Campers and food

[Itchy]

So how do you go about food when camping?,

Do you cook it onroute or do you just stop and road side cafes etc? , additionally what exactly do you use to cook a mini stove? , hexamine tabs? , a bag of coal?.

Any thoughts? , thinking of next year's trip away.

Ta
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[Yeti]

Just get your self a little single burner camping stove, there small and easy to stow away, plus you can get the canisters all over the world. Grab your self some super noodles, uncle bens rice etc and some tinned meals (sausage caserole, chicken curry etc.). you can pick up bacon for sarnies in the morning if you want. And away you go!.

Its the cheap option and if you cant be bothered to cook youve always got the option of stopping at the roadside cafes etc.
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

Petrol stove, they burn so little there's no chance of ever running out. You don't have to carry any gas canisters with you as it's all in your fuel tank too = more luggage space.

I tend to mainly do pasta-based stuff for the convenience.

[Shay HTFC]

[Dave ett]

I guess it depends on how much you want to sample local cuisine?

I too use an unleaded stove, and it's great.

Having just done a couple of weeks in France and Northern Spain, we had pasta several times, chilli, chicken curry, and beef caserole (a favorite!), with yoghurts or petit filous for dessert!

Shop every day so you don't waste weight carring stuff around.

We tend to ride all day, stopping at a supermarket near the of the day, buying that nights tea, with pain au chocolat for breakfast and the doings for a sandwhich the following lunch time.

A couple of chocolate bars to snack on during the day help keep your energy levels up, and always keep plenty of water on board.
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[stinkwheel]

Best bit of camp cooking equipment you can get is a two cup stainless steel teapot, one remarkably similar to the ones you get in motorway service stations .

You can use them on a stove, the water boils faster than in a mess tin because they hold the heat and have a lid. You can bung it on an open fire without burning the arse out of it. Good for cooking canned food in too, fill it with water, sit the can in with a small hole in the lid and boil away. Can't burn the stuff and cooking it in the can means no washing up.

I usually take this, my homemade meths stove and stuff to light a fire. I do all my cooking in either the teapot or my tiny wee cast iron frying pan. The stove is really just for boiling water for tea, everything else gets done on a fire.

If you can't have a fire, those coleman petrol stoves are excellent. Mine is 12 years old now and still going strong.
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[ram_doom]

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This mini camping stove provided me and Andy C with hot cups of tea, meatballs in gravy and pot noodles in Scotland

The kettle is this shallow but wide camping jobby from tesco, made from aluminium, and got some funky aluminium plates there too, perfect for beans and meatballs...
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