Feeding a family of five on the cheap.

[sprocketrocket]

Hello. I've been to Glastonbury a fair few times now, and have no issues with taking my 3 nippers too, but food can get so expensive when feeding them two meals a day (lunch and dinner).

I'm looking for lunch ideas as to what we could take with us which isn't heavy (we've already got enough crap to lug around) doesn't need cooking (so we can take it out with us) but is satisfying and filling and will last at least a few days without being refrigerated. 

Ready, set, go.... 

[StoneCircle]

20 minutes ago, sprocketrocket said:

Hello. I've been to Glastonbury a fair few times now, and have no issues with taking my 3 nippers too, but food can get so expensive when feeding them two meals a day (lunch and dinner).

I'm looking for lunch ideas as to what we could take with us which isn't heavy (we've already got enough crap to lug around) doesn't need cooking (so we can take it out with us) but is satisfying and filling and will last at least a few days without being refrigerated. 

Ready, set, go.... 

I think you will probably benefit from finding the on site Co-op, then buying some bread, cheese, ham etc and make your own lunchtime sandwiches. I expect they will also sell yogurts which are usually a hot with kids! Take some picnic plates, a knife and kitchen roll from home. 

 

[sprocketrocket]

A co-op? Have I missed something? Is it new? Sounds like a plan.

[Abbathehorse]

6 minutes ago, sprocketrocket said:

A co-op? Have I missed something? Is it new? Sounds like a plan.

Yep - it is new for this year.  Will be selling all sorts of things on site 7am - 3am (iirc).  There is a whole thread on it in the Chat forum if you a patient/mad enough to read through it?!

Can't imagine you will get a better option than the Co-op though to meet your original request ?

[sprocketrocket]

Thanks guys. Found the thread, looks ideal. 

[StoneCircle]

32 minutes ago, sprocketrocket said:

Thanks guys. Found the thread, looks ideal. 

Pleased we could help - have a great festival! 

[CeriG]

In 2017 they had stalls that offered food for a fiver....  Not sure if they are there this year? There were over 100 stalls that offered meals for £5.Worth keeping your eye out for. They had these signs on them.

As a family of 5 ourselves, We always try to take breakfast and lunch and just buy a main meal in the evening. 

Things like breakfast bars, fruit, malt loaf, bread, jam, butter, crisps & chocolate. We tend to have a breakfast and then snack through out the day rather than lunch. 

 

Edited May 28, 2019 by CeriG

[Losing my hair]

If you like lentils and chanting you can feed for free at the Hare Krishna tent - I'm assuming that they'll be back this year.

[lintonkak]

I've managed to feed myself and my daughter lunches pretty well before, although with a cool box and stove. However, things that haven't needed cooking and that have lasted are: 

Warburton's sandwich thins (last much longer than normal bread), homemade flapjack - you can shove loads of dried fruit in it too, fruit to ripen at home actually has a chance of getting ripe in a sweaty tent, packs of pain au choc etc last for ages and uht milk for cereal lasts well when once opened. Co-op is a bit of a game changer though! 

[Lady Stardust]

There's a bakers near the Kidz field which is cheap and cheerful, my kids normally end up having a sausage roll or similar for lunch most days (healthy eating goes out of the window for the duration of the festival). Depending on how old your kids are one adult portion of food can stretch out to feed all 3 of them.

Taking little snacks rather than a big lunch is a good idea. When they get tired/grumpy or you have to bribe them to actually leave the Kidz field it's good to have a packet of crisps/malt loaf/biscuits to chuck at them. Bags of nuts are good (if they like them). I'm not sure how well mini babybel type cheeses would keep in a tent (we cheat and have a caravan), but if you keep them under your groundsheet they might stay cool enough to stay edible.

[tarw]

On ‎5‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 9:41 PM, lintonkak said:

I've managed to feed myself and my daughter lunches pretty well before, although with a cool box and stove. However, things that haven't needed cooking and that have lasted are: 

Warburton's sandwich thins (last much longer than normal bread), homemade flapjack - you can shove loads of dried fruit in it too, fruit to ripen at home actually has a chance of getting ripe in a sweaty tent, packs of pain au choc etc last for ages and uht milk for cereal lasts well when once opened. Co-op is a bit of a game changer though! 

I'd always buy fresh from the milky, milky trailer or lots of stalls throughout the site rather than UHT.  A family of 5 will easily get through a pint in no time at all. UHT milk yuck. 

[lintonkak]

21 hours ago, tarw said:

I'd always buy fresh from the milky, milky trailer or lots of stalls throughout the site rather than UHT.  A family of 5 will easily get through a pint in no time at all. UHT milk yuck. 

Might have mangled my taste buds but I can't taste the difference! Find it handy in the morning before I venture out. 

[tarw]

Maybe because i was brought up in a dairy farming area but UHT tastes like stale toffee to me whereas fresh is fresh and sweet.  Each to their own.  Do what’s right for you, I just know what I prefer.  A two pint jug scooped straight from the bulk tank after a day stacking bales was total nectar.