Victualling the boat

Things that don't need to be kept in a fridge:

FB Pies of course
Tinned chilly con carne
Boil in the bag rice
Pasta sauces various
Dried Pasta
Hot dogs
Tinned meat
Tinned potatoes (better than I thought)
"Look what I found" meals in a pouch - tasty but expensive

These fill in between restaurants and fresh food bought along the way. A frozen meal will keep forntwo days in the fridge and a fresh meal for the first night. Butcher will put meat in a vacpack and that will last two days in the fridge.

I'm missing a cook up on the boat :(

I can also recommend Andrew Peace Masterpeace Shiraz in a 1 litre tetrapack for £6.49ish usually in Somerfields - easy to store, good to drink, more than a bottle and no glass to dispose of :):)
 
I've always noticed the correlation between, "food that is good for you vs hard to store".

Hence,
salted meat,
tinned meats,
normal tinned foods,
cuppa soups for changing watches,
UHT milk and lots of it,
Spirit "lifters" (i.e whiskey and Port)
The mini packs of cereal as it saves cereal going soggy in the damp environment, just a waste of packaging so the boxes normally get left and recycled.
We make an effort to buy foods with as little packaging as possible for the sheer fact that they take up less space.

We have no fridge but we do have a chiller but it's used for more important victuals than froot and vedj, normally full of beer and cider!
 
bobgoode said:
2 weeks.......14 bottles of wine; 4 bottles of gin and 8 of tonic; lots of lemons and limes. 28 bottles of ale along with a load of part baked baguettes and some bacon.
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A man after my own heart.:D

Butcher will put meat in a vacpack and that will last two days in the fridge.
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Vacuum packed meats should last weeks even without refrigeration.
 
I think you lot with all that hooch on board should permanently fly 'B'..there's more dangerous inflammable cargo aboard than a liquid gas tanker. :D :D :D
 
2 week cruise? That would probably mean that my normal tinned store would only need to be augmented by fresh milk, bread, fruit, meat, eggs & veg at each harbour/ anchorage with a shop. Fresh fish caught by line, shellfish from the shoreline, herbs, fruit & veg in season from hedgerows. We eat well & shop when we can to maintain fresh foods. A week on Bardsey Island or similar would make inroads into the tinned stock, but other than that we eat as much fresh as we can. We also carry biscuits, chocolate, crackers, rice & pasta as well as spuds & veg which will keep well if kept cool, dark & dry.
 
WindermereColvic said:
Fred Fwift pr'aps, but i once looked into the vittels locker (say 1'by 1' by 2') of a boat i was crewing on and saw nothing but value rice pudding...
Matt
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I hope you ate it!! If 20 million Chinese can live on it there must a secret ingredient..:D :D
 
Similar to Searush, though a bit less 'hunter gatherer'.

I reckon to eat well, either solo or with a crew, fresh food that can be cooked on a 2 burner Origo, no oven, no fridge. I expect to cook properly each day.

Plus a few tins or packets in reserve. If I forget to take them home at laying-up, then they get rusty and have to be replaced next year. The main exception here is tinned potatoes, they are amazingly cheap and good (though not salted) and they save a lot of space relative to a big bag of spuds that need peeling.

Sorry no booze. You can't sail singlehanded and drink! So I didn't, even before I had to give it up.

Mike
 
We always try and eat a lot of fresh food. We're lucky we have a fridge and an oven.

We have coffee on board and use coffee mate rather than milk.

We tend to have a bacon sandwich for breakfast with either an egg or fresh tomato. We try and have orange juice on board for the fibre and vitamin c. Lunches tend to be a mix of things depending on where we are. At sea it'll be something like a pasty or pork pie. Cuppa soups are always useful to warm us up. When we're away for a while we have a store of partly cooked bread that you can finish off in the oven.

