Pantry items for the food box

As you can probably tell I love to cook. When we normally go camping we do a meal plan based on how many days we are travelling for & where our resupply points will be along the track. This time as we are travelling for a year I wanted to have a really good pantry staples box. This would allow me to have a lot of the initial cost up front before we left, have lots of variety & also reduce the amount of items we would need to buy in small towns with limited shopping & high prices. 

Below is my list of what I thought I would need. I ended up with all of this, plus some. Lucky we have a big food box!!!  But it is super heavy & I really need to cut it back!!  So we are planning to camp along the Murray River on the way down so I will reassess in those 4-5 nights & try to use up some of the bulkier items!!

Pantry items

Vegemite

Peanut butter

Plum jam

Syrup

Honey

Tomato sauce

BBQ sauce

Worcestershire sauce

Sweet chilli sauce

Soy sauce

Tobasco sauce

Coffee 

Tea 

Raw sugar

Brown sugar

Bread flour

Plain flour

Baking powder

Bi carb

Yeast

Corn flour

Icing sugar

Rice

Pasta - spaghetti & spirals

Noodles

Dried potato

Dried veggies 

Packet soup for cooking

Packet soups for lunches

Tin soup/stew

Tin veggies 

Baked beans

Tin spaghetti

Salmon

Tuna

Sardines

Anchovies

Capers

Olives

Sundried tomato

Tin pineapple

Kidney beans

Oil - spray & liquid

Salad dressing

Vinegar

Salt

Pepper

Spices

Stock cubes

Curry powder

Gravy

Tomato paste

Tin tomatoes

Tin mushrooms

UHT milk

Cereal 

Powdered milk

Dried fruit

Nuts

Jerky

Muesli bars

Vita wheats 

Crackers

Wraps

Biscuits

Asian sauce mixes

Lemon squeeze

Alfoil

Cling wrap

Baking paper

Snap locks

Freezer bags

Garbage bags

Toilet paper

Juice

Toothpick 

Cordial

Foil trays

Custard powder

I didn't end up with a photo of the box fully packed as I just shut the lid when I did get it to finally close!!  Below are a couple of photos of some vacuum packing & labelling that I did. I also used Lock & Lock containers for most of my cooking ingredients. 

A tip is also to remove as much packaging as you can. A lot of things come with 2-3 layers of packaging. Getting rid of it before you put it in the food box saves space & weight but also means less rubbish to carry around & dispose of out in the bush. 

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