Menu ideas for solo sailing

For a hot snack underway these work well:

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Just boil in water for 15 mins, cut the plastic lid off and dig in. Zero washing up.

Better just mention that you need a robust stomach, as the puddings seem to be constructed from flour, fat and unidentified meat product.
 
richardsn9 said:
I rather like the pouch food from Waitrose 'Look what we Found' range, tasty and simple to cook and serves one comfortably. Nearby on the shelves, they have a potato saute that is quick to do in a frying pan. All have good shelf lives and do not require refrigerating at all. Not too expensive either.
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The "Look What We Found" range is not specific to Waitrose, you can find them in Asda, Tesco and elsewhere. You can even get them in bulk from Amazon.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Concerning milk, one of our recent discoveries is cold filtered milk. Several supermarkets sell it alongside the ordinary milk. The great thing is that it will keep for a week as long as it isn't excessively warm - our insulated cold locker is fine. And it tastes absolutely no different to "standard" milk.
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That's interesting. I tend to buy it for home use as I rarely use milk, but when I want some it's annoying to find the bottle in the fridge has gone off. Refrigerated unopened, the stuff lasts for weeks, so it doesn't surprise me that it goes a few days in a cool place.

Pete
 
For a cool box get a box with lid made of polystyrene foam. White lumpy stuff. Then get a one or 2 milk/juice bottles full of water and freeze them. (depends on the size of freezer you have. You can put the frozen water bottles in a smaller foam box to make it last longer. This small box can be really cold while in the outer box is less cold. The bottles of frozen water can last many days depending on the insulation and ambient temp. I hope you get really hot weather for your voyage. take books etc and good luck olewill PS my doctor throws away these boxes when they come with drugs in in dry ice. Being Oz of course we can buy cool boxes almost everywhere in summer very cheap even from supermarket.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Concerning milk, one of our recent discoveries is cold filtered milk. Several supermarkets sell it alongside the ordinary milk. The great thing is that it will keep for a week as long as it isn't excessively warm - our insulated cold locker is fine. And it tastes absolutely no different to "standard" milk.
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We've been using the Cravendale version (don't know if there are any others) on the boat for the last couple of years. It does usually last a week quite easily. Unopened it will last a couple of weeks at least (haven't tried more), as long as it's 'bilge' cool. Beats UHT hands down on taste.
 
prv said:
That's interesting. I tend to buy it for home use as I rarely use milk, but when I want some it's annoying to find the bottle in the fridge has gone off. Refrigerated unopened, the stuff lasts for weeks, so it doesn't surprise me that it goes a few days in a cool place.

Pete
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Yes, when we first saw it and noticed that it says "keeps for a week without refrigeration" (or similar), we thought "pull the other one"! But we tried it, and it really will keep for a week in the relatively cool surroundings of a boat in UK waters. Excellent stuff, and quite indistinguishable from ordinary milk in flavour. It even travels well - we often bring a half-full bottle home after sailing (we can only get to the boat maybe once a month, so we don't leave perishable food aboard!), and it travels 400 miles and is still Ok for a few days at home in the fridge. Ordinary milk tends to be worse for wear after the trip home!

Incidentally, some powdered milk is OK - but not UK brands. Sadly I can't recall the name, but in Antarctica we used a South American brand of powdered milk that was quite useable. Not as good as fresh milk, but OK and far superior to things like "Marvel".
 
alahol2 said:
We've been using the Cravendale version (don't know if there are any others) on the boat for the last couple of years. It does usually last a week quite easily. Unopened it will last a couple of weeks at least (haven't tried more), as long as it's 'bilge' cool. Beats UHT hands down on taste.
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Tesco do an "Own brand" as well, that seems to be just the same.
 
Most fruit and veg will keep for a week - spuds, onions, lettice, tomatoes . . . I've found that cryo-packed meat (ie vacumn sealed bags) will keep unrefrigerated. Avoid bones that may damage the bag. Eggs are fine - hard boil them towards the end. Bread.
If you have any doubts try some at home before you go (hospitals are so much easier to get to too). Refridgeration is great if you can keep the power up to it but even an ice box should give you several days of cold beer. Go and enjoy yourself - try to catch a fish or two? Andrew
 
Smoked bacon will easily keep for a week in the bilge and even three or four days once opened. Chances are it won't last long enough to discover when it goes off.

Stews I tend to leave in the pan on the stove top. On the third day they become curries. I was told once that you can keep a pot of stew going for weeks, adding bits when it gets low, as long as you don't add potatoes to it.

Instant mash is your friend. Don't just add boiling water, with salt, butter and milk added it becomes almost as good as real mash, but without the hassle of peeling and boiling spuds.
 
Cornish Pasties are great when single handing and need to eat underway - nip down below, stick em in the oven and nip down 25 mins later to put em on a plate - eat at the helm whilst George does the business.
A friend of mine has done the last 2 Fastnets with only him and 1 crew - so single handing all the way 4 hours on 4 hours off - food on board solely pasties and carrots with the latter eaten raw - hmmm man food
 
Woodlouse said:
Stews I tend to leave in the pan on the stove top. On the third day they become curries. I was told once that you can keep a pot of stew going for weeks, adding bits when it gets low, as long as you don't add potatoes to it.
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Ah, that brings back student days. The stew/curry pot went on at the start of term and alternated from one to the other. At the end of term the saucepan went in the rubbish.
 
Ian B said:
Similar to look what we found is the striped box food company. http://www.stripedboxfoods.com/index.html. Lamb shank boiled in the bag with potatoes in the pan along side the bag "lovely". Use by date on the ones we have (purchased in may) is January 2014. They do a mixed box for about £50 for 20 meals.
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They are not bad for what they are but take along time to boil... Have you seen any instructions for pressure cooking them?
 
"Be well" do some excellent freeze dried meals that can be stored for a couple of years
The soups & porrodge etc are really good but shepherds pies etc are good
There is a french site that does similar products
I cannot cook ( i am the bloke that made a cheese sandwich for the wife that turned out to be lard)& have used these when meals out could not be bought
I now know that fray bentos tinned steak pies have to be opened before cooking - well it does not say so on the tin
 
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