Buying food for a weekend camping trip - Help needed, please

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Good evening one and all.

This weekend my son is off on a Duke of Edinburgh Bronze camping trip and I have to supply him with food for the weekend. I am struggling to think of what to pack him with as he doesn't want to be heating up food. Some obvious things are breakfast bars, chocolate bars.

Does anyone out there have any other suggestions of "food on the go".

Any help is much appreciated as I will be shopping tomorrow.

Many thanks 🙂

[numptz2012]

dried fruit ie ickle bags of apricots etc and bags of almonds etc:-D although I'm sure if I asked my son he would say.... chocolate, sweets, crisps, snackajacks and bombay mix:|:^O

[rainydaywoman11]

As above ^^^ with fresh fruit, sandwiches (for 1st day) in foil.  A packet of those vacuum packed hot dogs (full of rubbish I know) half doz hot dog rolls.  Son assured me (20 years ago) that he was very popular, yuk, yes, even cold.. Boys 😐

[duck_a_lorange]

Little cheeses like babybel? Cheese strings?

Ready to eat dried fruit? Prunes - sounds like he might need them... ]:)

[chickengrandma-2008]

Would he eat anything like pork pies or sausage rolls?

[mandy726]

pre-cooked chicken drum sticks. yummy yum. made my mouth water now, egg sandwiches. wrapped in tin foil. ham rolls with branston pickle. aww i got to go now made my self feel hungry;-)

[bankhaunter]

Bread pudding made with granary bread and sunflower seeds, cooked sausages (good ones).

[huggles1253]

Seeds and nuts are good. Water, bananas, hard boiled eggs, apples. Think protein and sugar from fruit then add some carbs. If he will have hot water instant porridge? Then add chocolate, crisps and a corny 'love you' mum note.

[duck_a_lorange]

If he will have hot water instant porridge?

Or he could just do it the old Scots way - bag of oats, and just mix some with cold water to eat on the march, as and when.  No need for any cooking...

[leoleoleo123]

I know lots of folk who eat cold baked beans and cold tinned pasta..

mini pasties (meat or cheese and onion), as long as he has somewhere cool to store them..

tuna and pasta in the foil tubs

fruit n nuts

crisps

chocklit

[ginap.123]

When I did DofE the whole idea was that we did the planning & the trip, shouldn't your son be planning & supplying his meals. Getting a bit soft now if mums are doing it. 

When we did our bronze award we did an orienteering session, got lost in Black Park & got a lift home on the Pinewood Studios bus with Jack Wild.

[guardpig]

Try the tinned fish aisle if he likes fish.  Can get all sorts of expensive cold(sandwich filling or salad) stuff which my profligate son assures me make excellent meals and are designed to be eaten cold.  Surely if survival is part of it they will be "marked down" if they don't cook stuff.  If heating water then packet soup is good.

There used to be self heating canned food around try camping shops or yacht chandlers but i haven't looked for about 20 odd years.

One thing you missed out, absolutely essential(keeps the breath freah if nothing else) - Kendal mint cake.

[fishpieface]

When I did DoE part of the thing was that we had to bring food and heat it up.

If he's on a strenuous weekend he will need something hot to eat at least once

a day, even if it's just a boil in the bag pasta meal or something.

I agree, we had to plan the whole expedition and do it, taking all the stuff necessary

for that.

Also it can get cold, very cold, at night so warm stuff like proper fleece and waterproofs are

a necessity.

[twishy123]

I would have thought all requirements,food,kit etc would have been discussed well before now at the route planning and expedition preparation sessions?

Is this his first practice expedition?

[stan3502]

pasta salads will keep well but half the fun of camping is the cooking especially good old fashioned bacon and beans

[fishpieface]

Not forgetting of course the added nutrients found in grass, soot, bits of wood, insects

etc that fall into camp cookpots!

[kiss*my*pixel]

My daughter went on a trip (it wasn't a DoE thing, but a similar sort of "outward bound" army-type exercise). They had to skin and prepare a rabbit and a pheasant, and cook them up in a pot with veg. She didn't eat very much for the whole week, but arrived home alive and well (just a bit peckish) :^O

[mr-expresso]

Whatever you decide to pack....

Remember he has to carry it....

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Just an update and to say thanks for your replies.

My sons dad who lives 20 miles away has managed to get into an outdoor camping shop and purchased the proper vacuum packed meals so he wont go hungry. Unfortunately I live nowhere near this kind of shop so his dad had to do all the leg work.

[captainbovine]

they look terrible though:_|

would much prefer the fruit nuts etc than them, even if all my meals were cold ones:^O