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Posted: 5/20/2019 12:42:49 AM EDT
Seeing if I can put together a meal plan with enough variety that does not require ice/refrigeration.
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Spam, mre's, Mountain House, jerky, trail mix. Also those cracker & canned meat combo.
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Spam, mre's, trail mix. View Quote Stuff like this Apples Onions Pasta/Canned Tomato Sauce Chili Beef Jerkey Dried Fruits Potatoes/Instant Potatoes Sweet Corn Green Beans Corn Baked Beans Canned Soup Chips (small bags) Peanuts/Pistachios/Trail Mix Beef Jerkey Chips/Salsa Snack Bars Nuts Campfire Pie Iron Cherry Pie Filling Instant Noodle Cups |
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Ranch style beans.
Canned chicken or beef. Trail mix. Most anything Chief Boyardi. Prezels. |
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Just bring canned food and nuts/Trail mix.
With canned food and a dutch oven you can literally make 99% of all your favorite recipes. |
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Salami, pepperoni, hard cheese (for at least the first day depending upon temperature), nuts, and protein bars serve as the bulk of my outdoor diet. Oh, and a little beer or whiskey.
I'm pretty damned lazy when it comes to food while backpacking. I want as many calories as possible in a dense but light package, with minimal mess to deal with. If I'm by the car I'll bring a cooler and cook fresh meats and veggies, which can remain good for several days with a little thought. Maybe. If I'm not feeling lazy enough to go with the items in my first paragraph. |
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Backpacking or car camping or dry cabin or what? What do you have to cook with, if anything?
If you're not focused on weight, well -- load up on canned stuff, bread, PB&J, pop tarts, slim jims, spam, spray cheese and saltines, canned cooked chicken and tuna, etc. When I hit the dry cabin it's pretty much a junk food buffet. Pop tarts, PB&J and jerky or meat sticks for more protein are pretty tasty when you're in the middle of nowhere. Usually I bring up a real sandwich to start the trip before switching to the junk, and keep a couple good, protein-rich meals. All will keep for a week with no fridge. If you have a camp fire, just cook the stuff straight in the can, spaghetti-o's, soup, chili, you name it. Tuna and chicken are great straight from the can, even without heating. Once you throw weight into it, the equation changes a lot and my choices switch to freeze-dried mountain house stuff, jerky, trail mix and the like. |
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Salt pork (slab bacon for example)
Dried beef (Mexican stores around here sell big slabs of machaca) Dried lentils Dried beans Rice Cornmeal Flour Lard Coffee Sugar Chocolate Powdered milk Nuts and dried fruit Spices, baking powder etc Sack of potatos |
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Salami, pepperoni, hard cheese (for at least the first day depending upon temperature), nuts, and protein bars serve as the bulk of my outdoor diet. Oh, and a little beer or whiskey. I'm pretty damned lazy when it comes to food while backpacking. I want as many calories as possible in a dense but light package, with minimal mess to deal with. If I'm by the car I'll bring a cooler and cook fresh meats and veggies, which can remain good for several days with a little thought. Maybe. If I'm not feeling lazy enough to go with the items in my first paragraph. View Quote Another couple of interesting things I found recently is that Idahoan instant mashed potatoes have quite a few good flavor varieties, like Smokey Cheese & Bacon, or Bacon & Cheddar Chipotle. Very lightweight, and all you need is boiling water. Another good one if you're tired of trail mix is gourmet macaroni and cheese boxes. A bit bulky, but can be reduced in size using ziplock bags. All you have to do is boil the noodles and stir in the packet of cheese sauce; no butter or milk required. Walmart actually has some decent flavor options, and there are a few higher end brands as well. I also like to bring some ramen, but not the generic stuff. Go to an asian market and get the real stuff; I'm partial to the MaMa brand myself, or Nongshim Neoguri. There is a bit more clean up involved with these options, but I prefer flavor and variety so it's worth it to me. On the bright side, everything I listed except the fruit only requires hot water to prepare. |
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I'll second this, along with summer sausage, dried fruit (mango, papaya, apple, apricot, etc...). Another couple of interesting things I found recently is that Idahoan instant mashed potatoes have quite a few good flavor varieties, like Smokey Cheese & Bacon, or Bacon & Cheddar Chipotle. Very lightweight, and all you need is boiling water. Another good one if you're tired of trail mix is gourmet macaroni and cheese boxes. A bit bulky, but can be reduced in size using ziplock bags. All you have to do is boil the noodles and stir in the packet of cheese sauce; no butter or milk required. Walmart actually has some decent flavor options, and there are a few higher end brands as well. I also like to bring some ramen, but not the generic stuff. Go to an asian market and get the real stuff; I'm partial to the MaMa brand myself, or Nongshim Neoguri. There is a bit more clean up involved with these options, but I prefer flavor and variety so it's worth it to me. On the bright side, everything I listed except the fruit only requires hot water to prepare. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Salami, pepperoni, hard cheese (for at least the first day depending upon temperature), nuts, and protein bars serve as the bulk of my outdoor diet. Oh, and a little beer or whiskey. I'm pretty damned lazy when it comes to food while backpacking. I want as many calories as possible in a dense but light package, with minimal mess to deal with. If I'm by the car I'll bring a cooler and cook fresh meats and veggies, which can remain good for several days with a little thought. Maybe. If I'm not feeling lazy enough to go with the items in my first paragraph. Another couple of interesting things I found recently is that Idahoan instant mashed potatoes have quite a few good flavor varieties, like Smokey Cheese & Bacon, or Bacon & Cheddar Chipotle. Very lightweight, and all you need is boiling water. Another good one if you're tired of trail mix is gourmet macaroni and cheese boxes. A bit bulky, but can be reduced in size using ziplock bags. All you have to do is boil the noodles and stir in the packet of cheese sauce; no butter or milk required. Walmart actually has some decent flavor options, and there are a few higher end brands as well. I also like to bring some ramen, but not the generic stuff. Go to an asian market and get the real stuff; I'm partial to the MaMa brand myself, or Nongshim Neoguri. There is a bit more clean up involved with these options, but I prefer flavor and variety so it's worth it to me. On the bright side, everything I listed except the fruit only requires hot water to prepare. |
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I hunt in an aired environment, too far to drive into town for ice..so once its gone thats it. So I do this all the time. MRE, Mountain house, Oat meal or any instant oats, dried fruits, canned meats spam, bacon,chicken being top of the list, shelf stable cheese, pepperoni, summer sausage, mashed potatoes, soups, crackers: pilot being preferred, PBJ, nutella with banana and honey...trail mix home made. tasty bites line of food, instant rice, pancakes, bannock, nachos( canned cheese, no bean chili, salsa, jalapenos, re fired beans) , tortillas, bread and bagels for making sandwiches, canned evaporated milk, shelf stable milk or powdered milk, instant breakfast drinks, protein powder, biscuits and gravy( sausage gravy mix by McCormick, re constituted beef bits, canned milk, and home made biscuits)canned fruit, apples. I could go on, these are just the stables.
