bog standard porridge oats - not the ready ones? I'll defo be giving the drinking chocolate addition a try. Seems like it might make all the diff.
I found the secret to tasty porridge on the WHW! On the penultimate day I was well and truly sick of porridge made with water, and my food bag was running a bit low. What I did have left was a sachet of instant hot chocolate. So I added the hot chocolate powder to the porridge oats and cooked up with water as usual. It tasted great, bit like chocolate Ready Brek. Actually Ready Brek could be a tasty alternative, might give it a try on Saturday morning :)
When it comes to the porridge oats I measure out individual portions and pop them in to a zip lock bag. Usually add a tea spoon of sugar or two to the mix as well. I also usually make sure that the portion I measure out has an easy to remember amount of water to go with it, like 250ml or 500ml. That way when I dump the oats in my pot I know a mug of water will make the perfect porridge without being too sloppy or too thick. I'm telling ya, Goldie Locks would approve of my porridge ;D
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When I ate porridge, we used powdered milk and standard Scottish rolled oats (Tesco value 1KG for 60p, good as any). Raisins, trail mix, or sugar added for taste (Although, going by suspectmonkey's findings, maybe the milk powder could be replaced with Nesquik or the like?). The pot is pretty gooey afterwards, but a little water and hand-full of grass soon cleans it up.
Frankfurters are a favourite. Tortilla wrap and sachet of ketchup.
Loving the idea of pancake mix, and the bag of meat and beans :)
Packet of sausage rolls would do the trick too.
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What did you cook the slices in - did you take a pan as well as a pot?
Just in a crusader cup (which I'm trying to use more than my pot because it fits better into my ruck's side pocket) Just kept stirring it up.
Frankfurters are a favourite. Tortilla wrap and sachet of ketchup.
Tortilla wrap rather than bread rolls...handy space saving idea.
ps. Onion Scrambled Eggs (http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/onion-scrambled-eggs-118164902/) anyone? (shudder)
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for breakfast I have some smoked sausage and a few baby bel's. I can never be bothered to cook(read clean the pot) It also mean i can use all my water to hydrate.
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for breakfast I have some smoked sausage and a few baby bel's. I can never be bothered to cook(read clean the pot) It also mean i can use all my water to hydrate.
Cous cous? ;)
So is this just bog standard porridge oats
Yep, just good old Quaker Oats! For some reason the Oat-So-Simple seems to weigh more than standard oats. Not that I'm counting the grams or anything ::) I also tried it with sachets of flavoured Options hot choc and the hazelnut hot chocolate tastes divine mixed with porridge. For ultimate convenience pre-mix the hot choc with the oats in the zip lock bag! Not sure how mine will turn out on Saturday morning using the Express stove though, the heat doesnt seem quite so controlled as the Trangia :o
I tried trail mix in my porridge at the first Donard Wood camp I went to. Wasn't fussed on it for some reason, but I think it was the big Brazil nuts that put me off! Some raisins are good in it though if you like that kinda thing...
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for breakfast I have some smoked sausage and a few baby bel's. I can never be bothered to cook(read clean the pot) It also mean i can use all my water to hydrate.
Cous cous? ;)
So is this just bog standard porridge oats
Yep, just good old Quaker Oats! For some reason the Oat-So-Simple seems to weigh more than standard oats. Not that I'm counting the grams or anything ::) I also tried it with sachets of flavoured Options hot choc and the hazelnut hot chocolate tastes divine mixed with porridge. For ultimate convenience pre-mix the hot choc with the oats in the zip lock bag! Not sure how mine will turn out on Saturday morning using the Express stove though, the heat doesnt seem quite so controlled as the Trangia :o
I tried trail mix in my porridge at the first Donard Wood camp I went to. Wasn't fussed on it for some reason, but I think it was the big Brazil nuts that put me off! Some raisins are good in it though if you like that kinda thing...
Only for dinner now jon I'm to hardcore to even boil water for a hot breakfast now ;)
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If I can add my tuppence worth, these might be handy:
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/boil-a-bags/F/C/cooking-baking-cooking-bags/product/1405
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I generally use golden syrup flavored porridge and just add water. It's great because it weighs nothing, and you measure the amount of water needed by pouring it into the sachet the oats were in. It tastes great and takes less than 5 minutes to make. Tempted to starting bringing something a bit fancier next time though to fry up in a pan.
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I'm no foody but I still think I'd kill myself if I was out and had porridge for dinner and the breakfast. It would just break me :D
I generally use golden syrup flavored porridge and just add water. It's great because it weighs nothing, and you measure the amount of water needed by pouring it into the sachet the oats were in. It tastes great and takes less than 5 minutes to make. Tempted to starting bringing something a bit fancier next time though to fry up in a pan.
