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Easy, leave wallet in Yorkshire and drive to Fleetwood with only a pound in the car (trolley money) :o
So decisions, decisions. Is there enough food on board to make dinner and brexit, sorry, breakfast.
Confessing straight away that the first check was 'Any beer?', the lockers gave up tinned tuna and basmati rice, garlic powder and chilli. Even pot noodles and ginger biscuits.
Unopened fresh coffee and a UHT milk carton. Even porridge oats for breakfast.
I stayed. The boat was fine BTW.
What's on your boat menu for a penniless weekend visit?
 
Once did a trip across the Vale of Pewsey in a dismasted Eventide in February lacking the most basic of things, like heating and utensils. I ate pot noodle using the probes of my multimeter, and used the same probes as a toasting fork over my single gas ring. They stopped functioning electrically shortly after, but I didn't starve...
 
NickRobinson said:
Easy, leave wallet in Yorkshire and drive to Fleetwood with only a pound in the car (trolley money) :o
So decisions, decisions. Is there enough food on board to make dinner and brexit, sorry, breakfast.
Confessing straight away that the first check was 'Any beer?', the lockers gave up tinned tuna and basmati rice, garlic powder and chilli. Even pot noodles and ginger biscuits.
Unopened fresh coffee and a UHT milk carton. Even porridge oats for breakfast.
I stayed. The boat was fine BTW.
What's on your boat menu for a penniless weekend visit?
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Enough to last a week +.Beer would be an issue though & might have to augment with Up Spirits
 
NickRobinson said:
What's on your boat menu for a penniless weekend visit?
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Enough of everything to last me at least a week.
Tinned meats, soup, veg & fruit.
Rice, pasta & couscous.
Coffee, drinking chocolate, sugar, sweeteners & coffee mate.
Wine, spirits & lemonade.
Kit-Kats, sweets, ginger biscuits & crisps.
But some of it might be past its 'Best Before', not that that worries me :highly_amused:
 
A bag of pasta tubes a jar of carbonarra sauce and a tin of chopped ham, tins of fruit salad and custard for after and crisps with bacardi and irn bru or cider to wash it all down. I keep stock in boat during winter hard standing cause its in Millport isle of Cumbrae and i stay on it when im down there. Other options are the Crocodile chippy.
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Always some Supernoodles on board.... Lidl's version are only 7p. Why wouldn't you?

A few tins of curry, corned, beef, beans and tomato soup. I could also probably do a week before desperation struck.

Biggest failing would be milk. I usually have a carton of UHT hidden away, but it often gets used.
 
I could probably last a week with whats on board - some of the tins have been there for some years, mind you I di chuck out a couple of tins mid summer which looked blown and rusty! I then there's a pack of UHT milk on board so would be able to have tea & coffee and of course quite lot of booze ..
 
From memory a tin of all day breakfast, a tin of spicy meat bolognaise, a four pack of Adnams "Ghost Ship", dried milk/instant coffee/tea bags, oh, and a toothbrush and paste... I'll not starve for a couple of days... but I'd miss a cigar with the beer...
 
A few tins of Heinz All Day Breakfasts, tins of mackerel, possibly tuna, dried pasta, pasta sauce, olives, a few assorted pot noodles, a few (sealed) packets of biscuits. Would miss the beer, but there is half a bottle of Laphroaig and near enough a whole bottle of Gordons Gin stowed behind the port bunk so I guess we'd manage.

Oh, and plenty of tea and coffee and sugar. Don't do milk, so that's not a problem.
 
Er six months or so !
Lockers full of home canned meals, preserves, veggies and jams. Autumn harvest of squashes, onions and root crops stashed in racks and nets. Flour, pulses, dried fruit stowed. Yup this time of year the boat is full, especially as we prepare to set off on our next cruise. I always kep her well stocked-it gives us great freedom to stay in some very isolated spots or weather storms in expensive locations that would otherwise be beyond our means.
Longest spent living off ships stores to date is five months, that's with absolutely no purchases.... After storm damage in the Atlantic it allowed us the freedom to enjoy Bermuda, a VERY expensive place, for a full six weeks without straining the finances.
 
NickRobinson said:
What's on your boat menu for a penniless weekend visit?
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I always aim to have enough non-perishable food on board to see two people through two weeks in reasonable style, and for another week after that if necessary, so winter trips to the boat tend to involve looking for the oldest stuff and eating that. Tesco cuppa soups are quite palatable, or at least no more unpalatable) five years after their use-by day.
 
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