What emergency food?

[Banjo]

If I'm expecting dinner guests a la tente, I carry one of these..

Bloomin Heck thats pretty disgusting. Not saying I wouldnt eat it though.Can you eat it straight out of the tin?£3.99 bottle of Aussie Chardonnay would go well with it. :-)

 

[HelenD123]

One of the packet pasta and saucedoes the job for me. You can chuck in any random bits of veg, meat or fish you happen to have.

 

[Alun]

In the Legion we had a saying that if you couldn't stomach the food you weren't hungry enough.

Is that the British Legion ?

 

[Banjo]

That's a brilliant idea.

When I start to do some touring, my plan will be to eat cold food at the campsite, and stop for a hot meal, if I want it, at lunch time. I don't expect to be touring anywhere I'd consider cold, so there wouldn't be any need for the warming effect of hot food. But getting caught out on a mountain pass when the cloud comes down (or something like that) could be quite nasty without the means to get something warm inside you.

Even in Spain a hot drink when U want one can be a great moralle boost. The smallest of gas stoves can be cheap and light bits of kit.

 

[lulubel]

Even in Spain a hot drink when U want one can be a great moralle boost. The smallest of gas stoves can be cheap and light bits of kit.

It isn't the weight; it's the faffage of carrying a stove and gas, and using it, that I couldn't be bothered with. If I want a hot drink (as opposed to needing one to warm me up, which is where the self-heating ones would come in), bars are open long hours in Spain. If it's a "pick me up" I need, caffeine tablets are the first thing I reach for.

 

[HorTs]

If I'm expecting dinner guests a la tente, I carry one of these..

This looks vile

 

[HorTs]

Thanks for all your suggestions.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

That's a brilliant idea.

When I start to do some touring, my plan will be to eat cold food at the campsite, and stop for a hot meal, if I want it, at lunch time. I don't expect to be touring anywhere I'd consider cold, so there wouldn't be any need for the warming effect of hot food. But getting caught out on a mountain pass when the cloud comes down (or something like that) could be quite nasty without the means to get something warm inside you.

Another random tipp you might like as well then
If you do get some hotboxfood or any other brand of self warming food and drinks, the heating process takes a few minutes, during this time the container gets warm.
So when you start the process, place it up your top for some additional body warmth if its needed needed.

 

[Bodhbh]

I don't carry anything specific, but overbuy at the supermarket tend to have a lump of cheese/sausage meat/bread etc kicking about. Whatever, it's really s**t getting caught out after doing a load of miles and finding you have to pitch up starving with no food for the night....you don't make the same mistake again in a hurry.

 

[vernon]

mini pasta and a tin of sardines in tomato sauce

Or a tin of mackerel and a packet of flavoured cous cous

 

[vernon]

What would you suggest if you're not carrying cooking equipment?

Raw toast.

 

[rich p]

Or a tin of mackerel and a packet of flavoured cous cous

Quite right Vern, cous cous is the bulk ingredient of choice these days for me too.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

chocolate biscuits, jelly beans,

 

[lulubel]

Raw toast.

I'm quite a fan of raw toast, actually. I can eat a whole loaf of it in one go if I'm hungry.

 

[deanE]

In the Legion we had a saying that if you couldn't stomach the food you weren't hungry enough.

Was that the British Legion?