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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2013 »
Some good ideas folks, thanks for your input.

I found these in Asda - Jumbo Frankfurters, don't need to be stored in the fridge, can be eaten hold or cold, and can be boiled for 5 mins.  I got some sun-dried tomato and garlic cous cous, so I may boil the sausages for 5 minutes then use the water to make up the cous cous whilst slicing up the sausages, then bung it all in together  :)
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2013 »
Cured meats are definitely the way to go for multi-day if you don't want to chance anything. Love some Mattesson in the hills. We ate loads of dried sausage too in Corsica... was like a local Chorizo, packed with flavour to liven up the dried goods.

We also hard-boiled a dozen eggs and ate 2 each for 3 days. They were nice with a bit of salt, and gave us no trouble despite the heat. I'm sure the eggs would last even longer uncooked, but you need to be sure you'll not crack them by accident!
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2013 »
Hey Twentyclicks, have you had a look at the 'The Feed Zone Cookbook' by Allen Lim (Floyd Landis fame)
Great section on portable food for performance. Rice cakes are the way forward  ;)
Gels and bars are so yesterday. Definitely worth a look.
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2013 »
Hey, I'll check that out, but rice cakes are the devil! I'd rather eat grass  ;D
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2013 »
Not these rice cakes (if you are referring to those things that look like bleached cow pats) ;D

I'll let you check out the book first then see what you think.

Or, check out 'Skratch Labs' for a quicker look.
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2013 »
Cheers again, I'll surely check those out in the next few months.
Read the 1-star review on Amazon and it mentioned pancakes, bacon and sausage quite a bit so I added it straight to the wishlist  ;D

I can't see the benefit over gels for racing, but I'll see what they say overall.
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2013 »
From the times I Have been away for extended periods the usual meals are as follows.

Breakfast

Porridge with jam or honey
coffee / tea
cereal bar
small travel 0.7 flask of tea filled for the day

snacks when walking

nuts, sweets, dried fruit in a mixed bag

lunch

pita bread
tuna
sweet corn
flask of tea from breakfast

main meal

pasta normally spaghetti
dried meats
powdered sauces or stir in's
bread
custard powder and some sweet cake / dried fruit
tinned fruit  on occasion

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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2013 »
Great thread whoRya, am surprised this subject doesn't come up more often since food becomes more of an event when camping.

also must get this book when they release it the Feed Zone Portable Cookbook, same author.
 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feed-Zone-Portables-Cookbook-On-The-Go/dp/1937715000/ref=pd_luc_bxgy_01_03_t_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2013 »
After all this, the weekend I was on got abandoned at tea time on Saturday evening.  The cous cous is back ion the cupboard and I had a kebab on chips for dinner on Saturday night  :)  Thanks anyway folks.
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2013 »
Quote from: whoRya on April 14, 2013
After all this, the weekend I was on got abandoned at tea time on Saturday evening.
What sort of example is that to set for the young'uns!! :)
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #25 on: April 14, 2013 »
Mate if you'd have been on the weekend then Plan B would have been enacted - a summit camp.  Rain or wind, pah!  I wouldn't let such things get in the way of a weekend pass for the hills.  As it was, abandonment was music to the ears of most of the other drowned rats.  In fairness many were soaked to the skin, as were a few tents  :(
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Re: Food for day two
« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2013 »
Quote from: whoRya on April 14, 2013
Mate if you'd have been on the weekend then Plan B would have been enacted - a summit camp.  Rain or wind, pah!  I wouldn't let such things get in the way of a weekend pass for the hills.  As it was, abandonment was music to the ears of most of the other drowned rats.  In fairness many were soaked to the skin, as were a few tents  :(
Yeah wet unhappy campers are not going to have good memories so I'm sure it was for the best, I still remember a pretty horrendous day walking from the slievenaman school house to hares gap and back in the scouts that culminated in me putting my trousers on the pot belly stove when we got back which swiftly turned them into a char-cloth type material :)
I can laugh now but at the time it was pants!
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