Be The Jam

If you want you can spent a fortune on camping cutlery, but why? It invariably gets lost, the combination half a fork, half a spoon things are rubbish - who wants a spoon with holes in or a fork with impractically short prongs. Why not just use plastic cutlery? They give it away in M&S and contrary to popular belief it can be re-used.The only down side of free plastic cutlery over the stuff you buy in camping shops is that it's not as strong and it does tend to melt if you use it to stir whatever you are cooking. That said all the plastic camping cutlery I have bought that wasn't lost ended up snapping eventually - maybe that just says more about my food than anything else.

The one exception to this rule might be titanium cutlery, it won't snap, i'ts light and won't melt unless you are cooking inside a nuclear reactor (don't try this at home). However, do you really need titanium cutlery? It does bend and it is expensive, why not just take a knife and fork from home? Sure it'll weigh a few grams more but unless you're climbing mountains what does it matter? Better yet, fashion chop sticks out of sticks.