Fairly useful link:

[gloomsday]

http://www.singleportions.co.uk/

I've been toying with the idea of using individual pots of honey for bartering, and found this site. It's pretty handy anyway for prepping, especially B.O.Bs since everything is small and takes up next to no weight at all, and it's got other non-food items as well, like small bar soaps and shampoo sachets.

[Chef]

Great idea and they have some nifty lil packets there but damn they are expensive.

Reckon I'll have a bash at getting portions measured into those wee seal easy bags like you get fishing hooks in, stick tea, chocolate, milk, etc. in em and throw in a small sachet of silica gel same as you get in cameras and the like, and Roberts your Dads doodah or somethin like that.

Sauces, cafes or Harvester type place, honey could be a sticky job so better getting those in the single portions.

C

[the-gnole]

I thought that was what cafe's were for Though I would not condone anything that could be construed as theft.

If they have sachets of sauces pick one of each, especially if you have a family with you.

Sachets of sugar are easy enough to get from cafe's and fast food outlets.

Tea, coffee powdered milk are not easy, but the "Three in one" from Aldi/lidle etc are about £1 for ten sachets, but they do need rotating.

Tea bags will "go off" so maybe get some mylar sheet and make up some small packs of them.

For milk you could use "Non-dairy whitener" or powdered stuff, but I am told that you can get squeezy tubes of Carnation condensed milk.

Also you can get individual sachets of UHT milk, we take them when we go for a wander

Still worthy of a look at the site above though, they might have something you never thought of

[Chef]

Oh don't get me wrong, there's loads of stuff I wouldn't even have thought you could get in single portions but it is bloody expensive and on money like mine, it's a case of having to do what you can yourself.

Half those sachets are the 'paper' type they don't last that long and if they get damp as I know from experience, with hot choccy ones, eeeeewwwwwww furry!

I read another post where tea bags were like 80 for 30p so 14p per bag is a bit steep, my local pound shop does earl grey tea bags @ 25 for £1 so that's 4p each, gotta shop around nowdays, well I have anyway, gone are the days of asking the butcher for a whole lamb and yeah someone will be in when you deliver it, btw there's a BBQ next Sun need half a pig and a dozen chooks for Friday mate.

Ah the fall from grace......., or not being able to do 18 hrs a day on the ol tootsies anymore.... [sniffs] Ah well was good while it lasted.

Can't remember the last time I had steak actually, anyone need a personal chef?

Maybe a bargain basement section for those blinders we spot?

C

[the-gnole]

Great idea and they have some nifty lil packets there but damn they are expensive.

Reckon I'll have a bash at getting portions measured into those wee seal easy bags like you get fishing hooks in, stick tea, chocolate, milk, etc. in em and throw in a small sachet of silica gel same as you get in cameras and the like, and Roberts your Dads doodah or somethin like that.

Sauces, cafes or Harvester type place, honey could be a sticky job so better getting those in the single portions.

C

Have a look at this chap for your zip-lock bags Chef_

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=z ... 86.c0.m359

I found them very good

[archer1958]

thanks for pointing me in right direction for z bags TG

[Chef]

Perfick as we're supposed to say down here.

C

[diamond lil]

Sainsburys Basics teabags are 30p for 80 and are brilliant

[Chef]

Them's the ones Lil.

Unbelievable price if only we had a Sainsbury nearby, I am fussy with tea though has to be brick red coloured and actually taste of 'tea', no sugar, dash of milk, used to have 2 tea bags but that's a bit pricey nowdays.

I think I'll write to Sainsbury and ask for a sample so I can test em.

C

[the-gnole]

How about using loose tea and a diffuser.

Biggest "tea bag" I have done this way lasted a whole weekend for 15 of us Box of loose tea and a Cotton triangular bandage and dunk it in the pot until the required strength was achieved.