Emergency / back up food ?

Single serve tins of tuna and or chicken and dried biscuits. Long life milks, cereal and dried fruits.

flour, water & beer !!!!

Couple of Army ration packs of the "E" variety. A thru D are fairly crappy. Keep them in the throw bag. Bulky but a very good in an emergency.

Cheers Mick

Macadamia nuts
Sultanas
Beef Jerky
Noodles/patsa
Baked Beans

Hi Gazz - if you have access to water, dehydrated foods and hiking meals. There are also the packaged meals you will see in the right hand advertising bar from time to time. If you won't have access to water, they will be bulky and heavy.

We carry some refrigerated and other normal diet foods, a back up supply of tinned products and emergency supply of dried foods - but have not tried the hiking meals. We have been stranded in the outback for over two weeks after a breakdown, and we ate well, but we do have a caravan so room for the back up supplies.

For more about managing meals with little or no fridge space, and meals when travelling with out a fridge check out how it works for us: Foods that don't require refrigeration and no fridge meals

We have packs of the Sunsol breakfast fruit as they contain fruit and nuts (including raw peanuts) - they keep me going if we are taking a long day hike or kayak.

I also have a supply of Vita Wheat multi grain biscuits and peanut butter although not to much peanut butter cause of the fat content.

Ian usually has bags of cashews, walnuts and almonds.

Sue
Karratha WA

tom pipers brased steak & onions..tinned
Plumrose tinned frankfurts
Fray benitos steak and kidney pie tinned...best thing ever to come out of a tin
common or garden tinned salmon
sardines
deb mashed potato
surprise peas
spam
kraft blue box cheeze requires no refrigeration.
tinned condensed milk..can make many deserts
condensed milk..tubes....a standard for the coffee
powdered milk, light compact and long lasting
tinned apples
tinned fruit
flour, sugar, dried yeast..with these 3 you can make scones, bread, damper, pastry deserts.

definitely no baked beans.


All standard cyclone rations, all the stuff we used to carry camping before portable refrigeration.


cheers

Thanks everybody !

I was just after some more ideas and thanks to you all I have picked up a couple good ones. I have an unusual trip coming up where I'm not taking my vehicle and usual equipment and the people I'm taking intend buying meals the whole way to save space in their vehicles by not taking cooking equipment. Anyway - they are paying me good dollars so I will just have to eat steak sangas, pies, schnitzels, roasts and whatever delicacies the hotels / roadhouses can provide.

Thanks again

Gazz

Just be aware not to make emergency rations too tasty.

Otherwise they won't be there when you need them.

Cheers - Wayne

I work on taking 1 extra meal per week so if going for 3 week trip have about 3 wxtra meals worth of food but always come home with more - as pkts rice/pasta etc never get fully used. We have never had to use our emergency rations either!

When bushwalking I used to carry the commercial dehydrated packs and dry italian sausage.... the ones they hang in the corner of the shop. For the sausage you need a butcher you can trust who make their own. Get them to vacuums pack it. It keeps without refrigeration no worries. Don't try it with a massed produced salami though.... too risky.

Hi Gazz

I thought of you when we had a no-cook meal tonight. Daughter needed a chilli fix, so brought a packet on Doritos corn crisps, a jar of Salsa and topped it with grated cheese. After that, i abandoned any ideas of cooking tonight - we'd had enough. It was a tasty meal. The Salsa comes in a glass jar - may be able to get a canned alternative. Chilli Beans can be added for a more substantial meal.
Come to think of it, we general have no cook breakfast and lunch when travelling. Weetbix and dried fruit plus UHT milk for breakfast, cracker biscuits and cheese is often lunch, and if not been too active or are just too tired, instant packet soup (does require boiling the kettle) and bread, toast, biscuits, crisp bread or what ever is on hand.

Regardless of what you take, you'll still need to carry water.

I don't know where you are travelling, but relying on finding takeaway food at the right time or even at all may be a tall expectation.

Mh

SWMBO & I thought this stuff was quite OK >>Settlers' Australian Dried Beef Mince


Just add boiling water, same with this lot here >>Settlers' Dried Beef Mince Meals


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