Camping

Here are edibles for a 4-day camping trip:

What you see up there fed two people for a period of four days - that's three meals a day plus snacks. We bought some much appreciated grapes and raspberries, and a baked potato with veg curry between the two of us, but apart from that it's all up there.

Below are four meals that came out of the above ingredients. Read and imagine!

This is cous cous with sprouting beans, flavoured with chilli mix and tomato paste.

Amazingly fresh tasting and filling.

Now, this one was a stroke of genius. It's TVP with the chilli spices and tomato paste again, this time with sun dried tomatoes and lovingly surrounded by a tortilla wrap.

Again with the TVP - this time with pasta, stir-in pasta sauce (light to carry!) and sun dried tomatoes. You would not believe how warm and comforting that lovely thick sauce was in a cold Scottish field. Beautiful.

Now, before thinking too much about the meal below please remember that camping is hungry work, and by the fourth day having something hot that will sit there in your belly making its presence known is exactly what you want.

Ok, so please find below a pitta bread topped with baked beans, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, TVP and (ahem...) red wine. It tasted good. Honestly.

There's something strangely satisfying about seeds that have soaked up a load of liquid - their texture becomes easier to eat and - I'm told - digest. And no-one can deny that red wine is a good liquid. As is bean juice. Just take a look at this concoction...