[Closed] favourite bivvy foods

cheap smoked sausage / pepperami type thing form Lidi mixed in with pasta / cuscus, I can (and have) eaten that for days on end.

For most calories with minimum weight a pasta 'n' sauce packet from the supermarket.

I rarely carry anything that is not totally dehydrated.

My standard meal is a cupasoup. pasta n sauce, angel delight ( not suger free) - loads of calories - just about edible, very little weight

Flavoured Cous cous (ainsley harriet or similar) with added smoked sausage. Has the advantage in that you can 'cook' the couscous in cold water if you don't mind waiting a while.

I made a ziplock bag with cous cous, a handful of nuts and sultanas, a teaspoon of stock and a chopped up peperami through it. Surprisingly edible!

Stu.

Dead sheep, squirrels, snared rabbits but not snails.

The odd German shepard is nice....

Just stop at a pub.

>has anyone got any favourites they would like to recommend - either for tea<

Ardbeg and a nice dark chocolate...

[url= http://www.shana.tv/productlisting.php?catId=4 ]Shana Curries...[/url] Boil in the bag and very tasty. [url= http://www.shana.tv/productlisting.php?catId=5 ]Rice[/url] to go with them too.

TJ - do you make the Angel Delight up with powdered milk?

Debaser - Shana are they not frozen? if not, can you get them in major supermarkets?

try knorr powdered soup - the carrot corriander is lovely , its thick and filling unlike cupapuke

my weakness is tinned rice - always take a can ... lovely half tin for supper - remainder for breakfast.

Trail mix - can go in almost anything anything and mix it up a bit ... plus eaten on its own is tasty

beer

for breakfast muesli with dried milk powder. put hot water in and make fruity oatmeal. yum yum.

dinner has to be nong shim noodles (like a pot noodle but lovely)

nope not frozen xcgb (although some of their other stuff is) they're flash pasturised in foil pouches. available [url= http://www.shana.tv/wheretobuy.php ]lots of places[/url] and leave you with hot water for a brew after cooking.

LOL - the sh1te some folk have to eat to go on a bivvy. This is why trailers and Bothies are invariably more fun 😉

usually the following but i tend to carry stuff on a rack so probably quite obese amounts/choices by weight weenie standards...

dinner/eve - freezer bag of pre-mixed cous cous with crumbled stock cube, pre-fried sultanas and thyme OR a few packets of pasta and sauce and a nip of whisky left over from xmas

breakfast - pre-mixed porridge (freezer bag of oats mixed with dried milk and sugar)

in between - dried apricots, tunnocks chocolate wafers, cereal bars, apples and maybe a pub lunch (if lucky enough to come across one!)

when i was touring life revolved around bags of cookies the size of your average LARGE bag of doritos ... buy a bag - stuff em in the bar bag open of course and just eat them over the course of a day ! still lost 2 stone by the end.... might have been the giardia i carried for 3 weeks though !

AlasdairMc - Member

TJ - do you make the Angel Delight up with powdered milk?

Yup.

It just offends me to carry water uphill - even if its a bit in food. I can get Ok meals with plenty of calories all dehydrated.

Porridge and dried fruit for breakfast, cereal bars a plenty,peanuts a plenty, chocolate.
Cupsoup in some form, pasta n sauce and some instant pud for dinner.

Tends to be a bit lacking in fibre tho

Eveyone has their own priorities. I like a tent so will carry the extra lb or so for that - but no water uphill!

All the usual kinds of things for me... Malt Loaf, 9 bars, nuts, muesli with dried milk, cold pizza, pop tarts. I recorded what I took for a 2.5 day trip recently and here's the list:

2x Muesli
4x Malt Loaf
4x Elevenses ginger bars
3x 9 bars
6x Oat cakes
1x Large bag dry roasted peanuts
6x Torq cans
1x Dried apricots
1x Chocolate raisins
6x Rocky bars

I got pretty sick of malt loaf on that ride, though. Which is weird because I eat a loaf pretty much every day normally!

I differ from TJ in that I don't mind carrying wet food, but it depends on where you're riding. If there's easily available water everywhere, I suppose you might as well carried dried food.

Great, thanks for all the ideas (apart from the squirrel, not too keen on that one, and the dog...). Hopefully will get me out of the city for an evening, then a quick run down the mountain in the morning to start the weekend off properly.

If you want to cook and save weight just get a hexamine burner.

Pork pies and chocolate brownie. Sorted!

real ale and a fire,

tis all you need for a,, umm,, memorable night

cheese & pineapple on cocktail sticks, oh and of course half your body weight in little sausage rolls

If you want to cook and save weight just get a hexamine burner.