Camping

[nick crisp]

exelent thread guys ,,learning lots ,, have most of my kit although a lot cheaper than some of your guys kit ,,might have to learn the hard way first ,,like to hear more ideas on the cooking side though,,how many different dishes can be made using boiling water ??? roll on summer !!!!

You can always fry stuff - bacon, eggs etc. Some of the tinned curries can be quite good. I've used tinned chicken curry, and added tinned new potatoes and tinned pineapple and my own spice mix to pep it up a bit, and some of the chunky soups are ok - mostly options I've used whilst backpacking, as you'll eat anything after a hard day in the hills! And you can get dehydrators so that you can cook your favourite meals at home and turn them into dried meals that you rehydrate and heat. Just had a quick look for these but can't find the ones I read about before; most of them are just for fruit and veg it seems but I'm sure I've seen ones that can do cooked foods. You could really cook casseroles, curries etc outdoors, but who could really be bothered? Too much kit  you'd have to carry, too time consuming when really you want to be out on the road. For me, bike camping is best combined with cafes and restaurants 

Personally, I don't think wild camping mixes well with biking in Britain, except maybe for parts of Scotland, but to bring in another question, I'd be interested to hear from anyone who knows different