Winter is still with us yet, and there’s only one way to make those winter lunches tolerable. Piping hot soup. Now if I claim that the only soup for this is tomato, and Heinz Cream of Tomato from a tin at that, I’m sure I’ll get people’s hackles up. I’m not about to do that […]
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To mark the start of our new Wild Camping Skills series which is coming soon, here’s a selection of some foodie Skills and Tips articles from the archives. 1 – Camping Coffee While you could always buy some of the excellent Grower’s Cup filter coffees, they might work out a bit expensive. Alternatively, you can
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The advertising blurb says that the Peperami is a bit of an animal. Question is, what bits exactly? Well according to the label it’s 100% pork salami with 13.8g of pork to make each 10g of sausage. That packs in somewhere between 44 and 49% fat, or 11g for a typical 25g stick and a
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Simply fill container of choice with water from the tap. That’s cheap. Alternatively, if you want a bit more flavour then you can make your own hydration drink from juice, water and a bit of salt that also helps replace some of those electrolytes lost due to sweating. You’ll need: 500ml Fruit Juice or 3
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Along with the ubiquitous orange survival bag, this is probably one of the first purchases or gifts that many hill walkers receive. It’s cheap, cheerful and widely regarded as a lifesaver on the mountain. Unfortunately, it’s also one of those things you’ll either love or hate. If you like mint then you’ll be fine, however
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Lunches are always problematic on multiday trips, especially now I’m gluten intolerant. So I was quite chuffed to discover that Nairn’s do some gluten-free oatcakes, and unlike many gluten-free products it isn’t a pale shadow of the regular product. It’s simply made from oats that haven’t been cross-contaminated by wheat. OK, this isn’t going to work on
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Main meals are easy enough to organise. You can choose to shell out for some Mountain House of Fuizion dehydrated meals or bargain hunt at the supermarket. Lunches on multiday trips can be problematic, so here are a few ideas that have kept our bellies from rumbling on those long trips. They’re inexpensive and have
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If you do a lot of wild camping, then while specialist dehydrated meals might be convenient and light, it can work out extremely expensive. I tend to buy them for my main backpacking trips when I may need to carry five days’ food, but look our for some cheaper alternatives when I’m only out for
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What are the essential bits of grub that you ought to have in your cupboard, handy to grab for the next overnighter? The main meals are easy in comparison. 1 – Dried milk – hardly fashionable anymore, but useful anywhere that you usually need milk – obviously. 2 – Noodles – quality egg noodles are
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What better to snack on than a whole tube of jaffa cakes after a long pull up the mountain? Plenty of carbs to recharge the battery without being overly sweet. Jaffa cakes hit that sweet middle ground between pure sugar rush and a slower release snack such as a flap jack that might not be
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Part of the appeal is the convenience while the rest is one third greasy meat, one third egg and one third adrenaline rush that at any moment, your food could spill from your grasp and end up at the bottom of the mountain. It is said that the nutritional information on the packet is a fallacy and
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The now politically incorrect catchphrase used to be “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play”, when in reality it just helped fuel an obesity epidemic. So they’ve ditched the ‘a day’ part. That aside, there’s hardly anything better for hill fuel as it packs in a massive 260 calories of pure sugar
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Much maligned by the healthy salad brigade, the humble pork pie is the king of the mountain packup. What else, bar solid lard, can pack so many calories into such a tidy savoury parcel? Available in many different varieties, the Melton Mowbray is certainly one of the kings of the pork pies, as are the many local
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Moist and edible…. Like the union of Jelly Baby and caffeine, the union of chocolate and slow release carb is the holy grail of hill foods. Most flapjacks I’ve tried, i cannot finish. Starts off well, especially the bakewell flapjack i can get in my local Spar, but halfway you start to struggle and it
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Why Jelly Babies have come of age… When I started walking the hills, i thought that one of pieces of gear as vital as a map or a waterproof was the slab of Kendal Mint Cack (sorry ,cake). Had i known that surely the best hill food for sugar was the humble Jelly Baby! Beloved of
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Placed as it comes in its little sachet in a ziploc with 50g of powdered milk and maybe some sugar, you’ve got a great and cheap camping breakfast. I’ve found that mixing the oats and the milk is the fist step, before filling the sachet with water and pouring it into the pan. Lugging the
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