A warming tomato bean stew is a great pick-me-up after a walk, or even part way through a long walk. With just a few simple ingredients you can make a deep smokey flavoured stew that is perfect with couscous. This recipe uses a great ingredient for simple outdoors cooking - pizza sauce. It’s essentially tomato passata, onion, garlic and herbs all combined for you in an easy to carry tin. Perfect for quickly making a tomato sauce to go with any kind of pasta or couscous.

When you get bored of pasta, gnnochi are a fantastic alternative. Packed with carbs to fuel you whilst out on a walk, they are easy to store, transport and cook. You can find gnnochi with a long shelf life in most supermarkets and stores. I first cooked this recipe whilst on a walk in the Chiltern hills in Oxfordshire, England. Walking through a large field which was at one time part of the BBCs monitoring station.