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Quoted: Trying to avoid dehydrated/mres. Stuff like this Apples Onions Pasta/Canned Tomato Sauce Chili Beef Jerkey Dried Fruits Potatoes/Instant Potatoes Sweet Corn Green Beans Corn Baked Beans Canned Soup Chips (small bags) Peanuts/Pistachios/Trail Mix Beef Jerkey Chips/Salsa Snack Bars Nuts Campfire Pie Iron Cherry Pie Filling Instant Noodle Cups View Quote |
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Spaghetti/fettuccine with a jar of good spaghetti/pasta sauce served with a bag of dinner rolls and a bottle of red wine.
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Eggs Don't forget that if you can keep them from breaking, it's awesome in the morning vs anything else Farm fresh eggs that haven't been washed, with flecks of chicken shit stuck to them, are good for about a month unrefrigerated. Once you wash them they should go into the fridge. |
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The foil packets of chicken are great.
Favorite backpacking meal is a packet of chicken and instant potato’s. Will feed two normal people. |
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As long as you don't forget the canned bacon, the rest don't matter! If you have never tried it, you're in for a treat.
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Eggs don't need refrigeration. Bacon can go a couple days. Steak can make it to the first night.
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The foil packets of chicken are great. Favorite backpacking meal is a packet of chicken and instant potato’s. Will feed two normal people. View Quote As others have mentioned, cured meats like salami are great. Many cheeses do fine without refrigeration. A long baguette stores nicely on the outside of a pack. |
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Non-refrigerated camping foods? I recommend --> MRE Menu XXXVII (2017)
01 Chili with Beans 02 Beef Shredded in Barbecue Sauce Black Beans in a Seasoned Sauce 03 Chicken, Egg Noodles, and Vegetables, in Sauce 04 Spaghetti with Beef and Sauce 05 Chicken Chunks 06 Beef Taco 07 Brisket Entree 08 Meatballs in Marinara Sauce 09 Beef Stew 10 Chili and Macaroni 11 Vegetable Crumbles with Pasta in Taco Sauce 12 Elbow Macaroni in Tomato Sauce 13 Cheese Tortellini in Tomato Sauce 14 Creamy Spinach Fettuccine 15 Mexican Style Chicken Stew 16 Chicken Burrito Bowl 17 Maple Pork Sausage Patty 18 Beef Ravioli in Meat Sauce 19 Beef Patty, Grilled, Jalapeno Pepper Jack 20 Hash Brown Potatoes with Bacon, Peppers and Onions 21 Lemon Pepper Tuna 22 Asian Beef Strips with Vegetables 23 Chicken Pesto Pasta 24 Southwest Beef and Black Beans with Sauce |
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Chips potato and corn. Get flavored like salt and vinegar, cheese, Doritos or chili cheese Fritos so you don't have to bring dip.
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Pizza- never camp too far off a main road within the delivery distance of a good local pizzeria and cell coverage.
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Canned beef stew. Dinty Moore doesn't suck too bad. View Quote |
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Depends if it’s backpack, canoe, or car camping.
The latter two I would go heavy on canned proteins/meats. An overnight or two nights backpacking and I would still carry a can or two. Spam, I like it on rare occasion. Pouch tuna, less bullshit water in place of tuna flesh. Dried beef for chipped beef. Works well with condensed milk. Canned enchiladas and chili. I always bring a frozen steak wrapped in newspaper to thaw on the way to camp. Delays the canned food in the diet. I avoid carbs except when camping. It’s less avoidable and you are usually burning it off so it is ok. Pasta, a bagel packs well. I used to carry two bagels in the field when I was in the USMCR. Avoided a beef with bbq sauce breakfast. I can’t stomach that stuff in the morning. |
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This is required for my elk hunts. After a few days of scouting, in often crappy weather, getting back to camp at night with temps dropping - it's hard to beat a nice warm bowl of Dinty Moore with some bread. I'm sure home-made stuff would be awesome, but would already be a few days old by the time I get there. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Canned beef stew. Dinty Moore doesn't suck too bad. |
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Leftover cheese pizza for the first day or two. Bag boil meals with lots of hot sauce after that.
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Eggs Don't forget that if you can keep them from breaking, it's awesome in the morning vs anything else They would always give me eggs They keep fine with out refrigeration unlike store bought |
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