Caravan fooood

[popsickle]

ok
weird 1 4 u.....
this weekend me and ma fella are goin 2 his mums caravan, sat, sun, mon. there isn't a microwave or oven justa little hob, and a toaster.
not too sure about the weather, its a funny area apparently that doesn't fit in with the local weather reports as its on a sticky out leg of wales..... so not sure about a bbq....
so any ideas, of nice munch we can bring a long..... make it a bit special like x x x

[ethandron]

basically, anything you can do in advance and reheat on the hob - chillie, curry, stew - with rice, pasta, potatoes. you could take garlic bread slices and toast them, mini naans, pitta bread. all the usual veg you would cook in a pan on the hob. to make life easy, you could take supermarket ready meals of the type you heat in a pan, or fry. cooked breakfast stuff (bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, toast, black pud, etc). lovely salads you can do too, with no cooking at all, or just potato salad, with steak.
the thought of no oven or microwave is a bit daunting at first i know, we're all so used to having them around, but it really isn't a problem, especially just for a few days. you could always get take-away too.
can you guess we have a caravan? i tend to freeze stuff that i make here at home and make double of, so that i always have at least the first couple of evening meals already made.
have a nice time, hope the weather is good (saturday should be the best, you could take a disposable bbq in a foil tray and use that if you're allowed by the site).

[Im a BusyBee]

we caravan too - not sure whether you will be in a static or tourer - if you have enough room to take it why not take microwave from home if you feel it will make meals a lot easier for you? we always used to, not necessary now kids grown up and theres only the 2 of us (and we have an oven anyway!)

[SRH]

Oooh, risotto - only need one pan and hob to do it. Asparagus is an aphrodisiac - so highly recommended! (perhaps with some feta cheese, rocket and basil or prawns thrown in too).

[popsickle]

:( im pregnant so feta cheese and prawns is out of the question :(
but risotto.... and all the rest sound good!! thankyou 4 your help x x x x x

[SRH]

And you've obviously already been on the aphrodisiacs then ;)

Peas and parmesan cheese could go well too.

[popsickle]

haha wicked
thankyou.

[SRH]

Have a great time - and head north for the good weather ;)

[B00]

I'd be wary of taking your microwave from home- you're more than likely going to short the circuit as soon as you switch it on.

[shazzzz]

get a saucepan big enough for three tins open lids fill saucepan half way put on to boil .tin of peas ,potatoes ,carrotts,get a frying pan stick a steak on fry onions empty frying pan pour in hot water and knock up some instant gravy in frying pan .bobs your uncle fannys your aunt steak ,peas ,boiled ,potatoes ,carrotts ,,fried onions ,and thick gravy .who needs the toast. ta dah

[jadyn]

B00, I'm afraid you're mistaken. Most caravans nowadays have a 16 amp circuit breaker fitted. This means that it will comfortably power a microwave oven with no problem at all along with lights etc as needed.

In general, any appliance with a conventional 13 amp fuse fitted in the plug top will work with no problem. Just remember that you have only 3 amps (or 2160 Watts) left before the MCB in the caravan will trip out. Even then it's not the end of the world, as it can always be reset.

[ethandron]

we have a touring caravan and we have a microwave built in, along with an almost full size electric fridge, blown air electric central heating, an electric ring on the 4 burner gas hob and a built in radio/cd player. i also take an electric kettle, a small flat screen tv and my hairdryer.
if anything blows (as has happened twice in all our years of caravanning), jaydn is quite right, just press the reset button.
our caravan is more like a luxury apartment than most non-caravanner's idea of what a caravan is like. we also have an electric flush loo, and a shower, and have many times spent 8 weeks in it in france, italy, switzerland and germany.