Victualling means provisioning. Everything on a boat has a proper name, you know, otherwise it’s chaos 
Stone me if I know even quarter of all the crazy words, but you can usually get by on a few dozen. Even the little rope you tie your dinghy with has a name, it’s called a ‘painter’. Now you know.
Anyway, we were victualling the other day, 860 pounds (as in GBP) worth of food, believe it or not. You can’t beat Asda for some serious victualling! This should last us 6 months or so. Over the last few months we have tried pretty much every tin that is sold in UK, thinking that we can pick out some good quality tasty ones. In the end, we had to rethink our strategy as they were all pretty much inedible more than once a month after a night out. Maybe we are just too fussy, I am sure it wouldn’t last. So we just bought the following generic stuff, which we can mix with anything:
- Tinned beans (Red kidney and Berlotti)
- Tinned corn
- Tinned tomatoes
- Tinned salmon
- Tinned tuna
- Pasta
- Rice
- Sauces (Tabasco, Chilli, Mayo)
- A few dozen tins of good quality ham. This is the only meat product we purchased.
- Juices in cartons
- Roasted artichokes in jars. I just can’t live without that stuff. Yum.
- Other bits and pieces that make life good when dinner time comes round, of 40% variety
All of the above in industrial quantities, obviously. It took 3 massive trolleys to load up the boat, but we still have plenty of space, Tingara is a 9 tonne boat! So if you fancy some beans, you know where to come!
Tags: Brighton, UK, Victualling