As per the title. Easy enough to store a few tea bags, instant coffee, fresh coffee bags etc in your van for unplanned cuppas, but have we found a way to get proper freshest / longest life milk to accompany it.
If I know I'll be brewing I'll take a small flask of fresh milk, but what about those unplanned brews, without resorting to coffeemate etc.
I’ve been looking for those but been out of stock at my local supermarket.Like these as 20 ml for one strong mug of tea with enough milk to taste.
Typical 6 month shelf life in ocean kitchen cupboard at usual ambient temps in summer.
Tesco supplied at about 65p to 70p for 5.
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Condensed Milk Sandwich Recipe
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Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
3 mins
Total time
8 mins
This super easy condensed milk sandwich is not only tasty but is so easy to make. If your kids love condensed milk then it is a hit for sure
Author: Aarthi
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 2 sandwich
Ingredients
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- Bread Slices - 4
- Sweetened Condensed Milk - as needed
- Butter as needed
Instructions
- Take bread slices, spread condensed milk all over it. Sandwich with other bread.
- Cook in butter till golden on both sides.
- Serve.
Could be something for a Ridgemonkey.
That’s fantastic GG!Fresh milk on tap.View attachment 65450
I use coffee mate powder for my coffee and buy 500ml cartons of long life for the hubby’s tea I’ve just paid £1 for 5 cartons from home bargains, the do skimmed, semi & fullSomething like this?
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Do you happen to know how long your UHT says it’s best before date is? My last few only lasted 3 months.Use coffee ma
I use coffee mate powder for my coffee and buy 500ml cartons of long life for the hubby’s tea I’ve just paid £1 for 5 cartons from home bargains, the do skimmed, semi & full
Processed cheese came in a tin for us (army). We called it cheese possessed. Since lockdown we’ve been shopping for an elderly lady in our street. Every other week she asks for Sainsburys’ processed cheese slices. God they know how to camouflage cheese products in the fridge!On the other hand, "NATO Standard" tea = milk (powdered) and two sugars. If you didn't specify otherwise, NATO Standard was what you got. And even if you did, it was still what you got.
Compo (=24 hr ration pack) cheesecake recipe: oatmeal block, jam (from a tube), "Cheese, Processed" (from another tube) on top. Didn't actually taste anything like cheesecake but you shut your eyes and dreamed.
Now I think of it, Royal Marines put the jam on last, but that was because they were rustic dolts from Devon and did the same with their scones back home. But let's not start that again.
OMG, connie onnie sarnies. Had never heard of them until I went on leave with my scouse boyfriend. In 43 years together it’s never been on his list of “ooh, I just fancy a . . .”Condensed Milk Sandwich Recipe
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Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
3 mins
Total time
8 mins
This super easy condensed milk sandwich is not only tasty but is so easy to make. If your kids love condensed milk then it is a hit for sure
Author: Aarthi
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 2 sandwich
Ingredients
Get IngredientsPowered by Chicory
- Bread Slices - 4
- Sweetened Condensed Milk - as needed
- Butter as needed
Instructions
- Take bread slices, spread condensed milk all over it. Sandwich with other bread.
- Cook in butter till golden on both sides.
- Serve.
Could be something for a Ridgemonkey.
Processed cheese came in a tin for us (army). We called it cheese possessed. Since lockdown we’ve been shopping for an elderly lady in our street. Every other week she asks for Sainsburys’ processed cheese slices. God they know how to camouflage cheese products in the fridge!
Old habits die hard and when we asked where could we find the cheese possessed they looked at us as if we were mad. We chuckled all the way to the checkout and have been reminiscing about other stupid army sayings ever since.
Now we must sound like we’re talking in slidex or batco half the time!
Oh nooooooooo. Hope you always pitch next to a defibrillator just in case, Wogga! On a cold day you'd be better smearing it all over you to keep the cold out, rather than eating it.Still carry an emergency supply of Bacon GrillView attachment 65738
Doesn't matter which emergency service or branch of the armed forces it's that dark humour that gets you through!During my former life in the fire service, if there were protracted incidents then these self heating meals would be wheeled out.
They weren't that bad and certainly gave you an energy boost if you were tired, wet and knackered.
Unfortunately they sometimes got used for practical jokes. A carefully placed primed but unopened tin could be relied upon to give an un-suspecting colleague some very fast food indeed. If the lid wasn't opened they would come up to heat and eventually explode hopefully covering the victim in sausages and beans or lamb curry. The trick was to keep the keep your chum seated in one place for long enough to reap the reward.
Now that's us well off topic!
...because it’s an unplanned cup of tea and I’m no where near a shop perhaps?Why not just buy fresh milk and drink what you don’t use before it goes off. Like has been said before it
Funny how us Brits have to have a cup of tea whenever we fancy it, and there's nothing to touch it. I never drink tea except have to have one with a full English breakfast and of course dunk my bickies in my hubby's to his annoyance. It also helps settle a "squiggly" tummy. But without fresh milk, I'd rather pass....because it’s an unplanned cup of tea and I’m no where near a shop perhaps?
Self heating tins! OMG you must be much younger than your avatar suggests, Boris (have always wondered if you're actually a Terry Thomas lookie likie). In our day only the yanks had such modern, fandangled, fancy kit. But we were British and did everything the proper way!! Which usually meant eating eveything cold using the little army tin opener as a scoop!!!During my former life in the fire service, if there were protracted incidents then these self heating meals would be wheeled out.
They weren't that bad and certainly gave you an energy boost if you were tired, wet and knackered.
Unfortunately they sometimes got used for practical jokes. A carefully placed primed but unopened tin could be relied upon to give an un-suspecting colleague some very fast food indeed. If the lid wasn't opened they would come up to heat and eventually explode hopefully covering the victim in sausages and beans or lamb curry. The trick was to keep the keep your chum seated in one place for long enough to reap the reward.
Now that's us well off topic!
During my former life in the fire service, if there were protracted incidents then these self heating meals would be wheeled out.
They weren't that bad and certainly gave you an energy boost if you were tired, wet and knackered.
Unfortunately they sometimes got used for practical jokes. A carefully placed primed but unopened tin could be relied upon to give an un-suspecting colleague some very fast food indeed. If the lid wasn't opened they would come up to heat and eventually explode hopefully covering the victim in sausages and beans or lamb curry. The trick was to keep the keep your chum seated in one place for long enough to reap the reward.
Now that's us well off topic!
Only ever seen a BV in armoured vehicles like tanks. Rest of us had to rely on hexamine stoves. Tea bags were awful at the best of times!We've never come across a BV before and my hubby was in the army some years before me. But we are talking 60's/70s.
I'm of 1953 vintage. Those self heating tins were introduced towards the very end of my career which I terminated in 2005. Before then we had various other methods of feeding the troops which depended on the time of day. If it was during the night the procedure involved making vast quantities of "mashed monkey" sandwiches. The mashed monkey was tinned corned beef and the bread was obtained from a nearby bakery. If you didn't like MM you went without. This job fell to those left back at station who were manning other appliances. Once made, said sarnies along with large tea urns were delivered to site.Self heating tins! OMG you must be much younger than your avatar suggests, Boris (have always wondered if you're actually a Terry Thomas lookie likie). In our day only the yanks had such modern, fandangled, fancy kit. But we were British and did everything the proper way!! Which usually meant eating eveything cold using the little army tin opener as a scoop!!!![]()
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