As a retired sailor I am onboard with most of your cost saving ideas. But do remember that small shops in coastal communities often depend on seasonal business to survive and therefore make the local communities the places we like to visit.

1. You did all that grocery shopping absent a woman to oversee you. You are a brave man. 2. I am a long distance backpacker and not a sailor so you have introduced me to some things I did not know. Long term milk and canned / jarred hot dogs. You have peaked my interest as to what I do not know and need to learn. Thanks for sharing

We have been on a mission to cut our food costs for a couple of years and we also needed to make changes for health reasons. Lots of similar things (although we have switched from Sainsburys and Tesco to Aldi and Lidl). Costco do Olives in a glass jar which have a really long shelf life rather than those plastic packs from local supermarkets We find chickpeas a great saver. We bought 20kg or something at the start of lockdown. Easy to make our own Humus, work really well in stews, curry's etc (we use an Instant Pot clone - electric pressure cooker - like it so much we got one for home as well). We are experimenting with oat milk as we don't use much milk (I have coffee black, no breakfasts and Jane has switched to white or green tea without milk in a morning). It is quite easy to make your own oat milk as you need it, much cheaper. We find we waste a lot of long life milk as we open and then can't use it all before it goes off. I buy catering packs of coffee beans (from TankCoffee), 7kg every few months. Even keeping them for 3 months still much better than bags of ground coffee, no waste, no fridge needed and about 1/2 the price. A variety of Lentils, dried peas, beans, oats etc are really good bulk foods and cheap. Plenty of variety and easy to flavour in a variety of ways. Some Aldi have a great 1kg tub of peanut butter with no palm oil - tastes great and keeps for about a year. Look at sprouting beans yourselves for fresh greens. As for tins we use loads of tinned tomatoes, baked beans, & coconut milk While land based our key luxuries are cheese (although I've just bought a course from FaceBook on masking your own vegan cheese which we could do with long life ingredients on the boat) and a weekly delivery from a local farm of veg, all gown by them. Making bread is great, but the raw ingredients will be a lot cheaper and taste way better, with your power you might even be able to use a domestic breadmaker which makes it so easy. Part of our choices relate to going close to vegetarian (huge cost saving as well as environmentally better and so much healthier than meat bought on a low budget) and also my needing to change diet due to pre-diabetic diagnosis last year (now sorted but it means I've cut out sugars and significantly cut carbs, especially processed eg pasta). I'm sure you will save a lot with what you have done (and it is another great video), I think you could cut the cost by as much again but the changes to diet would be noticeable (different, arguably tastier and healthier too with a lower environmental footprint). Dave

I don't know if you've already tried it but powdered milk is a fantastic alternative to that long life stuff. I can honestly say I can't tell the difference between powdered semi-skimmed and fresh. The secret is to mix how much you need for the day, re stir after half an hour and use it like you would fresh milk. Really light weight and has a pretty much forever shelf life.

4 mins in and I heartily applaud your choice of supermarket! Of course you could buy items cheaper elsewhere but you wouldn't have got the quality, or the range. Or you could have bought great quality, expensively, without the wide range! I really think that supermarket (I won't advertise for bots that crawl the web looking for mentions of their name!) hits the right balance! Now for the next ... 8.5 mins

Depending on how you like the dehydrated stuff, a project for next winter could be to get hold of a dehydrator and make your own custom meals before next season. More importantly, what does Hank get to eat?

800 isn't bad really!! I don't believe I could beat that here in the states. My wife an I live in a RV fulltime an we have alot of the same problems with where to store food lol. Much love from the coast of Maine,USA!

Powdered milk takes up less room, tastes better than UHT, and you can make up as little or as much as you need when you need it. If its just for putting in tea then you can just put the powder straight in your cup! It is also more sustainable instead of all those cartons for the UHT.

That crab looked so good!

I love your story telling! keep the inspiration coming!

I love the channel and the thumbnail is fantastic. I can only imagine how long you must spend on these details. Great work.

Shoestring👍…Sainsburys?….

Outstanding video, giving a real reflection of how to enjoy boat life whilst looking after the expenses..You see this kind of "Joie de Vivre" does exist..

