Expedition Food
You need to be taking in at least 4000 calories per day on your expeditions. Food should be: Easy to carry - i.e light weigh Nutritious Satisfying What you will enjoy eating Be paked in a suitable container - not to be spoilt by heat, wet, crushing, insects e.t.c
DO NOT TAKE:
* Fragile foods or packages e.g cakes, eggs e.t.c
* Frozen foods
* Food which requires a lot of preparation/ cooking
* Tins Easily perishable foods - sausages/bacon e.t.c
* Pot Noodles or anything similar.
Breakfast before you leave consisting of porridge with jam on top.
Lunch: Pitta bread with marmite/cream cheese/ chocolate spread, dried fruit e.g raisins, apricots, bananas, tropical mixed fruit, cereal/chocolate bar, Pepperami
Evening meal: Pasta with stir in sauce of your choice (sauce should be in a small plastic pot - not glass), or dehydrated Marble cake/chocolate cake that is quite stodgy and solid that won't crumble to pieces, custard, hot chocolate, biscuits.
Breakfast on 2nd day: Porridge oats with sugar, hot chocolate.
Lunch on 2nd day: Pitta bread with marmite/ cream cheese e.t.c, dried fruit, nuts, cereal/chocolate bar, Pepperami. You will need at least 2 litres of water per day to carry with you on the expedition
Snacks: Boiled sweets, dried fruit, nuts, fruit winders.
Emergency rations: (These items are meant for use in an emergency only to enable you to survive an extra night out on expedition if necessary)
* Kendal mint cake
* Chocolate bars
* Dried fruit
* Hot chocolate
* Army ration pack main meal
* Pudding
You can take whatever you want to eat on expedition as long as it is practical and nutritious.
NB If you have a medical condition then you may also require extra food on top of this. SB
Fiona's wise tips:
* Lunch could comprise of frankfurters and bread rolls with tommy K from the service stations
* Although pot nodles are rubbish super noodles are super
* Try and have 3 course meal for dinner to give you back energy so cup a soup to start pasta for main and cake and custard…mmmm for dessert
* Sharing food makes the group more together
* There are ration packs available, but they are not particularly reccommended, unless that is what you want.