Trip Menus
Work out the amount of meals you need by numbers of breakfasts lunches and dinners that your trip entails. Add in day time snacks and you won't starve. I also usually carry some emergency supplies just in case we are delayed by bad weather or navigational cock-ups (it happens).
Emergency food usually consists of pasta with some sort of ready made, dried, pasta sauce. Couscous is also good to carry as a standy by. You can get ready flavoured couscous in supermarkets.
Be aware of the weight and bulk of food you are carrying and eat the heavy stuff first.
Work out the amount of meals you need by numbers of breakfasts lunches and dinners that your trip entails. Add in day time snacks and you won't starve. I also usually carry some emergency supplies just in case we are delayed by bad weather or navigational cock-ups (it happens).
Emergency food usually consists of pasta with some sort of ready made, dried, pasta sauce. Couscous is also good to carry as a standy by. You can get ready flavoured couscous in supermarkets.
Be aware of the weight and bulk of food you are carrying and eat the heavy stuff first.
Breakfast
Porridge or bannocks with honey. Pints of tea with powdered milk.
Snacks
Dried fruit (apricots, figs), trail mix (I usually make my own with nuts, dried fruit and Smarties). Granary bars, fruit bars, muesli bars.
Lunch
Bannocks left from breakfast with honey. Bread (either bannocks or long life Tortillas work well) with tinned sardines (one tin between two is fine, one each is luxurious), cheese (spread type or whole), salami or some other dried sausage. Fresh fruit if you can carry it.
Noodles can be cooked for lunch, if you have time and fuel to spare. Small packets of instant noodles with a small dried sauce sachet are easy to carry and are filling. A dash of Tobasco makes all the difference.
Flavoured Couscous is also good for lunch, again if you have the time and fuel to spare.
Dinner or tea
Any of the main meal recipes here. If you arrive at camp and are immediately hungry it is good to start off with some instant noodles or anything left over from lunch.
Porridge or bannocks with honey. Pints of tea with powdered milk.
Snacks
Dried fruit (apricots, figs), trail mix (I usually make my own with nuts, dried fruit and Smarties). Granary bars, fruit bars, muesli bars.
Lunch
Bannocks left from breakfast with honey. Bread (either bannocks or long life Tortillas work well) with tinned sardines (one tin between two is fine, one each is luxurious), cheese (spread type or whole), salami or some other dried sausage. Fresh fruit if you can carry it.
Noodles can be cooked for lunch, if you have time and fuel to spare. Small packets of instant noodles with a small dried sauce sachet are easy to carry and are filling. A dash of Tobasco makes all the difference.
Flavoured Couscous is also good for lunch, again if you have the time and fuel to spare.
Dinner or tea
Any of the main meal recipes here. If you arrive at camp and are immediately hungry it is good to start off with some instant noodles or anything left over from lunch.