Provisions are essential when sailing for months at a time. Great tunes by your buddy with his guitar. Thanks from the break away from life’s monotony .

Great job, with video and story telling love watching you , all three.

Foraging and self sufficiency on your sail boat always makes interesting content.

Very exciting !!! I am about to begin to work on my sailboat and when ready " hit the road " so to speak. Can't wait ! Thank You !!!!!!!

Such an excellent story teller, really appreciate the skill to pull the viewer in and make us feel like we are right there with you. Looking forward to the upcoming sailing season stories and adventures!

Very interesting and informative video. Wishing you 2 and Hank all the very best and super excited to see videos about your adventures 😀

All your videos are great! I love watching your day to day life even if you have already been to some of the places! Happy to see them again!

Great videos, love the content, I would like to see you more on passage and providing advice on the south coast cruising ground, what to look out for good and bad ! - Have fun…

glad to see you have a book about preserving 'cause I think you may find this to be a very useful way of stockpiling and saving money. You can preserve basic ingredients (e.g. meats, veg., fruit etc.) (even crabs) or prepared meals which are especially useful on a passage. Just open and heat up ready to eat no cooking. The preserving process does the cooking. No fridges or freezers required and you can store the stuff for years if done properly (much longer than the "recommended") you will find many "canners" who will testify to that. Also very convenient to store as the jars (cans) come in regular shapes and sizes. If you contact Drake Paragon (another cruising KZfaqr) he will be able to share his own experiences - this where I discovered pressure canning on boats.

In answer, keep doing what you're doing, the love is showing through what you are producing. It feels like there's an adventure blossoming 🌸

One really great addition to your larder for remote cruising is ghee, or clarified butter. It has all the fabulous advantages of butter for cooking, especially taste, but it doesn’t burn. Nor does it go off as the impurities and spoiling perishables in butter are gone, so it keeps out of the fridge. And you use about half as much as you would butter. It’s used a lot in Indian and Middle East cooking.

Loved this video, as always, it's the mix of interesting items, people and dog, practicalities, detail and reality of living on a boat, with a great sense of humour. Keep it up.

Perfect as always. Can’t wait to follow along with whatever is next.

Excellent production, enjoy the season.😊

like the guitar a lot

Always enjoyable. Keep up the great work. Mark and Camille form Tennessee USA

You three are amazing and a wonderful inspiration, followed you from the start, hope to meet up at some point in the future, I wish you a safe and lovely onward passage

dope insights very much appreciated. so many sailing channels becoming all about girls in cheeky bikinis. Ya channel is refreshing. Im trying to gear up for my own sailing adventure. You find the line between educational-real world-fun-work effortlessly, it seems. that line between ego and confidence... hard to put into words... just keep it up!

I equate provisioning with being a prepper! You are concerned about food, water, first-aid, survival gear, power needs, communications, and dozens of other needs. Long distance Bluewater sailing requires careful thought and planning, redundancy, backups, spares, literally multiples of so many things. I love watching sailing channels. While I'm not a sailor, prepping is a hobby. I firmly belief there has to be a siniliar mindset. Also, the more food stored in reserve, the better. Lastly, Isn't a ditchbag just a marine version of a bug-out bag? Provisioning is prepping.

I do so enjoy seeing people shopping in Sainsbury's - it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose.... Tips: Lidl porridge pots, Lidl foil packet Tuna salad, tinned peaches are comparatively very cheap, tinned pineapple has ultra-long Use By Dates, and Bachelors packet soup is quick and easy to make and really warms you up on a night watch. And Frey Bentos pies, of course (ask Tom Cunliffe....)

This is a complement that l'm about to say & Yes l have Red in me as well....1983 Yellow Beard... the resemblance.... I luv what you 3 do & how you go about your business...BRILLIANT...cheers

Great video, nice to see your choices, that is what makes it real. Oh and you could get another song by your friend, it was tasty

If you need an easy cheap fill up…..we are anchored up in Portland Harbour and the Lidl is a 3 min walk from a beach you can put the dinghy on!!

