Boat Food, No Fridge

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I prefer to bring livestock onto the boat... a small pig or a couple of lambs are easy to keep in the locker, and chickens are fine on deck....

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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif and I thought seagull poo was a nuisance, a small milk cow is quite a worrying idea. Where do you keep the hay & fresh water supply for your livestock?

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He grows it on the foredeck, keep up!
 
Soya based stuff like milk lasts for ages until opened. The milk is an aquired taste but the cartons of custard are great. The yoghourts are OK too as are the chocolate carton drinks. Dairy free spread outlasts butter and margerines with buttermilk flavouring (which is most). It is just a little bland.

Tinned potatoes, contrary to the instructions, can be sliced and Sautéed in the frying pan in a little oil. It takes a little while becuase of the high water content.

Check the sell by dates on meat in the supermarket and you will find sausages and burgers which will last longer than unprocessed meat. Just make sure they are cooked well through. I second VicS's vote for M & S tinned mince etc.

Whole lettuces last much longer than packets of salad. Tomatoes last well in a cool box too.
 
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Soya based stuff like milk lasts for ages until opened.

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It lasts an age once open too, no bugger wants to drink it, ick!
 
What did they do hundreds of years ago?
How about a chicken pen on the pushpit....fresh eggs and as required fresh chickens.
Grow bags on the deck for veg.
A big aquarium down below for fish.

OR buy a fridge/coolbox from halfords that plugs in the fag lighter socket.
 
I am suprised no-one has mentioned "look what we found" - their packets last about 8 months without refidgeration, are ready to heat and eat and their selection is brilliant. The website is
http://www.tanfieldfood.com/
I have used them for the last 3 years, with great success. The rabbit is to dream of !
Waitrose stock them, but I do mail order by quantity for the season.
No connection etc.
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I would hate to have a fridge except for two things: Cold Beer and Ice. Powdered milk will fool most people if pre mixed rater than just dumped in your tea. Eggs last for months, just fit and forget. My fresh food list is
Yogurt
Fruit
Toms
Lettuce
Peppers
Cheese
Bread
All of which keeps for days. I never take any fresh stuff at the start of a trip, as there is too much to think about already, I accumulate it as I go along
The little things make all the difference, Just two examples:
1) I always have medeira cake on board, lasts for months and is rather boring. As a dessert pour yogurt on it and dress with tinned fruit, bottled cherries or fresh fruit (if you have it), dust yog with nutmeg or tiny blob of jam and people are suddenly impressed. Also tinned rice pud dressed in similar way or finished off for brealfast with museli.
2) Tilman said he would never sail without Tabasco sauce. Added to tinned meals (eg curry, chilli) it perks them up, as does "pretend" dried veggi mince and a dash of wine or beer; boil up your own rice but add a few dried onions and peppers for colour, serve with olives on the side, or dress with salad if you have it. It becomes a meal rather than a tin you have just opened.
A few more things that I feel are very useful: Bottled olives (again), olive oil (salad dressing, etc), spray cream, mixed herbs, dried apricots/prunes, Heinz sandwich spread, soda bread (pre mix your own dead easy), tinned grean beans. etc. All of which keep for a season.
 
If you were to find a copy of a book called 'Voyaging on a Small Income' by Annie Hill,you <might> wonder why you ever bothered to fit refrigeration to a cruising boat....but it was written after several years of living on a boat,rather than from the standpoint of a house dweller contemplating a short boating holiday...
Still,might be a couple of quid well spent at a boat jumble...
 
Buy lots of 1 pint cartons of uht milk, and use tinned or vac-packed meat.

I have a 12v electric coolbox from halfords fitted into a locker, and its perfect. Allthough as a student i tend to live off pasta and fray bentos /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Check out Lidl's

They have a whole section next to the fridges of ambient temperate foods UHT or smoked as a rule

Salami, cheese, yogurts, eggs of course
long life self bake bread.

I also cook a joint of ham, freeze it and it will last for ages.

Lettuce grows in a shallow bowl of water, the hotter the weather the faster it grows ( if it's been cut a while it may take a day to recover) Doesn't work with Icebergs or ready prepared /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Re frying smash.
It just burns on the outside and you end up with Smash with burnt bits (Wives have fun swapping tales with their friends about husbands' attempts to fry Smash)

Re Vesta dried meals
It appears that Sainsburys have recently stopped stocking them. (At least our local one has but if there is just one JS in the entire country that has stopped it'll be ours. Used as a training ground for managers destined to fail miserably I think)

Re sautéing tinned spuds
SWMBO tried it today (in the oven) They exploded! The tin does say Do not boil, fry or microwave But will try again thinly sliced.

Tip for keeping UHT milk once opened
Transfer to a scalded (ie sterilised) plastic bottle, or Thermos flask, with a tight fitting cap.
 
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