Meals In Hunting Camp

[waldedw]

Just wondering what you do for your meals for hunting camp, given that I am the camp cook I started doing pre made meals and freezing them years ago, best thing ever, each meal is frozen in 2 lb tinfoil containers, perfect size for a nice hot meal at night. We take a deep freeze with us to camp so every morning I take out the meals to thaw, at night 20 minutes on low in the BBQ and viola, just enough time to have a beverage and a little cigar.

I have 54 individual meals done already and need to do about 30 more ( 6 guys 14 days ) . Cantonese pork and rice, Italian sausage and penne, stew, chicken alfredo, baked ham with scalloped potatoes and veggies, and today I did a roaster full of sweet and sour ribs with rice. Lasagna is next and roast beef with baby garden dill potatoes and veggies, and a pot of chili and that will do it.

It sure makes life in camp easy when you do it all at home ahead of time. The only night that takes a little time is steak night, but those new york strip loins are worth it. Of course we need our bucket pickles, beet and onion bucket pickles and dills, those are all done and resting for camp already.

Anyway it would be interesting to hear what others do.
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[saskwhitey]

Dang, you are a good friend to have! Sounds like a great camp.

[MountainTi]

Was on a hunt down south last week and breakfast was always burritos. Pre-made and wrapped in tinfoil. Warm them up on bbq. Might be a new staple up here from now on

[calgarychef]

Eggs and toast for breakfast, gorp and a can of sardines for lunch,
Pasta and beer for supper. I can cook but dang sure not going to while hunting.

[Dick284]

Deer maple breakfast links and eggs for breakfast, do the change up and do eggs and moose breakfast sausage patties. For another twist, ditch the eggs and do pancakes.

Lunch is sammiches or wild game garlic sausage, on a willow stick, a thick hunk of old sharp cheddar as a munchy, maybe some deer snack sticks too. Mio sport to add to their water. Some mixed nuts or similar or home made GORP.

Supper should consist of spuds of some sort, some sort of fibre ladened veggie, or perhaps camp beans, and meat burnt over a fire.

Coffee, hot chocolate, and a night cap should always be on hand.

Just because you’re hunting doesn’t mean you gotta live like a Bohemian!

Unless your doing a sheep back pack hunt, then you’re screwed……..

[spoiledsaskhunter]

wth is gorp?.....have i been missing out on something all my life?

[huntinstuff]

I have a coffee on the way to the hunting spot

By about 1030am I start getting hungry so I drive into town and, even though breakfast ends at 11, if Im a bit late, it's no big deal she makes it for me. Usually bacon and eggs. Sometimes steak and eggs.

Then I feed some horses, and head back out hunting, unless I meet up with my buddy Dick on the road......then I have a few beers, wait a few hours, have a snack, then head out for the last hour of legal light.

There have been times when I packed a lunch too but I cant remember when that was. Probably 1986-ish....?

What's gorp?

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by spoiledsaskhunter

wth is gorp?.....have i been missing out on something all my life?

Good Old Raisins and Peanuts!
Basically trail mix.....
Cat

[Dick284]

Originally Posted by spoiledsaskhunter

wth is gorp?.....have i been missing out on something all my life?

Good
Old
Raisins
&
Peanuts

Usually has smarties or m&m’s in it too.

[catnthehat]

For extended hunts We normally raid the freezer and dig out some goodies line pheasant, steaks of some sort, etc .
Vegetables are standard corn, peas , potatoes, etc .
If sdvc and I are just doing a day hunt, it will be a quick breakfast to go , we meet up with coffee, and at lunch he breaks put the grip box . The highlight of these hunts is always his absolutely fantastic coffee with a Robusto of some sort !
Home made biscuits are always good too.
Back in the day when I was guiding I often had biscuits and maple syrup and coffee quickly to get things going, and set up a good lunch. Evening supper was normally lighter than lunch.
Cat

[Hilgy]

Originally Posted by MountainTi

Was on a hunt down south last week and breakfast was always burritos. Pre-made and wrapped in tinfoil. Warm them up on bbq. Might be a new staple up here from now on

I started doing this a couple years ago. Pre make a bunch and wrap in foil. Get up in the morning and toss a couple on the BBQ while everyone is getting ready. I love them. My hunting partner, not so much. lol

[Hilgy]

Originally Posted by waldedw

Just wondering what you do for your meals for hunting camp, given that I am the camp cook I started doing pre made meals and freezing them years ago, best thing ever, each meal is frozen in 2 lb tinfoil containers, perfect size for a nice hot meal at night. We take a deep freeze with us to camp so every morning I take out the meals to thaw, at night 20 minutes on low in the BBQ and viola, just enough time to have a beverage and a little cigar.

I have 54 individual meals done already and need to do about 30 more ( 6 guys 14 days ) . Cantonese pork and rice, Italian sausage and penne, stew, chicken alfredo, baked ham with scalloped potatoes and veggies, and today I did a roaster full of sweet and sour ribs with rice. Lasagna is next and roast beef with baby garden dill potatoes and veggies, and a pot of chili and that will do it.