Love your show and a big fan of Hank. Don’t change a thing

Hey you two!! KZfaq recommened I check out you channel a couple of days ago and I'm just loving it. Only scratched the surface though, but I love your style and your content. Actually I think you're right on track on what you two are posting: you share your journey, the reasons why you stuff the way you do, what you've learned, what things costs, what's hard, what's not. In general you've got an honest approach on your life at sea. I've posted on several other sailing channels that my itch to sell it all is growing by the day, but that my current family setting, 1x 2 yo toddler + dog (cross border colly and German shepherd) makes that kinda complicated. So I guess just keep on doing what you're doing, share the great vibe and stay honest, btw LOVE YOUR DOG!!!!

Great video

Cool summer vibe on this video 😎 Anticipating those lines dropping properly soon! Just watch those tins buried in the nooks and crannies- they can rust quicker than expected I’ve found

Watching this makes me hungry.

Hi guys thanks for the video it was wonderful that crab look fantastic Yum Yum Cliff from Logan city Queensland Australia

Loved this video- a bit different to most channels. & I love Studland, although I think you should have done a Newtown Creek episode. I hope you have a great summer & can’t wait to watch the videos!

Love the chanel..must say as a heritage carpenter joiner I always fancied building my own boat. Only problem is.... I can't sail! Plus I see a boat as a means to fish. So while I can build one I'm the most useless person to have one. Lol... Still this chanel gives me joy in that two good people have this life and enjoy it. Live love laugh ...

Hi, I would like to see more of the decision making process to do with weather, tides and passage planning etc. Keep on keeping on you two.

Fifty years ago I had a season in the west country living off dehydrated food. It got to be a bit boring and I started re-hydrating in good old farm house scrumpy. Delicious. Had a great time but may have remembered even more had I stuck to water. You are saved by the fact that real scrumpy is no loger available.

I'm in Texas and have never wanted to get to uK/Europe. Your channel has made me sorry I missed the opportunity! Thank you for your videos!

Great topic in these crazy days. I put 3 years food storage 2,000 lbs on my tayana 37. Getting ready for the zombie apocolypse. Though i did not budget shop. I have about 10,000 into it. 1,000 pounds is mylar bagged for long term storage so i plan to keep adding in every port. Then theres the diesel 1000 litres and all the survival gears and security. Bring it.

Sorry I missed you guys in Itchen. Have a great trip, living the dream already. Pete (Eternity)

I think you are on the right track,but even living on land some food just don’t set well with you stomach. Be sure the food you get is good for you and you enjoy eating it. Not being critical but even if I eat canned tuna boy which I like it don’t do my insides good.Your content has been great with great real life issues that living onboard is really like.I believe keeping it real is going to separate you from some channels where everything is just always blissful 🥴I’m anxious to read the other comments and see what they have to suggest.Man keep going and we will keep watching you two. Thanks so much for sharing your adventures with us 🙏

Do not rely on the big supermarkets, you can get some equally good quality food from Aldi/Lidl but a lot cheaper.

When my wife and I go to our favorite Italian restaurant, it does not matter what I order - everything is so good. I often take a bite, close my eyes, and savor the taste. But there is a picture on the wall of a dish prepared with a whole fish. I tell the waiter that is what I really want. But, I settle for an appetizer like: Eggplant Napoleon Layers of breaded eggplant fried, filled with layers of house cheese blend, roasted red peppers, pesto, pomodoro and Asiago cream. Would you know my eyes are closed as I recall the flavors. Well done, creative episode. Thanks. :¬) Webhead USA

Another great video, thank you :) To ease the pain of the grocery bill, I have been buying several items of food with each weekly grocery shop for home, and 3 bottles of wine each week too ! Come boxing Day (when we head off for our Summer cruise here in NZ) I hope to have just a few small items left to purchase (fresh meat etc) I buy very few things in tins - getting rid of rubbish is a real pain ! I too have bought a few freeze dried meals for the same reasons you did, and for the 'less rubbish' thing as well. BTW - thanks for the water maker vid - my Rainman has arrived in Auckland, at Customs, and hope to receive it here next week :) Kind regards, John.

You now have a water maker. You also mentioned having more than 1 water tank. Maybe convert extra tank to dry storage, especially if a tank ever fails.

