Food

Food

During the time on the ice, we have to take our own food.
Since temperatures will be around -20c, the food needs to be dry and easily hydrated otherwise it'd freeze and take ages to heat up - bearing in mind all we have available is hot water.

I've been trying a number of brands and here's my thoughts.


Decathlon freeze dried camping food

It's cheap at £5 a bag, but I didn't find it easy to eat.

I tried the breakfast option too, cereal and raison, but found this difficult to finish.

Fire Pot Dehydrated Meals

You can buy 4 sample bags (£12), which are roughly half the size of the actual bag.  You add boiling water and wait 15 minutes.

I quite liked the bolognaise with orzo pasta.  The others were OK but they were scrunchy and again I had trouble finishing the meal.


Tent Meals

As I write this, I've only tried the breakfast cereal with blueberries and coconut.
This was really nice and I'm looking forward to trying the others - they look like real food and the ingredients look fresh thriough the bags.

You just add hot water and wait 10 minutes.
These are the ones I'm going to take I reckon.


For snacks, I'm going to take Naked Noodle soup bags - just like Pot Noodle but in a bag.  There's a variety of flavours and there tasty and easy to prepare.  Need to get a bowl though.

I also plan to take bags of sweets, probably Haribo and Soreen malt loaf bars.  These are mini malt loaves - tasty, filling and not easy to freeze.

I'll post after the event on my thoughts on how the meals went.