It sure makes life in camp easy when you do it all at home ahead of time. The only night that takes a little time is steak night, but those new york strip loins are worth it. Of course we need our bucket pickles, beet and onion bucket pickles and dills, those are all done and resting for camp already.

Anyway it would be interesting to hear what others do.
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I'm going to steal the tinfoil container idea. I like to eat good while out hunting but sometimes hauling all the stuff to do so or having the time is a pail. This way just sit and relax while a solid meal warms up on the wood stove.

Thanks for the inspiration.

[Demonical]

First off, pretty much all my hunting is solo. Which simplifies meals a lot.

But I do the prepared meals also. Usually spaghetti type stuff.

But nothing as fancy as what you are talking.

I have 1 coffee in the morning then hunt all day, do not eat or drink.

Return to camp after dark, eat whatever.

The most important meal of the day is that first Scotch when I get back to camp.

[MountainTi]

Originally Posted by Hilgy

I started doing this a couple years ago. Pre make a bunch and wrap in foil. Get up in the morning and toss a couple on the BBQ while everyone is getting ready. I love them. My hunting partner, not so much. lol

Bit of salsa sauce and sour cream...breakfast of champions.
Speaking of sour cream...it was down there that discovered one of the handiest food items since sliced bread. Sour cream in a squeeze tube. I tell ya, handiest thing ever. We actually stopped at Costco in Cour de'Alene on the way home and bought a case of it.
Have extra, may consider trading a couple tubes for a pound of H1000

[Hilgy]

Originally Posted by MountainTi

Bit of salsa sauce and sour cream...breakfast of champions.
Speaking of sour cream...it was down there that discovered one of the handiest food items since sliced bread. Sour cream in a squeeze tube. I tell ya, handiest thing ever. We actually stopped at Costco in Cour de'Alene on the way home and bought a case of it.
Have extra, may consider trading a couple tubes for a pound of H1000

Mine are a little more basic. Eggs cheese and bacon and/or sausage. Kids like them with a little drizzle of maple syrup in them.

[Moo Snukkle]

Morning out the door fare is coffee and fritters, or oatmeal. Lunch is a hash of some sort with sausages. Dinner varies from beef and pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon, and wrapped in foil ( brought out frozen). Sides consist of camp potatoes, or sauerkraut perogies. One of the camp favourites is a Hungarian chicken paprikas. Prep at lunchtime and leave in the pot on the wood stove. The smell in the tent returning from a Nov hunt is enough to get the appetites going. Served with penne. Polynesian night is Jerk chicken and pineapple fried rice ( enjoyed with rum and fruit juice. Another camp favourite.) As camp cook for our group, I try to not have any packaged or canned food to serve. Everyone appreciates it and it gets me out of chopping wood and gassing up the bikes. Of course the best meals are the ones from the game we harvest on the trip. Very rarely does tenderloin make it home. After all, it is the hunters meal.

[sns2]

Originally Posted by Moo Snukkle

Morning out the door fare is coffee and fritters, or oatmeal. Lunch is a hash of some sort with sausages. Dinner varies from beef and pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon, and wrapped in foil ( brought out frozen). Sides consist of camp potatoes, or sauerkraut perogies. One of the camp favourites is a Hungarian chicken paprikas. Prep at lunchtime and leave in the pot on the wood stove. The smell in the tent returning from a Nov hunt is enough to get the appetites going. Served with penne. Polynesian night is Jerk chicken and pineapple fried rice ( enjoyed with rum and fruit juice. Another camp favourite.) As camp cook for our group, I try to not have any packaged or canned food to serve. Everyone appreciates it and it gets me out of chopping wood and gassing up the bikes. Of course the best meals are the ones from the game we harvest on the trip. Very rarely does tenderloin make it home. After all, it is the hunters meal.

Steve. You’d be on my list of AO guys I’d hunt with any time. Sittin in a goose blind. Me, you, and Gerry.

[Moo Snukkle]

Originally Posted by sns2

Steve. You’d be on my list of AO guys I’d hunt with any time. Sittin in a goose blind. Me, you, and Gerry.

I’d take an invite, just to watch

[58thecat]

Luv the stag chilli variants that come with a pop up lid, eat it cold, eat it hot, eat it out of the can or serve it up on toast

Trail mix and water through out the day then stag chilli for supper makes for trumpet music all night long

[waldedw]

Of course we always have an ample supply of moose or elk jerky, pepperoni and garlic sausage for the between meal snacks and everybody packs granola bars and trail mix in their day packs.

[nimrod]

I vac pack all my meals, if frozen then all i need to drop my meal in hot water, ready made meal, hot, i have soups chicken noodle, beef rice, dill pickle broccoli or cauliflower meals like lasagna, Shepard pie, also beef stew or turkey stew, ready to go, great for daily meals or camp meals

[waldedw]

Originally Posted by Hilgy

I'm going to steal the tinfoil container idea. I like to eat good while out hunting but sometimes hauling all the stuff to do so or having the time is a pail. This way just sit and relax while a solid meal warms up on the wood stove.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Your welcome, I get the tinfoil trays at the dollar store, they come with a foil lined lid and you can write on it what's in the tray, a 3 pack is $1.25 and I found that the 2 lb size is a perfect meal, in fact I keep some around the house all year as they are great for freezing left overs.

