I need to talk about lunches and breakfasts

[Cappster]

We are back from our camping holiday when lunches and breakfasts were a partial success

breakfasts involved eating a lot of croissants which were a) expensive b) crumbly c) fattening and d) had to be sourced every single damn day

lunches tended to be endless PB&J sandwiches except for dh who had to have ham found, again every single damn day

We are now going away for weekends and I wondered what do you do? Please tell me it is not the above, and that it is easier and less perishable

We have a single gas ring and cook porrige for breakfast using longlife milk everyday for breakfast. Sometimes we buy bacon and sausages the night before, wrap them in ice or the cheapest frozen veg we can and have them for breakfast.

oh god porridge?

it needs to be something handheld for my kids otherwise I would have to take the chairs to a cleaners every day

Brioche, the kind that lasts for weeks from Tesco's etc.

Good plan

Very good plan indeed

we have cereals in the morning with fresh milk if there's a shop or longlife if not. or bacon and eggs. i too find lunches a problem which is why i read your post.

Bagels? Crackers? Small boxes of cereal which they can eat dry and cups of milk? Currant buns?

Not sure about lunch, we usually just have cheese sandwiches. What about cans of soup? Or baked beans with frankfurters sliced up?

bacon rolls.

If you have access to a gas ring, then what about falafel? You can get packets of dried mix that you just add water to, then fry.

If access to gas ring, how about pancakes, easy to make and my kids love them

Either bacon sarnies or cereal bars with a fruit smoothie type pouch

We vary between brioche (esp the chocolate chip ones!) and porridge. Tend to go out for lunch and then cook for dinner.

For lunch depending on budget we either grab something out or make sandwiches tot ake with us, but making that as easy as poss with decent sandwich fillings etc.

Pancakes using the mix from costco (prob similar from a supermarket but theirs is especially outstanding)
it requires no milk eggs nothing, just water and the mix, and makes very thick filling scrummy pancakes.

Also take cereal as my two happily eat it without milk

and also the longlife fruit smoothies for the kids

What's wrong with cereal? Surely you have a cool box for the beer wine milk?

Brioche is your friend though, If it can survive 5 days in a sweaty festival tent and still be edible, it'll be fine.

lunavix - that is inspired!!

Lunch - use those toast toppers/cheese slices/tomatoes (fine out of the fridge).
How about spam?

Breakfast - we have either cereal & toast (we have one of the 1-slice folding toaster things that you put on the gas ring - does a good enough job) or bacon / egg butties, sometimes do the full works (usually more of a brunch thing!). We always have milk anyway as I need it for my coffee first thing! Also do the danish / brioche thing every now and then.

Lunch - either bacon, etc as above or sandwiches: this time more often than not we had tuna mayo. I took 4 tins of tuna and just mixed one tin with mayo (squeezy bottle kept in the shade!) and squeeze of lemon & black pepper. Yum yum - just the right amount for the 4 of us. We do sometimes buy ham / cheese & DD will have PB, but find leftovers don't keep very well.

If out and about, we try to have a substantial breakfast so we don't want much lunch - take sandwiches or grab a pasty or the like. Or fish and chips if we're feeling particularly greedy.

We bought an Igloo 5-day cooler before our last camping trip and it made things so much easier. Although we still had to shop regularly, we could go 2-3 days without having to visit a supermarket (we tend to go for 2 weeks in summer, so shopping every day gets very tedious...). We bought a big bottle of milk, butter stayed cold, took tupperware for salad bits - it revolutionised our eating habits! We bought meat, etc for the next few days and 2-3 bags of ice - problem solved!

i've taught my children to make a jamie oliver pancake recipe - 1 egg, mug of SR flour and mug of milk. I'm hoping they will do this for breakfast or lunch whilst we're away.

We've got a two ring gas stove thingy and do french toast for breakfast quite a lot. We also have cereal, bacon sandwiches or croissants.

Lunch is usually sandwiches or something bought while we're out.

this is what we do for lunch every day for family of four:

We have a Lakeland cool bag (it was recommended on here) which keeps everything really cold for about three days, depending on how you pack it. We keep three lots of Laughing cow cheese traingles. So each day we grab of a box of these, take a banana, apple, pear, orange in a food bag, all washed and ready to be sliced. We take four plastic plates, one sharp knife, one spreading knife. Then when we go out, we drive past bakery/shop/supermarket grab loaf of fresh bakery bread get to destination and have roughly cut bread spread thickly with cream cheese and fresh chopped fruit. Because it is so fresh, it is yummy, kids love ready to go picnic and it is very cheap. Including fruit, about £2.50 approx? We also take a big pre-mixed bottle of squash so we don't waste money buying drinks either. It works very well for us. Because bread is fresh, don't need marge to spread either, cream cheese did job!

Need to sort breakfast out though! I was always starving!

dreamingofsun which is his books did that recipe come out of? it looks so easy to do! I really want to try it...will any size of mug do?

this

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breakfast we tend to do fruit and then either croissants, bacon sarnie, yogurts, bread and chocolate spread depending on where we are and how long we are going for. Def trying the pancake mix idea though. Tis genius!

lunches, tends to be bread, cheese, fruit, cake.

We come back quite round.

it was a tv programme - not found it in any of his books. but to be honest thats it - you don't need any more instructions - you just shove it all in a bowl whisk and cook. i do it with a standard mug. it makes the thicker sort of pancakes. i get some kitchen roll and rub it round the inside of the pan and have on medium heat. my 12 year old can do them.

sorry been down the pub. you need to add a little marg to the the kitchen roll

the other really good jamie recipe for camping i've found is to boil up new pots at home till cooked and then wrap with a double layer of foil with sprigs of rosemary, slosh of olive oil and 6ish garlic cloves cut in half. heat them up on the barbecue for about 20mins or so till hot - lovely. keep in cool box till you need them though