Trip Food Guide

George's Guide to how to make everybody fat at minimal cost

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"However hard you try, people will always moan about the food - the best policy is to ignore them" - Quote from the original food guide. However I took another approach...

Club food is all about getting the right cheap stuff so people don't know it is. For example, The Asda Brand (Not Smart Price) Sausages are 10 times better than the cheap ones and only about 10% more, the Asda fake mars bars make awesome river chocolate, but the Puffins arn't quite as good. To be honest, I am too bent on finding the best food for no money, and it's sad.

Before you go shopping, you need to give yourself a budget. £3-4 p/p is about right - However you always spend more than you expect!

Club menus are very similar - the only bit you get to be creative with is the saturday meal! Here are some ideas.

Saturday dinner (Main Meal)

• Sausages+Mash - My favourite and very cost effective! 3-4 Sausages pp, 1/3 kilo of spuds pp(people LOVE mash!), carrots, peas, broccoli, and LOTS of BEEF BISTO! You will need lots of frying pans!
• Spag Bol - 1 Kilo Beef per 8, Onions, Carrots, Peppers, Musrooms, tinned toms, and pasta. N.B pasta burns in large pots! Don't forget Cheese!
• Curry - Turkey (cheaper than chicken), curry sauce, Onions, Carrots, Peppers, Mushrooms, rice. Rice can be cooked in a tea urn for extra entertainment.
• Lasagne - Special for Woolacome trips. Lots of work to make, but what a result! Note however much work you put in people still complain.
• Roast Chicken - Should only be attempted on the Scotland trip. A ton of roasties and veg, it's incredibly cheap for a top class meal! Must include: Multiple chickens, roast spuds, roast parsnips, mashed potato, mashes sweede, carrots and cauliflower in cheese sauce, peas, yorkshire puddings, stuffing, gravy.

Saturday Pudding

Custard is a must. You must choose something to add it to though:

• Jam/Choc Rolly poly - Very popular
• Bananas and Jam/choc sauce - very healthy!
• Rice pudding - has been done, possibly replace custard with jam

Typical menu for rest of weekend

Breakfast(Sat/Sun)

• Tea/Coffee
• Cereal - Get cheap stuff, but avoid the value cornflakes!
• Fried breakfast - sausages or bacon, eggs, beans, mushrooms, toast. Sausages are much cheaper than bacon - even if you buy the half-posh ones!

Lunch(Sat/Sun)

• Sandwiches
• Crisps
• Fruit
• Chocolate bars
• Drinks

Dinner(Sat eve)

• Main meal - something easy to prepare for a large number
• Veggie alternative
• Dessert

Travelling

• Drinks and biscuits for journey each way

Shopping list

These are approximate amounts of what you could have.

Breakfasts

• Milk - 1/2 pint per person per day (semi-skimmed)
• Tea - own label brands
• Coffee - Nescafe or you won't get Kev out of bed
• Cereal - 1 box between 10 per day
• Sugar
• Baked beans - one tin between 3
• Eggs - 1 per person per day
• Sausages/bacon - 1 per person per day (or more if cheap)
• Mushrooms - 1 large tub per day

Lunches

• Cheese (the cheapest you can find) - lots (however much you buy will probably not be enough)
• Sandwich fillings - cheese, ham, chicken roll, pickle
• Crisps - 1 packet per person per day
• Fruit - 1 piece per person per day
• Chocolate bars - 1 per person per day

Dinners

• Main meal - usually something with pasta, rice or mashed potato
• Veggies - usually whatever the carnivores are eating without meat
• Pudding

Misc

• Bread (cheap, it'll prob be flat anyway) - 1 loaf between 3 per day
• Margarine - one large tub
• Tomato ketchup - life blood of some
• Bottles of drinks - about 3 per day for lunch and 1 for each bus (no diet stuff or you'll have complaints)
• Biscuits - 2 packets for each long journey
• Washing up liquid
• Scourers/J-cloths
• Toilet rolls
• Bin liners

Top tips

• hide some of the chocolate and crisps or they'll all mysteriously disappear by Sunday lunchtime.
• people will eat mountains of cheese on toast, especially after the pub on Saturday night, so be prepared to buy more on Sunday!
• Check to see what food the club has before shopping - there's always some tins of stuff left over!