Cooking outside

Alyssa and I cooked our lunch outside on the camp stove – bacon sandwiches – one with peanut butter the other with tomato ketchup – I had tea and she had chocolate milkshake.

Alyssa and I cooked our lunch outside on the camp stove – bacon sandwiches – one with peanut butter the other with tomato ketchup – I had tea and she had chocolate milkshake.
Headed out for a walk today. it rained a bit but not so much to stop a lunch stop.



Pork breakfast burger, sliced tomatoes, fried mushrooms under the melted cheese – toasted bun with salad cream.

Coffee and croissants in the sun.


The stove is a “Bushcraft Essentials” twig burning wood stove with an insert for alcohol gel fuel – the insert was the bottom of a small tin of Burt’s Bees lip balm. It is not the most efficient stove but a good stand-by stove to carry with my brew kit. One measure of fuel – about 20ml – is enough to heat about 300ml of water to coffee or stock cube soup temperature. I use an up-cycled hand sanitiser bottle (60ml) to carry the fuel.
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Another morning walk over towards Potterhanworth – with Chai tea and croissants for breakfast.
As it was a nice day I packed my lunch and went out. I also had to give the battery in the car a run and get more fuel – so en route I stopped in a good lay-by with access to some footpaths.
I packed my backpacking cooking gear so I heated water and made fresh ground coffee. The rest of lunch was a hot cross bun and a banana. Once that was finished I headed off for a mile or two across the fields.



The weather was so nice that when I got back to the car, I made some tea and joined my next Teams meeting whilst sitting out in the sun.
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