Food for Silver D of E

[HigherNature]

14 YO DD leaving tomorrow, and she's bought brioches, noodles and countless sweets. I get it that they need food that's transportable and easy to prepare, but is there somethings else that she could take that is still easily transportable and provides a little more nourishment? She doesn't want rations. It looks like the weather is going to be fairly warm at least on day 1.

It was a good few years ago but we took pasta with the plastic pots of stir in sauce instead of just super noodles. Babybel, nuts or dried fruit.
Probably not the most nutritionally wholesome but we survived!

This is 100% standard, leave her to it. Maybe pop a couple of bananas in the top of her bag if you're desperate.

I remember DS taking tinned tuna and sweetcorn in ringpull cans to add to his pasta and being very glad that he had.

those couscous sachets with dried veg in.
tinned fish.

but tbh, it's the child's task to think about the food.
she will be happy to have fruit veg once back

Tin of spaghetti and sausages, cake and crisps, tinned soup

Pasta and sauce/rice sachets which just need water added. Pepperami. Small plastic pots of tuna and veg. Dried fruit. Cereal bars. Instant hot water porridge. Cuppa soups.

You won't want to cook midday. Wraps, pitta breads, nasty squeezy cheese in a tube, babybels, salami things - these make instant sandwiches.

Pepperami don't need to be refrigerated. Can be stirred through pasta or for lunch with Pitta bread. Dried fruit, nuts, flapjack. Plastic pots of baked beans rather than tins.
If it's warm watch out for chocolate melting- messy and then you have less food than expected.
She'll be fine, and if it is hot they'll probably eat less but drink more so plenty of water. Those little squash bottles help make water more interesting

No tins except little single servings of tuna - too heavy and take up too much space. Crisps also take up way too much space and provide no nutritional value so pointless taking them.

Breakfast - single sachets of quick cook porridge with powdered milk or hot chocolate to stir through for a bit more taste. Don’t bother with bread products as they just get squashed in the rucksack and take up a lot of space.

Lunch - wraps or pitta bread with tuna/Babybel. Cuppa soup if they are prepared to boil the water for it but if the forecast is good, they may not need the warmth/comfort of it.

Evening meal - quick cook pasta with stir in sauce. Or our groups love the sachets of flavoured rice you can get.

Loads of snacks: cereal bars, pepperami, trail mix, fruit sweets (chocolate will melt and get squashed). DS used to swear by jelly cubes but jelly babies are good for quick release sugar.

We’ve had DofE groups do more interesting menus but that will get her through and fulfill the ‘one cooked meal a day’ requirement.