This really depends on how much money you have to spare...
Big Ticket Items (Price is no object)
* Vacation or travel tour
* Car
* Laptop computer
* Stock or CD (not an audio CD)
* Cell phone complete with a paid plan
* Furniture - Great gift for the college graduate who is moving out of mom and dad's house.
* Small refrigerator - A very useful gift for the teen who will be living in a dorm room at college.
Mid-Priced Items (Priced $51 - $250)
* Briefcase
* Clothing gift card
* Watch
* Microwave
* Pay for their passport
* A package from a resume writing service - Excellent gift for the teen who will be looking for a job or a college graduate.
* Camera
* Television
* DVD player
* IPod
* Pure gold or silver coin with graduate year on it
* Tool box with basic tools
* Engraved jewelry
* Personalized graduation item
* Wallet with some money
Of course, it's hard to think of a unique idea without knowing both of you. Give him/her something that is special between the two of you or will make them think of an inside joke, but still has value beyond that.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
What are some good foods for camping?
Breakfast
Porridge - add water to oats, boil for five minutes. Add honey or jam for flavouring.
Breakfast wrap-ups - fry eggs and sausages, insert in flour tortillas with lashings of tomato sauce. Minimizes messy washing up.
Mess-free eggs on an open fire - cut an orange in half and eat the pulp. Then crack an egg into the orange skin and place it in the embers until the egg turns white. No mess to clear up after!
Lunch/dinner
Pasta - cook the pasta, drain off the water, add a jar of pasta sauce and/or a can of tuna and heat through. Thin pasta cooks quicker than thicker varieties.
Quick mini-pizzas - spread tomato paste on a tortilla, add meat of your choice plus olives and sprinkle with cheese. Cook in a frying pan until the cheese melts.
Packet noodles - most supermarkets carry a range of flavoured noodles that just need water and heating up. Parmesan adds flavour.
Packet soups - add hot water, sprinkle with parmesan for extra oomph.
Baked potatoes (open fires) - pierce each potato three times with a fork, wrap in aluminum foil and cover in embers on edge of fire.
Fried rice - cook your rice in one pan, then in another pan lightly fry some chopped meat (for example, canned sausages, cold meat or meatballs) and an onion. Add the drained cooked rice, a seasoning for taste (for example, soy sauce, garlic, tomato sauce or dried herbs) and chopped vegetables, if available. Cook until evenly fried.
Desserts
Banana boats - peel back a strip of banana skin about 1.5" wide. Scoop out a trench in the banana . Fill trench with marshmallows and milk chocolate squares. Fold the banana peel back and wrap in foil. Place on hot coals for about 10 minutes.
Yum sticks - make a basic dough (self-raising flour, water, a little butter). Mould dough around a stick that is about as thick as your finger to form a long test tube shape about 10 cm long. Cook slowly over coals. Slide bread off stick and fill with golden syrup.
Porridge - add water to oats, boil for five minutes. Add honey or jam for flavouring.
Breakfast wrap-ups - fry eggs and sausages, insert in flour tortillas with lashings of tomato sauce. Minimizes messy washing up.
Mess-free eggs on an open fire - cut an orange in half and eat the pulp. Then crack an egg into the orange skin and place it in the embers until the egg turns white. No mess to clear up after!
Lunch/dinner
Pasta - cook the pasta, drain off the water, add a jar of pasta sauce and/or a can of tuna and heat through. Thin pasta cooks quicker than thicker varieties.
Quick mini-pizzas - spread tomato paste on a tortilla, add meat of your choice plus olives and sprinkle with cheese. Cook in a frying pan until the cheese melts.
Packet noodles - most supermarkets carry a range of flavoured noodles that just need water and heating up. Parmesan adds flavour.
Packet soups - add hot water, sprinkle with parmesan for extra oomph.
Baked potatoes (open fires) - pierce each potato three times with a fork, wrap in aluminum foil and cover in embers on edge of fire.
Fried rice - cook your rice in one pan, then in another pan lightly fry some chopped meat (for example, canned sausages, cold meat or meatballs) and an onion. Add the drained cooked rice, a seasoning for taste (for example, soy sauce, garlic, tomato sauce or dried herbs) and chopped vegetables, if available. Cook until evenly fried.
Desserts
Banana boats - peel back a strip of banana skin about 1.5" wide. Scoop out a trench in the banana . Fill trench with marshmallows and milk chocolate squares. Fold the banana peel back and wrap in foil. Place on hot coals for about 10 minutes.
Yum sticks - make a basic dough (self-raising flour, water, a little butter). Mould dough around a stick that is about as thick as your finger to form a long test tube shape about 10 cm long. Cook slowly over coals. Slide bread off stick and fill with golden syrup.
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