The Guyrope Gourmet marries good food with good camping.  It is the result of many years spent relaxing under canvas, in the early years with family and then with friends, and more recently with friends and our own families.  A common companion down the years has been the tin of baked beans.  I’ve never been keen on baked beans to be honest, and never really understood why I used to insist on packing half a dozen tins when we went camping.  I suppose it’s to do with the idea of ‘emergency food’. It struck me that for many years as a keen camper, I’ve been eating ‘emergency food’.  I don’t do ‘emergency camping’, so why the hell, I thought, have I been eating ‘emergency food’ all these years?  And so the Guyrope Gourmet decided to set out his pitch. 

Billy Connolly once commented that, in the UK, we don’t have crap weather - we have crap clothes!  You can see the point.  We’re never quite prepared for the inevitable outcome.  In a similar way, many of us are not quite fully prepared to enjoy the glorious experience of relaxing with friends under canvas.  Whether it’s a last minute getaway for the weekend, or a well-planned booking over a bank holiday, all too often the thought of camping means having to endure a ceaseless barrage of crap food.
 

As Billy’s recommendation for braving the British weather is to buy some decent clobber, the Guyrope Gourmet invites you to buy or bring along some decent ingredients and spend a little time thinking about the possibilities that lay beyond many of the tinned, dehydrated and processed options available to campers today.