Monday Kit Tip - Fast Food

If it's Monday, it must be time for the Monday Kit Tip - this week, lazy camping cooking at a reasonable price courtesy of pre-cooked meals.

As the military has known for ages, pre-cooked food in foil pouches has some big pluses - first it tastes great compared to most lightweight dried meals, next it requires zero cullinary input - just heat it in a pan of boiling water - and finally you can save on the washing up by eating it direct from the pouch.

One solution along these lines is the outdoors-specific Wayfayer range of meals - save weight by removing the outer plastic wrapper and carry just the pouch -  but there are plenty of other options out there, most notably the Look What We Found  range, which is cheaper than specialist outdoor meals and very tasty. Unfortunately when cooked in the pouch, the print comes off in the water rendering it unusable for drinks, which would be a our normal strategy.

Plus there's an increasing number of micro-wavable pouched meals out there, everything up to and including Thai curries actually made in Thailand - yum - and our experience is that anything micro-wave friendly is also boilable in the in the pouch.

Top it all up with some easy cook, boil in the bag rice and you have simple and tasty camp food that's slightly weightier than dried options, but tastes great.