Bringing food

[bloodflowers]

This Reading will be my 3rd Reading, but my first as a uni student (rather than having a full-time job.) And so, I'm skint.

Most of the cash I take will probably end up going on beer rather than food, but I quite like the idea of eating whilst I'm there, so was thinking about taking some stuff along to try and cut how much money I spend on eating. Was just wondering what other people usually take along to eat, as before I've just bought food from vans.

[RedFerret]

Nutri-grain bars

Pringles

Canned Fruit

That will do the trick for me, but my group (mainly vegeterians) will most likely have a disposable BBQ with them and like last year i'll be quite happily munching away on the Quorn products! (I cudn't tell the difference personally...)

[penny_wishes]

Well when I've been I tend to just buy from tescos, since lugging food on the train is...a hassle, to say the least (my excuse is I'm a weedy 5ft3 girl, I can't lug things all the way across london too easily )

Still, if you've got the strength and a stove of some form, I highly recommend raiding your parents' cupboards for tins of beans, ravioli, spagetti bolognase and those all day breakfast things, if you can stomach that sort of thing. personally I'd also eat tins of sweetcorn and peas because I'm weird like that. And custard I'm pretty sure you can eat all that stuff cold too if you're stove-less. REMEMBER THE TIN OPENER - do not make the mistake we made last year bad times

The obvious: POT NOODLE!

Erm box of cereal, multipack crisps, all the usual junk that tastes ten times more awesome when you're sitting in a field for some reason

If you actually want to eat something paletable, I would say bring a stove and a bag of pasta or rice, and then get either those satchets of pasta sauce or buy some cheese or veg at tescos and whip something up that way.

[Budweiser]

24 bag hula hoops/Bread/Cheese spread/Smart price noodles

[goodoldfashionedmosher]

yeah, hula hoop sandwich and bananas n custard for breakfast.

[scottt]

eat cereal dry and crisps

[markeee]

Erm box of cereal, multipack crisps, all the usual junk that tastes ten times more awesome when you're sitting in a field for some reason

[Budweiser]

Hay if you get desperate you could always order a pizza to little Johns farm .

Edited August 1, 2009 by Budweiser

[markeee]

Hay if you get desperate you could always order a pizza to little Johns farm .

[rexclark]

Chocolate and Crisps for early morning energy.

If I get the chance to get to the shops I'll be getting Sausage Rolls and Scotch Eggs.

[rivalschools.price]

too right! waking up starving and devouring some crap crisps...sorted

lol sounds nice

i quite fancy a hula hoop sandwich and some bananas n custard now..but I'm at work!

but yea, all the usuals

Nutrigrain bars / cereal bars of some kind / flapjacks / ritz crackers / crisps / cereal - those wheetabix choc chip minis aren't too bad without milk..

as for tinned food,/food you can cook - beans and sausages ( i prefer these to those all day breakfast in a tin..and cheaper!) pasta

could also take some cooked food for the first day

quite like the idea of having a BBQ myself, although never had a decent BBQ when using the cheap disposable ones

[dakyras]

cold pop tarts.

[coma girl]

by the time u pay 2 or 3 quid for a disposable BBQ and then buy the burgers and bread rolls,you cant be far off the cost of a burger from the burger van anyway.

[markeee]

never tried them cold, could be a plan..will get some this week, see if i like them cold:)

[KylieB]

I always take some jacket potatos. Wrap them in foil and put them in your camp fire! And ta daaa hot, cheap food! If you've got a stove to heat up some chilli or beans to put on top, then thats even better!

[beckydi]

apples, nature valley granola bars, TUC crackers, instant pasta packs (which only need water), instant cappacinos, sausage rolls, cheapy little juice cartons... hmmm.

[beLIEveR]

If you're bringing a stove:

Porridge (bring sugar or something to sweeten it)

Noodles (the 10p ones you get in supermarkets are just as good as the expensive things).

BBQ sauce/ketchup/your preferred poison (to mix with the noodles, tastes awesome)

Tuna (doesn't need heating, but make sure they have ring pull tops, or bring a tin-opener)

I normally bring a few beans, but they take up a lot of room in your bag so it might not be worth it. Cereal bars are absolutely ideal, but they're not cheap.

Either way, bring enough money to buy at least one meal and one snack for each music day (realistically that's around £20-£25), and a bit more if you don't think you can handle porridge every morning.

[markeee]

I always take some jacket potatos. Wrap them in foil and put them in your camp fire! And ta daaa hot, cheap food! If you've got a stove to heat up some chilli or beans to put on top, then thats even better!

[beLIEveR]

Sticks. I can't remember what they're called, but the sort of ones you use to roast marshmellows. The foil stops them actually catching fire.

Edited August 5, 2009 by beLIEveR