Today I had some time to do a bit of prep for our holiday, this time in our caravan. Cooking was top of the list, I like to take some basic home cooked ready meals to save on cooking from scratch every day. We eat pretty much the same meals in the caravan as we do at home, even if we are going out for the day we will pack a simple picnic and take a flask.
3tubs of chilli and 3tubs of bolognaise and a tub of mince and veg. I will also cook the gammon the day before we go and slice it on the machine, pop it into bags, freeze it overnight and take that for the picnic rolls, if its flat packed it will sit on top of the tubs in the freezer compartment. I will probably take a meal ready cooked just to warm up for the first night, once we have arrived and got set up the last thing we want to do is cook.
The freezer compartment is a fairly decent size and there wont be any problem getting all those things in, I will probaby get a small tub of ice cream in too. In the fridge bit we take the usual items from home including sausges and bacon and whatever is ready in the salad garden. There are always supermarkets for re stocking when we need to.
The caravan gas cooker is nearly full size with 4 rings, a grill which is quite slow and a great oven so there isnt a problem with cooking facilities. Some of the modern caravans have a microwave fitted as standard but for us this would be a waste of space as we tend to use non commercial sites which don't have electric hook ups, we rely on gas and solar panel and a small gas bbq. When the oven is not in use we use it for storing our bread and eggs, it does keep cooler in there than in the cupboard, I have even put ice packs in there if its really hot! You have to utilise the space you have :-)
We are both looking forward to trundling off into the countryside or the seaside for a few weeks, our plan is....not to have a plan and just go where we fancy on the day. We have never had any trouble getting a pitch a short notice, with mobile phone and ipad on hand its so easy. The Caravanning and Camping Club have temporary holiday sites run by members for the members and for most of them you dont book you just turn up, they are mostly on school sites or farmers fields, we love them....they are friendly and cheap!! I can't wait to go!
What do you take with you on holiday if you are self catering or do you mostly eat out?
Back tomorrow
Take care
Karen
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