Food for your BOB

[DeltaSierra]

I have supernoodles, pasta n sauce, john west tuna in a bag with various dressings, savoury rice and also some ready meals made by this company

http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/campin ... iasts.html

some supermarkets have started stocking them but a limited range havent tasted them yet but they look good.

theres also this website that does ready meals

http://www.thejollygourmand.co.uk/ready-meals

hope this is useful to someone

I saw this brand at the Outdoors show last year and tried one of them out though can't remember which. It wasn't bad at all, and their cost is not too bad about average for the type of food.

For energy on the go I find Mule Bars are pretty good ( http://www.mulebar.com/ ). They are fair trade, made in England, good taste and have a good few different flavours, full sized bars and the smaller bites version too. Got about half a box of them on my wardrobe currently.

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my BOB isn't any where near complet, but wise I have a box of granola bars and box of power bars. I also have a few "hotcans" (meals in a self heating can" on order, as I dont have a camping stove in my BOB, just one in house with food stock.

[Carrot Cruncher]

Have you tried the "hot cans" ? Would be interested to hear what you think of them, some people say they are great and a few others that they are a waste of money and dont work too well. They look ideal for where you want hot food but lighting a fire/stove is not practical or adviseable.

[itsybitsy]

my BOB isn't any where near complet, but wise I have a box of granola bars and box of power bars. I also have a few "hotcans" (meals in a self heating can" on order, as I dont have a camping stove in my BOB, just one in house with food stock.

Hot cans? Genius! Where can you buy them?

[the-gnole]

http://evaq8.co.uk/home.php?cat=266&gcl ... 4Qodik5O0g

But £3.99 for a tin of sausage and beans

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Yeah, I've thought about HotCans. Handy for a one-off emergency, but not a medium or long-term solution - too pricey.

I thought a lot about stocking up on a few for my GHB, but in the end went for a hexi cooker and some normally priced tins of food!

[Carrot Cruncher]

But £3.99 for a tin of sausage and beans

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Not cheap compared to a normal tin of beans admitedly, but neither are the various ration packs and other MRE's that are available either. They could be ideal in a situation where you cant use a stove.....if it heats the food properly.That is the only issue I have heard about them, some people said they worked perfectly, others said they weren't hot enough. Will be interesting to hear how AAAA gets on with them

[the-gnole]

How about getting hold of the MRE heaters and normal tins of sausage and beans and cooking them that way?

[Carrot Cruncher]

I looked into them a little while back and it looks like the same sort of problem as with the hotcans, some people really rate them and others said they didn't heat the food enough. How did you get on with them ?

[the-gnole]

I use a gas cooker or my Crusader set with hexi or greenheat or chafing gel, quicker and cheaper most of the time, not had a case yet where I needed to be covert when using it.