Recommended tinned provisions

Here in the Philippines it's possible to buy tinned cheese and butter which I haven't seen in the UK, I can't vouch for the butter but the cheese is good with pasta.

Until recently I have not had refrigeration and managed perfectly well. Tinned stews and curries can be improved immeasurably with the addition of fresh garlic, onions and other veg, pulses are good too. Take some flour and suet and you will bring a smile to everyone's face when you reveal a stew with dumplings. Wheat flour can easily be used to make tortilla wraps or chappiti. Before you know it you'll be hosting your own celebrity chef show!
 
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French supermarkets used to sell a variety of boil in bag meals, like lasagne, spag bol, sweet and sour chicken with rice etc. we used to keep some as 'go along' meals as they come in trays like airline grub, no dishes to wash isadded bonus.

I still remember 'dynamite stew' from Ocean Youth Club IN 1960s. take one tin of everything in big stewpan, add curry powder peeled spuds and boil away till spuds cooked, reheat daily until used up. preferably sit on rail, racer style after eating.
 
Stemar said:
Most of the stuff I have on Jissel - also 24ft, also no fridge - have been mentioned, but we're quite partial to a tin of Ratatouille, Asda does a decent one. Warm it up, grate cheese over it and, if you've got one, bung it under the grill to melt & brown the cheese a bit.
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I managed 30 years without a fridge. Even my early trips to Brittany needed no fridge as fresh produce easily obtainable every 3 days. We now have a fridge and it helps the Navigators favourite goats milk yoghurt keep better.

I agree a grill is handy, but we managed top toasting via a funny grid thing before
 
Daydream believer said:
Robin Knox Johnson says that a tin of veg soup ( the big chunky one) mixed with tinned meat & a tin of spuds plus a tin of any spare veg all in a pot will make a stew which can be split into enough for several meals.
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Straying from the "tinned" requirement...Talking of RKJ... it's a long time since I read "A World Of My Own" but do I not remember that textured vegetable protein was a staple he took with him? Obviously he whinged about it but prior to the advent of these fancy new-fangled meat substitutes, TVP was the basis of many of my dishes. Perfect boat food: cheap, light, high protein, keeps a long time. Tinned tomatoes are an essential stew base. Pasta has carbs and protein and keeps for a long time. dried oregano and basil don't take much space. Tabasco has dual purpose in cooking and bloody marys. Garlic and onions don't keep forever but they do last for months.

On the strictly tinned front...soup. Lots of soup. Soup takes one pot to prepare, it's a meal in 5 mins, it warms you quickly and can be drunk from a flask or mug in bad weather. Plus it's often consumable by people who're feeling too rough to consume anything else
 
Little Dorrit said:
Here in the Philippines it's possible to buy tinned cheese and butter which I haven't seen in the UK, I can't vouch for the butter but the cheese is good with pasta.

Until recently I have not had refrigeration and managed perfectly well. Tinned stews and curries can be improved immeasurably with the addition of fresh garlic, onions and other veg, pulses are good too. Take some flour and suet and you will bring a smile to everyone's face when you reveal a stew with dumplings. Wheat flour can easily be used to make tortilla wraps or chappiti. Before you know it you'll be hosting your own celebrity chef show!
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Red Feather Butter, from New Zealand is sold in tins.

The only link I have is to their marketing arm in Oz

redfeatherbutter.com.au

In NZ the company is Ballantyne Foods (and may have been the tinned butter in UK army Compo rations).

If you want to extend your culinary skills beyond a 2 burner stove consider a thermal cooker

Thermos Thermal Cooker Review - Practical Sailor

I believe there was a version sold in the UK called 'Mr Ds Thermal Cooker'

To make yogurt consider an Easi Yo yogurt maker, available in the UK

Summer Sailing Gear - Practical Sailor

If you are talking about decent food then you will need some good wine, but glass bottles are bit heavy to lug about and, coincidentally, this came across my screen this morning

Great wine doesn't have to be in bottles - especially on boats - Mysailing

Though whether you can source this in the UK might be difficult.

Jonathan
 
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Nobody has mentioned one useful tip, admittedly from a wooden boat owner with deep bilges, make sure you mark the ends of the tins with some sort of paint code so you have some idea what is in them if the labels come off, which they will if stored In a damp bilge.
 
Tinned chilli con carne is amazing.

I recently tried a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie, believing it couldn't possibly be as bad as alluded to on these forums. How wrong I was! I have heard that tinned pies from either Aldi or Lidl are much better, but I cannot remember for sure which (I think it was Aldi).
 
The beauty of corned beef is its versatility. You can curry it, put it a stew or a cottage pie, hash it, fry it in batter, slice it for sandwiches, and have it cold with salad. Or, as I have done when single-handing spoon it straight out of the tin.
 
For the veggies amongst us, Tesco Veg curry in tin is delicious - Ive tried all the supermarket tinned veg curries and thats the best. Sainsbury Chick Pea Dhal in a tin is an absolute knockout. Most of the veg chilli non carne tins are passable but need jazzing up with a bit of chilli flakes and tommy K.

My No 1 tip is Amy's Organic Lentil and Vegetable Soup. It costs at least twice what a Heinz soup tin costs, but boy oh boy - you'll see what I mean when you try it. Its the only tinned soup Ive ever had that really tastes like it has just been cooked from fresh ingredients that day.
 
I don't think anyone's mentioned the "look what we found" ready cooked sachets which are pricier than tins but are very good quality and keep for ages. They take only a few minutes to heat up in a pan. There's a wide range of options and they can be mixed up with other things like rice. Also Sainsbury's do a very tasty ready cooked sachet of fried potato and bacon which just needs heating up. Home Delivery Ready Meals, UK - Look What We Found
 
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CLP said:
I don't think anyone's mentioned the "look what we found" ready cooked sachets which are pricier than tins but are very good quality and keep for ages. They take only a few minutes to heat in a pan. There's a wide range of options and they can be mixed up with other things like rice. Also Sainsbury's do a very tasty ready cooked sachet of fried potato and bacon which just needs heating up.
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I used to be able to get those but can't find them any more. Where do you get them.. the curry was great
 
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