During the challenge we get provided with breakfast before we start, and breakfast after we finish. The rest of the food is up to us to supply. Given that we are going to be walking for approximately 14 hours within the 24 hour challenge, and in a packed mini bus for the other 10 hours finding nutritious, yet easy food is going to be another challenge altogether.
Suggestions so far have included; living off Kendal Mint Cake for the weekend (thanks Oli! Can we send you our dentist bills!?), pre made sarnies, cold pasta salad, and those horribly disgusting (as Carrie found out) sports energy sources. Claire however spotted these while we were shopping in Cotswolds.
The theory is, that you need no electricity, no pot, no camp stove, just what is provided in this packet – you put the silver foil packet, containing the ‘food’ into the nifty orange heating package, and you add the water (provided in a little sachet) to that. Then seal, with the sticky tape, also provided, and wait 15mins while somehow it magically heats up your food…. Hmmmmm… dubious.
Nevertheless Carrie and Claire have stocked up. Claire with just enough for the challenge, with the theory that when she’s desperate she’ll eat anything and Carrie with one extra to test out, with the theory that she’d rather starve than eat something as disgusting as those sports bars she tried!
Suggestions so far have included; living off Kendal Mint Cake for the weekend (thanks Oli! Can we send you our dentist bills!?), pre made sarnies, cold pasta salad, and those horribly disgusting (as Carrie found out) sports energy sources. Claire however spotted these while we were shopping in Cotswolds.
The theory is, that you need no electricity, no pot, no camp stove, just what is provided in this packet – you put the silver foil packet, containing the ‘food’ into the nifty orange heating package, and you add the water (provided in a little sachet) to that. Then seal, with the sticky tape, also provided, and wait 15mins while somehow it magically heats up your food…. Hmmmmm… dubious.
Nevertheless Carrie and Claire have stocked up. Claire with just enough for the challenge, with the theory that when she’s desperate she’ll eat anything and Carrie with one extra to test out, with the theory that she’d rather starve than eat something as disgusting as those sports bars she tried!
THE RESULTS:
THE VERDICT:
While the bits of meat in the ‘All Day Breakfast’ variety were definitely unidentifiable (she feed them to Chris!) the meal was in fact hot (well, warmish) and edible, probably more so when you are cold and hungry having just climbed a mountain (or three!)…
Still I think I’ll through a couple of packets of jaffa cakes in my rucksack, and a supply of jelly babies, which my 3 Peaks handbook actually recommends! Honest.
Still I think I’ll through a couple of packets of jaffa cakes in my rucksack, and a supply of jelly babies, which my 3 Peaks handbook actually recommends! Honest.
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