plates etc for camping

[SmileAndNod]

I'm thinking we need melamine? Where can we get some naice sets? I seemed to have missed all of the summer ranges in the shops - went in to look today and its all back to school and woolly jumpers!

[Frontier]

Not sure they meet the naice requirement but I noticed some good ones in Lidl today. Plates that stack completely flush to one another so they take up hardly any space.

[SmileAndNod]

Ooh I was in lidl today as well but didn't see any plates. Were they in the aisle of randomness?

[Frontier]

Of course Smile. They had matching bowls but not sure about cups.

[cece]

I've just come back from a short trip. DS was in charge of washing up and he insisted we take disposable paper plates. They were fab. Quicker washing up, used to start the fire with a bit of kindling, used to waft fire as it was starting, used as a shovel to transfer ashes from campfire into the ash bin, ripped up I used them as a taper to light candles, used as a Frisbee by ds2.

Will use them all the time now!

[RaisingSteam]

Supermarkets have loads will probably be in the sale by now (Asda/Sainsburys I've seen both)

[RelocatorRelocator]

Ours are plastic rather than melamine, the sort sold as picnic sets in the supermarket. We then have a set of melamine mugs and some cheap Ikea cutlery.

[hillbilly]

BHS have some naice and inexpensive ones.

[TheFantasticMrsFox]

The camping snob in me railed against melamine (I think that was the beginning of the end for basic camping TBH :o) so we have a rather plain set of IKEA crockery which I paid about 50p a piece for. It clatters about a bit when we are travelling but we have yet to break any

[CampingClaire]

A Dutch company called Rice do REALLY nice melamine stuff but it's pricey! I like the IKEA idea TheFantasticMrsFox ..never been happy with either the enamel or melamine plate scenario for eating off.

[jennylambchop]

Ikea do lovely colourful plastic cups/plates/cutlery/bowls sets. They are really cheap, bright, great fun, and really hard-wearing. In addition, they fit into one another quite well to save on space. We love them!
www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90192962/

[SmileAndNod]

Thank you, we have the ikea kalas set already for days out. I too found a basic crockery set in there too but DH said not very sensible with our (little) DCs so suggested the unbreakable stuff. Will check out rice,I think I may have bought some of their stuff before too.

But I do like proper plates....