Magic food what doesn't need cooking nor fridging....Festival Snacks.

[Justiceforcedave]

Now I'm a man who loves experiencing the many culinary delights of Glastonbury....but I'm also a man who gets rather hungry dancing in a field for 5 days. Having got bored very quickly of snacking exclusively on crisps, apples and cereal bars I'm always on the look out for something that isn't fruit/corn or grain based. What are your go to Glasto snacks above and beyond the humble bag of crisps?

I'm personally a sucker for Asda tomato and herb pizza biscuits (which are both delicious an moist enough that I can pretend they're not biscuits)

The humble Peperami which holds out very well out of a fridge

Mmmmmmm...... Beef Jerky

Finally the John West Tuna salad, BANG!!!!

Any more suggestions peoples?

[salvador wali]

mattessons smoked pork sausage, ambient temperature. Throw one in a naan or pitta and your'e well away

[Guest]

I feel ill.....

[mrtourette]

Pop tarts.

[Guest]

sesame snaps, packets of dried mango...

[The Nal]

I always carry around a small bag of shaved baby rats. They go well on a skewer.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I just eat Class A's for the first few days. May eat something eventually. When I do I'll just get any old crap from one of the stalls.

[mrtourette]

I bring a new (literal) meaning to the phrase 'shit-eating smile'.

[redmosquito]

Haribo, it always comes back to Haribo for me. That and some flapjack

[Justiceforcedave]

I always carry around a small bag of shaved baby rats. They go well on a skewer.

While delicious, they sadly don't tend to last long after cooking. I find pickling them works well though.

[lucyginger]

I just eat Class A's for the first few days. May eat something eventually. When I do I'll just get any old crap from one of the stalls.

[UEF]

We had a conflab about this one year and worked out some criteria:

Didn't need to be cooked

Could keep in the warm

Wouldn't break easily (like biscuits)

Wouldn't melt (like chocolate)

Wouldnt' go off during the week.

Could only think of two things - Peperami and apples.

[BA4 4BY]

Big jar of Marmite and a teaspoon. Nom nom nom......

[BA4 4BY]

But don't eat the teaspoon

[The Nal]

Dehydrated meals? All you need is a little boiling water. Pot noodles and the like. Some of the ones from camping shops are actually quite nutritious.

[James Bolivar]

Peanut butter on Oatcakes. This requires a little prep, but no cooking - best for in the tent, though you could make Oatcake sandwiches and carry them in a tin. Personally, I use Organic, unsweetened peanut butter, but sweeten it with a little honey; delicious.

Breakfast bars/biscuits - a bit nasty as they are just refined sugars and crap. Nutrigrain do them.

GORP - good old raisins and peanuts. You can mix your own.

Sainsbury's do little packets of yoghurt covered dried fruit, which are perfect for a snack.

Chorizo will keep for a few days - certainly if you get a good one and not something with "Mathessons" printed on the pack. Have with crackers or water biscuits.

If you are just treating food as fuel you can buy survival rations which look like candy bars, but pack about 400 calories each. A few in your pocket and you need nothing else. Or there are these:

http://evaq8.co.uk/NRG-5-Emergency-Food-Ration-Biscuits.html

[marketh]

All about the Brioche

[MEGABOWL]

Haribo, it always comes back to Haribo for me. That and some flapjack

[prestonmike]

i took some bananas last year, they would have kept for a few days had a hare krishna not stolen them from me on the first day!

[cokebabies92]

Lembas Bread.

[G1T]

Tins of mackerel in tomato sauce. They keep perfectly whatever the temperature, and feel enough like proper food to allow you to skip a meal or two. I take ryvita too, and I can highly recommend properly air dried meat, having lived on jerky made from various animals camping in the desert last summer.

[Nyika]

Not many veggie options here! I reckon the vegan chorizo space bar things you can get in health food shops would probably eat (and are damn tasty for vegan food). I usually take cereal bars, few bags of crisps are great for drunken munchies too.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

i took some bananas last year, they would have kept for a few days had a hare krishna not stolen them from me on the first day!

[coma girl]

Other than crisps + cereal bars I usually take some combination of the following:

Mugshots if you have access to hot water, smaller to pack than pot noodles.

Any of the individualy packed cakey things that Asda sell i.e. mini brioche rolls, chocolate crepes, waffles, croistants etc.

Nuts, i like the spicy ones or the crunchy coated as plain ones get a bit dull after 5 days.

John west tuna salads are ace and more of a meal than all the snacky junk food type stuff.

In the past we've cooked a pizza the night before and brought that to eat cold on the first day.

Tesco do a really cheap flap jack in a metal tray, its just oats and syrup but fine to pick at to keep you going.

At Glastonbury I tend to just take basic snacks as the food on offer is so good!

[dingbat2]

Cold baked beans go down a treat

And hob nobs obviously

And make some chocolate muffins before you go, and putthem in a container, the missus made them for me a few years ago, and I was the most popular person at glastonbury for a few hours

If you can get them, shaved baby rats are also good. Avoid the unshaven ones, the hairs get caught in your teeth.