Camping

[Empress13]

We are off camping for weekend at festival soon. What necessities do you recommend and what goodies do you take to eat (preferably that won’t melt/stay fresh) ?

You might want to look on the camping board for previous threads on this topic, I've found it really helpful.

Have you got a decent cooling set up? Are you planning on cooking? How many nights?

Festival camping? Take the absolutely minimum for you to be comfortable. It's a lot of lugging about and your barely at the campsite. People also nick stuff.

Tent
SIMs
Sleeping bags
Pillows
Clothes
Body wipes and toothbrush/bathroom basics
Noodles
Crisps
Biscuits
Tins of tuna/salmon
Eggs
Packet rice
Cappucino sachets
Cup a soups
Small stove and kettle for water boiling
Small pan
Lots and lots of water
Suncream
Sunhats
Shit loads of cash.

Bobs your uncle fannies your aunt.

Brioche and bananas for breakfast, dried mango, nuts and Pringles for snacks. Buy just one meal usually mid afternoon when the queues are smaller. Take tea or coffee bags and a flask and just buy hot water to keep costs down for hot drinks.

You can’t usually take any liquids through to the main area but can take empty bottle and fill with water. No glass anywhere.

Many places are cashless now, I know Latitude is if that’s where you’re going.

I don’t bother with any cooking equipment etc, too far to carry it from the car.

Festival camping don't take anything you'd be too upset at losing/getting ruined.

Take something to tie on to your tent like a flag or bunting if you've got a common tent! It can be hard to find your tent after a long day in the arena.

We generally take a small stove and kettle, and a single pan for frying up bacon and eggs in the morning. Wraps generally travel better than bread, and negate the need for plates. Or porridge pots for breakfast.

It's the only meal we usually cook at festivals as I resent paying thirty quid for two breakfast sandwiches and two coffees! Generally we will eat in the arena for our main meal.

Snacks - just add water noodle pots, jelly babies, biscuits (non chocolate in this weather!), jerky. Tbh I'm not the biggest snacker in the world and none of my preferred snacks are suitable in any event.

Spare toilet roll or bags of tissues as it will inevitably run out.

A female urinal bottle for the tent (males can use it too). Controversial but slogging across a festival field in the middle of the night to the loos is worth sacrificing a bit of dignity for IMO.

Puppy training pads are great to put wet/muddy shoes on. If I'm normal camping I'd just leave them in the porch of the tent but wouldn't at a festival.