As one who typically plans what she's eating 2 to 3 meals in advance, I was slightly worried about my first Glastonbury experience. In short I packed enough food for a family of 4 to survive the long weekend. Needless to say there was a fair bit that got binned in the end.
Weighing down my backpack:
3 litres of red wine
1 litre cranberry juice
1 litre tonic water
1 litre apple juice
Assortment of bottled water
Tins of tuna (3)
Cashews
Granola Bars (10)
Home-made banana-nut muffins (10)
Home made “Hidden Treasure” biscuits (20)
Thai Green Curry Rice Cakes
Harvest Grain Snacks (aka Sun Chips)
Apples (7)
Clementines (10)
Package of Ryvita
Package (large) or starbursts
(Miscellaneous items which I can’t completely remember)
It was a brilliant idea to bring food for breakfast; those apples and granola bars got eaten right up. Probably the only place I really got it wrong was with the beverages. We used up the tonic water and apple juice when mixing our daily cocktails but probably 2.5 litres of the wine went to waste. Not surprisingly none of us really felt like drinking red wine when it was about 85 degrees out (unless it was chilled and being served in a sangria jug) which clearly it was not.
I’m not sure what I’d expected to see when it came to food at Glastonbury but there really was something for everyone. Worried that I’d be resigned to greasy burgers I managed to do quite well gobbling up a very tasty falafel wrap on the first day, some jerk chicken and salad which much to my surprise was perfectly ‘jerky’, a “Heidi Pie” (goats cheese, red onion and butternut squash) from Pieminster, late night post-Neil Young fish and chips, and one of my personal faves - the noodles with veggie tempura that I happened upon twice in 36 hours.
Surprisingly enough we actually only managed around 1 meal a day (not including breakfast detailed above). Occasionally there was also a midnight snack to be had. Clearly we were resigned to consuming most of our calories in a liquid version - found primarily in pints of cider throughout the day.
3 litres of red wine
1 litre cranberry juice
1 litre tonic water
1 litre apple juice
Assortment of bottled water
Tins of tuna (3)
Cashews
Granola Bars (10)
Home-made banana-nut muffins (10)
Home made “Hidden Treasure” biscuits (20)
Thai Green Curry Rice Cakes
Harvest Grain Snacks (aka Sun Chips)
Apples (7)
Clementines (10)
Package of Ryvita
Package (large) or starbursts
(Miscellaneous items which I can’t completely remember)
It was a brilliant idea to bring food for breakfast; those apples and granola bars got eaten right up. Probably the only place I really got it wrong was with the beverages. We used up the tonic water and apple juice when mixing our daily cocktails but probably 2.5 litres of the wine went to waste. Not surprisingly none of us really felt like drinking red wine when it was about 85 degrees out (unless it was chilled and being served in a sangria jug) which clearly it was not.
I’m not sure what I’d expected to see when it came to food at Glastonbury but there really was something for everyone. Worried that I’d be resigned to greasy burgers I managed to do quite well gobbling up a very tasty falafel wrap on the first day, some jerk chicken and salad which much to my surprise was perfectly ‘jerky’, a “Heidi Pie” (goats cheese, red onion and butternut squash) from Pieminster, late night post-Neil Young fish and chips, and one of my personal faves - the noodles with veggie tempura that I happened upon twice in 36 hours.
Surprisingly enough we actually only managed around 1 meal a day (not including breakfast detailed above). Occasionally there was also a midnight snack to be had. Clearly we were resigned to consuming most of our calories in a liquid version - found primarily in pints of cider throughout the day.
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