hey guys i just want to know if anyone has any clever cost cutting ways to save money during festival times?
you cat beat a (almost) free ticket but im still guna be skint lol x
Cheep and cheerful :)
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cass
posted this
05 June 2009
jojo
posted this
05 June 2009
take your own food! food in the arena and campsites is so over priced! though i do believe the crew cafe has decent prices
and take an empty bottle for filling up with water, if you need to buy some its gonna cost your £4!!!
M13UGS
posted this
06 June 2009
The 'Hotbox Events' newsletter has just arived and there's a menu link and prices for crew/staff catering.... though there is a discrepency... the eMail says £3.80 per meal whereas the download/link says £4.40 per meal.... which is the right price...?
Mark
posted this
06 June 2009
£4.40.
Mark
posted this
06 June 2009
Lyn (runs Orange Festival Foods) is putting in a huge amount of effort to make it work - hopefully it'll be great.
If anyone has any thoughts re onsite crew catering please let us know and we'll pass them on.
Pauk
posted this
06 June 2009
I'm going to be the bringer of bad news and say... don't drink. The amount you end up spending on alcohol is much more than a weekend's supply of food from Tesco. Okay, it might not be quite as fun, although to be honest I didn't find that much room for drinking whilst working the festival last year. There's usually a shift that evening or early the next morning so drinking lots didn't seem very appealing.
M13UGS
posted this
07 June 2009
quote:
Originally posted by Mark
Lyn (runs Orange Festival Foods) is putting in a huge amount of effort to make it work - hopefully it'll be great.
If anyone has any thoughts re onsite crew catering please let us know and we'll pass them on.
I think as long as the ingredients are of good quality and not cheap and nasty (like they were at Reading last year - breakfast) then the menus are great... nothing worse than a nasty looking sausage with a plastic skin that probably has a meat content of 5% or less...i.e a BANGER !!
A decent sausage has to be 80+ % meat content... bacon... mmm.. love it, but not if it has more fat than meat....
It doesn't take much to make a tasty meal with tasty good quality ingredients.... but... profit seems to be the major factor for festival traders.. they use sausages that cost maybe £1 for 20 from Aldi/Lidl or somewhere like that, they can buy a sack of onions for £1 for 5 kg... a huge bag of finger rolls... and voila.. crack out hot dogs for £4 a throw.... and I usually do 'throw' it.
Much rather pay more for good quality and I did manage to find a couple of retailers last year (Reading) that I thought had exceptionally good food that wasn't 'expensive' by festival standards.
Understandably, the traders probably pay a huge fee for the duration of the festival so have to recover their costs, but some of the food is horrendous...
NOTE: I am not in anyway suggesting that Orange Festival Foods will be operating in this way and I look forward to trying their offerings..
Question:
Do you know if the sandwiches, will be prepacked or made fresh to order?
Suggestion:
It would be nice to have a choice of breads, maybe Rolls, Baps, Baguettes.. or will it just be white sliced....?
Jo Shields
posted this
08 June 2009
quote:
Originally posted by cass
hey guys i just want to know if anyone has any clever cost cutting ways to save money during festival times?
you cat beat a (almost) free ticket but im still guna be skint lol x
Hi Cass
When I started off as a Cat (many moons ago) , I found taking your own food/beers was by far the cheapest way to survive the long weekend , some of the burger vans on the sites can be really expensive and to be honest not that nice at all so you are better taking your own food on shift with you.
A lot of the Cats go offsite to Tesco's not far away that will be happy to pick up something up for you or maybe take you along , so buying fruit and snack bars for when you are working can be really filling .
Or you can get one decent meal a day by using the new crew catering in the crew area , which is an absolute bargain at £4.40 per day.
[:)]
cass
posted this
08 June 2009
Sounds good everyone thanks for your replies im thinking plenty of chocolate :D Now getting prematurely excited but exams still to go yet :( im going on my own so hoping there?s lots of other people doing the same lol x
jojo
posted this
08 June 2009
i think my shopping list usually consists of breakfast bars, bread rolls and cheese triangles, supernoodles, crisps and mini chocolate bars. it's a very healthy week...
i dont usually buy any food there at all except on sunday night when ive got a bit bored of the food i have
bags666
posted this
08 June 2009
i always go on my own
Amymeister
posted this
08 June 2009
I rarely buy festival food. It's all about the freeze dried noodles and tins of sausages and beans for me!!!! A little camping stove can be a godsend!!!! Just remember to bring a little pan and a tin opener!! The problem with eating lots of chocolate is that you'll get a sugar rush but then you'll also get the sugar crash later on. If you do bring food, make it filling and a good balance of carbs and protien for energy. Although there is nothing like a good bacon bap at the start of your early shift to keep you going!
As someone did mention though, buying booze can seriously eat into your tight budget. Have a look around the supermarkets for the deals they do on pack of 18-24 cans etc and buy in advance if you can cause it'll save you money on your tipple of choice. Alternatively, lower your standards and go for the cheap stuff. Put it this way, festival time is the only time I drink the really cheap and cheerful vodka, the rest of the year I'm an Absolut girl!
And don't worry about coming on your own, we're a friendly (if slightly mad) bunch and there are plenty of people coming on their own and plenty more who will be willing to adopt you for the week. Me and Bronte are seasoned adopters of stray festival CATs.
MikeMorris
posted this
08 June 2009
If you can afford it, buy a Trangia cook set ( or any of the copy sets) that use meths burners. They are excellent for cooking or boiling water, and they will last a lifetime!
You will spend between £15 and £60 up front, but the amount you will save in the long run is huge. All the supermarkets do brilliant meals in a tin; you can also get excellent coffee and Tea mini packs that you just add water.
And shop around for the meths. Go to a decorators outlet, and you can get a gallon of the stuff for less than a tenner.
This is the cooking system of choice for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, and is a well tried and tested, and safe way of cooking cheaply.
Jo Shields
posted this
08 June 2009
Yes can confirm the Trangia is brilliant , my daughter is doing her Duke of Edinburgh award at the moment and its been great as its small and its minimal to carry .
mark - s
posted this
09 June 2009
dont worrie about the price of alcohol, just become friends with the bar staff / delivery people or the people who are friends with these people and the cost will go way down to the point where dooze wont cost a penny.
other things to save you money are bringing your own food (i recon the stuff where all you do is add water is better as you dont have the weight to carrie around, unless you got a car when its not that bad)
try not to be a smoker as well i know i am and thats the thing that cost me the most as festival cigs cost way more than normal.
Amymeister
posted this
14 June 2009
quote:
Originally posted by mark - s
dont worrie about the price of alcohol, just become friends with the bar staff / delivery people or the people who are friends with these people and the cost will go way down to the point where dooze wont cost a penny.
I'll stick with you this summer then Mark, I'll bring the beer wimble, you bring the free beer. Together we'll make a formidable team [8D]
