Camping for 10 days abroad ! Prepping food

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Hi !!
We're camping in Croatia later this year for 10 days (driving over) we've previously done the same and want to make some improvements. I want to keep costs down by prepping some food to take but so far struggling to come up with a list of non perishables (I want to build a stash through the year) we will have access to shops etc for fresh stuff but thought I might be able to bulk out meals this way in attempt to not spend mega bucks on albeit very yummy food.

So far I have
-beans
-pasta
-tomato purée
-tinned sweet corn
-coffee
-teabags
-squash

I'm not very adventurous with food so any tips or camping friendly recipes appreciated !

The flavoured packets of couscous like this www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/264130326
Tins of tuna
Curry sauce, tins of Bombay potatoes and rice www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/canned-tinned-packaged-hot-meat-meals/sainsburys-bombay-potatoes-400g
Freezer pops like Jubbly

Tuna
Corned beef
Salmon
Passata carton
Sauce mixes (Bolognese, chilli etc)
Old el paso one pan rice meal
Straight to wok noodles
Salt and pepper
Cooking oil
If eating out in a fast food place, take a couple extra sachets of ketchup, mayo, sugar or whatever and keep adding to your stash!

Instant mashed potato - the Idahoan one is really tasty and has a cheesy version and one with bacon bits
tinned hot dogs
vacuum packed potato and bacon fry up things (Sainsbury's sell them in a thin flat packet called Bacon Brunch, I think, and they work really well for camping, especially if you add in some eggs)

Oooh some fantastic ideas !! Thank you !!
I hadn't thought of noodles, also el de passo kits (I did bring a fajita one to self catered Amsterdam last year !)

The Schwartz packet mixes take up no space and enable a quick slag Bol or chilli.
The Paella mix is brilliant, add rice, onion, pepper, chorizo (could take some in a cool bag) and prawns. Feeds at least 6 and very easy and tasty one pot meal.

Is food not cheaper and fresher to buy in Croatia? I can’t imagine anything worse than going all that way to experience a different country and taking a bunch of UK processed packet food with me!

@backinthebox

Cheaper - no, of course fresher BUT as previously stated I'm going to be adding fresh stuff to the meals suggested.
Unfortunately some of us don't have the budget to buy fresh constantly particularly when on holiday hence why I'm trying to keep costs down. Not ideal, I'd rather eat out at the numerous restaurants each night or go all inclusive BUT this is the situation I have. Thank you :)

I was trying to point out that they have shops in Croatia, you don't need to stock up on ready made mash potato and tinned hot dogs when they have fabulous fresh fruit, salad, seafood and meat in the markets and shops in Croatia. Nor do you need to eat out every night, if at all. I cannot claim to know what the cost of food is exactly is in Croatia as I haven't been in 30 years, but I do know the cost of fresh food in the shops in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Hungary and indeed virtually every other country in Europe is lower than it is in the UK, mainly because of shorter transport journeys. I'm not unused to eating abroad as a professional traveller, and it is one of the great joys of visiting another country to me (I had a fabulous mezze in the Middle East last night) but if you want to take packet food with you then that's what you should do. But I don't think you will save any money by doing it. I'd take teabags and buy the rest there.

backinthe box. I don't think you get the camping bit. We have a campervan and I listed the cupboard essentials I usually carry so that I can cook using limited cooking facilities yet still using the fresh local produce and not spending hours shopping on holiday
It helps to spread the holiday cost to buy in things prior to travelling.

No, I do get the camping thing. I go camping 5 or 6 times a year. But my policy everywhere is travel light. I’m genuinely baffled by such ideas as have been posted on this thread as taking a chorizo in a cool box on a 700 mile journey just so you can avoid buying a chorizo when you get there (probably for less,) or taking a flatpacked bacon brunch thingy when there are so many lovely things you could buy there for breakfast instead - I would much prefer a Greek yoghurt and locally grown figs for breakfast, they cost pennies in the Med and are much tastier and better for you. And taking passata to that part of the world would be like taking coals to Newcastle.

Look into a wonderbag - slow cooks over hours without fuel so you just have to bring the food to the boil then put into the bag. Any slow cooked recipes work with it.

But I would suggest mostly buying food from the market there which is cheaper than the U.K. - the only things we take are teabags, herbs & spices, sunflower oil - we just hit the supermarket wherever we go, and often we bring food back like olive oil and mayo as it's better there. Admittedly Italy was expensive for food but France , Germany, Spain and Austria were the same or cheaper

We camp abroad and also drive..

We cheat slightly and raid M&S for their tinned foods. We buy the chilli, spag Bol, chicken in white sauce and steak chunks. Then we take boil in the bag rice, spaghetti, tinned veg such as potatoes, carrots, peas and sweetcorn. That usually accounts for about 4 meals. We then buy fresh meat from supermarket to BBQ with salad and fresh bread - another 2/3 evening meals.
Then we have a takeaway or eat out a couple of times. That's usually our 10 nights taken care of. Could take more tinned stuff if necessary.
We also take cereal, tea bags, hot choc sachets, the tiny squeezy squash things, salt and pepper and ketchup.

The tins/other small bits fit in our fridge cool box to travel there as we don't buy anything chilled until we get there.