What's your favorite emergency / survival / quick camp food?

I'm a firm believer in testing gear before you are forced to use it, so I like to prepare and taste one of each of them to make sure I like it.
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This would take care of LOTS of problems some folks seem to have far from home. ;)

So here is the question, what is your favorite quick-prep camp / emergency / survival food, and what do you find gross?
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We keep the food dehydrator going year-around (jerky to spaghetti to fruits and vegetables to whatever the imagination allows) and don't use prepackaged foods (much healthier!). We basically eat on the trail or in camp what we eat at home. What I REALLY don't like is, Top Ramen noodles (I can handle most anything when hungry...but). Ate too much of the stuff in the military.

MRE's. They're edible... sometimes. Yes, this is true. However, I'm a grown-up now and the novelty of eating this military / emergency "food" has extinguished.
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When I was in the military, there were no MRE's in their current form. We usually had C-rations (often many, many years old ), or the LRP-rations when on the remote missions where weight was a concern. Compared with these rations, the current MRE's would be considered 'fine dining' by most of us older troopers. :)
 
the quickest most nutricious & doe'st have to heated is creamy peanut butter. now if i going to get fancy i marinate a rabbit & squirrel & serve it on creamy linguine. peanut butter can be eaten while moving to my sealy king size mattress & down comforter.
dennis
 
I love all of the dehydrated backpacker's foods... Mountainhouse, etc. Great stuff; easy and quick. And no dirty dishes or pans!

I also like plain ol' rice, home-made trail mix with dried cranberries, SPAM, kippered herring, sardines, dried fruits, bannock, Vienna Sausages, jerky, ramen noodles, cous-cous, MREs, peanut butter on crackers, freshly-caught fish/rabbit/squirrel/deer/grouse etc., etc., etc.. I am possibly the world's least picky eater; I'll eat pretty much any food there is, but there's one I can barely eat... the devil's own concoction: powdered eggs. I'm in the Dylside camp on that one.

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
If I am traveling light, I like the freeze dried entrees. They benefit from a squirt of squeeze margerine. Nuts and dried fruit add a little fiber. Oatmeal is cheap but needs doctoring. I usually start a trip with fresh bread, cheese, and wine. It's straight downhill after those are gone. Anything that is precooked like instant rice cuts down on fuel consumption. I also like high proof spirits mixed with a little branch water.
 
Clif bars, jerky, sardines, crackers, and PBJ for emergency.

Since I truck camp now, and do a lot of dutch oven cooking, we have biscuits, cakes, and cobblers. Stews, Lasagna, baked chicken and so on.

gotta love cooking in the woods.
 
desmobob said:
home-made trail mix with dried cranberries, SPAM, kippered herring, sardines, dried fruits, bannock, Vienna Sausages, jerky, ramen noodles, cous-cous, MREs, peanut butter on crackers, freshly-caught fish/rabbit/squirrel/deer/grouse etc., etc., etc..
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That's some wild trail mix!!!!:D
 
hot dogs

If that's not bushy enough/ cut them diagonally; on the thin end, nick four short cuts. Now ya got frog legs.

if you can eat hot dogs you can eat anything
 
I like the fact that the Enertia meals come as single servings (generous ones to boot!)- they tend to have more calories/meal vs many of the 2 serving offerings from other companies (dividing theirs in half of course)

I agree w/ the dried salami and cheese- my staple lunch in the wild- I've sourced some mini pitas that I slice open and put the meat and cheese in for a small sandwich

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I always carry powdered gatorade in the single serving packs- add to a 1/2 liter bottle for a little pick me up- they taste good too

Cliff Mojo bars are now my "bar" of choice- all flavors are good

not sure if it was mentioned, but a small bottle of olive oil goes a long way in adding needed calories in cooked meals
 
for easy to carry, quick to eat, smoked oysters, smoked clams, and sardines.
of course, i have gorp around all the time
and tho i love lara bars-dont like paying for em. so i started making my own.
these last in the fridge for months, maybe yrs
since the cashew cookie is my fav:
cashews(salted or not to taste)
pitted dates
these are the only two ingredients in lara bar cashew cookie
i add chocolate covered espresso beans
toss some of each ingredient in food processor
keep adding whichever ingredient ya need to make it "wetter" or dryer
it will finally all ball up like a bread dough
thats when its easiest to roll out, cut up in whatever size pieces you like
and wrap
i wrap a half dozen pieces or so in plastic wrap then seal up in ziplock
they last for months forgotten in my bag like this
i think you could use many other ingredients for the same sorta thing
dried apple, cranberries, raisins, whatever dried fruit you like
whatever nuts you prefer etc
rolled oats could even be used to get a clifbar sorta consistency
makes a quick, easy to eat on the go, high powered energy food.
tho i reckon its just gorp mashed up.....
which is just what most of those type bars are.
 
I'm glad this has been such a successful thread. Lots of good ideas coming in here!
 
A couple other favorites are snickers bars, trader joes' sweet and salty trail mix, the trail mix from target with the rooster logo, pretty much anything from that company is delicious.

A camp fire favorite is hobo pies. You get a two slice pie iron, bread, peanut butter and jelly/jam/honey, pinch the bread in the iron to seal the ends, drop it on some coals and you have a delicious dessert in minutes. Makes great grilled cheese too!

Also the ready bake breads, mix it up and wrap in tin foil and lay on the coals, makes a pretty tasty treat.

For on the go its tuna, cheese, peanut butter, snickers, dried fruits and salamis

I once took pork belly, cheese, bread, and beer backpacking in the sierras with me. I ate like a king!!
 
MrOverkill said:
I always keep a gallon bag of some mixture of peanuts, cashews, almonds (protein), and M&M's, dried cherries, dried cranberries, etc. (sugars) with me when I'm hiking. good mix for energy, and pretty lightweight
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Same here, makes good bait for traps too.

But I also like Beanie Weenies, Deviled Ham, Potted Meat and salteens. My Dad always bought that when we'd go trout fishing up in the mountains. That was our lunch on the tailgate of the truck if we hadn't caught anything yet. Just seeing the label on Deviled Ham takes me back to those mountain streams.
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I bought a case of (2009) MREs just to see what they were all about and was surprised they were so good.

My main food on the go is Nature Valley granola bars (the soft ones). I get them on sale and they taste good. Beef jerky (the Walgreens brand is the best I've had for the price...better than Jack's Links I think) and mixed nuts and dried fruit. None of that stuff needs any preperation, just open and eat. The one thing I do carry that needs some minor prep is Quaker Oats instant oatmeal packs. I keep some with my Esbit stove, metal cup and MRE plastic spoon.

I always carry a few Taster's Choice instant coffee packs also.
 
Tins or sachets of flavoured fish. They can be eaten cold, so are useful where you don't have heat.
 
my "emergency survival food" pack consists of a 70lb Compound Bow, a couple of dozen arrows with various broadheads and blunts to use as tips.
 
If I'm out for a just a few days its normally instant oatmeal, hard cheese and salami, with some gorp thrown in for taste.
I'm going to have to try those enertia meals, they look delicious.
 
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