I was at the Isle of Wight Festival at the weekend, there were 6 of us. I’d worked out the “menus” and packed the nosh, and felt quite proud of my balanced nutrition planned for our camping adventure. I’d worked out simple meals with fresh foods that would be fine in the cool box for the 5 day duration, with a little help from tinned veg toward the end of the hols…but all was thwarted.
I’m a seasoned festival goer with numerous Glastonburys under my belt but have never come across the same security as I did at Wight Noise. I wasn’t allowed to take in my calor gas cooking stove, or any cook-in sauces in glass jars. Was it to be bye-bye to my lovely organic Biona sauces? No, I found I could decant them into plastic bags! The things you do when you have to improvise… if i’d have been stuck the stewards were selling empty tetra packs for… £1 each for this very purpose… not sure how I would have got chunky sauce through the little hole designed to pour milk out of when decanting in the middle of a field?
So, the carefully planned nutritious diet was in the van in the car park and not in our tent. Never mind we had fruit and Eat Natural bars. I’d taken loads of the Yogurt coated ones, almond and apricot. Iappreciatedd them very much and realised what a healthy and tasty munch they are. They do have glucose syrup and honey added so they are a little sweet, but the whole nuts are really great. I’d definitely recommend them for all camping trips with or without security stewards to contend with!
We did get the large calor gas in eventually, so I didn’t turn into a yogurt coated nut.
