Food for trips, help

[Torridon]

Hi all,

was hoping someone might help with this odd ball question, working as an instructor I spend loads of time outside so as such snack a lot, however my teeth are now feeling it and my wallet is feeling it even more when I vist the dentist and have to explain the chocolate diet.

so my question is, can anyone reccommend any yummy snacks that won't rot my teeth and don't mind being abused and squished. I have tried fruit but dentists have told me they are just as bad.

cheers chris

[Mad_Erik]

Nuts, wasabi peas, chilli beans, bombay mix, billatong beef jerky, peparami :-)

[Adrian Cooper]

One thing I've tried recently is Naked bars. Available in supermarkets and Holland & Barrett, they are made from just nuts and dates (the cashew one is very nice and you could add a little ginger or cinnamon). I checked out the ingredients and decided I could easily make something equivalent myself in the food processor and sure enough I can. You just need a sensible mould to squeeze the bars into, I used a very small tupperware.

I've used dried mango before which is nice but a bit dear.

I am also known for my hot pancakes, actually I buy ready made pancakes (more like drop scones or Scotch pancakes) from Tesco or M&S and warm them up on a stove; lovely!

[ianletton]

Go home made.

There a lot of sport dedicated recipe books that have tons of healthy and tasty recipes in them including snack bars.

Works out to be much cheaper than buying in a shop and also much healthier because you dictate the ingredients.

May favourite is flapjacks made with Scotts porridge with ginger, almonds and chilli.

Yum yum.

Alternatively, dried fruit, trail mix, oatcakes or a bag of nuts. Healthy, tasty, cheap and will keep you going for longer than a bar of sugar.

Ian

[biketastik]

http://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/cereal-bars/organic-fairtrade-apple-and-sultana-flapjack5x40g/ I always take these, their delicious, give you a more drawn out energy supply than chocolate and you can bash them up as much as you like, I think the apple and sultana ones are the best

Cheers

[Big Henry]

Maybe you need a breakfast that makes you feel fuller for longer? I believe that an ideal suggestion is the good old hearty Full English!

[Jim]

May favourite is flapjacks made with Scotts porridge with ginger, almonds and chilli.

I'm also a big flap jack fan, but lets be up front about it, the recipe involves a lot of sugar, plus a lot of syrup (liquid sugar), quite a lot of butter, and then some cereal. The 60% or more sugar content might not be any better for his tooth decay issue.....

I have started eating Frusli bars (although the price has gone way up) but I am still wary that most of these kind of things seem to be stuck together with some kind of sugar syrup....

A friend takes smoked mussels sea kayaking (tinned so not vulnerable, but what to do with the greasy tin? he bags them and takes them home) but I'm sure if you use you imagination you can find all sorts of things - olives maybe, mini peperamis are quite robust, nuts have been mentioned already but I have developed quite a taste for smoked almonds, just wish I knew where to get them!

[scottdog007]

Pork Pies.

[RichA]

Brush your teeth more often? If you have time to eat, then surely you have 30 seconds to give them a quick clean after a snack? Better than nothing I guess. Sorry I can't help with the price side of things - I'm noticing that as well.

[GoldTopo]

The perfect canoeing food:
No fat, no added sugar fruit cake.

1lb mixed fruit
1 mug black tea
1 egg, beaten
6oz self raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice

Soak the fruit in the tea overnight.
Add the egg, flour & spice.
Place in a 2lb loaf tin & bake for 1 hour at 180c.

[DaveBland]

No fat, no added sugar fruit cake.

Just speachless. Why would someone do that to a cake?

[Ambiguity in that post is totally deliberate to cover my ass]

[GoldTopo]

Just try it, you wouldn't guess!

[DaveBland]

Key ingredients for a cake...
fruit, nuts, shortening/lard, loads of brown sugar, golden syrup, sherry/brandy, thick icing... and of course a cherry on top.

