Moveable Feasts contains all you need to plan your camp cooking. Part one of this guidebook has advice on nutrition, camp cooking equipment, water, packing food, the camp kitchen, camping with children and wild foods. Part two has nearly a hundred recipes for nutritious, mouth-watering camp meals with an index highlighting high-energy, lightweight, child-friendly, vegetarian, prepare-at-home and super-quick recipes.

Why this book?   

PART ONE

Chapter 1

Food and the Great Outdoors   
    Camping in the UK   
    Food and Performance   
    Keeping Campers Happy   

Chapter 2

Essentials of Nutrition – What Your Body Does with Food   
    Food Groups   
    Digestive Physiology
    Special Diets

Chapter 3

Equipment   
    Stoves   
    Fuels   
    Fire Starters   
    Cookware   
    Cooking Utensils   
    Eating Ware   
    Useful Ancillaries   
    Travelling Light, or Everything but the Kitchen Sink?   

Chapter 4

Water and Drinking   
    Where Does It All Go?   
    Dehydration   
    Water Sources   
    Waterborne Diseases   
    Water Treatments   
    Carrying and Storing Water    
    Going Without – a Lightweight Solution?    

Chapter 5

The Camp Larder   
    A–Z of Great Foods and Ingredients   
    Long-life Foods   

Chapter 6

Packing, Storage and Transportation   
    Reusable Packaging   
    Disposable Packaging   
    Recycled Packaging   
    Packing Food in Your Rucksack   
    Storing Food in Camp   

Chapter 7

The Camp Kitchen   
    Setting Up   
    Hygiene and Washing Up   
    Rubbish Disposal   
    Cooking in the Dark   
    Cooking in Bad Weather   
    Cooking at Altitude   
    Shelters for Cooking   
    Open Fires   

Chapter 8

Wild, Local and Seasonal Food   
    Wild Foods   
    Buying Local   
    Buying Seasonal   
    Fresh Fish   
    Shellfish   
    Collecting Wild Plant Foods   

Chapter 9

Camping à la Carte   
    Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Expeditions   
    Adventure Racing, Mountain Marathons and other Endurance Events   
    Longer Expeditions    
    Camping with Children    
    Large Groups    

Chapter  10

Saving the Day: Mistakes, Mishaps and Misfortunes   
Illnesses   
Accidents   
Culinary Mishaps   

 

PART TWO

Weights and Measures   
Recipes   
    Hot Breakfasts   
    Snacks, Soups, Side Dishes and Starters   
    Main Meals   
    Puddings, Cakes and Sweet Treats   
    Drinks   

FURTHER INFORMATION

INDEX