Pasta, rice, flour & semolina

Pasta, rice, semolina and flour are the foundation of eating on board: light to carry, indifferent to heat, they keep for months and turn almost any tin into a complete meal.

They are also the most economical part of a provisioning list, and the one where a safety margin makes the most sense. A spare pack of pasta never goes to waste; a missing one is noticed immediately by the third stopover.

Store them in airtight containers rather than their original packaging: in the tropics, damp in the bilge gets the better of cardboard, and rice and flour attract pests if left open to the air.