Food to take to a festival (camping!).

SideWinder

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I won't be cooking and nor will any of the guys i am going with so i am looking for cheap food ideas. :)

I'm thinking along the lines of cereal bars and maybe tinned fruit...any other suggestions?
 
Honestly mate, days on end of drinking and music.
You need more than a cold tin of baked beans, cereal, bread, protein bars etc.. Budget money and buy at least some of your food there.

If nothing else I find a diet of tinned food inevitably leads to the *****, which is not a great thing considering festival toilets are usually seats over a vat of stomach churning feces, urine, vomitis and used sanitary towels.

Tinned rice pudding is decent cold.
 
SideWinder said:
I won't be cooking and nor will any of the guys i am going with so i am looking for cheap food ideas. :)

I'm thinking along the lines of cereal bars and maybe tinned fruit...any other suggestions?
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Bring the makings of a salad with you and a flask of tea.
You could bring a disposable BBQ with some meat in a freezer bag.
and some pita bread with some ketchup or a jar of relish for the BBQ meat.
If your allowed to do that.
that's some proper food.

or this junk.

Bring a loaf of brown or white sliced bread with a tin of spam or corned beef or both
along with a tin of some sort of salad like potato salad.
And with some cereal bars as a snack and some tined fruit as you mentioned.

You could bring one of them plastic picnic boxes full of ice to keep the milk (low fat milk stays fresher longer) and the butter cool, and keep it in the shade.
how long is this festival ?

Hope this has helped a little a least,

I would definitely induldge in some of the festival food if i were you though :D
 
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Also is it odd that i am really looking forward to the choices of festival food when i get there? :o
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Nope, Reading this year I ate like a king.
Full english every morning from spiced oven, epic burritos, steak onion and bacon baguettes, ostrich burgers, hog roast baps, cheap chinese food.

Festival food is good!
And a prerequisite if you want to drink beer from the moment you wake up to the second you pass out. :D
 
take a loada sarnies, loaf of bread, some filling that wont make ou ill if its a bit warm.
MAke all the sarnies and put them back into the loaf bag.
 
pitchfork said:
Nope, Reading this year I ate like a king.
Full english every morning from spiced oven, epic burritos, steak onion and bacon baguettes, ostrich burgers, hog roast baps, cheap chinese food.

Festival food is good!
And a prerequisite if you want to drink beer from the moment you wake up to the second you pass out. :D
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Yep festival food is pretty darn good. These days, especially from the smaller Venus. A lot of independent stalls selling good stuff.
 
Can vouch for the festival food. Heavenly compared to your own stuff but small portions generally and ALWAYS expensive. Oh last time I took a loaf of bread, LOADS of Doritos, and a pot noodle. I barely ate over the weekend but it's not really about eating I guess. :p
 
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Depends where you go, some of the stalls give huge portions.
It's expensive but if you go to a festival it always will be expensive. I tend to treat festivals as holidays myself, have a good time and damn the expense. Not fussed about a pint of beer being nearly a fiver, I'll have as many as I please because I'll come back with great memories.
 
You don't even need a coolbox to be honest.

I've eaten pasties which have been left out for days in a warm tent. Not bad, it's like having one warmed up :D
 
kai said:
Has to be babybell - full of protein and they are waterproof, win, win :)
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Being waterproof happens to be in the nature of rubber.

Get a wedge of double gloucester and keep in an airtight container if you feel like cheese. Stick it on some crackers, jobs a goodun.
 
Standard practice for me at festivals usually comprises of some Pot Noodles, a tub or two of Pringles,some Nutri-Grain bars, fruit (normally apples), some apple juice and orange juice (apple juice wakes me up in the morning, orange juice I can drink whenever) - the warmth doesn't bother me.

My mates will bring their camping stoves and tins of food - all day breakfast for example; which for the record, is not actually that bad! - and bottles of water to then boil "ration" packs in.

I know that festival food is very expensive, but I always take a food fund with me and generally rely on the stalls for my "meals", and use my own stuff as snacks. The Toasted Sandwich stall at V (Chelmsford) this year was a godsend and actually not that much money!
 
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