BREAKFASTS

• Muesli with extra dried fruit, soy milk or cow's
• Porridge (bit messy to clean up afterwards - uses too much water. But yummy in colder weather)
• Toast with nut paste
• Leftovers from last night's dinner

LUNCH POSSIBILITIES

• Canned tuna, fresh cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes, (eg grape tomatoes) cheese, red onion
• Bread or lunch size crackers
• Potato salad (made at home) including hard boiled egg, onion, mint, mayonnaise, with chopped nut garnish. 6 potatoes and 2 eggs last about 2 lunches for 2 people
• Tuna and 4 bean salad made at home
• Mountain bread (2 layers) spread with peanut butter and filled with salad
• Platter - cheese portions, dried fruit, fresh fruit, raw vegetables, nuts, crackers
• Hardboiled egg mashed with mayonnaise, mint,parsley and finely chopped red salad onion
• Leftovers from last night
• Sprouts which you make along the way - alfalfa, mung beans etc
• Home-made hummus (made before you leave) with sticks of carrot or celery

DINNER POSSIBILITIES

Group 1: Eat sooner (ingredients perish the fastest)

• Baked beans with cumin on toast (includes fresh green capsicum and onion; may include poached eggs on the side)
• Big breakfast for dinner (includes eggs and bread)
• Scrambled eggs stir-fried with fresh mushrooms and onions on toast
• Frittata with either canned asparagus & cheese or Spanish (tomato + potato + onion) or champignons & cheese served with toast or couscous
• Minestrone (may include fresh carrot, celery, cabbage, onion, pumpkin) canned beans and tomatoes and angel hair pasta or instant macaroni
• Asian soup with noodles (may include dried Japanese tofu, dried mushrooms, dried prawns, canned baby corn, fresh cabbage, pumpkin, carrot, onion, garlic, ginger, poached eggs)
• Corn fritters (includes red onion, capsicum and may include small can crab or fish), served with coleslaw or salad
• Cashew curry (may include fresh onion, garlic, ginger, potato, pumpkin)
• Chickpea curry (may include fresh onion, garlic, potato, pumpkin) with rice or couscous or wraps Fish rissoles (includes potatoes, red onion). May be served with salad or coleslaw
• Gado-gado (includes instant sauce, taufu-pok, small can pineapple, fresh cucumber and red onion, hardboiled eggs, boiled potato and carrot, blanched cabbage,
• Salmon or tuna kedgeree (includes hardboiled egg)
• Fried rice (includes fresh carrot, onion, egg, carrot, celery)
• Red lentil soup with toast or damper (includes fresh onion, garlic, ginger, carrot pumpkin or sweet potato)
• Tofu and vegetable stew (includes fresh onion, carrot, celery, cabbage, potato)
• Bean and vegetable stew (includes canned borlotti or 4 bean, canned tomatoes, onion, carrot, celery, potato, herbs)
• Nutritious fried rice as a one dish meal using vacuum-packed pre-cooked brown rice. Finely chop onions, garlic, carrots, celery, reconstituted peas or Chinese mushrooms, small can of corn (uncreamed), whatever you have. Fry onions and garlic in small amount of oil, adding other vegetables and when they are almost cooked, then rice, stirring to prevent sticking. Then stir in lightly beaten eggs (1-2 per person), stirring until the egg coats the rice and is just cooked. Not too long or it dries out. Season to taste with salt or soy sauce, pepper, chilli.

Group 2: Eat later (ingredients last longest)

• Mexican beans (incl. brown onion, cheese, shredded cabbage, red onion or sprouts) serve with wraps or mountain bread
• Fish mornay (incl. cheese, milk, dried peas, corn, pasta)
• Spaghetti Bolognese TVP with instant pasta (macaroni)

Group 3: Quick to serve after a full day’s driving

• Eggs and Mushrooms (see above)
• Tuna and bean salad (including fresh cucumber and red onion, canned 4-beans and canned 180g tuna, mayonnaise) - no cooking
• Tuna spirals (3 min) with pre-pack sauce
• Indian pre-pack meal - eg Chole (chickpeas), Palak Paneer and Vegetable Biryani, Madras lentils (served with rice or couscous or Indian bread)
• Other dishes prepared before leaving on the first day out.