That’s cracking victualling for Dartmouth and back, you will not go hungry….(keep safe)

Loved it guys. Had my mouth watering with that crab. The best crustations ( how do you bloody spell that?) in my opinion. I'll be with you all the way. Cheers from Bridgetown western Australia.

Hi both. Just an idea, but I always love some of the history as a backdrop the great geography you're uncovering.

Great video guys. Must say I’ve never broken a crab up before cooking it. There is a lot of meat in the body too , hope you got it out!

You are great, presentation and sense of humor is #1 . If you get to the west coast of the USA we would love to help you replenish your larder. Would also enjoy your company, and are dog friendly

realy like you two love your chanel xx

How do you provision all the fresh produce? Love watching you guys!

I get my bulk foods at bookers, lidl and aldi. I only use sainsburys for the things i cant get at the other places. It might be worth trying as you might save a small fortune again.

Brodie Moss comes to Studland! When you reach the South Hams (sure you’ll be back) let me know if you’re looking for a fishing or spearfishing buddy!

I'd like to see a video where you give your tips on board

Hi, I'd like to see more videos of that dude at the end having party's on his boat. Looks like an absolute legend

Hotdogs in a bottle, never saw those before… my mouth is watering at the thought. As a strange dude, I would have just stocked up on Spam, canned corned beef, and possibly sauerkraut with instant mashed potatoes. Maybe canned veggies in case any visitors have delicate stomach. 😉

Hi ya! Great vid.👍👍 The freeze dried food bags, what were the flavours, or content? Just adding water and spices sounds like a great way to cook, especially on passage. Warren ⛵️⚓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇪

Love this channel, Carly and Dom are great but we all watch to see Hank…

Since you guys read ALL the comments - you and your videos are awesome. Not enough of Hank in this video (it had to be said). I would personally love to see you guys sailing in the Med... A girl can dream! Other than that, seeing the UK through your explorations is great, even if I don't plan to sail there as it's too cold. :D And seeing any boat projects you do...maybe Carly can share her design tips for making an older boat look up with the times? Love what you did with the heads. :)

Bloody hell, shopping in Sainsbury's!!!! Might have been cheaper in the little beach side stores!!!! Do you know about Aldi and Lidl?

Simon , ur so mean putting that food to the camera, how could u do that, I was so hungry and omg that looked good. If that was 4 months of milk, u must drink too much of it. I'd have to have the entire spare room just for milk, I just love my cups of tea and glass of icy cold glorious milk.🤣😁 those freeze dried packets are way more expensive in Aussie, but they are so yummy and reasonably healthy. Great vlog, hope ur both well and hugs for Hank. 🇦🇺🌈🐕

hot dogs in a bottle? i bought a couple cans of spam about 5 yrs ago as an experimental survival food. it's working great, i still have the spam. great vid, thanks.

I hope you got a few cans of their own brand stewed steak, absolutely the best on the market. Lots of cans on our boat even though most of our sailing is weekends.

Great video! How do you guys roughly budget for fuel, emergency things and the extras that arise while sailing?

The cashier must have loved you

OK I understand your point and this is not meant to be a downer, but rather than staying in Portland harbour drop the hook where the weymouth ferry used to berth and then asda is only a 500 metre ish walk. Drop the hook in Torbay and the number of supermakets including the german cheapos are numerous. Plymouth similar, but if you want to try dry food look at Parsley box ( scotland but very quick delivery) After Falmouth I agree until you get around lands end . Local knowledge is everything and limited storage space enters into the equation.

Victualling a vessel for any extended passage or deployment is often done from bulk suppliers… it’s cheaper and you aren’t left with packaging to store aboard before disposal at port of call… Whilst I know it’s expensive buying food in small local stores, it helps to keeps the local economy viable and contributes to the local economy, it’s also an opportunity to chat with locals and hear what they would recommend is worthwhile seeing, it’s quite often not what you find in popular cruising guides As for being self sufficient on a small sailboat I would recommend the “Free range sailing” KZfaq channel…

felt sad for the crab lol

Take plenty of staples, rice and pasta and sauces. Sweet potatoes and squash last for ages on board.

