Emergency food rashens on board………………………………….

[Simondjuk]

If you lot all ditched the few hundredweight of tins you're carrying around on your boats, you'd sail so much faster that you'd never be the day late that causes you to have need of 'em!

 

[Marmalade]

Correct, apart from the high levels of fat, calories and salt

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[Simondjuk]

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Ah! The sound of the resultant arrhythmia.

 

[KevO]

Extra night! I leave enough on board for at least two weeks, it would have been a month but I cleared out all the pre 2005 stuff this summer Lidl stores feature prominently - Noodles, Sweet & Sour Chicken, Goulash, Ginger bics.
Then there are plastic containers of Rice and Spaghetti, & Breakfast Cereal.
Tinned Potato, Veg, Soup, Cup-a-Soups, Fray Bentos & fruit.
Not to mention Tea, Coffee, Drinking Chocolate, Powered & LL milk, Squash, Wine & Spirits.

That's nothing... last time I was in Port Stanley (2009) the West Store had canned produce with a 'best before' or 'eat by' (can't remember which) of 1996! At least, that was the best (earliest) date we could find in 15 mins for a competition entitled who can find the oldest frecking stock in this shop!

 

[prv]

Like Vic, on any multi-day trip I will probably have over-bought so there'd be enough fresh stores to make an extra meal or two. However, in addition there are some resident food stocks under the port bunk. For example:

Part-baked bread - although this doesn't last for months like the other stuff, I bring some for most trips and swap it with what's in the locker. So the stock is generally fresh.

Striped Box boil-in-the-bag meals, as advocated on this forum in the past.

Tinned ratatouille - makes a good addition of general veg to stewy sort of dishes, more interesting than 1960s-style diced carrots/green beans/etc veg tins.

Tinned spicy mixed beans. For the specific purpose of mixing with the ratatouille, adding cut-up uncooked sausages, and simmering until the sausage is cooked. I made it once when sausages were the meat I had for the day but for some reason I didn't fancy them done normally. Could be used for various other purposes.

Corned beef - for cooking or for sandwiches.

Rice. Boil in the bag, although there's no particular reason why this is better for backup stocks.

Tinned cooked potatoes. I quite like them cold, can also be heated up quicker than boiling fresh ones, or sliced and fried.

Tins of tuna (left on board by my mum)

Tins of Fosters (left on board by my dad)

There's probably others lurking in there. In fact, I should probably go and empty the locker soon - no plans to stay overnight for the rest of this year!

Pete

 

[TQA]

Anchor tinned cheese and tinned butter.

Plumrose Ham

lentils

Rice

Spag sauce

Self raising Flour

Tinned chicken.

AND OF COURSE F B STEAK AND ALE PIES

 

[Csail]

I dont keep anything specifically but there is always more food on board than I need so just a case of choosing something.

A few ideas though.

• A can of soup gives you soup and toast if you have some bread
  
• A can of beans will similarly give you beans on toast.
  
• Cheese on toast if you have some cheese.
  
• A can of ( M&S) chicken in white sauce, some rice and a small can of peas will quickly give you chicken and rice.
  
• A can of sweet and sour chicken, + a can of oriental stir fry vegetables and some egg noodles . ( best with extra sweet and sour sauce)
  
• Eggs dont keep but if you have them an omelette is quick and easy to make. Add ham, tomatoes or cheese if you have them. Nice if you have some French bread
  
• Pot noodles !

A better idea is to be near a decent pub !

Ref the eggs bit, didn't someone here mention painting them with vaceline or somethig a while back?

 

[blackbeard]

"Fish of the day, as caught" (on the vittles list of a yacht I did a long passage on).

 

[Evadne]

Ref the eggs bit, didn't someone here mention painting them with vaceline or somethig a while back?

Eggshells are permeable, so leaving them on the boat where they can absorb Evadne'e 'Eau de Bilge' doesn't appeal. I have used eggs that were stored in flour (in a jar) for several months, at cooler than room temperature, but not on a boat. They did dry out a little but they didn't go off.

 

[PeteCooper]

Egg Preservation

I knew I remembered something about how to preserve eggs - and here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate

 

[haydude]

Emergency food rashens on board………………………………….

What do you keep on the boat for that extra night away ?

I will kick it off, and am unashamed to say… Fray Bentas steak pies and bully beef

Rashens? Please could you explain what is this? I could not find it in the dictionary.

 

[maby]

Rashens? Please could you explain what is this? I could not find it in the dictionary.

They are people that come from places to the east of Poland and write funny...

 

[maby]

and before someone jumps in, not very far east of Poland - if you go too far you find Chin Ease who write even funnier...

 

[prv]

[Rashens] are people that come from places to the east of Poland and write funny...

Not as funny as the brewers who've named this year's Christmas beer "Russian Winter" and decided to replace random letters in the name with something vaguely similar-looking from the Cyrillic alphabet. Sadly, looking similar doesn't mean sounding similar, and they've ended up with something along the lines of "Yartseeaii Shitaiyar"

Pete

 

[maby]

Not as funny as the brewers who've named this year's Christmas beer "Russian Winter" and decided to replace random letters in the name with something vaguely similar-looking from the Cyrillic alphabet. Sadly, looking similar doesn't mean sounding similar, and they've ended up with something along the lines of "Yartseeaii Shitaiyar"

Pete

It may be a very accurate description of the beer!