tea – Page 23 – Clive's Blog

The Walk Back

7 May 2012 / Backpacking, Camping, Lincolnshire, Photography, Walking / backpacking, camping food, Photos 2012, tea

I only plan a short walk today as I have to get back to the office to sort out a data back up issue for a client.

It was a bright sunny start to the day, so after tea whilst still in my sleeping bag, it was breakfast outside by the lake.

The titanium mug with lid kept the early morning bugs out of the tea water – I put it on the beaker afterwards to keep them out of the tea.

Breakfast was cereal bars and tea – Diana bought me something different – Apple and Oat bar made by “The Fabulous Bakin’ Boys”, they were very good and I will be using them again.

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Dinner

5 May 2012 / Backpacking, Camping, Walking / backpacking food, lightweight walking, outdoor gear, tea

Dinner tonight – Sausage and mash and onion gravy, with a mug of tea and Jaffa Cakes to follow.

I am currently working on an ebook about lightweight, simple meals for backpacking and camping – I will post it on my Downloads page when it is finished and Diana has proof read it.

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Be Prepared!

27 April 2012 / Backpacking, Camping, Outdoor Gear, Photography, Walking / backpacking food, coffee, lightweight backpacking, lightweight backpacking food, lightweight camping, outdoor gear, Photos 2012, tea

I want to get plenty of overnight backpacking trips in the year, as practice for some future longer trips – The Speyside Way this summer and the Southern Upland Way summer 2013.

So whilst I have been sorting out the food this week for a trip with Jeremy next weekend I have put together a pack of food for a short solo overnighter, so if I decide to go at the last minute the food will be ready.

As I think the food pack will spend several weeks on the shelf the food had to have a good storage life – so no sausage or salami and the crackers have been double wrapped in cling film.

Menu

Trail Food
Spice and fruit oat cakes, white coffee and dried fruit and nuts

Dinner
Tuna in tomato and onion sauce, crackers, packet of noodles, tomato soup, sesame dessert, apple flakes, tea.

Supper
Hot Chocolate and biscuits

Breakfast
Tea and biscuits
Breakfast biscuits and portion of jam, 2x cereal bars, tea

Trail Food
Honey Chrysanthemum Tea and oat cakes and jam

Extra
Bag of Aldi chocolate buttons

The individual meals are packed in small ziplock bags and then these are packed in a larger ziplock bag.

The only things I need to add to this will be the tea bags and dried milk in my small brewkit – and it is ready to go.

1x Indian spiced tea bag
5x tea bags
3x sugar
salt and pepper
20ml dried milk
1x 500mg paracetamol tablet
1x indigestion tablet
small refillable gas lighter – it gives a stronger flame compared to a disposable lighter

The case is an mp3 case bought at a pound shop.

Update
I have added an “army style” can opener to this pouch – as I have removed the Bantam SAK from my backpacking kitchen, so there is no longer a tin opener in the stuff sack.

I have been finishing this post, whilst waiting to go to a supplier to look at their Cloud Computing solutions, and looking out of the window here the weather is grey, wet and overcast so the above image may well be today’s “Photo of the Day”!

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Misterton Ladies Group

21 April 2012 / General, Walking / tea, walking

Earlier this week Richard and I gave an illustrated talk to the Misterton Ladies Group about our walk along the West Highland Way. This was the second time we had given a presentation to them, last year we talked about our experiences on Wainwright’s Coast to Coast.

We were made very welcome, which included tea and cakes – and we must have entertained them as we have been invited back next year to talk about backpacking.

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Trying new backpacking food

15 April 2012 / Backpacking, Camping, Outdoor Gear, Walking / backpacking food, outdoor gear, tea

Richard bought some different backpacking food to try out – we did not take it with us this weekend, just in case we didn’t like it. So I tried it for tea this evening.

The food comes in a sturdy pouch, that will stand up and has notches for easy opening. You can cook it in a pot or in the bag and, if you pack a microwave you could use that.

I cooked mine in the microwave. Both Jeremy and I liked it. It was a good taste without being spicy.

There was a good balance of lentils and beans to sauce. The 300g portion is a good size serving after a day’s walking, some crackers would soak up the sauce, or depending on your appetite noodles or rice.

Following this test we are planing to use these in future.

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Backpacking Trip – Last Weekend

7 April 2012 / Backpacking, Camping, Outdoor Gear, Walking / backpacking food, coffee, Golite Jam 2, lightweight backpacking food, outdoor gear, tea

Weekend Trip to Woodhall Spa and day two here

When I got my Golite Jam pack I had planned to carry my sleeping mat inside – however my new sleeping bag does not compress as much as the previous one – so the sleeping mat had to be fixed to the outside.

I used the top lid strap to hold the mat roll onto the pack and for extra security I clipped the elastic straps on the mat to the upper compression straps.

Before my next trip in mid April I am going to experiment with pacling the bag as I really wanted to travel with everything inside the pack.

I am also going to try and find a better (lightweight) compression sack for the sleeping bag and clothes.

The food for the weekend weighed 1.2kgs – of that the high calories/fatty foods made up – 150g sausages, 120g tinned sardines and 135g salted cashew nuts.

Saturday Mid-morning

Saturday Lunch

Canned Italian sardines in lemon olive oil – plenty of calories. With these I had crackers, chocolate oatcakes and tomato soup – I stored the complete meal in a ziplock bag and kept it in the pack’s external pocket so it was easy to get at.

Saturday Evening Meal

When I arrived at the campsite I bought two bars of chocolate – so when it came to the evening meal I did not want the custard desert.

The small ziplock contains instant peach tea. I had two of the sausages that evening and saved two for Sunday.

Sunday Morning

The first thing I had was tea and biscuits whilst watching the sunrise from my sleeping bag – see here.

The plastic bag contains a measure of Columbian roast ground coffee.

Sunday Trail Snacks

I had the last sausage for lunch.

Resupply

I have bought in some supplies this week for my next trip.

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Stove Test

5 April 2012 / Outdoor Gear, Photography / Crusader Cook Set, Crusader Mug, outdoor gear, Photos 2012, tea

Jeremy and I have spent some time today experimenting with our Crusader Mug and stove using natural fuel.

We have a pine tree in our garden and last week we gathered some of the fallen pine cones and dried them indoors. Today we broke one up and used it to boil about two mugs of water – to light it using the fire steel we had to add about a teaspoon of meths to the pine cone bits.

The metal lid for the Crusader Mug was essential, the plastic one that BCB sells would have been damaged by the high flames, it also kept ash that came off the fuel out of the water. (This lid was made for me by The Little Frog Group.)

For my latest lightweight cooking gear set up – click here.

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