...and while I'm at it. Carrot cake and pumpkin pie. There's soo many nice things out there to make sweet cakes and pies with... why would anyone choose a root vegetable?

[Adrian Cooper]

My mum was a cookery teacher, fatless sponge cakes were always a treat because they were so light. It was the mix she used for making Swiss roll.

Carrot because it is moist. Pumpkin because it is sweet when boiled down within an inch of its life.

[DaveBland]

Look, it's 11am here and I'm sitting at work dreaming of a coffee and cake. There's no talking me round to healthy options or consoling me... I NEED CAKE !!!!

[Fire It Up]

We're big fans of the Chocolate Flapjack from Betws-Y-Coed Spar for on the river, steak Pie for after. Yum!!!

Pepperami is my ultimate river snack. Can be folded in half, floats, waterproof wrapper and if you get the spicy option gives you that hot feeling...

Not sure about either of them being healthy!

[Mad_Erik]

ANYTHING from the bakers in the Spar at Betws :-)


For a slightly healthier flapjack try a recipie that uses condensed milk as the binding/sticky agent... and no additional sugar, like the Nigella Breakfast Bars which are very popular with everyone in my club.

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/breakfast-bars-55

[Jim_MWX]

Tracker bars for me. A good mix of nuts and chocolate!

Or Flapjacks, lotsa energy and not so much Choc.

[-Ginge-]

Betws-Y-Coed Spar steak Pie

After now completing testing and having tried one of everything from Spar, we decided that the steak pie, although highly steakey didn't have enough gravy. Everything else on the other hand was perfect although the caramel shortbread isn't as chewey as my grandma's recipe.

[Andrew Battye]

Betws-Y-Coed Spar steak Pie

After now completing testing and having tried one of everything from Spar, we decided that the steak pie, although highly steakey didn't have enough gravy. Everything else on the other hand was perfect although the caramel shortbread isn't as chewey as my grandma's recipe.

If you're going down the pie route nothing beats the pork pies from Cockburns in Bedale! Pork and Haggis, Pork and mushy peas, Pork and red onion, pork and apple mmmmmmmmmmm.

[Chris Bolton]

Pepperami, Scots oakcakes (plain or cheese), Babybel cheese - plus all the various flapjack and cereal bars suggested. These all keep well and are compact so that you can take them on touring trips - for day trips I also consider malt loaf and hot cross buns.

Chris

[WaterStillScaresMe]

Bread or similar with small tins of fish, or perhaps jar of fish paste. Not something I'd eat cold normally, but unsquashable, savoury, tasty, and most of all doesn't give food poisoning after day or more stored in cars, B&B rooms, hot kayaks, warm tents, etc etc. You need to have a plastic bag available to carry the smelly tin home though and care eating lest everything gets oily and fishy.

[Helen H]

if you make your own cheese scones, you could add things like chopped olives or sundried tomatoes to ring the changes. Mini pitta breads, breadsticks or a selection of sticks of carrots, peppers and celery would also help keep the munchies at bay.

[Torridon]

Hi all,

amzing replies, any TV chef could make an entire TV show from what you guys have thrown my way so thanks loads, I'm digging the pies and pepperami ideas, very much a favourite of mine of the water so it seems obvious now to tkae my yummy little friends out with me.

any other ideas please keeping throwing this way, we could do a cook book if we get anymore!

cheers chris

P.S. the cake debate was good

[Tom_Laws]

Everything from Spar Betws.

Sticky Toffee Pudding.

[Ian Dallaway]

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned maltloaf yet.

[Mad_Erik]

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned maltloaf yet.

Work of the devil!

minging hill kit seems to smell like malt loaf... even if it has been nowhere near it.

[Twix]

Errm, condensed milk has loads of sugar in it.

[TheKrikkitWars]

As according to my dentist, if you maintain good oral hygine and brush soon after eating sugary foods it's all good... Maybe a travel toothbrush in your BA is the answer.