best food to cook on small stove?

[challengechappers]

any ideas? filling and nutritous and easy to cook........ need to do glasto on a budget this year and food from the stalls is SO expensive.

[goodmorningspider]

i'd do porridge - that stuff keeps you going for hours. quick to cook, small to pack, plus you can throw all sorts of stuff into it like nuts, raisins, chocolate, fruit, etc.

not very rock n roll mind you

Edited May 14, 2009 by goodmorningspider

[Jules007]

Morrocan flavour cous cous

[Greenish]

eggs - always good, you can boil them at home first to save cooking at festi!

courgette, leak, sweetcorn, noodles - only takes a 4 minutes to cook if veg are thinly sliced, add herbs, cheese, butter, tomatoes to your liking.

tinned ravioli, spaghetti, macaroni cheese, sausages (it's almost real food!)

[laid back in the sun]

fried egg sandwiches, quick, easy, filling and not much washing up

[Joshuwarr]

baked beans

shame tins are heavy

[mrfunk]

baked beans

shame tins are heavy

[Joshuwarr]

Pasta Shells

[Sam Crawley]

Stay away from porridge, it's horrible! Pasta is the default, maybe instant noodles, you can get a whole box (40 packs!) from Chinatown for 7 quid. Try to take veg and fruit too though, it may be heavy but instant food will get you down after a bit. Or make sure you substitute with Yeo Valley yoghurts and smoothies often! Take a couple of loaves of bread, they should last, with spreads that will be fine without fridge, honey, marmite etc. Some olive oil instead of butter?

Also it's not the greatest in the world, but you could take cereal plus instant milk powder. Does the job.

Edited May 14, 2009 by Sam Crawley

[Dukeicon]

I take these, you can cook them in a pan without a microwave. They have loads of different flavours too

[HurrahBrother]

One pot cooking?

Unless you are going by car, avoid too many tinned items (tins heavy).

Good tinned stuff (beyond the one tin pasta/beans based meals) are things like stuffed vine leaves in olive oil or stuffed peppers. Use a pot big enough to float the tin, plop tin in to pot with water to heat through (and you have water for the washing up in the same boil).

Some people do suggest the army ration packs, they are usually boil in the bag affairs, but they are designed to clog you up and the army does not suggest using them for more than a couple of days on the trot. if you are doing teh 5 days, maybe no more than 1 or 2 packs each interspersed with other items.

Dried stuff.

Porridge (use milk powder +water if no fresh milk at hand)

Cous Cous does nicely.

Pasta, use those small dolmio tubs for the sauce (long life), or a cuppa soup.

Soup and smash.

DO NOT

- put biltong in a one pot meal to boost it, its does not reconstitute well (slimy, too chewy, not pleasant). Same goes with those air dried smokes sausages.

Got a fry pan?

Pita bread stuffed with ketchup, cheese (a hard one that keeps without a fridge like Parmesan, of mini baby bells, the wax helps them keep ) and any assorted bits (a peperami). Spray on oil to line the pan (from supermarket, also it is long life) turned a few times until the outside starts to brown. And enjoy a so bad it's good inside out pizza!

Taking meat to fry? freeze it then put in freeze box with those camping ice blocks. Should keep the meat OK for 4 days. toasted buns (take your own but there has been bakers on sites).

do remember to take tea/coffee for morning cuppa!

[HurrahBrother]

I take these, you can cook them in a pan without a microwave. They have loads of different flavours too

[goodmorningspider]

Pita bread stuffed with ketchup, cheese (a hard one that keeps without a fridge like Parmesan, of mini baby bells, the wax helps them keep ) and any assorted bits (a peperami). Spray on oil to line the pan (from supermarket, also it is long life) turned a few times until the outside starts to brown. And enjoy a so bad it's good inside out pizza!

[laid back in the sun]

I take these, you can cook them in a pan without a microwave. They have loads of different flavours too

[remote]

Pasta and sauce is usually my weapon of choice. Although we take a couple of disposable BBQs and a few burgers. Always good to have a burger first thing in the morning after driving all night.

[grumpyhack]

Corned beef hash. Chop and soften some onions in pan to start, add tin of corned beef (chopped into chunks) and tin of baked beans.

[mashy]

Various flavours of Cous Cous and Rice.

Then those John West Tuna fillets in a sachet (tear open bag) to go with cous cous or rice.

Flap jack, ceral bars and peanuts for those peckish moments that always seem to come along.

P.S. Just managed to get some of those John West tuna sachet's at B&M bargains, 0.79p a sachet, bargain! Thats my festival food sorted for this summer.

[ukslim]

+1 for 3 minute noodles. *Not* supernoodles - the ones from proper Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Korean shops are cheaper and much nicer. Nissin is a good brand. Sesame flavour is great. Avoid anything that says it's "hot & spicy" because although it's lovely, it really is fierce, and has effects you might regret on the long drops.

If you slice in some raw vegetables - baby sweetcorn, mange tout, spring onion etc. it becomes a fairly healthy meal. When I'm at home I grill a piece of chicken and slice that in too - but I wouldn't bother trying to keep meat hygeinic at Glasto.

[Storm_NL]

A suckling pig!!!!

You can always leave out the apple if you're on a budget.

[Roger Explosion]

I always cook a vege stew in the morning and come back throughout the day and have some if i'm close by....

so easy...

New Potatos

Carrots

Parsnip

Stock

water

Season to taste... YR AWAY!

EDIT: You can throw canned beef hash in as well, to add some extra flavour...

Edited May 15, 2009 by Roger Explosion

[titch juicy]

squirrel- we've got a surplus of them. catch the little b@stards as they're foraging for nuts in autumn, then freeze them til summer. Light, nutritious and the right size for a camping stove.

[saintrichie]

Army ration packs are the best, boil in the bag, you can buy similar ones in camping stores but not sure how much they cost, i get mine for free being in the army. i have absolutely loads and would happily bring some for others to have, but its gonna be carrying the things cos there quite heavy. and im catching the train.

When on exercise i take things like, noodles, bacon grill, pasta 'n' sauce ( just add water), basicly anything that is light or freeze dried and pitta bread instead of normal bread.

[Felna]

Mate of mine cooks curries and seals them in tupperware before he goes to a festival, then just pours them out and reheats them.

Personally I'd recommend a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread - perfect for breakfast/lunch/snack/dinner/late-night post music munchies!

Edited May 15, 2009 by Felna

[LusciousLucy]

Just what ever you do...plan your menu ahead because its very annoying to have to lug back all the food stuffs you brought with you and more often than not, it just gets left with the rest of the rubbish in the middle of field cos you cant be arsed to take it back home with you! It's very easy to get carried away at Tosco's thinking 'oh those noodle cup a soups are a grand idea, I'll buy 15 to see me thru' and then at least 13 dont get eaten! Leave no trace.

Good intentions are great but in 15 years of going to festivals I have never witnessed one person actually cook even half of their intended food stuffs!

PLUS...washing up is a bitch...another reason why food ends up not being cooked. You cook yourself one of those flavoured rice packs, think 'oh we'll wash it up later', head off to see The Killers and return to find concreted food to the pan that no amount of Fairy and cold water will remove and so you resort to the cheap chippy at the bottom of the field cos the pan is unusable! <<< Also a major reason NOT to cook porridge!

Edited May 15, 2009 by LusciousLucy

[WhatsThatSound111]

Always noodles you don't want to spend ages cooking.

Quick 5-10 minute job then get back to the music