What you eat along the Pennine Way is important. You're burning on average 4-5000 calories a day, which means you have to eat an awful lot of everything to prevent yourself from dying.

We had all kinds of high-sugar snacks - your Mars Bars, sweets, and of course the mandatory Kendell Mint Cake. But these were just to keep the sugar levels up. In the evenings when we could we would eat at a pub, but we only managed that about half the time.

So every breakfast, lunch and half the dinners were provided by Karim's camping stove. And, to his credit, he cooked every single meal. There was something I was supposed to do in return, but I can't remember what it was and almost certainly didn't do it. He's a legend.

Apart from Batchellor's Savoury Rice. For those not in the know, this is a product that takes rice, cooks it, and then adds a weird, sour flavour to it so it tastes absolutely disgusting. Karim had about eight packs of this filth. He ate seven and a half of them. Other dining experiences included Pasta n Sauce, and Super Noodles. Hardly fine dining, but you're limited to what you can cook half way up a hill.

Another item that would fall into 'must-pack' essentials is Tabasco Sauce. This is ingenious. I'm not a great fan of it, as sauces go, and it doesn't turn every meal into a dining pleasure. What it does do though, is make every single meal taste nice. And that really is enough.

Oh, by the way. That's every single meal apart form Batcherllor's Savoury Rice. You couldn't make that meal nice if you covered it in chocolate sauce and got to lick it off Angelina Jolie's breasts.