I’m going to be camping for 4 days at a location without easy access to fire (hence no boiled water). As such, I’m going to be packing a bunch of canned stuff for my daily meals. The place is in England, where we’re expecting a few hot days this week and maybe some rain over the weekend.

However, I have some free time before the trip to cook food. But I’m not sure if there’s any good foods I could bring along that could keep for 3-4 days without a fridge. I guess that crosses out most meat dishes.

Some ideas I had were: falafel, fritters, bread, calzones, pasties. Have you tried taking such foods camping and if so, did they last a few days without spoiling? Are there any other foods you’d recommend? Thank you so much!

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1611 months ago

    24 packs of Scampi Fries and a dozen Mars Bars.

    You can have meat, but something cured and in a pack like biltong.

    And every hiker’s favourite, Kendal mint cake, which is as close to Terry Pratchett’s dwarf bread as any substance I know.

    And this is England. Chances are you’ll be like two miles from the nearest shop at a push.

    • @Transcendant@sopuli.xyz
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      611 months ago

      I tried to look for a super-remote forest location last year; my intention was to take a tent, get dropped off on the edge, go deep into a forest with laptop & keyboard, to write some forest-inspired music. I was pretty shocked to find out that all our once-deep forests are criss crossed with roads. You were kinda joking, but you’re literally right, there’s nowhere far from a road in any of our forests.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        511 months ago

        Well, Scotland isn’t part of England. But sure, you can get far from civilisation, by UK standards. Dartmoor and Yorkshire Moors are others. It’s only a few miles as the crow flies, but it’ll feel a lot more than that when carrying a load of camping stuff and having to go around a river.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        311 months ago

        No but I’m a fan of the accent. Or at least Joss Ackland’s in Lethal Weapon 2. Diplomatic immunity!

        They started selling it in the UK a few years back. It’s quite expensive though.