I mix and match fresh and tinned food, when my fresh meat runs out. For example a tin of mince with fresh onions, freshly boiled and mashed potatoes and grated cheese, makes a good shepherds' pie. Equally you can use tinned mince with a bolognese sauce and dried pasta. I always have things on board like onions, garlic, stock cubes and seasoning to make food really tasty. We also have something to make a curry, boil in the bag rice, poppadums/naans and chutneys and things. You can also make a delicious Spanish omlette, which I do in the oven. There's nothing like a freshly cooked, hot meal when you've been at sea all day. We do eat out sometimes, but we're careful where we go. There's so many places that are expensive and the food is rubbish. You cannot beat a good fish and chip shop. Often though, we'd rather sit on our boat, enjoy a drink and a nice meal. I'd far rather sit on our boat in the evening sunshine watching the world go by. Also we're sometimes too tired after a day at sea to be bothered with going out. We also have FB on board, that we'll have with tinned potatoes and peas, for when we're stuck somewhere.

When we've been shopping we will have salads, perhaps with fresh fish. I'd love to catch some fish, but so far we haven't had any luck. We were given two freshly caught Brill last year, which I pan fried. They were delicious.

We always try and have a roast of sorts on Sundays. This will be lamb or pork chops, or a chicken leg. We always have roast potatoes and fresh vegetables. Fresh veg keeps well in the fridge.

I always keep bananas on board, as if you get cramp when your feet get cold, a banana is a good cure.

We try and have a good supply of nibbles, crisps, nuts and olives to enjoy with a G & T or a glass of wine at the end of a good day at sea.

We're planning a round Britain trip. So any more suggestions for stores to have on board would be welcome.
 
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Oi! stop it..that's not a boats menu, looks more like something from the Ritz. :D :D
 
Two weeks would probably see the supplies running in the order of...

Gin: 4 litres.
Tonic: 10 litres.
Rum: 4 litres.
Mixers: 10 litres.
Wine: 5 litre box plus a couple of better bottles.
Beer: 5 cases of 24.


\ Someone asked ''Where is the bier (sic)"

- Not too far in the future, obviously!
 
Woodlouse said:
Try telling Sir RKJ that.:D
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Ah - you'll be think of:

216 cans of corned beef
114 tins of stewing steak
48 tins of pork sausages
114 tins of Heinz baked beans
48 tins of Heinz spaghetti hoops
216 tins of condensed milk
40 tins of processed cheese

250 lbs onions
350 lbs potatoes
288 greased eggs
288 Oxo cubes
14 lbs Curry powder (hot)
7lbs ground chillies

1 case Martell brandy
1 case Grants scotch
120 cans Tennants lager
1000 Benson & Hedges cigarettes
1000 State Express cigarettes
1000 Senior Service cigarettes

1 razor blade
 
We eat onboard the same as most people eat ashore, after all we are at home. We have two fridges, one a dedicated booze and soft drinks, a freezer and a massive dry store! I have been told not to buy anything more for the dry store, it's going to take a year or two to eat through it! I never have less then 48 bottles of wine aboard and normally at least 20 cases of beer. (lidls) We have a multitude of spices and herbs etc aboard, because I love to cook and like to cook well.The freezer normally contains stuff that is not easy to get, but voyaging, we tend to cram it with meat and fish. There is normally enough for a three week journey for four people in the freezer. Thast having fresh meat every other day, for one meal. I like the tinned stewed steak, you can make all kinds of stews and pies with it, also mince in a tin, very useful. I wouldnt be without a pressure cooker for longer passages either, simple and quick.
I'm not sure about this vacumn packing of meat, never tried it, but I have heard it will last a week or more refrigerated. Which would be great, save using your frozen stuff, I have vacumn packed meat and frozen it, it lasts very well, without freezer burn. For passagemaking we also empty the booze fridge and stock with grub. can always chill a beer in the freezer, not like we are partying!!

Anybody know more about vacumn packed and refrigerated??
 
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