Choose bottled squash concentrate for festival camping if you have dependable drinking water and a cup or bottle for mixing. If you need sealed individual drinks without preparation, consider a ready-to-drink can multipack instead—but check the product description rather than assuming the cans contain squash. The squash examples listed by Tesco Groceries, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose & Partners are concentrates in bottles; Waitrose & Partners’ can-multipack examples are ready-to-drink soft drinks.
Bottled concentrate is an option when you can carry a cup or reusable bottle and dilute each drink. Check the particular squash’s directions and stated servings before deciding how much concentrate and water to take.
A ready-to-drink can multipack avoids preparing squash at camp. It is a different purchase: the examples on Waitrose & Partners’ can-multipack page are soft drinks, so read the item description if you specifically want squash.
Inspect the current pack for everyone who will drink it. The M&S Lemon and Lime High Juice listing, for example, identifies sulphites; GOV.UK says regulated allergens present in prepacked food or drink must be clearly labelled in the ingredients list.
Start with whether you can mix drinks at camp, then compare the exact pack’s preparation directions, servings and ingredients.
Choose when: You have dependable drinking water and want to prepare drinks from a bottle of concentrate.
Plan for: Water, something to mix in and the dilution directions on the exact pack.
Choose when: Individual drinks without mixing matter more than buying dilutable squash.
Check: The drink category, ingredients and your festival’s current packaging rules before packing cans.
| Priority | What to check | Your needs |
|---|---|---|
| Drink format | Look for a squash dilution instruction or a ready-to-drink description. Check the festival’s current rules on cans and other packaging. | If I specifically want squash, I need to distinguish concentrate from individual cans of another soft drink. |
| Water and servings | Compare the exact pack’s ratio and serving basis. Tesco Groceries lists 100 servings and 1 part squash to 19 parts water for its 1.5L Quadruple Strength Lemon; Waitrose & Partners lists 60 servings and 1 part to 9 parts water for Essential Orange. | I can mix drinks at camp, but I need enough drinking water for the number of servings I plan to make. |
| Flavour and formulation | Read the flavour, ingredients and any fruit-content statement on the particular product. Sainsbury’s lists 40% fruit from concentrate for its Quadruple Strength Orange; M&S lists 50% fruit juice for Lemon and Lime High Juice. | Our group has flavour or ingredient preferences, so I want to compare the drinks we would actually buy—not assume a claim applies to every squash in a range. |
| Allergen information | Check the current ingredients list on each pack. GOV.UK says any of the 14 regulated allergens present in prepacked food or drink must be clearly labelled there. | Someone in our group needs to check the exact drink before we leave; a no-added-sugar description alone does not answer an allergen question. |
Ready-to-drink cans may give you individual serves without meeting a requirement for dilutable squash. Waitrose & Partners’ can-multipack examples are soft drinks, while its reviewed squash is bottled concentrate.
Read the product category and preparation instructions before choosing a pack. Base the choice on whether you will have water for mixing.
A bottle’s stated serving count depends on how the squash is prepared. Tesco Groceries specifies 1 part squash to 19 parts water for its Quadruple Strength Lemon product.
Use the ratio on the bottle you buy to plan your drinking water, and take a cup or reusable bottle for mixing.
That description does not establish whether a drink contains sweeteners or allergens. M&S lists sulphites in its no-added-sugar Lemon and Lime High Juice.
Check the current pack’s ingredients and allergen information for the exact flavour and formulation.
These specific bottled products illustrate differences in dilution and ingredients; a figure for one flavour should not be applied to an entire brand.
Tesco Groceries lists Robinsons Double Strength Summer Fruits as a 1.75L bottled squash.
Tesco Groceries lists its Quadruple Strength Lemon squash in a 1.5L bottle.
Sainsbury’s lists Quadruple Strength Orange squash in a 1.5L bottle.
M&S lists Lemon and Lime High Juice as a concentrated drink with no added sugar.
Waitrose & Partners lists Essential No Added Sugar Orange Squash as a 1.5L double-strength bottle.
These are concentrated squash bottles for campers who can obtain drinking water and mix their drinks. The Robinsons option is a bottle multipack; the Ribena option is a single bottle. Neither is a multipack of ready-to-drink cans.
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Six 1L bottles offer a squash multipack if you can mix drinks at camp; they are not cans. Bring drinking water and a mixing vessel, and check the current pack for dilution directions and ingredients if sweeteners or sulphites matter to your group.
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This single 1.5L bottle is a concentrate option rather than a multipack of individual drinks. Take drinking water and a mixing vessel, follow its own dilution directions, and check the current ingredients if sweeteners or sulphites matter to your group.
Check the exact product before buying: the squash examples listed by Tesco Groceries, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose & Partners are concentrates in bottles, whereas Waitrose & Partners’ can-multipack examples are ready-to-drink soft drinks. A can multipack should not be treated as dilutable squash merely because it sits in the drinks aisle.
Use the directions on the exact bottle and the number of drinks you intend to make. Tesco Groceries lists 1 part squash to 19 parts water for Tesco Quadruple Strength Lemon, while its Robinsons Double Strength Summer Fruits listing specifies 1 part concentrate to 9 parts water. Do not apply either ratio to a different product without checking its label.
No. A no-added-sugar description does not answer which sweeteners, if any, are in the drink. Read the current ingredients list for the exact squash you plan to take.
Check the ingredients and allergen information on the current pack of each drink. GOV.UK says regulated allergens present in prepacked food or drink must be clearly labelled in the ingredients list; for example, M&S identifies sulphites in its Lemon and Lime High Juice listing.