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I'm no foody but I still think I'd kill myself if I was out and had porridge for dinner and the breakfast. It would just break me :D
Haha it was only a snack at night since I'd already eaten dinner and I was too lazy to bother looking for anything else to bring, plus I paid for that in the morning with my "solitary moment with nature". Usually for dinner I'd bring boil in the bag rice and sauce of some kind or pasta, and up to recently it was supernoodles but they're not exactly the most nutritious option.
In future I'm definitely taking a leaf out of your book and bringing a steak and possibly some peppercorn sauce :P
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It's spooky (and awesome) that the mini trangia pan is pretty much exactly the size of a rib eye steak - it's like fate :)
Tho it seemed like you had less trouble with keeping your hobo and hexamine stove lit than the rest of us had with gas and meths.
I'm no foody but I still think I'd kill myself if I was out and had porridge for dinner and the breakfast. It would just break me :D
Haha it was only a snack at night since I'd already eaten dinner and I was too lazy to bother looking for anything else to bring, plus I paid for that in the morning with my "solitary moment with nature". Usually for dinner I'd bring boil in the bag rice and sauce of some kind or pasta, and up to recently it was supernoodles but they're not exactly the most nutritious option.
In future I'm definitely taking a leaf out of your book and bringing a steak and possibly some peppercorn sauce :P
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Ye I was well chuffed with my home-made hobo stove. Can be difficult enough to get lit with just a match in extreme winds but once its lit you don't have to worry about it, just keep an eye on it that the hexi blocks don't burn out and your all set. Only issue i have with it is I can't simmer anything on it, so a pot cosy may be well worth looking into.
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Since I forgot the trangia windshield I had to refill it 3 times to cook one steak and a pot of smash. Even the next morning I couldn't bring a pint of water to a rolling boil on a single fill (meaning I had to drink coffee made with unboiled water and stirred with a spoon that Lucy had licked clean the night before :) Lucky I have a good stomach!
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You trying to say my dog is carrrying germs !!!
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Well, I wouldn't snog her!
You trying to say my dog is carrrying germs !!!
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@J: When solo normally porridge with water (I'm funny about milk unless it's icy old)...leave it to cool and thicken...and it's not too bad. Thinking about using condensed milk, I'm told it comes in tubes a well as (heavier) tins.
Also has breakfast slices (reformed pork stuff) on my last overnight...forgot the oil....just used water (so it was hot spam rather than fired bacon). Couple of brown sauce sachets tea leafed from Sainsburys restaurant, stick the whole lot in a bap. Very little clean up needed since it seems to have a low fat content.
Ready made pancake mix
I'm soo doing that next time (haven't had 'proper' pancakes in ages, let alone up the mountain)....
What other foodstuffs do you guys carry? I'm looking for options. :P
My stable for dinner is Microwave rice and microwave chilli/rice pouches (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4632315901/in/set-72157624120317708/), fits perfect in a crusader cup. Takes about 10 minutes in boiling water (rice first then meat) Using microwave rice rather than boil in the bag means you have water for tea/coffee ready to be used straight away.
If you bring some frozen berries to drop in your pancakes as they cook, that does the trick for me.
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If you bring some frozen berries to drop in your pancakes as they cook, that does the trick for me.
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nice idea will be trying that and welcome to the site not a bad first post :)
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If you bring some frozen berries to drop in your pancakes as they cook, that does the trick for me.
Hi Transplant, welcome to the forum! And good idea about the berries! Feel free to drop a wee post into the Introductions section (http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=10.0) so we can all say "Hi" :)
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for breakfast a bag of cereal such as cheerios does the trick for me, don't bother with the milk
for dinner i like to boil some spaghetti then throw in some grated cheese for a bit of flavour, if i'm feeling really adventurous i use a wee plastic tub of dolmio sauce but always afraid of it bursting the the rucksack >:(
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for breakfast a bag of cereal such as cheerios does the trick for me, don't bother with the milk
for dinner i like to boil some spaghetti then throw in some grated cheese for a bit of flavour, if i'm feeling really adventurous i use a wee plastic tub of dolmio sauce but always afraid of it bursting the the rucksack >:(
I like to Dolmio sauce to. I just put it in a clip and lock plastic tub. no bursting or peircing
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The plastic pouches (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4632315901/in/set-72157624120317708/) work best for me, flexable packages fit better IMHO....but I wouldn't want to have it for Breakfast (back on topic) ;D