[Sooner]

Out at wall tent camp one year in mid Nov, it was -15. One friend had put one of those foil packed pasta meals with chicken in a pot with water, covered it with a lid and put it on the wood stove at 3 when we went out for the last part of the day.

When we got back, 2 of us started a fire in -15 for the steak & smokies we wanted, he was sitting in a warm tent & eating a hot meal in seconds. We froze cooking ours.

From that time on, wall tent camp had a few frozen meals, either the foil bag ones or what we made at home and put in big zip locks that we would re heat in a pot of water. Easy peasy.

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by saskwhitey

Dang, you are a good friend to have! Sounds like a great camp.

Was thinking along the same lines!

Makes our camp meals seem spartan in comparison.

• Start off the day with oatmeal, coffee/tea
• Sometimes we pack lunches so we can hunt all day; if we do go to camp we'll make soup and sandwiches
• Always have trail mix and granola/protein bars in our day packs, lots of water in the early season
• Supper is stew, or fried sausages with boiled potatoes, fried onions etc. Sometimes we'll pre-make the stew or hash and heat it up on the stove
• Maybe a drink/snacks afterwards before turning in

There's usually just two or three of us. Depending on the group.

That being said, there's one group (a hunting/fishing trip with my nephews and their dads) where we go out once a year (our "Men's weekend out"). Sometimes it expands to include some extended family and a friend or two. That's a different story altogether, as my one brother-in-law conjures up amazing meals. My sister-in-law has been known to send along filet mignon, and my other brother-in-law will bring obscene amounts of bacon. There will be loads of pancakes with mind-blowing toppings. Another relative will often cook perogies on a huge pot over the fire. It's an amazing time!

[Dean2]

The only pre-prepared meals we have is some chili for one night and Tortier for another night. Other than that it is fresh cooked. On a 14 day hunt, supper rotates, Steak, Chicken, Pork chops, Farmers sausage and perogies with butter/onion/bacon, and Liver and onions. We usually head to town one night for Chinese food.

Breakfast is a mix of Bacon and Eggs, or Oatmeal, or Pancakes and sausage. Lunch is smokies or Kube cooked over an open fire or sandwiches. When it comes to hunting, the meals together to me are a very big part of the experience.

[sns2]

Originally Posted by Dean2

The only pre-prepared meals we have is some chili for one night and Tortier for another night. Other than that it is fresh cooked. On a 14 day hunt, supper rotates, Steak, Chicken, Pork chops, Farmers sausage and perogies with butter/onion/bacon, and Liver and onions. We usually head to town one night for Chinese food.

Breakfast is a mix of Bacon and Eggs, or Oatmeal, or Pancakes and sausage. Lunch is smokies or Kube cooked over an open fire or sandwiches. When it comes to hunting, the meals together to me are a very big part of the experience.

Chines food in small town Alberta is a must while hunting. Almost always tastes great!

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by sns2

Chines food in small town Alberta is a must while hunting. Almost always tastes great!

Haven't done that in a long while! Always a treat.

Originally Posted by Dean2

When it comes to hunting, the meals together to me are a very big part of the experience.

So true! Special times indeed.

[DiabeticKripple]

Originally Posted by Hilgy

I started doing this a couple years ago. Pre make a bunch and wrap in foil. Get up in the morning and toss a couple on the BBQ while everyone is getting ready. I love them. My hunting partner, not so much. lol

hey they are good! i just hate waking up at 6am and chowing down. next time ill warm it up on the sami's exhaust manifold later in the morning.

[BigJon]

Originally Posted by MountainTi

Bit of salsa sauce and sour cream...breakfast of champions.
Speaking of sour cream...it was down there that discovered one of the handiest food items since sliced bread. Sour cream in a squeeze tube. I tell ya, handiest thing ever. We actually stopped at Costco in Cour de'Alene on the way home and bought a case of it.
Have extra, may consider trading a couple tubes for a pound of H1000

http://https://www.coghlans.com/sque...s-2-pack-7605a

These are handy… Peanut butter, jam and now that you mention it, sour cream.

[JReed]

This is for the backpackers who usually eat mountain house but are cheap like me and don’t like the price of them($15/meal…wtf?) :

-Pickup a couple pounds of extra-lean ground beef that is about to expire(discounted 50% off), and dehydrate it the day of purchase. Last time I did this, I got 2 pounds for $6

- Pickup some uncle ben’s fast and fancy in various flavours. Brocolli and cheddar is my favourite

-Add a few tablespoons of dehydrated beef to the uncle ben’s and boil it in the jetboil. Voila! A fast, filling, and tasty for the first couple of days, meal lol

Good luck to all the sheep hunters out there this year! It’ll be sheep season #2 for me……#PainForPleasure