Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

Tool-Box
You might be interested in the food we ate and the gear we used, if you are
planning longer trip for yourself.
Food-Box insights
As stated many times food is essential. And for us it was essential that we ate what we liked.
We did not focus that much on the health aspect. In fact I was surprised that I literally was
not fed up by eating the same things for almost the whole trip:
Breakfast
My favourite was porridge – even at home it is my normal breakfast. That is not that
frequent for Germans. I prepared my porridge for the whole trip and mixed Oat wheat
with dried baby-milk powder (for the big boys older than 10 months. Each bag I
mixed with different “goodies” like raisins, or cranberries or cinnamon in order to
have a surprise with any bag.
Food breaks and RiZ (Riegelzeit or bar-break)
We either had a chocolate bar or fruits, like an apple or a banana, at least onces a
day.
Lunch
My lunchbox was filled every day with half a loaf of brown bread and cheese. In the
first two weeks we also had big salamis, I brought from Germany. Long and long
lasting and perfectly fitting into the skeg box. My thermos flask contained simple
black tea. I always left the teabag in the flask. In some cases we managed to get hot
water during the day so we could just fill up our tea.
Dinner
That was the only warm meal for the day (apart from the porride in the morning).
I used a 0.7 l cooking pot and filled it almost every day with bulgur wheat or couscous
and a tin of tuna. Generally I added lots of garlic as well. Of course this does not
come up to a gourmet standard and might seem to be boring. However I liked it –
and still like it.
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
43