Curious about what you are doing re Hanks meals. Have you bulk bought those too or will you have to risk supermarket seduction every time you top up for him? We always carried at least 6 months food aboard (40 foot monohull). Not only to save money but also for the extra freedom it allows. Staying longer in the perfect anchorage when everyone else has to leave to reprovision. Also allows you to visit expensive destinations. We were able to spend almost three months in Bermuda which without those food stores would have been prohibitive. If you do it again I recommend one of the big warehouse stores like Costco for the majority of bulk items, mostly then repackage into smaller units with a top up at a supermarket. The savings are immense. Enjoy your cruise.

That little stove is awesome. What is it?

Love your videos. Would love to have your lifestyle. It is something sadly out of my reach, health issues.

Great stuff guys . Check out mentour pilot. You look like him lol.

One of my biggest unanswered questions about long term cruising is provisioning and this video went some of the way to answering, but I would love more detail about how you actually planned 500 portions such as how you deal with use-by dates, storing perishables, fresh food, etc. Have you organised storage to make it easy to find ingredients? How much fresh meat can you start with? Do you have a freezer? Sorry! So many questions still. Great video all the same, I'm off to cook up some crab 🦀

I would love the recipe on the bread 😅

Hi guys I'm back. Been off grid for a few months due to studying and family. Spent the weekend (25th and 26th June) watching Cadoha. Really enjoyed as usual. Bit more of Hank please? anyway keep up the blogs really enjoying them. Moving forward what's your plans this season? Heading south to wormer waters? All the best safe winds. Ian.

Should of went to Aldi😄

Are you coming to brixham this year

Nice job! You might even save more money by joining a cash and carry near you (Bookers, etc) when buying in bulk the saving soon add up 😀

We love hanging out at Studland beach, I have always bulk bought shopping, not preppers or anything like that, it's just a better way stocking up on dried and tinned foods, as mentioned in the comments, powdered milk, like 8 pints is excellent, have used evap milk watered down, it's an aquired taste, MRE meals are great but a little expensive these days, best to get them at 4x4 or military shows, coconut oil if stored good will last for years as will Olive oil, Rice is an excellent staple for many meals and lasts for years in dry storage containers, as for ideas on video content, blimey you got me there, anything sailing and locations you visit has always been interesting, the thing I never really hear mentioned is how long can you stay at anchorage or checkin/checkout procedures, the cost of mooring balls etc tips for beginners wanting to get into sailing, why did you set the sail that way in relation to wind speed/angle tru wind and apparant wind, difference between beam reach and close haul etc, I hope that gets the grey matter working on future content to add into the daily sail.. Cheers time for a coffee...

Sainsburys? Why not Aldi, Lidl and Asda? Just out of curiosity? Nectar points maybe? Fantastic informative videos btw

I hope you've got a Nectar card 🤪

Have you ever seen the movie "Das Boot" there is scene of stocking up a submarine before heading out to sea for a few months . Getting a bidet attachment for you toilet or as Mads calls it the butt sprayer 2000....reduces the amounts of toilet paper needed on board

Dom, are you filtering out the bass end of your voice track? If so, I miss it :) * perhaps you have a new microphone, I realize...

No wonder it’s expensive - Sainsbury! Try Makro / cash n carry / wholesale

Go east !

This is a very timely video. I am planning an extended trip and on my boat both space and water are limited. She can carry 180 litres of fresh water in two on board tanks and I think that’s going to be the limiting factor. She doesn’t have a sea water tap for washing up and anyway with the current state of the sewage discharges around British coastline I am not sure I would want to use seawater for washing dishes, and a water maker is out of the question due to cost. Have you any ideas how I could extend the water supply. Great videos love the channel. Cheers. H.

Did you get any looks as you posed with a pile of food?

i think you went to the most expensive supermarket in the UK.. should have tried Aldi or Lidel's.

I have seen lots of provisioning videos and yours are spot on if you convert it to any currency for 3-5 months it all come out the same depending on the mouths to feed, like £800-00 = $1100-00 = ZAR17000-00. Make a video like the next survival for a week but only spear fishing, when you 2 get to the best site for it. Good videos and happy sailing.