I was very excited about going to Glastonbury Festival for the first time. I had heard about the atmosphere and was particularly looking forward to the Green fields after reading on forums about the great vegan food. I had also read that there wasn’t much point in cooking food and decided that my bag would be much lighter without pans and gas canisters. I packed a range of vegan snacks. The weather forecast was mainly sunny (surprising for Glastonbury considering its reputation!). I tried to pack food that would last as much of the weekend as possible and give me some kind of nutrients if I didn’t make it to the vegan food.
This is what I packed and how it survived:
Cheerios
Breakfast!
Pitta bread
Survived well, it seems to just dry out rather than go mouldy. In the heat it felt a bit too dry to eat much. I think next time I would buy bread when I arrived.
Packs of Raisins
Attempting to be healthy.
Little packs of juice
Attempting to be healthy. That’s two of my five a day!
Little packs baked beans
It was so hot that they were almost as warm as when cooked.
Pea pods
I had recently been introduced to eating peas in pods at work and loved them, sadly the ones I bought were not as sweet but a good option.
Various fruit bars
Quick calories.
Chocolate
Great! However, it was very hot and it turned into one giant lump that was hard to eat but quite fun to eat.
Crisps
Yum.
Oatcakes
Seeds
Mini sweetcorn tins
Ring pull lids so no need to bring a tin opener.
Small jar of peanut butter and a packet of rice cakes
Since the first year that I went to Reading festival, and my mum suggested I took these, I have never looked back. I could survive on most trips with these apart from when travelling with my boyfriend who is allergic to nuts…
Glastonbury was very hot and sadly I don’t cope very well with heat so I didn’t feel like eating much and brought a lot of the snacks back with me. I did venture to the Green fields and had a lovely pizza called ‘no cheese please’ in the Greenpeace field. I asked for no olives so had red pepper, red onion marmalade and fresh rocket. I enjoyed it in a tiny patch of (glorious, wonderful) shade. I hope to go again as there was way too much to do in just one weekend. I loved the atmosphere and really want to go back to explore more of the Green fields. I felt lovely and calm there. I would bring more junk food as it is only one weekend and when you have that yucky festival feeling (lack of sleep and overdoing things) then junk food is what I need! It would be possible to bring some snacks and buy more healthy food at the festival. The fresh fruit and juice stalls were everywhere and very popular.
