Your Camp Food

[gudspelr]

I'm heading out this weekend with my boy for a little camping, scouting/hiking, and maybe even a little fishing.

As I was putting together some food, I thought I'd check with you guys on what some of your favorite camping foods are.  I don't have a trailer w/ oven, etc., just a coleman stove, little hibachi, and of course, a nice fire   .

I'll start-I love a good fire-roasted hot dog with some thick baked beans to go along with it.  So, what are some of your favorites to pack along?


Jeremy

[BobW]

Ground Venison in Zataran's Dirty Rice Mix: rolled in tortillas, cheese, sour cream & Tobasco!

[Biggie Hoffman]

I'm into VOLUME.......

[Bill Turner]

That sounds good BobW. I might have to have that this weekend at home, but if I'm camping and need to travel light, you'll usually find hard cheese, jerky, stick salimi, sardines, trailmix and maybe a freeze dried meal or two in my pack. Course you'll have to push the Jolley Rogers(Hard Candy)and either fresh apples or canned fruit aside to get to the other stuff. When I hunted Alaska, I even made room for a couple of cans of spam. Nothing like fried spam with a orange gator-aid base reduction sauce when your out back and hungrey.

[bearsfeet]

I remember when my dad took me out when I was young. Those trips are the reason I love the outdoors so much today.

The cooking was never his strong hold, and I must have inherited that gene although it’s pretty difficult to mess up hot dogs and hamburgers. Some fresh fish if you’re fishing an area that you can keep a couple for dinner is always fun for the youngsters to do. Keep it simple and have lots of fun!

Hope you have a great trip and see lots of game, that’s one of the great things about this time of year  

[Bill Turner]

If I'm hunting with "Biggie" I'm packing a lot more spam and gator aid.

[rice]

1 small dutch oven lightly greased.
put in a deer steak, then apply an onion on top of deer steak, ad another deer steak,onion, steak, onion.... until you reach the height of the pot.
Peal tators, and carrots and pack around deer steaks, dump in a can of mushrooms. Then add 2 cups of swansons beef broth.
Start a good fire in the fire ring, let burn to coals. Place oven in coals and heap coals over it. Go do something fun for 3 hours, stump shoot, fish, whatever.
When you come back it will be done.
Bone ap eye tight  
CKR

[Bill Turner]

Rice:
Are you advising a whole onion between each steak or a large slice? I love cookin in Dutch Ovens when I don't have to haul them very far. That recipe sounds like a winner to me. Thanks for sharing.

[rice]

Just a slice.
One big onion will do the whole job.
We actually do this when deer hunting.
Put it together after lunch.
Start a fire in the ring, take a nap!  
About 3:00 P.M. get up, put dutch oven on coals and go to tree stand.
When you get back to camp after dark, its ready to feed 5 or 6 hungry hunters.
Do a whole chicken the same way sometimes. Stuff onions in the chicken and use chicken broth.

Cool nights, warm food, deer stands, hunting stories: Come on November!!!

CKR

[**DONOTDELETE**]

hamburger helper and any kind of ground meat or sausage.

[gudspelr]

I'm into VOLUME.......  

That's just funny-and I'm assuming assists in your name, Biggie?  


rice - I haven't tried the dutch oven cooking yet, but after reading your recipe, I think I might have to find me one.  I truck camp most of the time and that would be easy to haul along.  Now I'm getting hungry...


Jeremy

[frassettor]

Originally posted by Biggie Hoffman:
I'm into VOLUME.......

   

[BobW]

Bill:

Venison burger can be dehydrated to the consistency of coarse ground coffee, hard cheese lasts over a week, tortillas are perfect as they don't smash, hot sauce packets from Taco Bell... leaves only the absence of sour cream.

We also use dehydrated refried beans & cormbread to do poor man's tamale pie (outback oven).

We fed four of us on a week in the Boundary Waters on a 20# pack of food, ate like kings, and brought half of the weight back (dumb planning).

An outstanding text:
 www.amazon.com/Hungry-Hikers-Book-Good-Cooking/dp/0394707745

Not that hard to "eat like a king" in the woods...

[wapiti792]

MRE's...I tend to wanna go in light and come out heavy  

[Northwest_Bowhunter]

Originally posted by wapiti792:
MRE's...I tend to wanna go in light and come out heavy      

I have to agree, if this is a hunting trip that is.

[BobW]

MRe's - there is a reason the military has them - because only in a place of conflict would they seem palatable.... sorry our wonderful folks serving us have to endure such an assault on their stomachs  

[gudspelr]

 sorry our wonderful folks serving us have to endure such an assault on their stomachs  

 

Yeah, I always found MRE's to be somewhat tasty when I was covered in dirt, hot or cold or wet, and pretty tired.  Of course, hunting can be kinda like that, too...  But I'm still looking up that site for back country eating.  MRE's are ok and certainly convenient, but I'm liking that idea of "eating like a king"      


Jeremy

[bigbadjon]

I usually have all sorts of stuff back at camp. For when I'm on the move I usually carry hot cereal mixed with sugar (cocoa wheat is good to), kippered herring filets, jerky (which I hate but its convenient protein), and Lifesavers (thanks Marv Clynke).

[Killdeer]

Little Debbie Nutty Bars
Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah

smoked almonds, water, lots of water, pepperoni and cheese, miso soup (the two-part mix is best) and bean thread noodles.

The soup and noodles is great after a long day. It is dark, you are bone tired. Put the water on to boil. Put two packets of the soup mix into a bowl or tin cup. Put in a bundle of bean thread noodles, or pho noodles. Maybe some seaweed or thinly sliced carrot and onion, or fresh meat if you have been lucky. Add the boiling water. Cover it and go swap out your boots and wet socks for a pair of sheepskin mocs. Go get a beer out of the coolerator. Your soup is done.

Now go to bed, light the lantern, break out a copy of "Wild Sports" and a packet of Little Debbie Nutty Bars. See ya in the morning.

Killdeer

[imhntn]

Hobo dinners in the coals of the fire.  Wrap some burger, potatoes, carrots, onion a little butter and water in two layers of tin foil and lay them in the coals for about 30 minutes.