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Smebbin

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I'll be taking about a 7 day camping/backpacking trip in the summer with a few other friends. What kind of food do you guys prepare on these excursions? Looking for ideas...
 
i'll tell you what not to take. MREs. made that mistake the first time i went backpacking. whoops.
 
Agreed. I like roughing it only to a certain extent, skimping on food is not an option. Don't mind doing the cooking with my Griswold cast iron skillet with my RAT on my side.
 
Mountain House eggs (all varieties) for breakfast.

GORP, crackers and dried fruit for lunch.

Mountain House spaghetti for dinner.

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When we go car camping we pack out a cooler with meats and all the various ammenities. The Mrs. is one hell of a camp cook and makes gourmet meals in the woods.

When I used to do alot of overnight hiking I'd normally do alot of peanut butter, jerky, ramen, canned ravioli and MRE's, especially the MRE bread.

Drop some shreded jerky into boiling water with some ramen and you have soup.
 
mountain house stuff is great. i usually just grab a few packs of ramen and some trail mix, maybe a bag of jerky. i tend to forage a little bit too.
 
i usually take dried fruit, summer sausage, jerky differnt kinds whatever i make, nutra bars, peanut butter, trail mix, ramen, and unlike everybody else i like mre's especially the beef stew.

take it easy
cricket
 
shotgunner11 said:
Drop some shreded jerky into boiling water with some ramen and you have soup.
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You know, when you are out in the woods, something like this honestly seems like the best food that has ever passed your lips. You're just so grateful for something hot and savory and goodlicious.

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Mountain House or MREs.

Peanut Butter/crackers

Trail mix/chex mix

If I'm car camping, BOARS HEAD/whatever and some Grey Poupon....LOL
 
powernoodle said:

You know, when you are out in the woods, something like this honestly seems like the best food that has ever passed your lips. You're just so grateful for something hot and savory and goodlicious.

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Whenever I'm in the bush I take some Taco bell hot sauce packets. Make almost anything edible.

Well, one time, I was making a batch of Taco meat up with noodles and the like to make a casarole in the dutch oven when it started raining.....hard.

So my meat got flooded out pretty bad and I canned the casarole idea and made up some mac and cheese to go with the meat soup......

To this day, taco meat soup and Mac and cheese with Taco Bell hot sauce packets are a staple food around the shotgunner shack.

Oh, and now, Taco Bell packets are in my lunchbox for work, my glovebox, all my PSKs and my BOB.:D
 
+1 on Mountain House meals, but I would recommend that you sample the meals before packing them into the woods for an extended stay/hike - it's no fun packing in a bunch of meals only to discover you can't stomach them.

For multi-day hikes, I generally pack some or all of the following:
- Breakfast: instant oatmeal or cream of wheat and a couple ziplocks with brown sugar and raisins.
- Lunch: pita bread or soft tortilla shells (light weight and usually long lasting), PB & J in tubes, tuna packed in bags (not cans) and some packets of mayo and relish, a stick of summer sausage, possibly some cheddar cheese.
- Dinner: Mountain House (or similar) meals, instant mashed potatoes and a gravy packet, ramen noodles... hopefully some trout too. In addition to my planned dinners, I always pack a few extra small packets of Lipton chicken noodle soup (or similar) so that I have something I can make quickly if the weather turns and I need something in me to warm-up.
- Snack: Mountain mix/gorp (great, but heavy), dried fruit or fruit leather, Eatmore candy bars (I haven't seen these State-side, so I grab a case from Costco when I'm in Canada), possibly Snickers, if it's not going to be too hot. I sometimes pack some energy bars, such as a Cliff bar, but tend not to like most of these.
- Drinks: drink crystals to add to water and I always bring some hot chocolate, but that's because I grew up hiking in the Alberta Rockies where summer hikes could quickly and unexpectedly turn chilly.
- Other: small salt an pepper shaker, packets of mayo, relish, ketchup and hot sauce.

Enjoy the hike. Have you decided where you are going?
 
Chicken Cordon Bleu with rice pilaf, poached pear and roasted red pepper salsa. Baked Alaska for dessert.

Although I usually just bring beef jerky, trail mix, cheddar cheese, bread, fruits, nuts, olives, granola.

:)


I have a rule. If you are going into the woods, bring the above type of continental, whole foods. They are all delicious, offer their own nutritional benefits, go well together as finger foods, and they are easy to pack. No preparation either.

However, while out in the woods try to secure some game or fish to cook over a fire at night-- and always have a packet of rice, beans, or potatoes to go along with the meat should you decide to harvest your feast.
 
Dizwolf said:
This is why I like hiking in winter. I can take anything I want :)
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This made me laugh. When I turned 12 and became a Boy Scout, the leader came to my house to give me and my parents a general introduction to the program and give us some details on an upcoming winter camp in Kananaskis Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada). He explained how he loved winter camping because he could bring a cooler loaded with ice cream, Sara Lee cakes, and other goodies. The camp was a lot of fun. The boys made and slept in quincy (or quinzhee) snow shelters and our leaders slept in a tent with a propane heater. The cooler was strictly off limits to the boys, which resulted in an on-going cat and mouse game between a group of quick 12 and 13 year old Boy Scouts seeking to liberate Sara Lee by the handful and a larger and highly motivated leader intent on keeping Ms. Lee to himself.
 
Smebbin said:
I'll be taking about a 7 day camping/backpacking trip in the summer with a few other friends. What kind of food do you guys prepare on these excursions? Looking for ideas...
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Beef jerky, trail mix (nuts, various dried fruit, M&Ms etc) cans of tuna and soup/stew. alot easier to carry and prep and eat than MREs or most other packaged foods, not to mention more contained and lighter weight. On the week long trips I usually bring food enough for 4 days and just pack a .22 and an onion, eating a rabbit or squirrel when the chance provides itself.
 
MET-Rx high protein food bars. Preferably Bavarian Mint flavor.

There's not a lot of calories in these, but they're very filling and take hunger pangs away.
 
I posted recently about Quinoa. Its a whole grain, cooks up like rice, so it uses some water, but it makes a good meal.
 
I usually take the prepacked meals from www.packitgourmet.com. They have some of the best camping/hiking food you could imagine. Another is Trailfoods meals, they're really good dehydrated packaged meals. Some others I take are Mountain House meals, Mainstay bars, and MRE's.
 
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