Wise campers - please give me some solutions.

[Milkysallgone]

We very much enjoyed our first camping weekend last month, and are off for a week in July. However there were a couple of issues which I'm sure can be solved with the right kit!

1. Storing food items /condiments etc. We just took a couple of boxes and big strong bags. The problem we had was that 22mth old ds kept foraging through and chucking everything everywhere.

2. Using our stove on the floor! Ds naturally thinks it is hilarious to put his hands on it.

I so don't want to end up being the sort of camper who ends up taking a trillion items of furniture [hardcore roughing it emoticon] Grr!! but can anyone recommend some sort of storage item that ds can't get his sticky mitts on, and some sort of table/stand that isn't to big and bulky.
Thanks

ooh a tricky one tbh if you don't mind taking another piece of kit with you I'd recommend a day tent that you can chuck all the dangerous/ stuff you don't want ds to get at into.

Something like this Day tent?

or even something like this one on ebay

otherwise it's boxes with clip on lids and a strict 'no touching' policy re the cooker!

clip on lids
or bungees to hold the lids on the boxes

and one of thsoe metal roll-up tables thus or thus for the stove (actually we usually stand ours on top of our barbecue as we're never using both at once)

Thank you both. I am thinking along the lines of some sort of secureable box thing to chuck stuff in, just need to find one. I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet and get stand/table for the cooker so ds can't reach. Lucycat - I'm afraid that despite ds' ever increasing vocab he just can't seem to grasp the meaning of 'no touching'!

Aldi have Camping Tables (roll-up) and cooker stands in at the moment (or they did when I was there on Sunday).

We use Sainsbury's blue boxes with clip on lids, and cool boxes to store stuff in. Otherwise, we store stuff in a spare bedroom pod.

We had a folding melamine table for the stove and we took those plastic drawers for condiments and cutlery. These were then kept in the porch bit of our tent ( I guess this depends on set up of your tent). Our kids (2 and 3 at time)didn't go near them then.

The Aldi rolling table as mentioned by milliways is good... small bag and lightweight, we brought one and set it up although not took it camping yet.

We have this
Its great for storage and for putting the cooker on plus the zip up section keeps bugs etc out of the food. It folds up quite flat too.

We have one of those too dustystar and a Tupperware box to keep sharp knives in (more to stop me chopping my fingers off whilst stumbling around after a few sherberts }

you definately need a cool box. ten quid from sainsbueys and douybles as a seat

aldi have nice camping stove stands with shelves atm. Think they are 19.99 but don't quote me.
I have Argos one (but smaller than the ones already shown)..just stand with zippy cupboard underneath. Shelves kept getting too bendy with the damp though..had to get thin metal ones made instead.

sorry to hijack but TROUTPOUT can i ask you something?

you posted a while back saying your nephew never crawled and walked at 24 months. did he bum shuffle or roll or was he completely immobile until 24 months?

I have camped with small children, and found the easist solution was to buy one of those collapsable cupboards, big enough to hold your coolbox and tall enough to put the stove on when not in use, little ones wont interfer with what they cannot see. I still use it but my kids are now old enough to know better. It has zipped compartments, which I used little suitcase padlocks to keep little fingers out. Put a strong windbreak around your cooking area, as this can be quite taunt, it cannot be climbed or crawled under. Ideally, if you can rig up a handing rail/shelf using a piece of wood drilled in each corner, some chain or thick rope and a few S hooks.

He did that sort of yogic flying thing Nappyaddict...sort of humped himself forward.

He's currently being assessed for dyspraxia actually..so i was thinking about this the other day...wondering if there was any connection. He ran really oddly for a long time ...sort of straight legged ...like a fast march...although (to me) he seems to be very agile now. His handwriting is very messy though and he struggled to learn to ride a bike and things like that.

AAh, stepping in on your thread, apparently it's pretty common for kids who do not crawl to have Specific Learning Difficulties - dyslexia, dyspraxia... It's something to do with crossing the midpoint.