festival food!

[tooz]

Not sure if this is a camping question but here goes! We are off to a festival next week for 5 days with 9 month old DS. We will be camping with no way to keep food cold. I am just starting to think about what food to take for him and am havong trouble. I don't particularly want to spend heaps of time cooking but he/I is not keen on jars! Any good ideas/recipes would be much appreciated. Many thanks ladies!

Pitta bread can keep quite well, tinned stuff and potnoodles seem popular , but I would make us of the onsite campers shop for stuff like bread. I imagine campsite that is open for 5 days will have decent food market stalls so buy as you go along.

Bananas, avacados, satsumas, crackers, rusk type baby biscuits, dried fruit (plus toothpaste!!), they are the kinds of things we take on long flights or camping trips.

Hi tooz. Which festival are you going to ? We're off to the big chill with an 11-month old. I'm planning to take a couple of jars, breadsticks, dried fruit, cereal, UHT milk (for cereal) and buy the rest when we get there.

I went to Glastonbury a few years back with a 1 year old and about 20 jars. He refused to eat any of them and just ate our food - salt and all. I didn't really blame him. Does your ds eat finger foods or insist on purees ?

I'm more worried about making up bottles

ruthydd, it's expensive but it's worth buying those cartons of ready made formula for your baby.

We are off to the big green gathering. I have heard really good things about the big chill but they clash. The food is really good at the BGG but you never quite know what is in there. I know he would not eat jars for that length of time. He will eat finger food but is a bit lazy - tends to look at me as if to say "well what are you here for?!" I was just going to boil up water in a big pan and try that for formula. I would need a huge amount of ready made for 5 days! Have fun anyway!

We went to the Big Chill with our dd when she was 8 months and 20 months old [who has a dairy and egg allergy which makes it doubly hard!] and took a frozen batch of both homemade soup and tomato-based pasta sauce. If you put it frozen into a cool bag it should defrost slowly enough to last you the first couple of days whilst also keeping everything else cool. Then at least you know they've eaten something good and nutritious for some of the days!

At least you know that a lot of the food stalls will be nice and healthy at the BGG ....not the dog-burger style you get at some other lesser festies!

have you seen those giant greek beans with tomatoes in tesco? £1.25 for a tin. I lived off those when I was island hopping. going to take some when we go to a festival in aug.